800 star Isaiah Harris ran the 2nd mile of his college career over the weekend... And his time was....

Old Man 2 Lapper wrote:

So you only race your distance and never go up or down for early train thru races? Good to know, you're a genius!!

Well... the top 800 guys in the world only run 400/800 races.

Do you know who Nick Symmonds is?

Creesie baby wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

4:07.18 which is in line with what he did last year as last year he ran 4:05.89 but in the middle of February.

PL NAME YEAR TEAM TIME SC

1. Abert, Colin JR-3 Penn State 4:02.50 -

2. Jocis, Ugis Latvia 4:04.70 -

3. Harris, Isaiah JR-3 Penn State 4:07.18 -

4. Green, Jonathan SR-4 Georgetown 4:08.62 -

5. Wetzel, Logan SO-2 Villanova 4:09.20 -

6. Golebiowski, Nicholas JR-3 Georgetown 4:14.30 -

7. Bloomer, Reilly SO-2 Georgetown 4:14.92 -

8. Creese, Robby Unattached 4:15.51 -

Cas Loxsom was a DNF.

What’s the deal with Robby cheese? Is he just sleeping on someone’s couch getting wasted every weekend and randomly racing on the track. 4:15 is garbage for this guy

Dude literally ate a baton mid relay and got the whole team DQ'd. Hasn't run the same since.

I am so glad you told me that! Even though ALL of the 800 guys from my day to the present normally run over distance races early in the season, I'm glad you are so up on the latest info. I will definitely go tell my old coach that running 1200's and miles were not good for me. I guess my sub 1.44 PR in the 800 was luck.

Speedydude wrote:

No you only go down on races. 800 runner should be doing 400/200 and an occasional 100. This is common knowledge in the coaching world. Doesn’t take a genius but thank you for the compliment.

My guess is you either don't coach or haven't done much research. There are some runners, the 400/800 type, that might benefit from this. But more often than not, racing over-distance is the common practice- mixed in with under-distance race or reps afterwords (typically 4x4 for college)

He was Maine State Champion in the 1600.

And the 200.

TheMidCoach wrote:

Speedydude wrote:

No you only go down on races. 800 runner should be doing 400/200 and an occasional 100. This is common knowledge in the coaching world. Doesn’t take a genius but thank you for the compliment.

My guess is you either don't coach or haven't done much research. There are some runners, the 400/800 type, that might benefit from this. But more often than not, racing over-distance is the common practice- mixed in with under-distance race or reps afterwords (typically 4x4 for college)

Also, let's keep in mind that this was a home meet. It's not like the guy tapered and traveled to find a competitive mile race. He jumped in a low-key mile race that was happening in his own back yard. Basically the equivalent of a high school kid running an off event during a dual meet.

Even if we can't all agree that it makes sense for an 800m runner to step up, we should all be able to agree that this particular race probably doesn't matter much either way.

Absolutely agree, this was just a workout for the guy.

Speedydude wrote:

No you only go down on races. 800 runner should be doing 400/200 and an occasional 100. This is common knowledge in the coaching world. Doesn’t take a genius but thank you for the compliment.

Maybe you should call up Centro, the reigning Oly gold medallist, and tell him to stop running 3k's and 5k's. Or call Mo, owner of 4 Oly golds, and tell him he shouldn't be running half marathons in preparation for 5k/10k. I'm amazed that it's common knowledge in the coaching world that you don't ever race over distance, and yet here are these ignorant pro runners racing above their target distances!

ukathleticscoach wrote:

He needs to stick to the 800m

True. He's a 21 year old who has run 1:43. High school kids who have run 10 seconds slower can easily run 4:07.

He was running around 50mpw in high school so 20 at this point would be a little low. Just saying.

This thread is nothing more than click bait.