OTC v. UO DMR @ Oregon Twilight Meet

i got wheating in about 4:04-05. looked like he was toying with acosta

The world best is 9:15, with the opening splits OTC had they could have had that witha about a 3:53 for the anchor.

mike berry is legit

yeah i was pumped going into the anchor leg, and then wheating splits 4:04? wth?

The highlight of the race was definitely Mike Berry throwing down a ridiculous 400 on Ashton Eaton. The freshman is definitely unafraid.

Oregon4Life wrote:

The highlight of the race was definitely Mike Berry throwing down a ridiculous 400 on Ashton Eaton. The freshman is definitely unafraid.

agreed. great 400 leg

Eaton also ran a 13.53 110h; pretty good for a Deca guy, and the conditions were not great. If he keeps taking those throws further out, he may hit 9000.

ricky-bobby wrote:

i got wheating in about 4:04-05. looked like he was toying with acosta

Wait so what happened, Wheating made it real slow and then, what, had a big kick at the end?

Wow, Centro is fit. He looked a lot better than Symmonds imo. Nickky fought like a mother that last 50 to not let a college kiddo beat him.

Berry is just sick, I know Ashton is not a 400 runner but Berry just destroyed him.

No joke about Wheating, like you said, he looked like he was jogging. Yeah I know he should look comfortable running 4:04, but this was unreal. He was walking. No big kick, just a bit of turnover the last 100.

Centro is going to be ridiculously tough to beat in the 1500 come NCAA's.

Still can't get over Wheating's jog, you had to be there to really understand just how ridiculous it looked.

long dong silver wrote:

ricky-bobby wrote:

i got wheating in about 4:04-05. looked like he was toying with acosta

Wait so what happened, Wheating made it real slow and then, what, had a big kick at the end?

first 400 was in about 58 and he gapped acosta. after that he pretty much just cruised and picked it up the last 100m just to keep comfortably ahead.

he's slower then German Fernandez now? what is going on with our runners?

okay then I wanna see a 3:29 out of Wheating.

Hank Moody wrote:No joke about Wheating, like you said, he looked like he was jogging. Yeah I know he should look comfortable running 4:04, but this was unreal. He was walking. No big kick, just a bit of turnover the last 100.

Acosta looked incredibly relaxed, too. Especially during his 65-second first lap.

The last leg was kind of boring just because both of them looked so relaxed. Acosta really should have made more of an effort to go after him. I mean it's not like they were there for a freakin time trial.

26mi235 wrote:

Eaton also ran a 13.53 110h; pretty good for a Deca guy, and the conditions were not great. If he keeps taking those throws further out, he may hit 9000.

13.52 with a .9 wind, but he also went 13.54 last year into a 1.4 wind. But yes he's coming along very nicely this year.

Exibition races like this are stupid, say they did run an sub 9:15.63 it could not be radified. At the least put two sham teams in make it an official race. I'm sure the rosters of both clubs are deep enough to find 4 more guys to run a second team, hell use the polevaulter and the snotput guy if you have to.

Do you have a World Best list for the 4000m relay?

thanks

Hank Moody wrote:

Still can't get over Wheating's jog, you had to be there to really understand just how ridiculous it looked.

According to the splits announced over the PA, his second lap was a 64-65 and it didn't look like his third was much faster. Hell, I can look like I'm jogging at that pace.