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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also a reminder that his increasing progression is not a guarantee, and he may not go sub 4:20 in the mile or sub 1:54 in 800 or sub 9:20 in the 3200. That’s typically what’s needed for D1. [/quote]

cmon debby downer it doesn’t seem like the kid is that far off as an untrained frosh - I actually do think it’s basically a guarantee to achieve one or more of those times if the kid puts in the time and work[/quote]

It’s likely, true. But runcruit sometimes makes it seem like it’s a very linear progression when it isn’t, and my kid had similar times and then was in for a rude awakening when he didn’t automatically PR at every race junior and senior year. [/quote]

fair point, but I would expect plateaus to show up and nonlinear progression sometime after the kid starts training.  A kid who runs those times with zero training is an uncut gem and should 100% have big gains initially with training.  Then maybe some plateaus pop into the mix.  Look at milesplit - majority of top hs distance runners were in the 4:30s for 1600 frosh year - and that’s with a frosh season of cc behind them. Extremely rare for a non CC kid to bang out a 10 minute 3200 - huge ceiling here [/quote]

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