Aaron Sahlman has been consistently 10 seconds or so behind the Young twins both last year and this year as well in XC. If anybody had him winning NXN then I'd have them pick my next Powerball numbers ASAP.
Yeah, nobody had him winning. If someone says they did they're full of it. I thought 3rd was possible on a good day but I thought top ten was more realistic. Fooled me and everyone else.
I’m with anyone who picked Aaron to win. He didn’t fool anyone. Picking Aaron to win was like picking Brazil to make it out of group play.
I called this almost a year ago:
A big dummy wrote:
When the story is all told, Aaron Sahlman will be the one that is remembered from the 2019-2023 NP era. He is the Jakob of the group. Best raw speed of them all, which makes his ceiling the highest. Nico, Colin, Lex, and Leo will one day be referred to as “Teammates of the legendary Aaron Sahlman at Newbury Park.”
When the story is all told, Aaron Sahlman will be the one that is remembered from the 2019-2023 NP era. He is the Jakob of the group. Best raw speed of them all, which makes his ceiling the highest.Nico, Colin, Lex, and Leo...
Yeah, nobody had him winning. If someone says they did they're full of it. I thought 3rd was possible on a good day but I thought top ten was more realistic. Fooled me and everyone else.
I’m with anyone who picked Aaron to win. He didn’t fool anyone. Picking Aaron to win was like picking Brazil to make it out of group play.
I called this almost a year ago:
A big dummy wrote:
When the story is all told, Aaron Sahlman will be the one that is remembered from the 2019-2023 NP era. He is the Jakob of the group. Best raw speed of them all, which makes his ceiling the highest. Nico, Colin, Lex, and Leo will one day be referred to as “Teammates of the legendary Aaron Sahlman at Newbury Park.”
I’m with anyone who picked Aaron to win. He didn’t fool anyone. Picking Aaron to win was like picking Brazil to make it out of group play.
So you thought Aaron had like a 90% chance of winning this race (just like Brazil making it out of group play) even though he had never won a cross country race prior to this ? Wow
Aaron, Leo, and Lex can probably all run in the low 8:30's in the 3200 this spring. The Arcadia 3200 is going to be wild!
He's already there. His first ever crack at a race over 1600 he ran that 8:01 3000. That's an 8:35 conversion. Not bad for the first time every running that distance.
In that post you can see that 16 years old Sahlman is fairly close to the times ran by 16 years old Jakob :
1:48:91(-0.5s) 4:01(+5s) 8:01i (+1s)
What do you guys think Sahlman will run in the 1500/mile this season ?
I think he has the potential to go 3:36 3:54 and 1:47.0 if he gets in the right races and everything goes right. Remember we’re talking about a guy who was only 16 when he ran 1:48, 8:01 and 4:01.
I think another thing to emphasize, from your analysis, is the big drop in race times that occurred between 17yr-old Jakob and 18yr-old Jakob, indicating significant improvement, due to the sweet-spot age of physical maturity, can occur even if there have already been years of aerobic development.
Therefore, it’s possible we similarly might still see a significant jump in improvement in the Young twins and A. Sahlman. Today’s performance from the latter athlete may already foretell this.
Looking at milesplit, Aaron has not even cracked 51 in the open 400. He could maybe break 50 this year as a senior but definitely not sub-49 by any means.
Don't pay attention to that. Just because Aaron hasn't officially broken 51 in the open 400 doesn't mean he wasn't able to.
Athing Mu has run 1:55 and 49.5. There is no way that 1:48 Aaron can't beat Athing in a 400.
I’m about about Aaron etc. But Athing split 48.3. She’d beat professional 1500 men on a 4x400. Aaron could probably split 49.5-50.5 last year and may be faster this year.
I’m with anyone who picked Aaron to win. He didn’t fool anyone. Picking Aaron to win was like picking Brazil to make it out of group play.
So you thought Aaron had like a 90% chance of winning this race (just like Brazil making it out of group play) even though he had never won a cross country race prior to this ? Wow
Of course. I have been following Newbury Park for three years. He is the best runner there. The best runner on NP should win NXN.
thus, it was a no-brainer that he was going to win. There was no “upset”
It was windy and cold yesterday but it was dry and the footing looked good for the course, while the conditions were terrible, muddy, rainy, and windy, in 2019 when Nico ran the previous course record, 14:51-52. So, that performance is still superior to this one. However, Sahlman ran a very smart race. All the signs were that he would be even better than his brother, because he was close enough in cross country and especially close in track, but considerably younger, 16 for the track times, while his brother was about 18 and a half.
I think it helped him not sure about the Young’s. He did look like the fresher of the three though. Let us not forget Leo almost took down GF’s record at CA State. More like a bad day. overall the Young’s will regroup and will see some amazing track times.
The plural of "Young" is not "Young's." Apostrophe use is not difficult.
Yeah, nobody had him winning. If someone says they did they're full of it. I thought 3rd was possible on a good day but I thought top ten was more realistic. Fooled me and everyone else.
I’m with anyone who picked Aaron to win. He didn’t fool anyone. Picking Aaron to win was like picking Brazil to make it out of group play.
I called this almost a year ago:
A big dummy wrote:
When the story is all told, Aaron Sahlman will be the one that is remembered from the 2019-2023 NP era. He is the Jakob of the group. Best raw speed of them all, which makes his ceiling the highest. Nico, Colin, Lex, and Leo will one day be referred to as “Teammates of the legendary Aaron Sahlman at Newbury Park.”
