On the school board they list a discontinued distance and the currently run distance with the shortest time recorded for the respective dustances. It becomes a Leader board with the leading results at various distances.
I agree with the logic that the mile leader has a time shorter than the 1600 leader. Since no one now has a chance to run for the leading mile it gets"retired" and the leading time for the 1600 is the new target.
It is when a school redoes their board and erases the mention that the mile leader ran a shorter time than the current 1600 leader, or the 4x110, 4x220, 4x440, 4x880, 4x mile and the 1320,440,880,mile relays were better performances than those at the current metric distances that gets me upset. 220 straightaway records never show up anywhere anymore.
In my mind discontinued records might be removed if there is no similar distance replacing it.
look at this list of NYS section records I bit confusing ????
1600 Meters/1-Mile
Section 1 Luke Gavigan Tappan Zee 4:08.96y 2014
Section 2 Aidan Tooker Saratoga 4:09.38y 2015
Section 3 Alex Hatz Fayetteville-Manlius 4:05.50y 2010 ** State Record
Section 4 Chad Noelle Greene 4:11.64y 2011
Section 5 John Tuttle Alfred-Almond 4:11.6m 1977
Dan Predmore Fairport 4:13.8y 1976
Section 6 Nick LaRosa Frontier 4:14.7m 1992 (converted)
Section 7 Jason Jabaut Seton Catholic 4:13.16y 2000
Section 8 Tom Camien Sewanhaka 4:13.8 1977
Section 9 John Trautmann Monroe-Woodbury 4:07.61y 1986
Section 10 Jim Tyler Norwood-Norfolk 4:14.0m 1981
Section 11 James Burke Port Jefferson 4:08.48y 2015
CHSAA Conor Lundy Fordham Prep 4:08.25y 2016
PSAL Bill Dabney Boys 4:13.6y 1973
3200 Meters/2-Mile
Section 1 Brian Cook Pearl River 9:07.04y 2014
Section 2 Aidan Tooker Saratoga 8:56.16y 2015
Section 3 Tommy Gruenewald Fayetteville-Manlius 9:06.27m 2006
Section 4 Chad Noelle Greene 9:08.29m 2011
Section 5 Mickey Burke Rush-Henrietta 9:05.15y 2014
Section 6 Charlie Kern Sweet Home 9:15.89m 1987
Section 7 Josh McDougal Home-School 8:50.40y 2004 ** State Record
Section 8 T.J. McArdle Garden City 9:06.05y 1987
Section 9 John Trautmann Monroe-Woodbury 8:59.44m 1986
Section 10 Jon Pierce Canton 9:18.66m 2002
Section 11 Tim Mcgowan Northport 9:00.20y 2014
CHSAA Conor Lundy Fordham Prep 8:58.98y 2016
PSAL Konrad Surkont Stuyvesant 9:14.20y 2012