alt Hacker NewsHere's a random high school in Northern California. Everyone on the team is beating 16.7 seconds in the 100m. For the 1600m there are six kids with times under 4m30s and another seven with times under 4m40s, all in the last month.
https://www.athletic.net/team/770/track-and-field-outdoor/20...
* of course one mile is hardly comparable to the marathon that pros are able to sustain such speeds over...
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hyperpape • yesterday at 11:09 PM
Unless kids have gotten a lot faster in the past 25 years, I think that's a lot better than a typical 2000 person high school.
PaulDavisThe1st • yesterday at 10:56 PM
How many kids at the school?
Not sure that disproves the point :) Most people have never been anywhere close to competing with the top 6 athletes at a high school with ~2k students.