LRC Note on June 2, 2022. This thread was started at the end of his sophomore year with the title Connor MF Burns. We updated the title tonight after he ran a 3:58.83 at the HOKA Festival of Miles to become just the 2nd US HSer to break 4:00 as a junior in HS.
Why is nobody talking about him? He ran a 4:10.07 full mile...and he's a sophomore. Just thought I'd bring some attention to him, most stand up and humble guy you'll meet.
Definitely impressive, but the reason it isn't huge news is because there have been recent faster times from sophomores. Rheinhardt Harrison ran 4:01 as a soph.
Hopefully, Burns continues to improve and run well.
Middle of nowhere school in Missouri. No notable results besides this one kid. Hate to be that guy but there’s a very high chance of burnout.
A lot of the middle school programs in Missouri do this. Think about Festus, you get freshman and sophomores running ridiculously fast times and then improving by a handful of seconds over the next 2-3 years.
Definitely impressive, but the reason it isn't huge news is because there have been recent faster times from sophomores. Rheinhardt Harrison ran 4:01 as a soph.
Hopefully, Burns continues to improve and run well.
True, just thought I'd shed some light on his performance seeing that there's been nothing about him. One of the hardest workers I've ever met, super excited to see how he runs in xc this year.
Middle of nowhere school in Missouri. No notable results besides this one kid. Hate to be that guy but there’s a very high chance of burnout.
A lot of the middle school programs in Missouri do this. Think about Festus, you get freshman and sophomores running ridiculously fast times and then improving by a handful of seconds over the next 2-3 years.
Anything can happen and progression isn’t linear.
Isn't he the son of the Mizzou coach? Southern Boone is a tiny school, but only 15 minutes from Columbia and Jeff City so I have a feeling they have some pretty good resources. They had 2 good girls as well (relative to school size). He's probably training at a higher level than your typical small-school sophomore though.
Definitely impressive, but the reason it isn't huge news is because there have been recent faster times from sophomores. Rheinhardt Harrison ran 4:01 as a soph.
Hopefully, Burns continues to improve and run well.
True, just thought I'd shed some light on his performance seeing that there's been nothing about him. One of the hardest workers I've ever met, super excited to see how he runs in xc this year.
Kinda doubt this... probably just one of the most talented runners you've ever met.
Definitely impressive, but the reason it isn't huge news is because there have been recent faster times from sophomores. Rheinhardt Harrison ran 4:01 as a soph.
Hopefully, Burns continues to improve and run well.
Yes, he is the son of Marc Burns. He has trained quite a bit with the Mizzou men's team.
Forget asterisks on times at the BU track, put asterisks on HS times for runners that train with college teams and are coached by college coaches.
That isn’t a serious take of course, but US soccer figured out a while ago that HS soccer is vastly inferior at developing world class soccer players than the club system. You just need more dedicated professional coaches and the kids surrounded by higher level teammates and competition to reach their potential. Putting a HS kid doing workouts with a college team gets that done.
Hobbs Kessler, Connor Burns, even the way the NB boys are trained all back this up. It’d be interesting to see a breakdown of all the top HS at boys and girls over the last decade and see how many a) at least some of the time were trained outside of the HS system, and b) trained with other elite runners, even college or pro.
I don't wanna take away from such a good run but you should note that that #2 is on an indoor track, its #8 all time including outdoor
It's a very good stat and really good run. However, a good portion of US high school kids don't run indoors or at least didn't. Seems like another thing changing with the times.
He trains like a college kid. He would show up and run workouts with the Mizzou team all the time and do long runs with them. Good for him but still what other high school kids have a dad that was coaching a D1 school where he could go train with them.
When people point to shoes being the reason kids are running fast, I look at stuff like this and have a hard time believing it's the shoes. If you want to run 3:58, you have to either be stupid talented or not train like a HSer. Kessler got the best of both worlds and got 3:34. Sahlman, Martin, and Burns are training like college kids, and it's getting results.
Props to Burns for putting in the work to get 3:58. One day we'll look back at the 2010s and wonder why every HS stud wasn't training like college kids.