German!! Yeah Thats Ny Name September 5 at 3:44am.
congrats fernandez i run for texas but im really happy that u killed colby he deserve it u schould saw him after he bit me in the mile chicken in the last 75!!! the best part is that u re a latino not like colby!!! u just showed everyone who re bosses
evan jager evan jager is where it's at. nice race fernandez ur very good...no i mean INCREDIBLY good. how'd u get so fast? lol. have a fun olympic career!
i live 5 mins away from german and i rced agaisnt him 3 times of course he beat me, but i am proud to say that i ranned against him. Hope to see him in the Olympics. Good Luck int he Futer German the Man Fernandez
Wait to go german!
I ran against german in cross country his sopre year and he whooped even then... we've continued to follow his track/xc success and have waited for him to make this type of history. I can't wait to see what he'll do in the future. I feel honored to say I have ran with him.
Congrats to German, and thanks for the great video and commentary. It is great to see history made. What most of you do not get to see is that he is a great guy. I met him as a substitute teacher, and found him to be friendly, humble, and interesting - kind of rare these days. I hope we see more great things from him in the future - Go German!
what makes this even crazier is that he ran 8:34.40 in a high school only race, i believe when nelson set the record of 8:36 he ran against professional at some Pepsi meet. Nonetheless, incredible race and who knows maybe he'll win a national championship as a freshman at Oklahoma State; with the amount of talent this man has, the sky is the limit for this outstanding individual. C. Derrick will still always be number one in my heart
Fout ran 8:55 a year ago. If healthy he could have been faster. Good luck to him and Chris Derrick on the start of their college careers.
Congrats to Fernandez! Awesome time!
While the Kenyan's have run faster at the same age (albeit their ages are disputable) there is a reason this record stood for 29 years. This kid looks like Salazar running. Runs smooth, but looks like he's about to sit down in a big comfy chair. Awesome performance. And sorry, the announcing was second rate, although I don't announce for a living so it is what it is.
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i'm sorry to break ur heart man but the Kenyans and Ethiopians are at another level of distance. their top guys are about 30- 40 secs in 5k and about a min ahead of us in the 10k. Kenyans and Ethiopians have guys at German's age that run faster ex. kipchoge. Look at Bekele and haile!! when they were young they ran fast times. haile once ran a 10k in 28:03 at the age of 18!! however dont get me wrong german will be a great USA runner one day. he will indeed have a great career in the future and has a chance of being one of the best distance runners the us will ever have.
I hope German has success in the future, but what did Jeff Nelson ever do after his hs record? He certainly never ran a great 5k. Unfortunately hs success does not guarantee future success.
All of you just imagine for a moment, what this race could have been like had Derrick and Fout been in it, instead of injured. Holy cow, US distance running's future looks amazingly bright right now.
Very gutsy performance, especially because of the weather conditions (very windy? conditions can mess up the pace). Smart by not going out too hard (4:13ish-4:14ish). Very evenly paced ("slow" lap 65.7, fast {last} lap 63.06, average lap 64.49). Negative split miles of 4:19.5 and 4:14.9! German es el hombre! (German is the man!)
thank you for figuring out a way to stream it live and record your own feed. this was so much easier to listen to and did much better deafening the PA announcers screams. commentary was fantastic. thank you!
What is scary is how this kid came out of no where because of injury. USA kids are only getting faster every year. I wonder what else high school will bring us over the next few decades.
that was so sick.
so glad i watched it with mark's commentary and not on the live broadcast, it made it that much better!
i was screaming at my computer.
ahhhh!
This is a very good time... and not to discount this accomplishment... but when Ritz ran 8:44 he was truly alone in hot and humid conditions. After the first lap he had 10+ meters on the field. 2nd place was 8:58 in that race. Fernandez definitely had company today. Ritzenhein set the bar for the resurgence of high school running and success breeds success. To say that this race was the "most anticipated high school race in history" is a drastic overstatement and only so because of the coverage running currently gets on the internet with much thanks to the BIG 3 of the class of '01. In the fall of 2000 three American Olympians faced off in cross country. That was probably the best high school only race in history. Since then the accomplishments speak for themselves. American record in the mile. American born marathon record. Third in the world cross junior race. Olympians at 1500, 10,000, 2xMarathon.
PLEASE start showing the rest of the field so we could see some sort of perspective of how far ahead he is and IF there's a battle for 2nd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Luke P. Needed to get out of the way he only slowed the Pace down. German didn't need help and Luke you aren't that good. You are fast as crap but you aren't on his level. "Blue Collar Runner" means that you were nothing in high school and became something in College not that you just run from the front.
B 2 Mile F2 (National Record***) 2008 Nike Outdoor Nationals
German Fernandez breaks the National 2 mile record for the HS boys with an amazing 8:34.40 run at the Nike outdoor Nationals at Greensboro, NC Article & Full Results
View the action from down on the track during the race!!
Splits 400 SPLITS / TOTAL TIME
64.2
65.8 2:10.0
65.0 3:14.9
64.5 4:19.4 (1 mile)
B 2 Mile F2 (National Record***) 2008 Nike Outdoor Nationals 
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GERMAN!
I ran against german in cross country his sopre year and he whooped even then... we've continued to follow his track/xc success and have waited for him to make this type of history. I can't wait to see what he'll do in the future. I feel honored to say I have ran with him.
awesome commentary by the way....
Congrats to Fernandez! Awesome time!
i'm sorry to break ur heart man but the Kenyans and Ethiopians are at another level of distance. their top guys are about 30- 40 secs in 5k and about a min ahead of us in the 10k. Kenyans and Ethiopians have guys at German's age that run faster ex. kipchoge. Look at Bekele and haile!! when they were young they ran fast times. haile once ran a 10k in 28:03 at the age of 18!! however dont get me wrong german will be a great USA runner one day. he will indeed have a great career in the future and has a chance of being one of the best distance runners the us will ever have.
it's because of those 300 push ups he does each nigh according to his coach, haha
You are the s**t!
so glad i watched it with mark's commentary and not on the live broadcast, it made it that much better!
i was screaming at my computer.
ahhhh!
awesome job german
and puskedra needed to def. get out of the way he could have just have rabbitted him
REPRESENT THE SJS!! AND NORCAL!! AND CALIFORNIA!
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