It always amazes me how many people will come on here and deride an athlete who has run fast and done well...the athlete got to their level of success without your opinions and isn't listening to them now....
I'm having a hard time understanding what the big rush is to compete against the pros.
I'm not even sure that Aaron is the best 800 runner in CA. Why forfeit the rest of your eligibility to get beaten in Oregon when you can stay home and get beaten by a kid from LB Poly?
I'm having a hard time understanding what the big rush is to compete against the pros.
I'm not even sure that Aaron is the best 800 runner in CA. Why forfeit the rest of your eligibility to get beaten in Oregon when you can stay home and get beaten by a kid from LB Poly?
His running his choice. The CIF Southern Section has been hurting the potential of these kids for years
Southern section churns out national Class runners every year. It’s working fine. Aaron wants to run against pros in HS, plenty of ways to do that in this area.
I'm having a hard time understanding what the big rush is to compete against the pros.
I'm not even sure that Aaron is the best 800 runner in CA. Why forfeit the rest of your eligibility to get beaten in Oregon when you can stay home and get beaten by a kid from LB Poly?
His running his choice. The CIF Southern Section has been hurting the potential of these kids for years
What do you suppose is the responsibility of the CIF Southern Section? Do you think their charter is to maximize the potential of the top .01% of the track athletes, or to run a fair championship qualifying season that serves the few hundred thousand kids that participate in track and field in California's Southern Section?
I really feel sorry for the NP elites that aren't catered to at the expense of the experience of the rest of the kids in the Southern Section. Such a shame, right?
Southern section churns out national Class runners every year. It’s working fine. Aaron wants to run against pros in HS, plenty of ways to do that in this area.
Aaron would have very little chance of winning CIF Southern Section in the 800 and it's not even a given he podiums. It seems he prefers to get pounded by pros rather than his peers. His choice I guess.
This guy just has the look of someone who is going to get a bit too enthusiastic about Keystone Light and not progress much in college. Good that he's making hay while the sun shines.
Very nice!--but some old farts are going to remember Jim Ryun's running 3:39 at the end of his junior year, a few weeks past his 17th birthday. It made him history's 10th fastest 1500 runner at the time.
Very nice!--but some old farts are going to remember Jim Ryun's running 3:39 at the end of his junior year, a few weeks past his 17th birthday. It made him history's 10th fastest 1500 runner at the time.
Without supershoes, need I add...
So we are going to compare every 1500m mark against one of the greatest achievements of all time?
Why is anyone bothered by individual choices? You wanna run for your school, fine. You wanna run against collegians & pros, fine. Different strokes for different folks.
Any proof? High school kids have been running against pros for decades without fault. Is this new?
So something can’t be right. But I guess in outdoor, most of the pro meets are after the HS season.
It’s unfortunate, however, I do think it’s a little weak for Newbury Park to only run professional races.
Track is different to other sports. There really isn't a definition of a pro meet. unlike other sports such as golf tennis etc that actually say what they are. Ie US Open PGA.
Like is Bryan Clay a pro meet becasue Pros are in it? Even who a Pro runner isn't official since almost all contracts have NDA's in them. When people turn pro most of the time it actually means they are just giving up their eligibility.
Big S, Lil S and L & L are just learning to race. They were all very competitive against much older competition. The future looks bright for them and USA distance running,
Very nice!--but some old farts are going to remember Jim Ryun's running 3:39 at the end of his junior year, a few weeks past his 17th birthday. It made him history's 10th fastest 1500 runner at the time.
Without supershoes, need I add...
Yeah, but it was done on a cinder track - the supershoes of the 60's.
Very nice!--but some old farts are going to remember Jim Ryun's running 3:39 at the end of his junior year, a few weeks past his 17th birthday. It made him history's 10th fastest 1500 runner at the time.
Without supershoes, need I add...
Yeah, but it was done on a cinder track - the supershoes of the 60's.
Pretty sure it was done at Rutgers or Randalls Island. The track was really chopped up and Ryun ran his last lap in 53. The video is (or used to be) somewhere on youtube.
I am puzzled by this choice as well, given the comments from Coach B. Does anyone have more information on his HS program currently? Maybe there is a problem/issue there that we do not know about that led to him to pass on his final year.