Video of Greg Anderson's historic 8:00.02 3000m highschool record!

this is the one German broke en route right? Don't worry i'm just a troll

yaay wrote:

this is the one German broke en route right? Don't worry i'm just a troll

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That's a pretty amazing video, for a number of reasons:

1. Obviously, the time. Incredible run.

2. The announcers - god, these people announcing a h.s. meet, while not the greatest i've ever heard, are light years ahead of anyone we have announcing elite track in the u.s. they actually know something about the runners, about the sport, and commentate on things that are happening in the race. what a concept! and they sound like they've done it before, without dropping ridiculous cliches.

3. What were some of those other h.s. kids thinking - going through the first 800 in 2:07 - and then another guy sprinting to the lead? don't know what they're PRs were, but since the winner was already the canadian record holder at 8:10, i can't imagine that 2:07 felt "slow" for them. but kudos for going out there and running.

4. nice crowd for a h.s. meet. granted, it was the ontario champs, but still nice to see.

Thanks

Did Greg go on to do better things after High School? Excuse me if I'm ignorant of some amazing career that happened.

But the announcers were horrible. The guy says they went out slow, and yet 2:07 is under 8 minute pace. The gal sounds like she has a crush on the winner. They were bad...

he ran 725 for 3k, 329 for 1500 but was banned from the sport due to extensive collusion in races---for example, he would set up a guy to go out way too fast to screw everyone else over while he sat back to ride out the pace then utilised his unorthodox shoes (later discovered to contain springs)to kick at a staggering pace.

The winner went on to dartmouth and trained under Vin Lannana there. He did nothing of note on the tracker cross country.

Sad, a great Canadian talent from the "Ontario " rift valley west of Toronto who amounted to nothing, never even making a senior national Team.

Ironically, Brendan Mathias, the runner who placed second, went on to run for Canada in the 1992 Olympics, 5000m.

A fair number of Canadians went to Fartmouth in the 80's and none amounted to much in contrast to Michigan, Wisconsin and Arkansas

He hits 2200 when the Youtube clock is at 6:27, then finishes at 8:28.

Last 800 in 2:01 - wow.

wonderful watcher wrote:

He hits 2200 when the Youtube clock is at 6:27, then finishes at 8:28.

Last 800 in 2:01 - wow.

IF this is true, then Anderson would have run the first and last 800 (total 1600) in 4:08 and the middle 1400 in 3:52, which is 8:17 pace, which would mean he probably could have run at least 7:55 in the right race. Plus, didn't the announcers mention a race the day before?

I heard he injured his achilles (dropped a wooden beam on it?) while working a summer job and never fully recovered. I was in the stands that day. It was phenomenal to watch.

Greg ran at Dartmouth

4:07. Mile

8:11. 3k

13:49 5k

30:09 10k

I raced Anderson in a quad meet against Mexico, Canada, and Japan at WSU his junior year. It was brutally hot, around 90 degrees. Very slow race in a 5k I led the whole way going out in 4:30. I had run 8:08 for 3000 about a month before. Slowed way down the second mile.

He blew by me and everyone else at 300 to go and I'm thinking, how old is this guy? It was cake to him. He would have beaten every NCAA freshman runner in that race at that time (it was a weaker era).

He was good. 8:00 is real good. Rupp ran 8:03 and broke Tratmann's NHSR of 8:05.

The announcers don't know distance - the female "color" commentator is a knowledgeable multi-events coach, more on the side of jumps, she isn't a distance person, but was the local College coach at the time (at the University where the meet was held). The other guy was just a local TV commentator who covered HS sports in general.

The guy who led at the beginning (Sean Cleary) was making some kind of statement, I don't think he was a rabbitt (or why why go 28/60!). He is now the Head coach at West Virginia, doing a good job with the Canadian girls and West Virginians he recruits - they don't have a guys program there anymore.

While the overall time is impressive, even moreso was the last 800m (2.00.2!) after going through 2200m in 6.00.0 (8.11 pace). This (8.00) equates to about 8.38 for 2miles. Probably would have gone under 8.00 if hadn't sprinted (~28.7) from 2200-2400m. It dropped Matthias, but required the next 200m in 32 to recover. Still a 59.4 for the final 400m. The leader took them out a little fast as well (his 60, GA in under 62), so they slowed in the 2nd and 3rd laps. But his not having to lead from the start (others doing the work at a pace they couldn't handle) allowed him to save something for the last half of the race (4.05/3.55 1500m splits).

He was good. 8:00 is real good. Rupp ran 8:03 and broke Tratmann's NHSR of 8:05.[/quote]

Too bad salazar wasn't coaching Vin's athletes at Dartmouth too. Anderson might have been a Canadian Rupp!

He ran two 1500m races the day before (heat and final)in oppressive heat. He won 1500m in 3.47, after panicking in the initial 100m after jumping over someone who fell in front of him (they mention this in the video) and so ran ran the first 400m in 57sec! His coach was hoping for a time under 3.45 (he had run 3.47 at the same meet the year before (with a 3000m of 8.10). The conditions for the 3000m were near perfect as a thunderstorm had rolled through a few hourse before, taking away the heat, and the wind had also died off.

I heard something similar, except that it was when he was chopping wood or something and he missed, hitting his leg with an axe.

If Anderson chose Darthmouth to go to school in 1986 it shows what his priority was. They were the greatest Ivy League distance school, but he wasn't seeing guys like Rupp, Webb, Ritz, or Goucher making 6 figure contracts running track. He was a similar talent but that didn't exist then.

After struggling for a couple years he probably shifted priorites like a sensible person would.

Just speculating but there comes a time to cut and run and he might have smartly reached that early.

Found this

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=1734226