Lex Young brought it today

New honest video title: we peaked in high school and will keep choking throughout our college careers

Looks like Leo's down time from appendicitis a few weeks back caught up to him.

Note: appears Lex was the highest-placing true US frosh from the fantastic 2023 hs graduating class . . . he survived and outlasted all of his peers who redshirted, were injured or just couldn't run faster today . . .

Why be so nasty towards young, promising runners?

They are 3 months into their college career and you have already given up on them? Not very smart.

Lex ran 13:34 for 5k in HS, he should have run better than 29:59 for 5k in XC. Ritz ran 13:44 in HS and 29 low for 5k in XC and placed top 5 as a freshman. Lex has those types of expectations on him. No matter what he says in his videos to his followers, he didn’t race well today. Cole Sprout completed bombed and Leo did too. Not a good day for Stanford XC men today.

When Leo learns to run forward he will be a star. Worked for Valby with the tangents.

Correction he finished 74th and ran 30:14. He bombed. That’s it folks.

You have more to correct in that post. Glaring stuff. Try again.

No

Here is some context to understand how good Ritz was in HS. Ritz beat / stomped Alan Webb and Ryan Hall at FootLocker in HS. All 3 went on to set American records. Later that HS year Webb beat Ryun's legendary 35 year old record in the mile and was the first sub 4 HSer in 33 years and it was the best mile by ANY American that year.. Even with super shoes, nobody has beaten that. No other HSer was even close to Ritz in the 5k or CC even with Hall & Webb in the same class. As a Freshman in NCAA CC, Webb was 11th.

The shoes have more effect the longer the distance. Realistically, Ritz was the better HS runner than the Youngs by quite a bit. Direct time comparison is not reasonable.

The Youngs will do well, but expecting them to be Webb or Ritz is probably not fair.

I mean he was the best freshman in the field today. How are you gonna clown on the best in his class?

because he finished 74th and ran 13:34 for 5k

Do you mean 10k in XC? Because 29 minutes for 5k or even 8k XC is extremely slow.

Go back to your dorm, Connor.

New messageboard thread." Let's try to dox the guy posting from his mom's basement, ripping the #1 American true freshmen in the race."

Unlike them, I believe that I’ll qualify for indoors.

Nico got 4th his first year, despite the twins having better PRs in high school. It's a testament to the competence of Mike Smith and the wide availability of super shoes during the twins' HS careers.

Today, their alma mater (Newbury Park) has qualified for the state meet. Both on the boys and girls side

I’m sure the alumni is excited to hear it