Very interesting. Five U.S. high schoolers, Jim Ryun, Tim Danielson, Marty Liquori, Alan Webb, and Lukas Verzbicas have combined to run a sub 4:00 mile nine times. However, it has only been done twice against high school only competition - once by Verzbicas and once by Ryun. Ryun's mark of 3:58.3 run in 1965 still stands. That's a record that's pushing 50 years.
Fastest Miles in High School Only Competition
Short term goal: 17:59 5K
Mid term goal: 2:54:59 marathon
Long term goal: To say I've been a runner half my life. (I started running at age 45).
It may stand forever if they don't start running high school only mile races again. I'm not certain about other states but Minnesota runs the 1600m and 3200m as track standards.
No chance for anyone to run the mile these days.
Labrat
The Mile is a legacy distance per the NFHS.
The low hurdles record is similar but dates from 1964.
The oldest record I could find quickly was the 200 yards - straightaway from 1961.
5K 20:23 (Vdot 48.7) 9/9/17
10K 44:06 (Vdot 46.3) 3/11/17
HM 1:33:48 (Vdot 48.6) 11/11/17
FM 4:13:43 (Vdot 35.4) 3/4/18
It looks like the list does include converted 1,600m races. I wonder what it would look like if it included converted 1,500m races.
2013 goals: 800m: 2:20 | mile: 4:59 | 5k: 18:59 | 10k: 39:59 | HM: 1:32 | Marathon: 3:20
Walk-Jogger
BRING BACK THE MILE.
Retired & Loving It
The Mile is a legacy distance per the NFHS. The low hurdles record is similar but dates from 1964. The oldest record I could find quickly was the 200 yards - straightaway from 1961.
Now that you mention it a lot of records may stand forever if "yards" is used instead of "meters". In my high school days it was the 100, 220, 440, 880 and mile.
Yes I'm old.
KillJoyFuckStick
Now that you mention it a lot of records may stand forever if "yards" is used instead of "meters". In my high school days it was the 100, 220, 440, 880 and mile. Yes I'm old.
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Resident Historian
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Kind of like how Costanza still has the high score on the Frogger machine.
Dave
Are we there, yet?
I believe Massachusetts is the only state that still runs the mile as a standard event. Some have converted to the internationally recognized 1500m, but way too many use the bastardized 1600m distance.
2024 Races:
03/09 - Livingston Oval Ultra 6-Hour, 22.88 miles
05/11 - D3 50K 05/25 - What the Duck 12-Hour
06/17 - 6 Days in the Dome 12-Hour.
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Exactly!
We even had the 660. I guess I'm also old.
Yup, my 40-something year old BIL holds the high school mile record for our state and he's quite pleased that it will never be broken, lol.
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