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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
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"Fastest/deepest 1500 in NS history?"
Possibly deepest but definitely not the fastest. Bryden Tate and Scott Donald ran much fastest at a meet last year. Also didn't Mike Tate run mid 3:50 in high school? Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Quoting: Anonymous
"Possibly deepest but definitely not the fastest. Bryden Tate and Scott Donald ran much fastest at a meet last year. Also didn't Mike Tate run mid 3:50 in high school?"
True, this was not even close to the fastest race. 3:59 won't get you very far once championship season gets closer. It was unusually deep for an NS field, but if you want to get technical, the annual Aileen Meagher meet held at the SMU track is MUCH deeper (this is an NTL meet, though). Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
One of the deepest 1500m fields NS has seen, great race to watch, guy who won is a second year rookie and then some solid indoor PB's following. Also a high schooler was in the race and ran well
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Posts: 57354anonymous said 8 years ago
Dude, this may have been a very deep race, but their have been other deeper races and faster races in NS. Just look in July at the Aileen Meagher track meet. Heck, in Ontario, their are high schoolers running low 3:50 and even some under 3:50. Mike Tate ran 3:50 flat in grade 12 by the way to. Although it was a good race, NS has a long ways to go to catch the level that Ontario runners are at.
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Well, just for the record, there are 13 million people in Ontario and under a million in Nova Scotia. Just throwing that out there...
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Posts: 57354anonymous said 8 years ago
Youve got to admit though, NS has a lot of work to do, in terms of developing and promoting the sport of distance running athletes better. I could name you 1 serious dedicated senior boy runner and that is it. All the rest pretty much pick running as a side sport. Look at every runner who made OFSAA 3000m last year, I bet money most of them run year round and don't do any other sports. The level of dedication of this years senior boys for
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
There have been races of only Nova Scotian high schoolers that have been faster and about as deep as this one was. NS is weak at the moment, but don't forget about 10 years ago a NS club won Junior National XC. There were guys running close to 4 minutes not qualifying for Provincials back then. And there were other eras in NS history that were better than the early 2000s too. Being excited about the race that happened last week is great, but it's pretty ridiculous to call it the fastest/deepest field in NS history.
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Quoting: anonymous
"Youve got to admit though, NS has a lot of work to do, in terms of developing and promoting the sport of distance running athletes better. I could name you 1 serious dedicated senior boy runner and that is it. All the rest pretty much pick running as a side sport. Look at every runner who made OFSAA 3000m last year, I bet money most of them run year round and don't do any other sports. The level of dedication of this years senior boys for
Nova Scotia os a joke!!!!"
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Back in the 80's, 90's in Nova Scotia, there was a lot of fast runners back then. If you ran a 32 minute 10km, there were another 30-40 in the province who could match that or better. Heck, you weren't even considered elite in the province back then without running a sub 30. Now if you're running sub 35 you're considered elite. Oh how the times have changed.
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Nov Scotia has their provincial school track and field champship results online back until 1997. Here's the fastest, depth field that I could find since then. In 2005:
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Posts: 57354anonymous said 8 years ago
Quoting: Anonymous
"Who is the one serious dedicated NS runner in senior ?"
He's a mid distance guy. Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Quoting: Anonymous
"Nov Scotia has their provincial school track and field champship results online back until 1997. Here's the fastest, depth field that I could find since then. In 2005:
http://nssaf.ednet.ns.ca/forms/T%26F2012/Archives_1997-2011_files/2005%20Provincial%20Events%20Results.pdf"
All you have to do is look through results on this site. http://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/Results/2003-moonlight-meet-5/8/.
The top 6 in that field were all high schoolers. 1-6 were almost equal to the race we're talking about and nobody was over 18.
Distance running in NS has always gone through cycles. At the high school level we are definitely at a low point but it'll spike again.
I'm not trying to discredit what those guys did this weekend, and I didn't see the race so for all I know it could have been tactical and great to watch but deepest ever? Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354Anonymous said 8 years ago
Indoor vs outdoor first of all... Can't compare times run in June on an Outdoor track vs indoor in January...
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Posts: 57354PEI baby said 8 years ago
Wait one second. The winner was not Nova Scotian. Are we comparing deepest races overall, or deepest field of Nova runners?
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Posts: 57354NB baby said 8 years ago
Quoting: PEI baby
"Wait one second. The winner was not Nova Scotian. Are we comparing deepest races overall, or deepest field of Nova runners?"
Neither was the guy who finished third and then stomped the field in the 3k hours later. Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354What's a PEI said 8 years ago
Quoting: PEI baby
"Wait one second. The winner was not Nova Scotian. Are we comparing deepest races overall, or deepest field of Nova runners?"
You wait one second.. the PEI runner didn't "make the race" per say any more than the three NS born guys that on his heels about a second away and surely judging from the 3k these guys (especially McNeil) will have no trouble beating him on other days. While he added another solid time to the mix for sure, you could afford to subtract him from the field and have the depth suffer no more than had you subtracted the 4th place guy. Quote comment -
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Posts: 57354Dartmouth Runner said 8 years ago
Let's get real lads, ever since Englehutt quit coaching Dartmouth Athletics faded, which caused distance running in the Halifax area to get a lot weaker. If you look at the top high school dogs from 2005 provincials and the 2004 provincials most of them were from metro and training with Dartmouth Athletics under Englehutt or Gary Keddy.
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Posts: 57354Swaggy P said 8 years ago
http://www.trackie.com/track-and-field/Results/2014-aileen-meagher-international/2715/
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Aileen Meagher 1500 last year was a good mix of fast times/decent depth from NS born runners in NS. (Gorman 3:43, Coribt 3:48, Wing 3:55, Tate 3:57). Only one of those times is a PB I believe -
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Posts: 57354King of the Islamd said 8 years ago
Quoting: Titanium Bones
"I demand a drug test on 1500m winner Alex Cyr."
Cyr is just lucky Neuffer wasn't there to destroy him like he did all HIghschool Quote comment
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