Aidan Tooker 4:09.38 US#1 Mile!

Also, six months of maturity counts at this age.

The Animal Within wrote:

Is this that crazy? We do a mile time trial (think postal two mile but we just do one mile) the Wednesday after the last race in XC. Literally 80% of the kids run personal bests, the rest were all within 10 seconds of their PR.

It's about aerobic capacity for high schoolers. Not speed.

Just putting this out there but he is from the same section as Philo Germano. It's pretty cool to have seen two threads started on guys from section 2 in upstate New York. As a section 2 alum myself I would just like to note the depth of our section. Our leaderboards are riddled with guys from Class A (911 students plus) to Class D (under 259 students). Here is a link to our section's running website if anyone wants to check out some of the races or records:

http://www.section2harrier.com

It's interesting to note that back in the day there was a message board where some of the top guys in the section would communicate and talk smack about upcoming races.

Best of luck to Tooker!

One of the fastest early season miles I've seen in awhile!

That mile is definitely on par with where Tooker's fitness is at. It looked like at the end of XC that races weren't panning out exactly how he wanted. Maybe the two week break from the pressure of championship racing and fast workouts gave him the recovery he needed.

I ran with Eion's Dad Tom in H.S. and by looking at his progression since Freshman year, this kid is very similar to his Dad. I would think every major D1 program in the country would be wise to recruit him. He has taken down some of his Dads PR's at Van Cortlandt this XC season and also his steeple PR last spring. Tom progressed into an 8:16 steeple and a sub 4 miler with 1:47 800 speed, I think this kid has the potential for the same or better! I will be checking the results to see if he takes down anymore of his Dads H.S. PR's. Rumor has it that Tom ran a fantastic beer mile while at U of Florida, the kid has a few years to wait to go for that one! Best of luck Eion!

John C wrote:

I ran with Eion's Dad Tom in H.S. and by looking at his progression since Freshman year, this kid is very similar to his Dad. I would think every major D1 program in the country would be wise to recruit him. He has taken down some of his Dads PR's at Van Cortlandt this XC season and also his steeple PR last spring. Tom progressed into an 8:16 steeple and a sub 4 miler with 1:47 800 speed, I think this kid has the potential for the same or better! I will be checking the results to see if he takes down anymore of his Dads H.S. PR's. Rumor has it that Tom ran a fantastic beer mile while at U of Florida, the kid has a few years to wait to go for that one! Best of luck Eion!

My response is about 3rd place finisher Eion Nohilly. I also just realized his 4:17 mile in the race with Tooker took down his Dads indoor mile PR!

As an East Coast guy and one who has been to the Armory dozens of times since 2001, this is the fastest mile I remember by 12/19 in any year since I have been following the sport and that goes back a while.

4:09.3x is fast for December. Or anytime really.

row row rowbury your boat wrote:

jjjjj wrote:

awfully quick this early. hard to shift gears that fast right after xc.

This is such a funny comment I see around here often. They are high school kids, most of them running 4:20 or faster have that gear 365 days a year.

Does anyone else have college stories about running a track 1600/mile at the end of XC season and decent guys PR'd? I think our graduate assistant was a D3 national champ at 5k and his mile PR was from the post XC season mile run. (May have invented the PR part in my head, but he definitely ran a ridiculous time for a November mile with his teammates.) I understand this potentially raises lots of other questions, but I personally don't see how it's that difficult for a young athlete to run a good mile time off of XC fitness.

I agree 100%. These kids are training for a 5k in which you run the first 300 meters all out. They are all in good mile shape pretty much year round. Now running a good mile after half or marathon training is a totally different matter. Still a good run for the kid but this "in December!!!!!" thing is stupid.

No, it is not stupid.

Really Really Good guys in the NE have run well in XC for 45 years, and not run 4:09 right out of the box.

It is well above average for this time of year.

The potential for Tooker has been their all season. He broke a course record by himself on a course that has held the NYS meet twice now. And that course is every bit of a 5k as it is advertised to be.

Earlier this season.

http://section2harrier.com/crosscountry15/xc15queensburyinvy.html

NYS Champs in 2013

http://section2harrier.com/crosscountry13/xc13statemeet.html

The championship season just didn't end up well for him.

Look at the 8:51 from the Loucks Games last outdoor season. It has been a long time coming but deserved.

Aussie 10th grader has run 4:07 mile and 8:11 3k in the last several weeks. Not bad for a 16 year old.

Trialswatcher wrote:

No, it is not stupid.

Really Really Good guys in the NE have run well in XC for 45 years, and not run 4:09 right out of the box.

It is well above average for this time of year.

Not only well above average, but the FASTEST indoor mile for a HS kid in December EVER. He is #44 all-time for the indoor mile for HS.

Pretty good. He looks like he's 14. Syracuse is building a pretty good thing, and he will help them.

Flagpole, I thought so, but I did not have a list up, can you post the one you used.

Trialswatcher wrote:

Flagpole, I thought so, but I did not have a list up, can you post the one you used.

The list I got is from a Milesplit Insider article and list, so you have to be a member (like I am) to read it.

If you are a paid member of Milesplit, then search for "Aidan Tooker Joins Elite Company With Mile Performance".

Obviously an excellent time. How often is the indoor mile run in HS relative to the 1500 or 1600? Is the mile the most common standard indoors?

I think we will see a sub-four minute mile indoors this season by a high school runner. I'm not thinking of Tooker, but he is looking good.

jjjjj wrote:

awfully quick this early. hard to shift gears that fast right after xc.

is that nohilly kid behind him the son of the steepler?

You mean easy to switch gears? its certainly not unheard of to have a fast December race to get the qualifier out of the way off XC peak before starting over to peak for ncaas

It's hilarious that Alabama has us #1 times in various events since our indoor meets are so early.

Do Kenyan and Ethiopian high school runners compete in indoor meets?

We need to think about that in America. We run to dang many meets!!!