Dan Hamilton brought t my attention the fact that there is a 5000m race scheduled for the Boston Holiday Classic H.S meet next Monday (Dec. 28), and that he thinks that several Newton North runners are entered. The prospect of running 25 laps indoors is usually met with groans, especially from those who never run such a race. Actually, I think it's a fine event, provided the track is 200m (no 5Ks in the SOA, thanks) and banked, and the supposed boredom never bothers me.
Anyway, this raises the question: what is the NNHS school record for the indoor 5000m? My first guess would be the 16:18 that Chris Barnicle ran at NSIC as a freshman. Does anyone know of a better time? And if that 16:18 is the standard, might one of the current Tigers take a run at it? Ezra Lichtman, Dan Ranti, and Jake Gleason ran 16:36, 16:37, and 16:45 at Cold Spring Park last Fall, and it's not much of a jump to imagine any one of them running twenty seconds faster on the indoor oval with no rocks, roots, or hills to slow them down.
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I think you are right that Barnicle is the only one who has run an indoor 5000(freshman). All 3 could break that time if they get over the 25 lap scare.
35 to 45 seconds might be a more realistic conversion time from a typical 5K XC to 5K track.
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