Biggest improvements you've seen in high school?

"Ran" 33 and change for my first 5k, got it down to 24 by the end of the xc season. 5:58 for the 1600 (don't remember any 3200 times, but I got a lot of pity claps). Sophomore year broke 20 on a 3-mile course and got under 5:30. Junior year ran 18 flat on 3-mile course and 4:58 and 10:40. Senior year 16:59, 4:34, 9:57.

Freshman year of college 26:10 8k, 15:03 for my first track 5k.

What was your mileage like?

26:00 to 17:40 5k

Freshman to Sophmore year

3200: 10:42 junior, 9:33 senior (at altitude)

Summer before senior year: 18:36 road 5k (ran maybe two days per week), by sixth week of cross-country season: 15:54.

8th grade

3200 - 13:19 1600 - 6:18

Junior Year

3200 - 10:05 1600 - 4:34

Mile:

9th grade (jr high) - 6:08

Soph - 4:53

Jr - 4:29.3

Sr - 4:18.7 (800 in 1:54.6)

Ran the 1500 in 3:47.7 in college (and 1:48.8 in the 800) after adding some mileage to the mix. Only ran intervals (varying distances) in HS.

In HS.

Fr 10:12 4:28

So 9:58 4:23

Jr Not eligible to race due to Transfer

Sr 8:58 State Champ (4:10)

Oh yeah! The transfer was worth it!

LOL!! wrote:What are some huge improvements you've seen in high school?

My first HS 2-mile (soph year in 1976) was 14:57, and by the end it was 12:03, and 10:35 when I was a senior. Nothing stellar, but I'm proud of it, and have retained my love of distance running for 30-plus years.

Bruce...Old, Slow, Happy

I went from 28:52 first race 5k (Freshman) to 17:21 (Junior)

1979 10K 1:06

1986 same 10K 31:54

Courtesy of malmo:

[From "Jim Ryun, Master of the Mile"]

15 year old sophomore

- 5:38 mile time trial [September, early in his first season of xc]

- 11:51 2 mile XC first time trial

- 11:23 4th [in his] first JV race

- won the next JV race

- 10:36 in first varsity race, eventually becoming Wichita East's top runner

- 6th at State meet, leading the team to victory.

- 4:40 self-timed time trial during the winter of his sophomore year

- 4:32.2 loses his first mile race by 0.2 to defending State champ Charles Harper

- 4:26.5 down 15 meters with 100 to go, Ryun digs deep and finds that kick of his, winning his first mile over Harper.

- 4:21.7 leads from gun to tape for win #2

- 4:21.3 wins again, runs first 880, a leg of winning 2mi relay team

age 16 [still a sophomore]

- wins another mile

- 4:16.2 wins state meet

- 4:08.2 MVAAU loses to college runner, doubles back with 1:54.5 880 (5th)

- 1:53.6 5th again, behind four college kids

- 4:07.8 [mile,] USTFF 6th to college kids

during the Summer he ran 5 miles at 5:30am. The harder he worked, the more talented he became. Will YOU run 5 miles at 5:30 am this Summer? Will you?

junior year cross country he was undefeated

- 4 mile AAU XC meet against college runners he finished 3rd

- indoor meet at Cow Palace (SF) Lindgren in race. Ryun [stumbles] off track then finishes [second] well back in 9:22.6 [behind Lindren's HSR 9:00.0]

- 4:06.4 wins state meet in national hs record time.

- 4:01.7 3rd in Modesto behind Burleson and O'Hara

- 3:59.0 8th in Compton, first ime that 8 runner had beoken 4:00 in the same race, and the first time a hs kid broke 4:00.

- 1:50.3 5th in open competition

- 9:06.5 in KS allcomers

- 3:39.0 4th at AAU 1500m [10th fast 1500 man to that time--a few weeks past his 17th birthday]

- 3:46.1 4th NY Randalls Island OT

- 3:41.9 3rd LA Olympic Trials

- 3:44.4 4th Tokyo heats

- 3:55 DFL Tokyo semi

senior year [turned 18 at the end of April]

- 3:58.3 State meet win, first . . . sub 4:00 in all hs competition

- 3:56.8 Modesto 3rd behind Snell and Grelle

- 4:04.3 Golden West HS 1st

- 9:04 Golden West HS 1st

- 3:55.3 1st San Diego American Record, defeats Snell

- 3:40.4 2nd US/USSR dual meet

- 3:49.9 1st US/Poland dual meet

- 3:41.6 1st US/Germany

old thread but i went from 5:18 last fall to 4:34 this spring

Colby King from St Thomas Aquinas KS: 18:51 5K in 2020 to 15:32 in 2021.

Carson Sloat From Severna Park MD: 17:27 5K in 2018 to 15:34 in 2019.

Liam Hagerty from Severna Park MD - 18:02 in 2020 to 15:49 in 2021.

Devan Kipyego - 16:55 in 2020 to 15:32 in 2021

Dev Doshi of NP: 16:34 in 2020 to 14:51 in 2021.

When I first started running I decided to do the 800m and the main training I had was PE lessons and the athletics club after school (once a week). I started training by myself on the grass field and timed an 800m, my first ever one was, I think, 3:04 on a grass track. It was definitely over 3 minutes as I remember being happy when I did a time trial in 2:58 before one of my first races. I did a few schools races then joined an athletics club. I knocked almost a minute off it by the end of it.

With the 1500m the first one I ran was I think 5:54 on a tartan track and I knocked much more off that. I ended up having longer distances as my best events but it all started with the 800m and 1500m at school.

Khalid Hussein from Wayzata - 17:07 in 2014 to 15:52 in 2015.
Shuayb Hussein from Wayzata - 16:58 in 2018 to 15:19 in 2019. Went from Wayzata’s JV to qualifying individually for NXN in only a year, without the team qualifying.
Zakaria Hussein from Wayzata - 18:35 in 2020 to 15:54 in 2021.
Noah Breker from Robbinsdale Armstrong MN- 16:13 in 2020 to 15:05 in 2021.
Emmett Wolf from St Thomas Academy: 17:16 in 2020 to 15:57 in 2021.
Tony Provenzano from Hopkins - 17:05 in 2020 to 15:40 in 2021.
Ethan Hanold from Wayzata - 17:36 in 2020 to 15:47 in 2021.
Tyler Kissell from Wayzata - 16:55 in 2020 to 15:57 in 2021.
Charlie Power Theisen - 16:47 in 2020 to 15:48 in 2021.
Owen Chapman - Orono - 17:03 in 2020 to 15:51 in 2021.
Andrew Vos - 17:06 in 2020 to 15:53 in 2021.
Kitty Berube from Edina - to 27:07 in 2016 to 18:11 in 2017.

Dev ran 14:59 not 14:51

Also, Wesley Sumner from Minneapolis Southwest went from 5:30 1600 and 11:50 3200 in 2021 track to a 16:34 5K XC and became Southwest’s 5th runner that they really needed. Sounds like a big jump to me for sure. He ran a 4:54/10:11 this outdoor season.

My team had a freshman who ran 10:50 in the 3200 as a freshman. He sandbagged all of that summer, then dropped a 15:50 his first race in xc and went on to run 9:23 as a sophomore.

First race as a freshman was 21:36 last race as a sophmore was 15:39 (hs)