Runtothelight wrote:
So many great races by the high schoolers last night. We all talk about the shoes; does anyone have links to some of their training mileage/intensity? For example, Zealand ran a phenomonal race. Home schooled, coached by her mom, is she training three hours a day?
Allie Zealand's mom is a college coach who is training Allie like a college runner. It's the same thing that Sean Brosnan was doing at Newbury Park. That's the new normal. High school kids training like they are in college.
I know people like to mention the new shoes as a reason why high school kids are running so fast recently, but the better training they are doing is also a big factor.