Sledge wrote:
GoldenMiles wrote:I think a lot of the reason I haven't been rooting for Mary is that I wasn't following the sport lat year when she was setting her (insane) records. Nothing against her personally.
What's the most impressive of her times?
1:59?
4:04?
4:24?
9:38?
15:45ish?
Is she the greatest female high school distance runner ever?
None of those. 4:07 at US indoors this year at altitude.
This ^^^
Cain's 4:07 converted to a 4:01 with altitude conversion
Plus on top of that it was indoor so I would subtract a second or 2 if you're converting to an outdoor track w/ good weather, I think if she was in an DL meet outdoor in the same shape she had currently been in, she could've gone sub-4... People just looked at her 4:07 like it was nothing, but it was actually very phenominal! Efraimson ran 4:07, sea level, DL meet, outdoor, good weather, lots of competition around her so yes, I do think Cain is still on another level than her, and any comments about them being just as fast as each other, I honestly don't understand... If Cain skips the Junior Curcuit and just concentrates on DL (which I think she should do), then she will definitely break 4 later on this year (probably in Brussels)...