Hhuujjj wrote:
RunSpokane wrote:Wilmot ran 8:57 (or was it 8:56) his soph year.
He ran 8:57 at 3,200 as a Soph (so I gave the dinettes time)
To the guy that mentioned that there is no correlation between 2 mile PRs at FL. The list above sort of invalidates that statement. Cheserek, LV, Solinsky... They were all pretty good at 2 miles... Indeed the fastest 2 mile runner does not always win (Hanry is a striking example), but, it is a very good indication...
It loses it's meaning a little bit when you consider Wilmot pretty much sat out last track season, though (he raced a couple of times, but was really still trying to recover from the injury that finally got to be too much for him in October last year, and wasn't really ever back from it until about 7 weeks ago)
I agree that track times can give SOME indication of how good guys/fields are, though there is (obviously) a difference between running a 3200m on a track vs. running a 5k cross country race - some are better at one than the other, and there are other factors to consider (training, competition, was it the only race they ran when focusing on it, etc.). ... it'll mean more if we can see how they stack up at the end of this year, though it still will have it's faults.
Interesting that both of the runners with the best 3200m PR's at the meets didn't win (Haney and Hardy). But maybe that won't be the case this spring (though as Haney has always been more of a track guy, I don't think that part will change)