Nearly thirty years go by and it still stands. What gives?
Nearly thirty years go by and it still stands. What gives?
Maybe because the 3200 is now run in your state instead of the 2 mile, so the only way for someone to break it would be at an out of state meet? And perhaps your state doesn't recognize out of state times? Not sure. Seems slow unless you are perhaps from a deep south state where no one run distance.
9:20 is pretty quick. A sub-9:20 guy doesn't come along that often at most high schools. Now I know most of you guys are from schools where you need to be able to go under 9 just to think about being in the top-7 on the XC squad, but at most high schools 9:20 is very rare.
Because you're so completely awesome and runners were so much cooler and faster in the 80s. Is this what you wanted to hear?
I still hold my HS record for the 3200m at 9:47 (set in 2004). When I broke it the record previously stood for 30 years. Oh and my HS has been around since the 1920's...how's that for not much distance?
Has your school consistently had clueless coaches? My school has had the same idiot for the last 30 years. Of course, the school is huge so every so often they get nationally ranked or even win an individual national championship so no one knows...
Co-held my HS's 220yd straightaway record since 1959- thats is 51 years.
Even at huge schools, idiot coaches don't get nationally ranked or win national championships. He must be doing something right just to get the kids out.
faster now wrote:
Nearly thirty years go by and it still stands. What gives?
No 22 year old Ethiopeans in your neighborhood yet?
First response is probably right. The 2 mile is rarely run in high school in most places these days. What's the school's 3200m record?
Because the 2 mile is no longer run in your state high school system. The 3200 is 18.6 meters shorter than 2 miles.
Congrats - your record will live forever.
faster now wrote:
Nearly thirty years go by and it still stands. What gives?
My best 3200 in high school was 9:48, and that record and my cc records (home and away) were set in 1984 and 1985. They stood until some kid broke all of them by 1-2 seconds in 2000 and 2001, and those times haven't been equaled since. When I first set the school record in the 3200, it had been 10:08.
Not all schools have super fast CC and track records.
I still have the 1600 meter record of 4:18 from way back in 1987. I talked to the coach the other day (still the same one as when I went there) and he said the closest anybody has come is 4:27. Funnily enough, the school has about 3000 kids now, no idea why nobody's come close.
inconsequential wrote:
Maybe because the 3200 is now run in your state instead of the 2 mile, so the only way for someone to break it would be at an out of state meet? And perhaps your state doesn't recognize out of state times? Not sure. Seems slow unless you are perhaps from a deep south state where no one run distance.
To correct myself, my record was 3200 meters and not 2 miles. But it still stands. I do recall however when we ran XC the distance was 2 miles, then a few years later it converted to 5k.
faster now wrote:
Nearly thirty years go by and it still stands. What gives?
Me too. 9:17 1973. Perhaps it will go in 2012.
faster now wrote:
To correct myself, my record was 3200 meters and not 2 miles.
To any one who still wonders, this is *exactly* why some people refer to a "full" (two-)mile race--because so many doofs say "mile" when they mean 1600m, or "two miles" when they mean 3200m.
Anyway, the (full) mile record at my high school (4:14.2) is 47 years old and counting. Nobody's gotten very close to it, even for 1600m, since then. I'll tell you the difference between that guy and his successors:
1) He did a better job of picking grandparents.
2) Every (*every*) day of practice, he came out an hour before the rest of the team and ran 20 quarters, then joined the team workout.
I still hold my 9th grade two mile record of 9:20 in the two mile. This dates from the 70's. For some reason, I am not surprised.
My high school records:
Mile- 4:13.4 (1965)
2 Mile- 9:17.1 (1971)
No was has seriously challenged these two records.
erhd wrote:
the (full) mile record at my high school (4:14.2) is 47 years old and counting. Nobody's gotten very close to it, even for 1600m, since then. I'll tell you the difference between that guy and his successors:
1) He did a better job of picking grandparents.
2) Every (*every*) day of practice, he came out an hour before the rest of the team and ran 20 quarters, then joined the team workout.
Web Loudat, Roswell, New Mexico?
J.R. wrote:
Web Loudat, Roswell, New Mexico?
Mais certainement.