High Schooler Birnbaum Runs 3:37.92 vs Pros at NON #2 High School Time Ever

Yeah he was still 16 on 6/15/22 last year. So unless his birthday was yesterday. He was still 17 yesterday.

Meanwhile, Sahlman is turning 20 in October.

No disrespect, but does anyone know why he wears shades regardless if it is at nighttime or regardless the conditions?

He will run more races this week than Jerry will have him run all next year

That is a quick turnaround after that 8:34.1. All I can say is wow...

This class of '23 is just exceptional! It's great to see so many of these top guys have the means to travel and face each other in big races.

Pac12 distance is going to be fun to watch with Birnbaum/Burns (not to mention Harrison) at OU, Youngs at Stanford and Gorze at UW, among others.

This performance has nothing to do with super spikes 😏

With super shoes all things are possible

The Youngs are far superior to Birnbaum based on their HS careers. Only 2023 HS distance record is theirs (5K). Birnbaum is obviously toasted and will get smoked. He is like a WC or Olympic 1500 runner who has to run a PR to get out of the heats and then has to run a PR in the semis to get through and now here comes the final on Sunday. Those guys almost always finish DFL in the final. But they do often have great careers after that.

Stupid take. The one thing, is that I think even Arcadia 3200 had a pacer? If that is not true, I apologize. Two mile at Brooks was an epic mark , with an absurd last mile, with no pacers. Birnbaum AND the Youngs and others have gotten more than their share of setup opptys. However, on the being burned out type of rhetoric, he is obviously very fit now. Run out the string so to speak, he has all summer for a rebuild. I would be more concerned with the continued running of younger Sahlman than anything else related to this stuff, I am not sure what they are trying to squeeze out of is? There is no epic mark coming, thats for sure. I am consistenton another thought, but am in the minority and its been going on for years, chasing HS marks, well past graduation, is and has been always BS to me, Like Burns seems to want to do? I mean he is another who has been in a ton of paced set ups. People always say its the shoes? For HS'ers? The more than ample opptys, to get into paced and way better paced than old years, set ups, also helps the list of faster runs. I saw German run 8:34 yards, people say how hot it was..I was there, it was warm and humid, for sure, but not oppressive, none of these guys were beating him, in my opinion, not at two miles anyway. All on his own. Puskedra gone early,.

For some perspective, Jim Ryun ran 3:39.0 as a 17 year old junior at the '64 Olympic Trials.

"Performances at the event itself were not record-shattering. According to a July 6, 1964, article in Sports Illustrated, "Some of the poor performances might be attributable to the track, just recently laid down (in the stadium). It is en-tout-cas (two-thirds crushed brick, one-third cinder) and was still a trifle loose." Sprinter Hayes, who went on to a football career with the Dallas Cowboys, likened it to "running on puffs of smoke."

Only 3:37.9?

18 year old Niels Laros (Netherlands) has just run 3:32.89 in Nice, France!

Blame the U.S. refusal to switch to the metric system. High schoolers believe the four laps = one mile, and eight laps = two miles. They like thinking they are faster than they actually are.

At least we have freedom.

nvm

Maybe freshman who are in their first year of track think that.

I guarantee that all the top runners know that a 1600 and a mile aren't exactly the same.

Yes they are running in the 1 mile championship race. Seymour and Cantu are too

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Actually cantu is in the emerging elite mile

I like the Young’s but don’t see them outkicking Birnbaum

His future's so bright, he has no other choice.