Huge Kick To Win State Title After Losing Shoe!

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Grapevine's Walker St. John kicks off his shoe with 550m to go in the 5A boys 1600m race at the 2021 UIL Outdoor Track and Field Championships and impressively moves to the front of the race and holds on to win the state title with a 59.2 second split on the bell lap.
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[@jamesbrumley2608]

59 last lap with one shoe

[@kobehayes4827]

@ThatOne Do some speed work

[@---bj8ty]

@ThatOne keep working

[@AidenSchlecht]

@ThatOne go faster

[@timroden6617]

@ThatOne I did a 60 back in the day on a mile relay. so my hat goes off to that effort.

[@ConcernedCitizen5514]

That is impressive

[@23aviatorguy]

They can’t blame his fast running on his shoes

[@davidmacdonald9159]

kipchoge should try this

[@MarMaxGaming]

Haha true, I think credit is the better word than blame lol

[@binkyxz3]

The sock maker wants him to do an endorsement. 😏

[@MarMaxGaming]

Lol “one shoe, one dream... one lap to go”

[@Wooolies]

Alternative title: *Huge Kick to Lose Shoe* and Win State Title

[@kaichenghu3826]

exactly what happened to me during one of my high school 800m competition! Although I did not win, I did manage to pass couple of athletes with one shoe on! I felt like losing one shoe gave me some sort of boost mentality and also physically haha

[@RonWinter335]

Running a competitive 3200 and 1600 in the same day? Tough.

[@zaydxn2735]

He was also the state 5a cross country champion

[@corbinarhh7605]

our state, they are doing 3200 at 9:30 in the morning then 1600 at 6:30 in the afternoon...

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

@@corbinarhh7605 I won't argue with you. You have a Big Pistol!😀😁😂

[@xc1513]

Yeah tell me about it I ran the 3200, 800, and 1600 yesterday in state well it was 90 degrees with 30+ mph winds and at the very end of the mile I some how managed to fracture my left leg and had to be carried off the field so I guess that was one way to end my freshman year of track lol

[@corbinarhh7605]

@@xc1513 how was it? what were ur times?

[@seatownfan]

"Shoeless" St John!!! FTW 👣💯

[@scrumpymanjack]

That was an incredibly impressive race. In control the whole way. Very mature running.

[@chrisriley557]

wow that kid who got 2nd is really cool

[@branchcox8911]

Yo Fr 😅🤣

[@faardeen777]

100 percent

[@iii-ei5cv]

Incredible effort

[@thegreatalyssa]

Good race!

[@agnidas5816]

I've been checking my laces and insoles before every run lately and it has made a huge positive difference on shoe fit, fatigue, recovery, form etc. No lost shoes either :P

[@696969640]

never give up in anything in life this guy proved it

[@zacharygordon408]

Nice run, isaac

[@zaydxn2735]

Them dragonflys couldn’t stay on 😂

[@RyanZ_821]

*Air zoom victory

[@beastperson2950]

same thing happened to me lol

[@WalkerSt_John]

I know that guy

[@Jsw3rvo]

Heyy walker its meee cjjjj your teamateeeeee welcome to youtube

[@JohnStJohn-vh2uf]

Never heard of him

[@alexgutierrez9342]

No I’m your teammate?

[@lalapizza4519]

imposter

[@Jsw3rvo]

@@JohnStJohn-vh2uf I do the 4x1 and the 4x2 for our team

[@billybob6604]

beast

[@vonjackson2421]

That's the power of willing yourself...

[@Charlie-yo7vv]

monster man

[@MsPaperbear]

got to say it's quite sick. even though it's a slow pace.

[@JimmyR83]

I just saw this on kxan!!! Holy shit that was some gangster shit. Not to mention a 4 min mile 😀😀

[@JoshuaGrenade]

that’s my dawg 🥰

[@WalkerSt_John]

Facts

[@antoniooso694]

@@WalkerSt_John that was dope my man!

[@josuegranados6428]

cringe ass

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

I wish I had long flowing hair like him. 😊😀😃🙌🙌

[@thegreatalyssa]

I ran so many races barefoot because I grew up running barefoot. The possibility of losing a shoe in a track race is a good reason to adapt your feet for it through training. Now in my 50s I still run barefoot a couple of times per week but mostly in the grass. I actually have to be careful which shoes I wear to avoid shin splints because I'm barefoot almost all the time.

[@paddywiggle]

Why is your shoe popping off even an option 🤣 tie that mfer tight

[@ianbusche1471]

Barefoot on a track would hurt. The rubber the track is made of is rough on the feet and I wouldn’t recommend. Running barefoot on the grass is fine though.

[@thegreatalyssa]

@@ianbusche1471 People like me grew up going barefoot. It didn't hurt at all. When younger I ran barefoot on many surfaces. I ran barefoot a lot on the all-weather tracks and never hurt my feet because they were adapted to it. It was still smooth. I noticed in November of 2012 that one of those tracks I trained on was redone with something that was a harder surface. It had more of a honeycomb pattern. These days I still go barefoot almost all the time. I train in flats or "Zero" type shoes or I run barefoot on the grass, my indoor track, and maybe another surface if I check it out for any dangers.

[@ianbusche1471]

@@thegreatalyssa well maybe on older tracks because of what they were made of but the new polyethylene material for the new tracks is worse than loose gravel 😂.

[@dylanballard9813]

I think that redhead in second would’ve won if he didn’t get boxed in at that last lap. But the guy who won may have done even better with both shoes lol

[@jasonlommen4769]

Great job kid! I love these track videos. I was a pretty decent runner with a 2:00 800 and a 4:25 mile back in the late 80’s. I’m envious of the track surfaces and shoes they have today. We ran on dirt tracks and shoes that weighed a pound each!

[@ianbusche1471]

I just broke my school record in the mile of 4:33 with a 4:25 this year and it was from 1968. He said his senior year of track in nowhere North Dakota was on a rubber track and said he ran on them all the time in the 70s and 80s. He then transferred to the marathon in the late 80s but my point is In the late 80s rubber tracks were extremely common and normal…Not having a rubber track in the late 80s isn’t that great of an excuse because you could have went and found some. Material for tracks hasn’t changed drastically since the 80s. Although I will give you the great advancements in shoe technology have made a big difference. Probably a second per lap for your mile and maybe a 1 1/2 seconds in your 800.

[@jasonlommen4769]

@@ianbusche1471 Congrats on your new school record. I’m not sure I understand where you’re going with your comment though. I grew up in a very small town and county in rural MT. Not one school in our county had rubber tracks, no one could afford them. We had two schools in a 60 mile radius that had rubber tracks. We got to run on them only once per season. We also had no spikes to run with on rubber, so it was pretty much useless. We didn’t have spikes for dirt tracks, your feet would have been murdered. Our running shoes were literally basketball shoes, we couldn’t afford shoes for all seasons. If I had the luxury of todays shoe technology and being able to practice on rubber tracks, I’m sure I’d of run much faster. Good luck with your track career Ian.

[@ianbusche1471]

@@jasonlommen4769 Well he said going from the gravel track to the rubber track wasn’t huge. Maybe a couple of seconds because he only ran 2 times on the rubber track and went from 4:35 to 4:33 on rubber. He still runs in his 70s and still says that the new shoes would have a way bigger impact than the rubber track. I live 150 miles from where he ran on the rubber track so it was just a matter of traveling to get to one. Of course some people don’t have the money to be able to do that stuff which, at-least in my opinion is a better excuse than not having a rubber track in the late 80s. 100% you could run faster than 4:25. If you had good shoes and everything needed to be great I would guess around the 4:15-4:20 range. You wouldn’t be an insane amount better because at the end of the day, guys were running mid 3:50s in the 1950s on garbage tracks with close to what you had for shoes on. The world record progressed about 10 seconds in the mile from that time to now days so with that being known I would give you around 10 seconds quicker at the high end.

[@ciscomadera37]

Did he get his shoe back at the end of the race?

[@taylormanning7315]

Probably!

[@WalkerSt_John]

Yup

[@agnidas5816]

Right in the video the waterboy brings him water and the shoe.

[@kalil4real]

Hey that's my teammate!

[@bauum_3866]

"thats rickard gray!"

[@reggiereg1785]

My senior year in high school there was a guy that ran a 46 quarter at state and the last 200m he only had one shoe .

[@washingtonsideline2174]

Happend to me this past weekend ended up with shin splints🥲

[@haydendubs6287]

I'm a Canadian so can anyone explain the age groups and the 5a thing?

[@jamesoliver6625]

High Schools in Texas are graded for competition based on the number of students at the school to keep competition pools roughly the same. In Texas 5A is schools between 1230 - 2219 students for 2021. For team championship competitions these are further divided into two divisions bases on where the mean falls for enrollments in all the schools in that classification. There is one classification larger, 6A obviously, and it goes all the way down to 1A schools with under 105 students in the High school. Individual championships, like track, don't maintain the division distinction. These are ALL high school kids. The divisions thing is to keep the level of competition square because some 6A schools with 4K to 5K students and huge booster budgets in school were playing schools with 1200 kids and bake sale money for booster help and it was brutal.

[@BillyBob-wh4sq]

@@jamesoliver6625 Very good explanation of the classifications. I would like to add that the number of high schools in each classification is always the same except for 1A, because the X largest schools (it's 36 in Kansas where I live) become 6A, the next largest are 5A, and so on until 1A which is just everybody else who isn't large enough to be in the other classification. Schools from different classifications can and do compete against each other during the regular season, but it's usually against schools one classification higher or lower to maintain fairness, such as 6A and 5A schools at the same track meet.

[@takumiharima6215]

yessir soham

[@ronwatts5827]

damn.....only one shoe during the last minute of the race!!!

[@shaner21]

That shoe was slowing him down!

[@ea8122]

sheesh

[@scottbarker9058]

alot ofmy best times on the trachave been..yup..w-no shoes....

[@lillil6482]

Bruh

[@brennenfarrell5406]

Flotrack is literally the worst in the game at spoiler titles.

[@agnidas5816]

This is one of the cases where a clickbait title would be the most fitting and get way more upvotes and views. Like 'you won't believe what happened after he kicked!'

[@Williamottelucas]

Shoes only slow you down.

[@agnidas5816]

unless you run 100meters or are running downhill.

[@bernardoneil6404]

All these comments about running with no shoes.. first of all winning a 1600 state meet is impressive on its own. Also there is a difference between choosing to run barefoot and running with one shoe on and one off because you lost one. My guess is that these people who are unimpressed have not run much themselves.

[@cartoonpower0]

Good thing this guy isnt in Michigan. You'll get DQ'd for crossing the line without your shoe

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

I MEAN, IT'S NOT LIKE HE LOST A FOOT👣👣

[@stevesmith866]

no one brought his shoe back to him ? what, it vanished?

[@blaynesplantvlog7117]

No he got it back 😂

[@agnidas5816]

waterboy brought him water and a shoe in the vide...

[@treyleathers7690]

My teammate built different

[@jadelulaaa]

omg my shoes came off during state too😭

[@23aviatorguy]

Was your out come the same as this guy's?

[@agnidas5816]

5:10 ... traction not really a factor in a flat track. We don't push off with out feet - we fall forwards and catch ourselves on our feet before we hit the ground. On a cross country track it matters because you go up and down and you want good traction to stop slipping down the hill and it matters on take-off on a flat track but once you are running you don't need much traction on track at all. If you need traction running flat track after you are up to speed - you run wrong. If anything losing both shoes could be an interesting weight saving strategy. Or maybe having fall-away spike plate on the bottom that releases for the rest of the run revealing a softer lighter under. Heh

[@Jimmy911ism]

Nah... one shoe on, the other off, this is a freak effort. Would be really hard to run like that.

[@michaelclayton2323]

1600 meters...not the mile run.

[@justinvandeberg8611]

Same shit

[@michaelclayton2323]

@@justinvandeberg8611 no stupid, the mile is backed up 9 meters from the finish line. 2 mile run is backed up 18 meters from the finish line. Look it up. Because did I not ran track in high school???

[@nateroberts877]

@@michaelclayton2323 nobody cares about running 1609.3 meters. It’s stupid to add the distance

[@justinvandeberg8611]

@@michaelclayton2323 same shit

[@Itsfalcon9]

this helps with ppl not familiar with the sport. video is more attractive with "mile" . if you check the description they clarify it's 1600m

[@alexgutierrez9342]

He’s kind of bad

[@josuegranados6428]

muted

[@lalapizza4519]

silence

[@kevinmelendez7787]

stfu 💀

[@captainamericaamerica8090]

WHY SUCH A BIG DEAL?? LOSING A SHOE ISN'T THAT BAD ** THERE'S BEEN RUNNERS THAT EVEN RAN 10.000, MARATHONS TOO" AND WON = WITH NO SHOES ON!!

[@kanehiro4635]

I can’t seem to find the person that asked for your opinion

[@ashsol2657]

Zola Budd ran barefoot.

[@RevAlKhemy]

Captain, keeping the world safe from one-shoed runners..wait some coming thru the telex....Captain ! ! your needed at the track...a cat ran onto the track and is following the runners

[@bradyeagar7775]

well when you run with shoes for your entire life, then with 500 meters to go in the state championship mile you lose only one of them, then you run a 59 sec last lap, it’s pretty dang impressive

[@Itsfalcon9]

@@kanehiro4635 i spit my coffee out