About mathew petrillo of ucsb
Personal -- Logged over 15,000 miles over four years of training during high school... Peak mileage was 200 miles per week... Was on the Honor Roll every semester of high school... Will major in Political Science at UCSB... Also plans to minor in Athletic Coachin
is that a typo?
yes
not a typo. that kid ran way too much and peaked early and blew up at state. he didnt run consecutive 200 mile weeks, just one and a lot of weeks around 100.
i'm guessing not. 15000 miles/4 years/52 weeks is over 70 miles per week, every week, from Freshman year on. i doubt it. the 200 mile week, well, maybe that's true. he might have been being dumb one summer and done 5-a-days or something, but the 15000 miles i find really hard to believe for a HS guy. that's so much running, especially if you think that he was maybe 15 as a freshman so to think of constant 70 mile weeks at that age is pretty ridiculous.
Magness.....is that you??
If he averaged 40mpw freshman year, 60 soph, 80 jr, and 100 sr, then the overall average would be 70mpw. Not impossible at all.
Yes, Matt ran a LOT in high school. I was part of the same league as him and raced against him in high school. He ran some REALLY high mileage, 100+ weeks were not uncommon to him. I remember last year, after a race, he went on a 23+ mile run. He didn't run well at state, and wasn't super consistent last year though. He did set a course record on Toro Park (pretty prestigious), very early on in the season (most teams who compete there have that meet as their first of the season). He was also one of the few people to go under 15 minutes on Crystal Springs, the course typically used for leagues/sectionals in CCS (Central Coast Section). But yes, at state he was predicted to go at least a minute faster but didn't run so well.
Oh, I also forgot to mention that Matt ran ~30-31 minute 10k his senior year (at the beginning of cross country), and beat some notable people like Mark Matusak. The 200 mile week he ran was also during his "base phase" for cross country (for his senior year).
Didn't Gerry Lindgren average about 200 miles per week?
Yes, Matt actually based his running off of Lindgren. There was an article in the local paper about it.
has matt left his family and flown the coop to Hawaii yet?
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Yes, Matt actually based his running off of Lindgren. There was an article in the local paper about it.
I wonder if that's how he wound up at UCSB? The real Lindgren used to frequent the bluffs of Goleta back in his day.
Matt might be transferring to another school next year.
But yes, he really did run huge mileage. He was known for it.
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