Starting wrote:
American Fork
Mile 1 -- 4:26
Mile 2 -- 4:08
Mile 3 -- 4:05
Mile 4 -- 4:02
Total -- 16:41
C'mon now. As brilliant as American Fork's studs ran, and they were outrageously fast, remember that the splits are for 1600 METERS, not one mile. There is a bit of a difference. Tiny, but let's keep it real. Conversions:
Mile 1 -- 4:26 for 1600m = 4:27.54 mile
Mile 2 -- 4:08 for 1600m = 4:09.44 mile
Mile 3 -- 4:05 for 1600m = 4:06.42 mile
Mile 4 -- 4:02 for 1600m = 4:03.04 mile
Total -- 16:41.30 (the precise time) for 4 x 1600m is at 4:11.78 mile pace.
Pretty freakin' fast, though remember that 1600m is 9.76m short of a mile, and a lot of heartache (collapse, lactic acid tie-up, running into an idiot official at Stanford maybe) can happen in those final meters. There are probably some runners whose times at 1600m, in mile races, were at sub-4:00 pace, but whose final mile times were above 4:00.
So let's give American Fork kudos for what they did -- blast a 4 x 1600m relay, not a 4 x mile relay. Great, GREAT result, though -- absolutely.