Does Leo Young have a shot at the Woodward Park course record this weekend at Clovis Invite?

Peach Pit wrote:

Sahlman with a 14:29, only a second off!

Leo and Lex Young ran 14:33 and 14:34.

These kids are insane. 3 guys within 10 seconds of German Fernandez's time all from the same school.

Makes you think, there's been 1 year with 2 sub 4 HS milers. Could this year 3 kids from the same school run sub 4? If they're a bit more speed-oriented than Fernandez was, I can definitely see it being possible.

This year's team will go down in history for sure as being the best HS team.

No this could be the first year there are a set of high school brothers breaks 4 in the same season. Crazy thing is two sets of brothers may do it in the season.....or same race if things line up perfectly.

WTF are you talking about? I was at the 2019 Clovis Invitational and the weather was absolutely perfect. Nico couldn't have asked for better race conditions: perfect weather and Leo Daschbach running shoulder-to-shoulder with him the entire race. As you may recall, Nico outkicked Daschbach 14:28 to 14:30. And, to make sure I wasn't dreaming, I just went back and re-confirmed the weather. It was in the low-60s throughout the entire race (which started at 9:30am) and was not windy in the slightest.

Ad Hocker Teare List wrote:

In 2019 at Clovis Invite the weather was quite warm when Nico ran 14:28. Better weather probably would have resulted in sub 14:24.

The weather forecast for this Saturday is much cooler and ideal racing conditions. I'm not sure any of the four are quite as good as Nico was, but all four are probably within 10 seconds on a good day. I predict 1-4 average 14:35 with one under 14:30 (I'm going to say Lex not Leo). Team average will be well under 15:00 and possibly over a minute under previous course record. Without a doubt this is the best team ever (multiple minutes ahead of Arcadia and Great Oak's best times who won a combined 3 NXN titles from 2011-2015).

Pala is in a league above the Lick Wilmerding runner. He just threw down a 14:11 3mi race and is only going to improve in the next 1-2 months.

fcsqnnnkr wrote:

Pala is in a league above the Lick Wilmerding runner. He just threw down a 14:11 3mi race and is only going to improve in the next 1-2 months.

The Lick runner, Alex Mader, beat Pala by 5 sec at Arcadia. 14:11 is awesome, but what’s that course like? Mader today ran only 5 sec off the Woodward D5 record held by Teare and Trevor Rheinhart. He’s very fit and we’ve not seen his best yet, so don’t count him out.

birdbeard wrote:

GodDoesNotExisz wrote:

German Fernandez. Let's see if Leo can top the GOAT HS runner.

Cheserek ran Woodward?

Verzbicas ran woodward?

Nico was never shoulder shoulder with Leo. Nico lead the entire race by 12-20meters. Not until the last 100m Nico then out kicked Leo.

CIF track history wrote:

New Records? wrote:

Boys:

Meet record is 14:28 (Nico Young)

Course record is 14:24 (German Fernandez)

Girls:

Meet record is 16:53 (Corie Smith)

Course record is 16:30 (Claudia Lane)

Boy's meet & course records could be broken.....we'll find out.

Girl's meet record could be at risk, if Ping, Engelhardt, or a few other girls have a good day. Ping just ran a 16:40 at Desert Twilight. Course record is likely out of reach, but I'd he happy to be surprised.

Didn't think of the girls course/meet record, but you are definitely right. Meet record will 100% go down, but the course record... 16:30 at Woodward is on another level... I could see it lasting a few more years.

Where was Desert Vista? Clovis still appears on their schedule on their website:

Also, Ping mentioned that Clovis was next up in a video I saw of her following her win at Desert Twilight.

I think Ping would have definitely given McDonnell and Englehardt a battle. The way she's been running lately, she likely would have won.

Desert Vista? wrote:

CIF track history wrote:

Didn't think of the girls course/meet record, but you are definitely right. Meet record will 100% go down, but the course record... 16:30 at Woodward is on another level... I could see it lasting a few more years.

Where was Desert Vista? Clovis still appears on their schedule on their website:

http://www.thundercc.com/girls/schedule.aspx

Also, Ping mentioned that Clovis was next up in a video I saw of her following her win at Desert Twilight.

I think Ping would have definitely given McDonnell and Englehardt a battle. The way she's been running lately, she likely would have won.

McDonnell beat her at Woodbridge 15:54 to Ping's 16:06. Not saying Ping would get destroyed, but nothing says Ping would beat McDonnell at all.

Seems like Desert Vista was a no-show. They were on all the start lists.