Stanford Cardinal Invite Preview: Women's 10k, Men's 1500 Highlight
by: LetsRun.com
May 2, 2008
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This Sunday is Stanford's Payton Jordan Cardinal Invite. The meet is most known for its Kim McDonald 10,000m races (home of the men's and women's American records). The meet almost always has perfect time trial conditions, so it's always full of top name athletes running for free hoping to achieve Olympic qualifying performances.

This year's meet is no different.

This year also represents probably the last time a meet of this caliber will not be streamed over the internet live. Thanks to www.ustream.tv and mogulus.com and others, now any meet (or event) in the world can be streamed over the internet live for FREE as long as there is a high speed internet connection and a camera. The Stanford athletic department has some things they need to work out, so they wouldn't let us at letsrun.com stream it to you. (Our plan was to stream it to you live and then shut down the site since our site depends on traffic from people trying to figure out the results of obscure events not on tv that the general public does not care about. Instead we're sticking around for another year).

Update: The meet may be streamed by on flocasts.org. They say they're streaming it but Stanford told us no one would be allowed to stream it when we asked to stream it live ourselves. And the official meet preview mentions Runnerspace.com covering the meet. So check flocasts Sunday night or flocasts or runnerspace Monday morning for taped videos.

Women's 10,000m the Marquee Event This Year
The Kim McDonald women's 10k is the top long distance event on tap at this year's Cardinal Invite, as there is talk of an American record (currently Deena Kastor's 30:50.32) attempt by Shalane Flanagan.

Kara Goucher may have gotten the bronze medal last year at World's at 10,000m, but the favorite in our (and your book) is Shalane Flanagan.

Editor's Note: Our point below stands that Goucher would not be the favorite stands but she has pulled out of the meet.

Kara Goucher