Saturday, May 23, 2020

Sub 4 minute mile attempt tonight at Oak Ridge HS

I believe a lot of you have heard about this attempt tonight but if not, check out this link:
https://www.milesplit.com/articles/280630-news-and-insight-ahead-of-the-quarantine-clasico-sub-4

The competitors for tonight are listed here thanks to Record Timing who will be timing the event:
http://www.rtspt.com/events/cif/2020/clasico/program.pdf

Live Results will be here:
http://rt.trackscoreboard.com/#/results/meet/52320

There will be a live stream of the event which will start around 8pm and I believe the event will go off at 8:30pm. Yes, the live stream is behind a paywall.
https://accounts.milesplit.com/live/22237-2020-the-quarantine-clasico?ref=live-389343-widget&site=67

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

How can this race take place when all schools in California are closed? Mile split in streaming, record timing is there? every track in my area is locked down. What's the story?
Dude ran 3:59 Props

Anonymous said...

I’m curious how this was approved by the county, school district, school, etc.? Who paid for facility rental, insurance, cost of the lights? How was this race allowed when every other competition is shut down? Clearly no social distancing was followed.

Anonymous said...

Isn’t this the same county with an indefinite travel restriction for South Lake Tahoe?

Anonymous said...

Loved it! I'm sure many will want to critique or to turn this section into a political blog, but after months of quarantine and opening now starting to begin, this was a wonderful gift to watch and I'm glad they were able to put this together. Watching Leo's last 300 meters was so impressive. Wow, 3:59.

Albert Caruana said...

They were approved to do the event at Oak Ridge HS. It turned out to be a great event and the sub 4 minute mile by Daschbach was a tremendous result.

Anonymous said...

No Strangio?

Albert Caruana said...

He's been dealing with some shin pain but it sounds like he might do a race effort during the summer.

Anonymous said...

Great to see great kids get a chance to race. If not mistaken all PR. No matter what your thoughts are on the race taking place, I'm just happy they got to run. It would be nice to see Leo & Nico in the same race. You cold add Matt to the same field. If only.

Albert Caruana said...

Nico is very fit and paced his teammate through 7 laps. His teammate ran 8:44. Nico's next effort is going to be to try to break the HS 5k record which is 13:37.

Coach Ozzie said...

Although Matt Strangio didn't get to race, which I'm sure is bittersweet for him, he did a really nice job putting this competition together. He was the official meet director last night, so he is one of just 11 meet directors ever to have put on an event where a high school athlete has broken 4 minutes. He could have easily scrapped the whole thing when he realized he couldn't race, but he didn't. He created a great opportunity for some really fit guys to get together and test themselves. So again, nice job to Matt. And good luck to him in becoming the 12th later in the summer.

Anonymous said...

Nice job to the meet director. It’s no easy task to rent a facility, pay and submit event insurance, get approval from the school, school district and county health officials during a shelter in place. Not to mention setting up a timer, competitors, making sure fans and competitors followed social distancing guidelines. Outstanding work!

Anonymous said...

@8:22 my guess this was more under the table than doing all that. Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

Albert Caruana said...

No way this was under the table. This is no time to risk something like that.

Anonymous said...

El Dorado County has had minimal cases of COVID-19, and being somewhat up in the hills they did request early openings of businesses from the State.

Oak Ridge high school track was one of the few open tracks to the public in the area so it was a good setting. People would run with a couple of lanes separating them.

I would drive from Sacramento just to do workouts on Saturday morning, and the only people I saw was the Oak Ridge HS Football team running drills for spring training.

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