A week after his historic sub-4 Mile in New York, South Lakes VA sr Alan
Webb tried on the 1000 meter distance for record size at the Microtel
Virginia Tech Invitational. He didn't get the record but he came within
0.28 seconds at 2:24.13, good for 3rd best ever among US high school boys.
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Netters
Thanks John Dye for this
Webb's performance fits in behind
the record of 2:23.85c (George Kersh MS 1987) and 2:242.1d (Miles Irish NY
1983).
Interesting we were just talking about the top guys in H.S. being out
performed later by other athletes. In that thread i talked about
Mike I was at that NY state meet competing int he
1600m the year Irish pulled that double. I asked him
the night before why such an odd double, and he simply
said "why not?". He was awesome to watch, and it
seems in the duece he was falling off the pace late,
but his incredible speed brought
This reminds me of a similar odd double. In 1993, Marko Koers ran the 600
and the 3000 at the indoor Big Ten meet. He won the 600 and was 4th or
5th in the 3000 (which he ran in a body suit!).
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Gary Liguori wrote:
Mike I was at that NY state meet competing int he
1600m
