Mrr82 wrote:
What's the difference between the JR record in the mile in HSand the Sr record? What's the difference between the records for a sr in hs, and for freshman in college? 7 months is a long time at that age. was the 300 days between when Dathan ran 1344 fully peaked, and 1327 unpeaked irrelevant? Or the 300 days between Matt Withrows 1413 and 1335? Full seasons at that point in your developement are huge.
I could give a 100 examples of drastic improvement made by one athlete over a summer at that age, let alone 7 months. It's extremely relevant, and as a few other posters pointed out, the original poster posed 3 questions, not 1, of which makes age very relevant.
Somehow I don't think Schaaf was getting in extra training the first 210 days of her life. She is older than Fernandez that's about it.