Josiah Tostenson broke the mile record with a 4:23 two years ago, but I don’t know what the 2-mile record is. Does it have to be run in an all middle-school race like Tostenson?
Fred Carley ran a 9:41 as a 13 year old in 1977 and I’m assuming that’s the de facto record.
Bodie Thomas set the NON meet record last year in an all middle school race in 9:45 as an 8th grader.
Is it one of these two?
I mean, he ran 8:55. I think his improvement is capped
There is no official record but the fastest I know of is Ryan Schoppe's 9:19 in 2016. No, that is not a typo. Marcus Reilly also 9:20 3200 in 2019 or 2020 along with 4:19 for the full mile indoors in 8th grade as well as a 2:27 1k.
9:41 is absolutely not the record probably a dozen or two have run faster than that.
9:41? Come on now bro. wrote:
There is no official record but the fastest I know of is Ryan Schoppe's 9:19 in 2016. No, that is not a typo. Marcus Reilly also 9:20 3200 in 2019 or 2020 along with 4:19 for the full mile indoors in 8th grade as well as a 2:27 1k.
9:41 is absolutely not the record probably a dozen or two have run faster than that.
From OSU's page, PRs for Shoppe:
Personal Bests
1,500 Meters - 3:37.43
Mile - 3:57.87
3,000 Meters – 7:46.48
5,000 Meters – 13:43.64
So yea, he got better.
Alan
I think you're a bit confused, nobody said Schoppe stalled out. The poster above me was talking about Hunter Jones, who certainly hasn't had a meteoric progression but he has shown steady improvement and had a good XC season this year. Doing well for someone who has been training hard for a long time.
Actually as I typed that I just remembered Keegan Smith ran 9:18 as an 8th grader in 2021. That is the fastest I know of, and to be honest I would be surprised if there were any faster performances.
9:41? Come on now bro. wrote:
There is no official record but the fastest I know of is Ryan Schoppe's 9:19 in 2016. No, that is not a typo. Marcus Reilly also 9:20 3200 in 2019 or 2020 along with 4:19 for the full mile indoors in 8th grade as well as a 2:27 1k.
9:41 is absolutely not the record probably a dozen or two have run faster than that.
Thanks. Couldn’t find a record of Schoppe’s time but it clearly lines up with his frosh cross country times and I could find verification for Reilly. Sad it takes searching several different results sites plus google to find this stuff.
The unofficial world record page usually is good for this stuff, but the 14 year old two mile record is now a frosh from last year who is very young for his age, so the normal 8th grade times got crowded out. Not sure who it was before him. Still curious where everyone got the “Tostenson broke the national record” headlines from, but guess anecdotal results plus the world record page for ages will have to do. Thanks.
9:41? Come on now bro. wrote:
Actually as I typed that I just remembered Keegan Smith ran 9:18 as an 8th grader in 2021. That is the fastest I know of, and to be honest I would be surprised if there were any faster performances.
Wow. Yeah, that’s going to be what I consider the record until someone proves otherwise. Still wish we had an actual record list.
It is a meaningless bar. Some states allow 7th graders to run varsity so may as well just consider them part of high school. And some kids are held back which makes a huge difference around age 14.
It is a meaningless bar. Some states allow 7th graders to run varsity so may as well just consider them part of high school. And some kids are held back which makes a huge difference around age 14.
I followed a relatively normal progression - increasing mileage when I got older and faster, but I didn’t run insane volume or workouts so I’d improve a lot in college. Went from 15-20, 25, 35, 50 and had great results.
