bad luck wrote:
I hold this record. I ran a 3:20 1600 time trial, took a 15 second shit on the track, and them ran the final 11 meters. My mile time was 3:37, but the IAAF wouldn't ratify it because I didn't wipe.[quote]info wrote:
Hey buttface, its 9.34 more meters after 1600
bleeble blabble wrote:
i guess, just as it's perfectly safe to assume that el G ran no slower than 3:43.13 for 1600m, it's *almost* perfectly safe to say that no one beat him to the 1600m mark.
It's a pretty safe bet, but even if El G was leading at 1600m, he still would've had to beat the second place guy by ~9m to get the record. If anyone crossed the 1600m mark before El G finished, then that person obviously would have run faster than 3:43.13 for 1600.
info wrote:
El G's 2k WR of 4:44.79 in 1999 saw him come through the 1600 in 3:49.60. The results newsletter by TFN list all the 200 splits in hand time but list the 1600 as 3:49.60, which leads me to believe that that split was FAT. If so, thats the World Best.
How do you know that El G had the fastest 1600 split in that race? Maybe there was a rabbit who led the race and dropped out with one lap to go.
info wrote:
Interesting question-
Who holds the World Record (or World Best since it is not an official event)for the 1600 meters? Remember, there are no enroute to mile splits at the non-high school meets, workouts do not count, conversions do not count, relay splits do not count...Thus, it would have to be some US high school kid..
As far as I know, its Alan Webb's 3:59.91 official en route to a 4:01.81 mile mark set at Arcadia on April 14, 2001.
As far as a straight up 1600, then probably its Ryan Hall, who ran 4:02.62 on June 2, 2001 to win the Ca State HS meet in Sacramento
The rabbit dropped out around 1400m
This thread just proves the biggest mistake track and field made in America was replacing all the 440 yd tracks with 400 meter tracks. It's been all downhill since then.