Andrew Hunter, a junior from Loudon Valley, just ran 14:41 today to win the Virginia state meet by 54 seconds, beating McGorty's best mark (as a senior) by 5 seconds. He missed McGorty's Great American record by 4 seconds earlier this season, beat McGorty's Oatlands time by 4 seconds, and hasn't had anyone within 30 seconds of him all year. McGorty only lost to Cheserek at Footlocker. Hunter has to be a winning threat in San Diego.
Try 10th.
awesome time on that course ... he'll definitely challenge Ostberg and Fisher if not outright kick their butts
The south doesn't run well at Footlocker. If he runs better than 15:30 I'll be shocked.
This Junior is so good it is frightening, in any other year he would be a No brainer. That is how good he is.
I think his parents are very involved in his training as is also the case with one of the other top 5 national runners: Matthew Maton. Maton's mother, father and step father all were elite runners, don't know about Hunter's.
Overinvolved parents. I rest my case.
How many individual boys footlocker champs does the south have?
how many sub 4 milers does the midwest have?
jjjjjjjjj wrote:
how many sub 4 milers does the midwest have?
HS? Ryun, Verzbicas and Sage came close.
jjjjjjjjj wrote:
how many sub 4 milers does the midwest have?
Um… 2. Verzbicas and Ryun. The other 3 regions only have 1 apiece. Were you intentionally making the midwest look good? Based on context, I thought that you were trying to bash the midwest.
I fail to see why past results from runners long gone impact future results for runners today. The South might have underperformed, but only because xc isn't a big tradition there. That doesn't mean that fast runners can't show up, because they do.
yoyomama wrote:
I think his parents are very involved in his training as is also the case with one of the other top 5 national runners: Matthew Maton. Maton's mother, father and step father all were elite runners, don't know about Hunter's.
Actually his mother coaches him and she obv is doing a fine job.
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
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