This is difficult to explain but say somebody’s highest speed rating was a 160 and they ran a 175 their next race. Can anyone think of some huge 10+ point speed rating jumps?
Landon Heemeyer from Rocky Mountain Idaho ran a 187 at his NXR meet, a 192 at CHAMPS west, and then a 198 at CHAMPS nationals. Not the biggest jump ever recorded, but certainly a big one over just a few weeks.
Landon Heemeyer from Rocky Mountain Idaho ran a 187 at his NXR meet, a 192 at CHAMPS west, and then a 198 at CHAMPS nationals. Not the biggest jump ever recorded, but certainly a big one over just a few weeks.
Heemeyer had previously run a 192.5 at Bob Firman and a 192 at state. Champs Nationals was his 4th run in the 190s.
Sam Hansen, on the other hand, went from a mid season high of 187, to just 174 at state, to 193 at Champs west and all the way up to 200 at nationals.
This is difficult to explain but say somebody’s highest speed rating was a 160 and they ran a 175 their next race. Can anyone think of some huge 10+ point speed rating jumps?
I saw a guy go from a 17 to a 155 in one year. I've also seen someone go from 42 to 128. Quite impressive
This is difficult to explain but say somebody’s highest speed rating was a 160 and they ran a 175 their next race. Can anyone think of some huge 10+ point speed rating jumps?
Speed ratings changes from meet to meet are often irrelevant because the top runners will often jog unimportant meets like qualification meets. Lex and Leo Young have done that a number of times.
This is difficult to explain but say somebody’s highest speed rating was a 160 and they ran a 175 their next race. Can anyone think of some huge 10+ point speed rating jumps?
Speed ratings changes from meet to meet are often irrelevant because the top runners will often jog unimportant meets like qualification meets. Lex and Leo Young have done that a number of times.
If enough of a Runner’s races have been speed rated, this thread is really asking about big effective PRs in XC. Each speed rating point is 3 seconds, so a 10 pt speed rating jump is akin to a 30 second PR.
Meet to meet can be irrelevant, but it seems more interesting if earlier best efforts can be compared.
Amanda Trotter's 180 is one of the most ridiculous "jumps" ever. In quotations because I'm confident she didn't improve near as much as the Tully guy thinks she did, but by now has invested so much time and energy that he truly believes it and refuses to look at the obvious evidence why it's not accurate.