Where is the BLACK PAGE for Connor Burns?!?

uggh...*Ryun

Hopefully younger than Cade Flatt.

Why would there be a black page for an age group american record in an event that is rarely run?

You are right. I could only find 20 or 30 US HS kids who ran the mile in the last 58 years. very rarely run by HS kids.

I hope he is younger than Connor Mantz.

3:59.0 in 1964 on cinders Vs 3:58.83 in 2022 on a rubber carpet wearing spring loaded shoes …; hmm, No black page

I have more faith that the modern rubber track was properly measured vs those old cinder tracks

Packed cinders with some sharp spikes could be fast indeed.

I don’t dispute Ryun was a beast, which factors into why his mile record (for a 17yr-old Junior) stood for 58 years.

There seems to be a nonchalant response to Burns’ run yesterday. Part of that may be that folks think now, more 17 yr-olds are going to come along and run that time. We’ll see.

The nonchalent response is because Connor Burns dad, Marc Burns, used to be the head coach at Mizzou for a number of years. Mizzou has had very little success in distance running, not a great sign for Connor, and he has been training with his dad his whole life. He isn't some kid who picked up running his freshman year and is just suddenly really good.

You realize one of the best american female distance runners who represented the USA at the olympics last summer and will be on this summer's world team went to Mizzou, right?

But Burns’ progression this year has taken a big leap coinciding with physical maturation. That was an all-time great performance for a 17yr-old yesterday. Can he continue the progression, to one day be at the level of Jakob?

I just checked to compare. Jakob ran a 3:56.28 mile five years ago, before his 17th birthday. What a beast.

Jim Ryun was a fraud. Half of the cinder tracks he ran on weren't maintained properly so lane 1 was actually only 395 meters. Can't trust people just marking lines in the dirt to keep records. Come on.

*3:56.29, and 3:52.28 the following year.