Did they have pro/collegiates pacing or was it against all high school competition? If so, I believe that makes it the first time two hs boys have run sub-4 in the same race against all hs competition.
Its a new model athlete in high school these days. Whether there are simply better athletes running who maybe didn’t in the past or kids in general evolving and being faster or both, the bottom line is that a new normal is being created before our eyes. What was fast 10 years ago isn’t considered fast today. Just my humble opinion. Change my mind, I am open to it.
Good thing it was a full mile and not that pesky 3/4 mile.
On LRC, mile has two meanings; what it says, or 1600m. The results website referred to the race as “1 Mile” so I guess the OP emailed race officials to determine if it was a “full” mile.
Its a new model athlete in high school these days. Whether there are simply better athletes running who maybe didn’t in the past or kids in general evolving and being faster or both, the bottom line is that a new normal is being created before our eyes. What was fast 10 years ago isn’t considered fast today. Just my humble opinion. Change my mind, I am open to it.
I think this is true. I think kids today are just better than in the past because of a combination of *proven* better training methods being out there via the internet, raised expectations, and knowledge of what is possible. This is all a good thing and I think we're in the most exciting era of the sport in my lifetime (early 30s).
I also think with respect to sub 4 that the super shoes have made guys who previously would have been 4:00-4:02 flat type guys dip under the mark.
Since Jim Ryun and Gary Martin are the only sub-4s in school-only competition (right?), that’s probably true that this is the first race to have two?
Michael Slagowski and Lukas Verzbicas also did it against hs only competition
Verzbicas had a pacer though. Not sure if Slagowski did. Did Gary have one? I know in Jim's case he ran solo from the front in his 3:58.3 HS only race. No pacers or even competition. Dirt track too.
Its a new model athlete in high school these days. Whether there are simply better athletes running who maybe didn’t in the past or kids in general evolving and being faster or both, the bottom line is that a new normal is being created before our eyes. What was fast 10 years ago isn’t considered fast today. Just my humble opinion. Change my mind, I am open to it.
I think this is true. I think kids today are just better than in the past because of a combination of *proven* better training methods being out there via the internet, raised expectations, and knowledge of what is possible. This is all a good thing and I think we're in the most exciting era of the sport in my lifetime (early 30s).
I also think with respect to sub 4 that the super shoes have made guys who previously would have been 4:00-4:02 flat type guys dip under the mark.
It’s because a greater number of talented runners are being drawn to the sport. Raised expectations, or knowledge of what is possible (whatever that means) is not worth even a tenth of a second. Ryun and Webb did quite well without there being an internet.
Its a new model athlete in high school these days. Whether there are simply better athletes running who maybe didn’t in the past or kids in general evolving and being faster or both, the bottom line is that a new normal is being created before our eyes. What was fast 10 years ago isn’t considered fast today. Just my humble opinion. Change my mind, I am open to it.
In 2019 there were zero US HS sub 4s. In 2022 there were 5. Evolving pretty quickly. Only took a couple years. Imagine that.