Coach told my son a 4:25 would break school record, he ran it, then ooops!

I've PR for the kid. I think you post is simply bragging about his PR though. No sane person would ever be upset that a coach made a mistake about the school record.

If your son was any good he would have smashed 4:20. What place was he in conference?

Find a last chance meet whee he can try to break it

What's your end game here? Revise the school record? He didn't break it and frankly wasn't that close. If he didn't win the race then it really didn't matter at all.

That's Great! Thanks for posting!

If you haven't already sent a strongly worded email to each member of the school board demanding the issue be addressed you obviously don't love your son.

The old record should most certainly be vacated and the coach should no longer have a job.

Be prepared to file a lawsuit for fraud if your family is not made whole.

Keep us updated!

4:25 didn't even make our top 7

That sucks

Now, he can go ahead and try to break it at the next meet, right? A seven second drop is excellent. A lot of guys used to hit 4:30 and that was it. Another seven second drop and he would be around 200th in the country. Not bad at all. That would have been close to my hs team's record.

zxvxzcv wrote:

Another seven second drop and he would be around 200th in the country.

But I thought everyone but me ran 4:20 in high school!! Has Letsrun lied to me?

4:20 is a pretty solid record for a middle school. Maybe he'll have a shot at the HS record in coming years.

zxvxzcv wrote:

Another seven second drop and he would be around 200th in the country.

Author Name wrote:

But I thought everyone but me ran 4:20 in high school!! Has Letsrun lied to me?

There are exactly 201 people on letsrun, not counting the sock puppets.

Sock Puppet Lives Matter

How did your son not know the school record in his event? It should be posted on a large board in the school gym.

Bring Back the 880 wrote:

How did your son not know the school record in his event? It should be posted on a large board in the school gym.

It might have been posted using an old school analog clock which he could not decipher.

It took you a long time to get to your question. But the answer is "yes." The real issue really is only your pride. It is not unreasonable for the coach to mistakenly say the wrong school record, if it was set by an athlete competing for a different coach.

Author Name wrote:

But I thought everyone but me ran 4:20 in high school!! Has Letsrun lied to me?

Only about half of us have:

Never Say Always wrote:

4:20 is a pretty solid record for a middle school. Maybe he'll have a shot at the HS record in coming years.

Yeah, and you have a 8-inch Johnson, your wife is a Victoria's Secret model, and you make over $400,000 annually.