I saw that 3 high school girls have qualified for the US Oly trials in the 800 (standard 2:02.50. Not denigrating their fine effort or talent, but.............which is the softest standard?
And which event has the most qualifiers already?
Thanks.
I saw that 3 high school girls have qualified for the US Oly trials in the 800 (standard 2:02.50. Not denigrating their fine effort or talent, but.............which is the softest standard?
And which event has the most qualifiers already?
Thanks.
The women's marathon by far.
Women’s distance is pretty soft in terms of qualifying standards.
800 is somewhat soft but not as soft as 10000, 5000, and 1500 (women’s side specifically).
All three of those events have pretty soft standards.
Javelin of course. The field of competitors in the world is tiny. How many high school athletes in the US train for javelin?
mahmood wrote:
I saw that 3 high school girls have qualified for the US Oly trials in the 800 (standard 2:02.50. Not denigrating their fine effort or talent, but.............which is the softest standard?
And which event has the most qualifiers already?
Thanks.
Depends. I just glad that these 3 young ladies are ladies and able to compete fairly against other young ladies and not other outlying identifying humans.
Milethon wrote:
The women's marathon by far.
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2:02.50 is honestly a pretty tough standard. Very impressive that multiple hs girls got it
high school xc coach wrote:
Milethon wrote:
The women's marathon by far.
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Agreed.
marathon. duh.
my first thought was racewalk because of how often racewalkers have both feet off the ground
Random question xyz wrote:
2:02.50 is honestly a pretty tough standard. Very impressive that multiple hs girls got it
No high school boy has EVER run the current 800 standard. Yet many girls have have run faster than the women's standard, including 14-year old Mary Decker. If 3 high schoolers can run the standard in the same year it's too easy.
Compare that to the 5000. The national high school record is 14 seconds slower than the qualifying standard.
Easy. Women’s 3000 SC.
Alright enough talk about field events and women's events -
Same topic, which is the softest men's running event?
I'm sure someone has answered this already but how someone can have the qualifying mark but not the Oly standard. For example, Shannon Rowbury has a mark of 4:02.56 but she does not have the standard of 4:04 20. This doesn't make sense.
I don't know when she ran that time, but times between like March and November or December of last year didn't count towards Olympic qualifying times. That's why if you look at who has already qualified, it says Houlihan is qualified with a 14:30-40 or so instead of the 14:2x she ran last summer. Same with Schweizer I believe.
Peach Pit wrote:
I don't know when she ran that time, but times between like March and November or December of last year didn't count towards Olympic qualifying times. That's why if you look at who has already qualified, it says Houlihan is qualified with a 14:30-40 or so instead of the 14:2x she ran last summer. Same with Schweizer I believe.
Yeah, I get there is a window but if a time is outside the qualifying window why list it all? It looks like it's the most recent qualifying mark they have prior to the window, in the case of Shannon it's Sept of last year.
I’d say both marathon standards are pretty soft. It makes sense because it makes for a bigger event, but at the same time doesn’t because a 2:15 guy, let alone a 2:20 guy has ZERO chance of making an Olympic team in that fitness, whereas a sub 1:46 800m guy or 3:40 1500m guy is gonna at least have a chance (sorry, don’t remember the exact standards, but you get the point)
CopperRunner wrote:
I’d say both marathon standards are pretty soft. It makes sense because it makes for a bigger event, but at the same time doesn’t because a 2:15 guy, let alone a 2:20 guy has ZERO chance of making an Olympic team in that fitness, whereas a sub 1:46 800m guy or 3:40 1500m guy is gonna at least have a chance (sorry, don’t remember the exact standards, but you get the point)
agreed. most of the big running clubs in my area have at least one guy at or within striking distance of 2:19, but i don't know of anyone in this whole metro area (twin cities) who is even sniffing any of the track standards except maybe obsa ali in the steeple.
it's like 3:37 I think. If the US wasn't so competitive over 1500, a consistent 3:37 guy could get in off world rankings.
and it's definitely the marathon, on both the men's and women's side, and i'd say the women's one is softer than the men's one.