Flatt was milliseconds away from breaking the 800m so that one for sure.
3200m/2 mile should go down very soon. Handful of kids have scraped close to it. In addition, XC times are going down overall which lends to longer distance records also going down over time. Lots of kids in sub 15 5K shape poking around at these records.
3000 feels soft. Anyone capable of doing the 3200 should also be attempting this. Bonus benefit is you can sneak into some pro races potentially for this attempt vs the 3200/2 mile being only HS kids.
Sprints (100-400) feel out of reach (barring doping obviously). 400 record is absurd btw. Don't think anyone is touching that for decades. 44.69 is a low end pro time.
The 3k-5k all seem weak. A 3:39 guywho is a distance guy should be running low 8:20s. Never tried. Hobbs never really have it a shot. 28:32 is sort of weak but you need special cases for kids to run a 10k in HS. Same thing with the steeple.
And while the 800 probably should have been broken, we are talkings fractions of a section.
pretty much all the distance relays are weak cause NP didn’t go for them.
The 200m is a bit weak just cause someone went pro at 17😂
German ran 7:47 indoors as an 18 year, 4 month old. This race he won with a 4:02 last 1600. Probably worth 7:43-44.
He was younger in this race than almost every HS record holder we’ve talked about.
A high mileage endurance based guy who ran 13:11 at the age of 19 should be able to. Let's see this year.
Nico has run faster than 28:00 in every 10k he has run….. Seriously how many of the fast 5k guy ever have given the 10k a shot as freshman? it is an event that takes a lot out of you and most coaches have their younger runners avoid it.
Didn’t Cade Flatt claim he ran like 6 miles per week or something? The HS 800m record is soft. When other countries like the Netherlands can have kids the same age running 1:44.78 then you know that the 1:46.45 is soft.
Yes, Niels Laros has run 1:44.78 and a 3:48.93. Does that mean Webb's record is soft too in addition to the 800? No, it just means Laros is clearly one of the top juniors in the world.
Yeah there is a big difference between 1 guy doing something and a country popping out 2-3 guys every year running that fast.
if you look at the numbers on most charts, things like the 1500/mile are much better than the distance events. But a lot of that is 3:35/3:53 being such outliers. When a LV talent shows up again in the new shoes and drops a 8:20/13:20 things will be back lined up. Same thing with the 800m. We are stuck at the 3:55/8:30 type talent level and not the notch above. Guys like Brazier,summer and Webb might have been that level of talent but some of them didn’t seem to have the training programs for the next level in HS and Webb didn’t really run the event.
The people that are saying the 800 record is soft are crazy. Cade Flatt and Will Sumner were outliers in a 44-year stretch, and they couldn't get it done. Let's also not forget that Cade was 19 years old when he got so close to the record in a college race, I believe. Granville ran his record in a HS only race basically by himself at 18. No one is doing that these days. If the 800 record was really soft, you would see boys breaking 1:47 or running 1:47 low almost every year. That isn't happening. As for Michael Carter's shot put record, no one is ever breaking it. It might last 60 years. It's far from soft. 81 feet is not human for a high school boy.
Didn’t Cade Flatt claim he ran like 6 miles per week or something? The HS 800m record is soft. When other countries like the Netherlands can have kids the same age running 1:44.78 then you know that the 1:46.45 is soft.
Cade Flatt increased his training load and managed to not break 1:50 this year.
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