Greg Anderson 8:00:2 3000m in highschool

Obviously every Canadian runner with any sense of history does.

Matthias was also an Olympian and sub 4 runner.

Disclaimer: I was in highschool the same year and "raced" them.

Obviously! BTW Matthias who?

SMJO wrote:

Obviously every Canadian runner with any sense of history does.

Matthias was also an Olympian and sub 4 runner.

Disclaimer: I was in highschool the same year and "raced" them.

Amazing performance.

Another ontario top 3,000 could be Dave Reid's win in 1982 in 8:17, a record at the time, run in a virtual hurricane; strategic race that came a dead stop, the morning after his solo 3:45 1500. I think he qualified in 8:11.

Ian Clark ran 8:04 for 3,000 indoors while in grade 12, maybe the strongest high school 3000 performance. Reid also broke salazar's spring bank 3 mile record.

Pretty talented high school runners!

SMJO, were you in that 3,000? Pretty amazing that Shiebler's CIS 3000 record is only a second faster than the high school record!

kmaclam wrote:

Obviously! BTW Matthias who?

Brendan Mathias, ran 3:39 in high school, ran world champs in 3,000, maybe 7:40 high

In 1992, I think, he ran the queens park mile in sub 4 then broke 29 for 10k the next morning! Nice double as both were tough courses.

Brendan Matthias.

No, I was not in that race. I was a late bloomer.

EPO couldn't have got me to OFFSAA in highschool.

Thing is, all these Canadeans, you don't know how old they are in high school. First, they have this grade 13 thing, and then most of them don't even have brth cirtificats. Usullly, they are 19 or 20 years old, if not much older.

That's a low 8:40's two mile equivalent at a time when American kids struggled to get under 8:55. What's more is that it was the day after a tough 1500, and his final 800 was in 2:00! I am assuming he was kind of a Jeff Nelson type phenom who didn't do much after High School? Too bad, he had terrific running style.

Apparently the deal with Greg was he injured his foot the summer after high school and didn't run great at Dartmouth.

As for the age thing, most of the top guys didn't do the extra year. Grade 13 is gone now, Clark ran 8:04 in grade 12 and he has a fall birthday so he was actually a young grade 12.

SMJO, depending On your division it can be tough qualifying for ofsaa as you know. In my last year the guy right behind me in our regionals ran 8:39 but didn't make ofsaa!

Another stellar run was Alain Boucher's 5:37 2000 steeple. Still the Canadian record.

Great video and pretty decent commenting (however: "the thing that is really incredible is how relaxed Greg Anderson runs"!!)

He ran some pretty good times at Dartmouth, 13:45, but was hampered by things. Some of his off the turf exploits were legendary. Ask some of the guys in the Jim Sapienza, Ron Faith, Frank Powers days about a certain bus trip home after a meet with Brown in the Greg Whiteley days. You could also ask Vin, but Vin won't say shit. I think he eventually got a nice job with Nike.

Standard bearer wrote:Brendan Mathias, ran 3:39 in high school, ran world champs in 3,000, maybe 7:40 high

In 1992, I think, he ran the queens park mile in sub 4 then broke 29 for 10k the next morning! Nice double as both were tough courses.

Matthias was in university when he ran 3:39, though he was still a junior (i.e. under 20). That was the Canadian junior record until Sully ran 3:39.11 at World Juniors (though it was set in that infamous race in Montreal where the automatic timing malfunctioned and three guys broke 3:40 -- the other two for the only time in their careers).

Matthias went to the 92 Olympics in the 5000, though I believe he only ran 13:34ish to qualify. Retired shortly after, at ~24 -- from what I remember, he got married and moved down to Florida to take over his father-in-law's family business or something like that. (But that was a long time ago, so my memory is hazy.)

I'm pretty sure Matthias ran 3:39 in the early summer between highschool and university. That would have been in '88.

Here's what he's up to now.

http://bamphoto.ca/

13:49.7ht

Sapienza graduated in '85, Powers in '86 so I don’t know who would have overlapped with Anderson who graduated in ’91.

Talented kid but distracted to say the least.

SMJO wrote:I'm pretty sure Matthias ran 3:39 in the early summer between highschool and university. That would have been in '88.

Here's what he's up to now.

http://bamphoto.ca/

Cool, I stand corrected. His first 3:39 was indeed in 1988 (at McGill) -- didn't realize he had just finished HS at that point.

And nice to see that he's found an interesting career to pursue!