Cole Boone Runs 2:23.68 for 1000m (#5 on HS all-time list)

That's a pretty quick marathon for a junior.

Truthful, but that is not why I started the thread. Thank you for replying though.

Marathon or 1000 meters??

1000m. Tied with Webb. Except Webb ran his time in March of his senior year.

He slipped under a lot of people's radar despite running 1:49 as a sophomore last year. Considering he ran 4:07 last year and then opened up this season with a 5-second 1k PR, I'm gonna guess that he ends the season at 1:47 and sub 4.

considering only three HS Juniors have ever run under 4, and he seems very primed to do this over the next 7 months, I would think he would be hyped more.

If it were a marathon, 2:23:68 would make no sense as that technically means 2:24:08.

Wow, this guy is disgustingly talented. Supreme raw speed. 53/4:39 in his first year in 8th grade, 2:29 indoor K as a freshman + 51/1:54/4:18, then sophomore 1:49/4:07. What on Earth?? The 2020's are a crazy time to be a fan of running

The OP's headline has been edited. It originally very vague—last name (Jr) and "2:23" and number 5 all time with no event listed.

I don't know what his training is like but given he can barely break 15:40 for 5k XC, if/when he finally decides to run more than 30 mpw it's over for the rest of the high schoolers

No reasonably informed fan would make a mistake thinking it was any other event or a college runner…

Hobbs Kessler 2.0

Only losers say discus. Be gone from letsrun

Losers need to be somewhere, why not where everyone is a loser?

posting to remind myself in ~4 years

Does anybody have details on his training? Would be interesting to learn more.

Not sure if anyone else noticed but he is now faster in the 1k than George Kersh, former HS record holder in the 800.

No. He is a middle distance guy like most of the elite ones. They don't run 5k.

His high school coach that got him to where he is left the program and he’s been working with outside coaching. His team absolutely shrunk this year with only 7-9 boys on the cross team and a few girls. He Had a little injury at the beginning of the cross season that cost him some training time.

He doesn’t do big volume and works on speed often so this isn’t too surprising.