Monday, January 18, 2016

Mitch Kingery

15 YEAR OLD Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier...that is NOT a typo!
I was utterly amazed then and am STILL in awe today of the 15 years, 6 months, and 17 days Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying time of a young Redwood City Striders lad, Mitch Kingery, way back in 1972...his 2:29:11 performance at the West Valley Marathon, which surpassed that year's OT standard of 2:30, landed him on the cover of the Rolling Stone and, is to this very day, STILL the age 15 world record at the... distance.
On the distaff side, a juvenile Cath Schiro holds the most youthful qualifier crown when she competed in the inaugural Women's Olympic Marathon Trials in Olympia, Washington circa 1984 at the tender age of 16 years, 6 months and 17 days.
Just a smidge of Trials Trivia some 4 weeks out from the 2016 rendition.
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Bill Scobey Amazing! wink emoticon
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Hank Lawson Some Mitch statistics... http://web.stanford.edu/~clint/kingery.htm
Mitch Kingery - informal high school timeline
According to a few posts on letsrun.com
, he overtrained with too many miles at the end of his junior year and "burnt out", as recollected by "sacto master" in 2007. http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2159903&page=1
web.stanford.edu
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Joe Carlson Hah! That's the course on which I qualified in '76...heavy rain over the final loop...2:22.03 in a 2:23 standard year. I thought that fence looked familiar!! 5 loops, so, it should have.
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Greg Hill Great stuff. I recall a bunch of great young runners from those days. Reggie Heywood - age 10 - 2:57; Tom Ansberry - age 13 - 2:43; Mary Eta Boitano - age 11 - 3:01. But 2:29 is a whole different type of fast. I wonder what kind of training he did.
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