Here are my not-completely subjective minimum time standards to be considered a good high school or college athlete. Do you agree? Are you a good runner?
HS:
800m: 1:55/2:14
1600m: 4:19/4:59
3200m: 9:19/10:59
XC: 15:45/18:15
College:
800m: 1:51/2:09
1500m: 3:50/4:24
5000m: 14:29/16:29
XC: 24:59/20:59
P.S. I am on the very edge for basically every event in high school and college. The only ones I do not meet are HS 3200m and college 800m. This definitely did not influence the cut-off in any way.
That’s fair. Some of the dip weeds here will want it to be much faster, but anyone hitting those times deserves some recognition. Those would be school records for a lot of high schools.
are you good? wrote:
Here are my not-completely subjective minimum time standards to be considered a good high school or college athlete. Do you agree? Are you a good runner?
HS:
800m: 1:55/2:14
1600m: 4:19/4:59
3200m: 9:19/10:59
XC: 15:45/18:15
College:
800m: 1:51/2:09
1500m: 3:50/4:24
5000m: 14:29/16:29
XC: 24:59/20:59
P.S. I am on the very edge for basically every event in high school and college. The only ones I do not meet are HS 3200m and college 800m. This definitely did not influence the cut-off in any way.
IMO:
5k and XC are too soft for college. 14:30 25:00 guys are mid packers at low-mid level D1 meets, 25:00 usually won’t make the traveling squad on my team and we don’t make it past regionals in XC. No doubt very good marks, in that too 99.5% of runners but not college good if that makes sense. You can win meets with the other times so I just don’t think I’d put them on the same pedestal.
On the other hand, I think you’re overshooting it for highschool. It’s easy to lose touch with how highschool really is, but 1:59 4:29 9:45 guys often go undefeated or nearly undefeated until the state meet. The stud of my highschool class ran 1:58-2:02 and 4:25-4:35 consistently and got a crap ton of medals and t shirts for it. In a very competitive distance state too.
NY son ran 9:45 in Iowa last year and never won a meet. He finished 10th to 15th several times.
NY son ran 9:45 in Iowa last year and never won a meet. He finished 10th to 15th several times.
His former teammate joined one of the worst distance programs in the B10 and he didn't even get a roster spot running 8:35 this year.
His former teammate joined one of the worst distance programs in the B10 and he didn't even get a roster spot running 8:35 this year.
Yes those 5k and XC times are way too slow. They wouldn't get you onto a decent D1 team which I assume is the metric here. A 14:30/25 minute guy probably doesn't finish top 75 in a XC regional.
I don't think the girls HS times line up. 2:14 is much faster than the other times. Especially an 18:15 5K. Just my opinion.
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