Cade Flatt- BLEW IT - 1:46.53 - He gave away the record!

Mental error. He should have run all out.

He looked really good. He might have even run sub 1:46.

He's saving his energy to run 1:45 in the semis and 1:44 in the final to make snag 3rd place.

He's good but not that good.

The HS record will take care of itself. He’s just trying to make the final.

That's what he thought last week and it didn't happen.

You better believe there's a lot more cash on the line if he does well and he already amde himself worth a LOT more by being a HSer making a Sr. Men's USATF semifinal.

He far too Bragg to get the record. he wants to set it while looking cool and cruising, because he knows the pics will be view in perpetuity. He’s a cocky jerk. May he never get the record. I wanna see a runner looking all ugly, giving it their all to get the record.

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Um, he's not in high school anymore, so how could he get the high school record?

Still counts the summer of his senior year.

Cade is very good. A young runner with a lot of talent who competes well.

We just had a thread asking why Granville ran hard in a prelim to set the current record decades ago.

My answer was so that we would be talking about him for decades in case it didn’t happen in the final.

But I understand the question about Granville, because his next race was the state final, which he ended up being too tired from his national record to win. And people thought he should have saved some energy for the state final so he could be state champion.

But Flatt isn't going to make the world team. So he didn't really have anything worthwhile to save energy for.

"which he ended up being too tired from his national record to win."

Granville won the final the next day.

What would be better for Granville.
Be one if the 1,250 state 800m champions we’ve had over the last 25 years, or the sole national record holder over that same period?

we do realize this is USATF and not the CA state meet, right? this is stupid even by LR standards

Isn’t it weird how groups of people can mythologize history and collectively misremember what really happened? I clearly remember him setting that record, then winning the title afterward. But I swear this is like the 15th or 20th time I’ve seen someone say he lost the final after setting the record. I think I first heard that error around 2002 or so, so it’s an enduring myth. I wish I know how our collective minds worked so that I could tell you how these myths get started. Fascinating, in its way.

I always wonder, when I see things so easily disproven, whether people just don't know, or they're flat out lying.

Yes, stupid that he cruised the end of the race and missed the high school record.