Jenna Hutchins Runs 15:34 at Five and Dime To Break Katelyn Tuohy's 5000 US HS National Record

Oh and breaking a 5000m record set on 200m indoor track in a regular high school race in a paced pro race on an outdoor 400m track (how many indoor times on that all time list again?) is beating a record, not wiping it out. That is called reality.

Racewalk to Obscurity wrote:

Funny then that all of the top distance runners in the world, male and female, skipped college.

I guess we can argue about who are "all of the top distance runners in the world" but Shelby Houlihan, Karissa Schweizer, and Centro just to name a few seemed to go to college.

Put me in the column of Hutchins should go to college and compete for the school..

Exactly. Look I despise the gloom and doomers when it comes to the prospects of high school runners. But there are realities. Going pro out of high school a la Mary Cain is very short term thinking that has not ended well. But I'm seeing a lot of short term thinking here. Good luck then.

astro wrote:

Oh and breaking a 5000m record set on 200m indoor track in a regular high school race in a paced pro race on an outdoor 400m track (how many indoor times on that all time list again?) is beating a record, not wiping it out. That is called reality.

Your obsession with keeping Tuohy at #1 is odd.

You have lost the meanings of words. The term "beating" in sports came into use when teams won by a very large margin instead of just saying that a team won the game. Notre Dame won the game 27-24 over Michigan instead of Notre Dame beat Michigan by a score of 27-3. The team took a beating instead of that they lost. But wiping out a record merely means that it was erased. It was wiped off the board with an eraser and replaced with a new record. So if you would like to say that Hutchins beat Tuohy's records instead of wiping them off the board, you are insulting Tuohy in the process beacuse the times were not that much different.

Needs no help from me.

Ok.

Let's make predictions about how many of the 12 medalists in the 5k and 10k at the 2021 Olympics attended college. I predict the number will be 1 out of 12.

And I predict none will be from the US.

Hutchins beats Astro wrote:

Let's make predictions about how many of the 12 medalists in the 5k and 10k at the 2021 Olympics attended college. I predict the number will be 1 out of 12.

Ah, so an Olympic medal is the qualifier to be a top runner? Ok, Somehow you missed Centro. Or the 1500 is not long enough?

Laura Muir also went to college.

But what the heck, let's just ship Hutchins off to Ethiopia for a few years.

The comment was, "That is just terrible advice. Going pro out of high school is never a good idea for distance runners." Pretty sure most fans consider sprints as 1-2-400 and Mid-d as 800-1500 and distance as 5k-10k and longer. But even if you want to include 1500, you didn't jump in to point out that the "never" comment was completely wrong. Most of the best male and female distance runners in the world did not did not attend college.

Most of the best distance runners in the world (well replace most with all) are doped to the gills.

Racewalk to Obscurity wrote:

The comment was, "That is just terrible advice. Going pro out of high school is never a good idea for distance runners." Pretty sure most fans consider sprints as 1-2-400 and Mid-d as 800-1500 and distance as 5k-10k and longer. But even if you want to include 1500, you didn't jump in to point out that the "never" comment was completely wrong. Most of the best male and female distance runners in the world did not did not attend college.

Oh, I am sorry, when you said "all" before, I thought you meant "all". So now "all" means most. Ok, thanks for the heads up.

westsouthrunner wrote:

Rocky Mountain High wrote:

This right here. Should reinforce that her 5k xc record from AL was legit. Also should tell you just how much slower high altitude REALLY is...

This is great to watch the doubters eat their words from a few weeks ago. Saying the course was short etc... She just ran FASTER than her "fast/short" course time.

Why has no one mentioned that she ran this 5k track record on a flat course? Maybe the track was short?