Jenna Hutchins Runs 15:34 at Five and Dime To Break Katelyn Tuohy's 5000 US HS National Record

Just saw the video on YouTube. Some random girl took it out real hard at the beginning.

wohoooooo

Hutchins ran a great race...a national record.

That she ran a great race should be obvious when compared to the men's 5k contested a few minutes later. Although the HS runner ran 14:15, and that was exciting, the rest of the race was about performances that were less that expected, starting with the men's 5K pace-setter.

Now that I've watched her run a race, rather than the snippets one sees in video of a CC race, I think she could open in 4:52-53, then 4:55 for a 3200m. At least within the next month. Maybe faster in a couple of months.

But it is hard to tell how fast her 1600m time would be just from watching a carefully planned effort over a long distance on a track.

I believe improving her 800m and 1600m time could really help going after Mary Cain's 9:38.

Stopwatcher wrote:

A 925 for a girl is like an 808 for a boy. It's off the charts. It's not happening!

Hutchins s PR for the 1600 m is 442. You're asking her to hold her mile PR for a whole nother mile

Nah I am asking her to lower her mile PR down to like 4:30 first and then go out and run the 2 mile.:) Realistically I don't expect that but maybe a mid/high 4:30s which sets her up to run 9:35-9:40 type times would would be fantastic. Or of course maybe she has improved a ton and will be dropping a 4:30/9:25 this spring. I don't think it is likely but improvement curves in youth runners are unpredictable. Efraimson dropped like 10s between sophmore and junior year if I remember correctly.

Schweizer was a 10:30 runner in HS. Five years later she was running 9 flat. That's dropping 15 seconds 6 times over. Hutchins' equivalent is 9:40 right now based on just one performance. Hard to imagine that one performance is the very best she could do but maybe. Is it so surprising that she would improve over the next 6 months? It is insulting by many of you to predict no improvement or even less than normal improvement. All of the top American women made nice consistent improvement. Isn't it better to put her in that category than to try to stick her in the category of some other high school runners who did not improve?

Hutchins > Tuohy wrote:

Schweizer was a 10:30 runner in HS. Five years later she was running 9 flat. That's dropping 15 seconds 6 times over. Hutchins' equivalent is 9:40 right now based on just one performance. Hard to imagine that one performance is the very best she could do but maybe. Is it so surprising that she would improve over the next 6 months? It is insulting by many of you to predict no improvement or even less than normal improvement. All of the top American women made nice consistent improvement. Isn't it better to put her in that category than to try to stick her in the category of some other high school runners who did not improve?

Yes but none of the top American women were this fast at this age. Those that have run similar times at this age have flamed out or had minimal improvement. We keep waiting for the phenom that will break that trend but it just hasn’t happened yet. Doesn’t mean she can’t or won’t. People are just using the most similar examples we have seen to make predictions

Even if she doesn't improve anymore, she's still a very good runner. Lots of college teams would love to have a 15:34 5k runner that has even more potential in the 10k than the 5k.

Any idea when harrison is racing?

Runnerguy412 wrote:

Any idea when harrison is racing?

3:00pm EST

Hoping to get livestream!

It's LIVE now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8GxZ8R_4MA

You're probably joking, but I believe that young lady was the pacer. she did a great job through the mile, and then hung around for 2 more laps before dropping out.

The events are running late, according to the schedule I found online:

SATURDAY

Status Start Time Event Round Start List Results

Seeded 2:30 PM Women's Mile Final Start List

Seeded 3:00 PM Men's Mile Final Start List

Seeded 4:00 PM Men's Masters 5000m Final Start List

Seeded 4:30 PM Women's 10000m Final Start List

Seeded 5:15 PM Men's 10000m

The Women's Mile started at 3, so maybe the Men's Mile will be at 3:30.

LappedMiler wrote:

The events are running late, according to the schedule I found online:

SATURDAY

Status Start Time Event Round Start List Results

Seeded 2:30 PM Women's Mile Final Start List

Seeded 3:00 PM Men's Mile Final Start List

Seeded 4:00 PM Men's Masters 5000m Final Start List

Seeded 4:30 PM Women's 10000m Final Start List

Seeded 5:15 PM Men's 10000m

The Women's Mile started at 3, so maybe the Men's Mile will be at 3:30.

Men's mile was said to be at 3:30 but still nothing on air

Now it's on

what did Harrison run?

I can't find anything. Never got the livestream to work.

4:05

And it looks like Dan King got his 2nd (3rd?) record of the weekend with a 16:48 5K earlier tonight along with the mile age group record yesterday.

Makes sense that the other American women weren't as fast since she just ran the fastest time in history.