Owen Powell 3:56.66i High School Record at BU

Hang on, Crater boys both @ 1:58 at the half

2:58 @ 1209m

Josiah 3:57.47

And Tayvon 3:59.61! All time duo breaking four in the same heat

Wow, Crater boys Crushed

TK 3:59.61

JT 3:57.47

last week the crater boys become the first duo to ever break 8 minutes. Now they become the only 2 from the same high school to break 4. 3:57 Josiah and 3:59 Kitchen

Pacific Northwest on top

First Powell took Kessler’s record. Next Powell will take Kessler’s place on the next Olympic team!

All three did at BU in pro fields which is cheating, shouldn’t count

So are we now at the peak or HS distance running?

This is the amount of people that LOVE Owen Powell 👇🥰😍

Kitchen and Tostenson! Those two are sick. The stars aligned when they got put in the same school!

And they are both "from there" not some kind of transfers from across the state... Same as Gorze, for people who remember way back in 2024.

Great performance, but all this shows are the benefits of modern day shoes and indoor tracks. This converts to 4:03-4:05. Still great, but some context here.

Like Jakob, Owen got a twofer.

Powell's 3:40.62 en route 1500 breaks Drew Hunter's 3:41.93 indoor hs 1500 record.

Sub 4 is just another box to check for any decent college or good high school miler. It isn't really a big goal anymore, it's just expected now. High school kids will be routinely breaking four. You'll have 250+ guys in college doing it every year soon from maybe 30 just a few years ago.

Surprised Kitchen broke 4, his strength is really carrying him. Looks like we're going to end up with 3-5 more sub 4 miles by the end of outdoor. We really might see something special this outdoors, Arcadia is going to be one of the best races of the year. Simmons was smart for training to beat the 5k record last season and not the 2 mile. Even a guy with a lot of strength like Kitchen is really going to struggle breaking 13:30, but looks like Griffith's hs/meet records from last year are all under threat now.

Calling it now: Tayvon Kitchen will run a 3200 in sub 8:30 this season.

The only person who will be able to contest him at Arcadia will be Kaden Evans. One goes 8:29 FTW, the other 8:30.

Tayvon will run faster in the summer- 8:26.6x, and then a 5k in 13:29.7x to barely miss the 5k record.

Arcadia is gonna be insane insane insane. Powell, Kitchen, Tostensen, and that kid from New Zealand all running in the same 3200. Pray for good weather. 8:2x mid if the race goes right.

agreed with your overall point. But at some point we need to reevaluate what "special" means. When we get to the point that its expect that multiple guys will beat a given mark every season is it still special? 3:56 is special by Owen Powell. 3:57 is special by Tostenson. Squaking under 4:00 and going under 8:40 is no longer special by today's standards