Another way to look at how impressive the South Lakes DMR is: In how many state meets would the combined time of the 400m winner, the 800m winner, the 1600m/mile winner and an extrapolation of the 1200m from the 2nd place miler or 800m runner beat the South Lakes time? Certainly in California (and Virginia) but would there be more than 10 states that could field such a DMR out of the whole state? Few states have a state mile champion under 4:10, which pretty much eliminates any chance of the record. Yes, the event is weighted heavily in favor of the miler and I find a 4x100 or 4x400 more exciting, but what South Lakes did was pretty impressive. - Ed Parrot
