Nico MF Young wins Arcadia 3200 in New MR 8:40.00!

I feel kind of bad for Sprout. He's used to being so much better than everyone in CO that he can just run away from them, and seems to get drafted off and then nipped at the line in a lot of the national-level races. Maybe by his senior year he'll be like Ritz and will be able to power away from everybody.

v67 wrote:

I feel kind of bad for Sprout. He's used to being so much better than everyone in CO that he can just run away from them, and seems to get drafted off and then nipped at the line in a lot of the national-level races. Maybe by his senior year he'll be like Ritz and will be able to power away from everybody.

or he learns not to be an incessant front runner and learn different ways to race

He is not lacking in closing ability. Front-running sacrifices about 8-10 seconds of relative performance to drafting over 3200. Sprout was clearly not 8-10 seconds better than Young, though he was over the rest of the field.

My observation was he took the lead first not to get swallowed up by the pack ( he drew lane 1 at the start) and then ran the pace he wanted. Noone wanted to go faster so he was left in the lead.

Young and Sprout run two of the fastest 2 miles in high school history and people come to lets run and talk crap about ab them. WOW....

Oh I forgot this is lets run. Where assholes become reality. behind a computer screen.

cxvbnj wrote:

Young and Sprout run two of the fastest 2 miles in high school history and people come to lets run and talk crap about ab them. WOW....

Oh I forgot this is lets run. Where assholes become reality. behind a computer screen.

Chill out dude. Everyone agrees these kids are fantastic.

I haven't heard anyone talk crap about either of these kids. I've seen nothing but total admiration and maybe some analysis of the race. A few people have given the coach a hard time, but other than that, seems like a totally positive thread.

I'd hate to see your reaction to a typical Letrun thread.

ssprouts wrote:

v67 wrote:

I feel kind of bad for Sprout. He's used to being so much better than everyone in CO that he can just run away from them, and seems to get drafted off and then nipped at the line in a lot of the national-level races. Maybe by his senior year he'll be like Ritz and will be able to power away from everybody.

or he learns not to be an incessant front runner and learn different ways to race

Sure, but then we have a bunch of 8:48 races instead of an 8:40 race.

Anybody know what either of these two’s training is like?

33 and still going wrote:

I just wish the mile was just as exciting

Except it's only half the distance.

YMMV wrote:

He is not lacking in closing ability. Front-running sacrifices about 8-10 seconds of relative performance to drafting over 3200. Sprout was clearly not 8-10 seconds better than Young, though he was over the rest of the field.

cxvbnj wrote:

Young and Sprout run two of the fastest 2 miles in high school history and people come to lets run and talk crap about ab them. WOW....

Oh I forgot this is lets run. Where assholes become reality. behind a computer screen.

how many Juniors went sub 9?

runner_123 wrote:

how many Juniors went sub 9?

5

Nico Young

Cole Sprout

Leo Daschbach

Evan Holland

Thomas Boyden

Matt Strangio is also a junior and ran 9 flat (he solo'd an 8:47 a few weeks ago)

Nailed it` wrote:

cxvbnj wrote:

Young and Sprout run two of the fastest 2 miles in high school history and people come to lets run and talk crap about ab them. WOW....

Oh I forgot this is lets run. Where assholes become reality. behind a computer screen.

I'm puzzled. Who is talking crap about them? Which post is saying anything negative at all about either of these kids?

The coach? Yeah, people are talking crap.

Race tactics and strategy? Yeah, people are analyzing.

Other than that, I see nothing but admiration.

Letsrun; where assholes can't read!

That'll be some good competition next year between those guys. That's an elite field

YMMV wrote:

He is not lacking in closing ability. Front-running sacrifices about 8-10 seconds of relative performance to drafting over 3200. Sprout was clearly not 8-10 seconds better than Young, though he was over the rest of the field.

How did you come with 8-10 seconds? The HS 2-mile records set by Pre, Virgin and Fernandez were all solo runs.

The cool thing is both these boys are good milers too.

Well it would be ... wrote:

33 and still going wrote:

I just wish the mile was just as exciting

Except it's only half the distance.

Inversely speaking, the Mile is 4 times more exciting and athletic than the 32/2m.

....And even moreso, the most exciting event in T&F, the 800.

Simply *Does Not Compute* for those in "wonder" of a 59 second closing 400.

That said, props to both athletes for giving us a great race with incredible times.