Sunday, April 17, 2016
Jesuit HS's national record setting DMR team from 1986
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Surprising Great Oak has not taken a shot at that.
Great Oak was talking about going after a national record but after running the 4 x 800 and 4 x 1600 the day before, they fell short of the national and california records in the DMR.
They did not run the A team in the DMR, I believe.
They ran an A and B team. Their B team almost finished in 2nd place with 10:14.x.
In California, with all the history, depth and incredible athletes, even a massive school like with a huge team like Great Oak, needs to focus on one race per meet to have legitimate shots at state or national records. In a DMR, you are going to be hard pressed to make a run at a record if your 1,600/1,200 runners can't get under 7:10 combined and even then you would need to have a low 1:50 800 runner. Coming back and running PR level races in a 4x8 or 4x16 just isn't realistic. No disrespect to Great Oak, their depth got them an incredibly impressive 4x16 record, but the 4x8 would require 4 sub-1:52.5 averages!
4x8 I would say no way for GO. Fresh, I think the A team would have at least an outside shot to get close. One heck of a record.
I think fresh, Great Oak would break Jesuit's DMR record. The national record is TOUGH! You had Alan Webb running 3:59.8. That is tough to make up.
I think the record books should indicate whether the track record was on a dirt track or an artificial surface. Realistically, beating a dirt track record by less than 2 seconds, for a DMR, was/is probably very close to the same time as a dirt track. (my opinion of course!!)
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