Katelyn Tuohy 4:24 Mile !!!!! NEW NCAA RECORD!!'

my goodness.

what an incredible athlete she has been and become.

no words.

These are words, aren’t they?

It's amazing. The guy who had no words somehow found words. It's a miracle!

4:24 without training like a middle distance runner! I'm sure I'm not the first person to say that Katelyn Tuohy's event should be the 1500/mile. Tuohy will be America's top miler in the future, she is progressing very well in the 1500m/mile without doing specific training for that distance. So much potential and she is undertrained, she doesn't do 800m and 1000m races and she is under a *long distance powerhouse team, yet she's naturally fast at shorter distances.

Join the club! These bozos r arguing against this! Her 424 mile is equal to a 1440 5k!

Yet she can only manage 1515 while doing serious distance training!

Run the 800/1500 and kill it in the weight room! She'll be running 157/356 in 2 or 3 years and could probably get close to 155.5 and 352 lifetime prs and win some tactical 3ks and 5ks along the way

maybe actually try to live in the present for once?

why cant she be both? will this miler talk end if she breaks the 15 minute barrier?

If she did 4:06 1500 on the way to a 4:24 1609 indoors I’m convinced that she’s probably running @4:03 outdoor pace right now, giving her a fair shot at a sub4 1500 if she focused on the event, perhaps this outdoor season or next…pretty close to elite performance levels!

Tuohy breaking the mile record on her first college mile race is proof that she has special raw speed talent that is unentertained. OAC would be the best fit for her if she decides to go pro this year.

If Tuohy could easily run 2:00 800m why has she not raced that distance in years? People are really getting carried away. It's a very good result but pretty much in line with gradual improvement since last season, from 4:06 to ca. 4:04, so for outdoors another couple of seconds might be possible. Nobody (except maybe her coach and close team) knows if 3:59 is realistic soon, very good runners have plateaued around 4:02.

FWIW my hunch from anecdotal evidence is that runners like Tuohy who are good at frontrunning and run very good marks early in season and are generally very stable across seasons are usually strength based, not speed-based. So unless she runs a surprising 800m or a larger improvement in the 1500m, I'd expect her to get proportionally even better in 3000/5000m. But I agree that currently the 1500/mile time is a bit better. With outdoor IAAF points the mile is worth ca. 8:42 and 15:00 but I would not be surprised if Tuohy breaks 8:40 and 15:00. Because she is a distance runner, not an 800/1500m.

they said they havent done "much" speed work yet.. literally crazy to think how she was even able to run that time.. its not surprising because shes katelyn tuohy but its crazy amazing how she did it

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Touhy simply doesn't have the footspeed to run an 800 in 155.5 . Not now, not in the future.

I'm not sure why you keep fantasizing about Tuohy being an Athing Mu level talent in the 800. You are way off. Give it up already.

The high schooler Addy Wiley ran 4:27 and would have finished a few meters behind her so let's put the brakes on calling a 4:24 an all-time great time. She ran a good time but nothing spectacular. Someone else said it is the equivalent of a guy running a 3:57. Good but not great.

Which she certainly will.

It IS an all-time great time. Look at the stats.

Literally, look at the stats. She is now #1 on top of a list that spans 50 years. THAT is an all-time great time.

Men's marathon record is 2:05:38 an atop a list that spans decades. I would not say it is an all-time great time. It is a mile behind the WR.

Are you referring to the Men’s MASTERS Marathon record? If so, yes that is also an all-time great time, for a MASTERS runner!

Just like Tuohy’s mile is an all-time great time, for an NCAA runner.

You’re comparing oranges to apples.