Please share your stories.
Please share your stories.
Not too great because it was an indoor race the first year the school did indoor track.
Sham 69 wrote:
Please share your stories.
Your heroes right
It was a pretty soft record and I wanted to run faster the next week.
immortal, an 8:01 4x800 under my idiot hs coach is truly legendary
We smashed our 4x8 record w/o knowing with a 7:52 but we still lost at nationals so it was pain. My split would’ve broken our school record but i never hit the time in an open 8
Empty. It was the downturn of my running career. That time was my focus for many years. I was so short sighted that after I reached that mark I didn't know what was next. I floundered for a few seasons, running good times but not quite that good again. By the time I figured things out, I had lost my drive and was burnt out. Stopped running for several years before picking it up again.
I still wonder what might have been had I planned better during the time when the passion was still strong.
I broke my first high school record when I ran 10:03. The old record was 10:08. I was happy of course. This time at the time somewhat came out of the blue as my previous best time had been 10:19. Immediately I was disappointed I hadn't broken 10:00 that day, but that would come later that season, and that was not even the goal that day.
Surprise! wrote:
Not too great because it was an indoor race the first year the school did indoor track.
Same. I broke the school's 1200 meter record which was almost never ran before.
Lmao not great because I pushed myself too hard on a hot day in a solo effort freshman year. Literally passed out after crossing the finish line. The 200m stumble back to the team tent was the hardest thing i’ve ever done haha
7:58 Two Mile Relay, back in 1977.
One of the highlights of my young life.
Surprisingly, the record still stands.
10k. First time ever anyone from my school had ever run the event.
I didn’t realize I owned the record until about 5 weeks later until one of my buddies realized the significance
I broke my school record that was over 20 years old. It was pretty weak. I was stoked because the head coach laughed at me when I told him I wanted to break it at the start of the season. To be fair to him I was pretty bad when that shot was called. I was the last person to make NCAAs that year, but I got hurt a few weeks later and limped it in at nationals. The time isn’t even in the top 10 best at the school now. It’s still one of the accomplishments I’m most proud of because it’s just you out there and a great deal of suffering and sacrifice went into that record.
In high school I broke one fairly early in my career, I think sophomore year. I had bigger fish to fry so I didn't really care too much, I wasn't done yet and had bigger aspirations. I ended up breaking my own school record a dozen times throughout high school, since every new PR was also the new school record.
In college it was a bigger deal, because breaking the school record also put me in NCAA championship qualifying types of times. So it was extra exciting to break the school records and know that I'll be running the NCAA championships.
I'll also say it's a bit of a relief when you break a record. Usually you know you're capable of it, and you're relieved that you were able to do it and can move on from it. Similarly to my first state title in high school, just relieved to have done it. I imagine it's similar up through the olympics, the olympic favorite is relieved when it actually comes true and they end up winning. It would be a completely different feeling when a dark horse wins it I imagine, they were not excpected to win so when they win it's an extra big feeling and not so much a feeling of relief.
Broke my school's fairly soft XC 5k record (15:58) by a few seconds last fall. It was my favorite race of my career so far: the weather was perfect, I beat a bunch of runners that I wanted to beat, and won the race. The record doesn't mean too much to me as my school is not exactly a distance powerhouse, but it's cool to know that I have it. It was also a relief because I had gone for the record twice before during that season and didn't get it, and I was getting worried I was going to end my HS career without getting it.
random HS senior wrote:
Broke my school's fairly soft XC 5k record (15:58) by a few seconds last fall. It was my favorite race of my career so far: the weather was perfect, I beat a bunch of runners that I wanted to beat, and won the race. The record doesn't mean too much to me as my school is not exactly a distance powerhouse, but it's cool to know that I have it. It was also a relief because I had gone for the record twice before during that season and didn't get it, and I was getting worried I was going to end my HS career without getting it.
xc records are tough. course difficulty, weather conditions, competition, etc. To have a STRONG chance of breaking the record, you need to be considerably better than the guy with the record. If you are just a little faster, it is probably only around 50/50 to break the record.
school records are really awesome to break, whether they are soft or not. Soft records are soft for a reason. The school and community do not have a running culture. It takes great self-motivation to overcome that, and you are often stuck training solo to do that. Kudos to anybody with a school record in a regularly run event.
Excellent. The person who set our 3200 record once held the American record in the marathon for a brief time, running 2:09 well before super shoes. I ran 9:12 to break his 9:13 with a 4:36 first mile and a 64 second last lap. I was all alone the whole race and lagging the 2nd to last lap but my mental math told me if I could pick it up I'd still have a shot. It was a quiet, middle of nowhere meet with hardly any spectators at dusk but somehow that made it a little more magical.
Felt awesome to actualize. I knew I had better times in me after that, because both races were sub-optimal. But I knew I put a great effort into both races (same day).
First was 1600m. Went out in a 61, 2:10, then came back in a 2:15 for a 4:25, solo with peeps trying to hang on me.
Then an hour and change later, came back in the 800m. Some dude took it out super fast, I was boxed and came through at 56.x
Was one of those moments where you hit 450m and actually realize "THIS IS WHERE YOU GOTTA PUSH IT IF YOU WANT TO RUN FAST" so I started hammering. Last 200m I started picking off guys and then just all out blasted it the last 120m and came through in 1:56.
So 4:25 and 1:56 about an hour apart for 2 school records.
I felt good as a person but absolutly dead it was the 400 m so needless to say i was dead. But after that i felt IMORTAL nothing could kill my joy.