Wasn’t Charlie also an age-group prodigy? Regardless, his NXN victory never screamed “TALENT,” only “I got extremely lucky on this precise day,” so I can’t say his state meet performance is necessarily surprising…and I have no reason to expect him to make waves in the NCAA, by any means. MAYBE he snags All-American status in XC, after a few stabs…
+1
abq scene wrote:
Yesterday? Corbin Coombs ran 8:50 at the NM state meet. Vause was 2nd in 8:59. Have any other high school kids run sub 9 at 5000+ altitude?!
8:50 is probably tops for HS altitude runs outside of Danny Simmons run last year -- very impressive. Other sub 9s -- Parker Wolfe ran 8:55.34 in CO his senior year, and a couple years before that, Cole Sprout ran 8:57 in CO. Back in the pre-supershoes era (2001), CU great Brent Vaughn ran 9:05 in what I would say is probably the best 3200 ever run by an HSer in CO.
Leonidus Z. wrote:
Wasn’t Charlie also an age-group prodigy? Regardless, his NXN victory never screamed “TALENT,” only “I got extremely lucky on this precise day,” so I can’t say his state meet performance is necessarily surprising…and I have no reason to expect him to make waves in the NCAA, by any means. MAYBE he snags All-American status in XC, after a few stabs…
lol yeah, a dude that ran 8:59 at altitude never screamed talent to me either.
Leonidus Z. wrote:
Wasn’t Charlie also an age-group prodigy? Regardless, his NXN victory never screamed “TALENT,” only “I got extremely lucky on this precise day,” so I can’t say his state meet performance is necessarily surprising…and I have no reason to expect him to make waves in the NCAA, by any means. MAYBE he snags All-American status in XC, after a few stabs…
Were you born a d*ck or did it come later in life?
abq scene wrote:
ABQ is 5300, so not much different than Denver.
The elevation changes in Abq is actually quite extreme. If you ran at the Manzano HS track vs the UNM track you are talking almost 1000 feet difference.