Does this certain person happen to have any possibly earlier pictures, like from HS. Just to whet your appetite, I found this other gem online a few months ago, taken Fall of 2002 at Bull Run HS (hardest HS XC course in the nation).
I'll let you guys figure out who that dashing young runner is.
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this is me in full retreat at age 3
No one took pictures of people as slow as I was in high school.
Also, I'm calling you out on the "hardest HS XC course in the nation" comment. That's a pretty arrogant thing to say with no explanation/backup/proof. I'll admit DyeStat calls it "very demanding" and it has lots of hills and poor course layout (90 degree turns at 800m? Good job, guys). But still. Gimme a break.
How many courses have you been to that need crash pads on the trees on the big hill because people would fall and get seriously hurt? Also no one has gone under 16 there, including matt centrowitz (the younger), who tried very hard this year.
http://www.dyestat.com/3state/MD/2xc/statemeet/hereford.htm
With pictures and all.
I was looking for my time I ran frosh year there (2002), ( I think it was just under 25 minutes), when I came across a certain result for a
93 MARK EICHENBACH 2036 PARKVILLE 24:47 8:16
I'm actually pretty sure that's mark, they just spelled his name wrong. Unless Parkville had both a Mark Eichenlaub and Mark Eichenbach. So if Mark ran that in 24:47 but ran Prado Park in 26:40, that must be some fucking hard 3 miles. Woot go MD XC.
i've run that course four times. it's by far the hardest course i've ever seen proposed as a serious cross country race course. the Mt. Wilson trail race would be harder, for example, but not in the same category.
i believe the course is 2.9 miles, and still to my knowledge high schoolers never break 16:00 there. in recent years matt centrowitz (top HS runner in the US last year) andrew jesien (4:07 mile) shane stroup (4:07 1600m) and various other top high school runners have run that course, and they still can't run under 16:00.
i think my time on it was about 24:00, when i was normally running 21:00 for that distance
the 90 degree turn at the top of the first hill is ridiculous - you stop to a walk to get around with all the bodies crushed in next to you. but what makes it hard is that it is simply unrelenting with hills. there is not a flat 400m segment on it. there is "the dip", a big, steep inverse-hill you have to run through from each side, "the maze", and series of shorter, smaller hills, and "the everything else", which is still all at some sort of angle or other.
you get so exhausted in the first mile (before the really hard part) that running three whole miles on the thing seems nearly unfathomable
garret you beat me you win
but in response to the original post, here's an actual photo of me in high school
running the 4xmile
I don't remember which leg I was, but I remember we broke 20:00. I ran a 5:15 1600, which was a PR at the time. The serious-looking kid behind me passed me pretty easily, I think
Mark: you were a little punk.
Read the date on this bib number, all you young'ns. I was HAMMERIN 12km road races when y'all were poopin in your pampers.
Holy shit, literally: I WAS shitting in my diapers when you were running that race. How did you know???
Man you are also killing that old guy behind. He looks like he is about to keel over from a heart attack or something.
Ogliore, you are a badass motherfucker. I love everything about that picture, from your cutepatootie ears to the mysterious sponge you're carrying.
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