Abbey D'Agostino is tough as nails

Wow, what a story. She's certainly one to watch. Great runner, very tough indeed.

It's the day of the sophomores, with Flood winning the 1500 and D'Agostino and Goethals going 1-2.

Gutsy run for Goethals too. Why'd Abbey swing out to almost lane three? Still young and things to learn, but what a runner

Hard to determine anything from the slowest women's 5000 championship ever.

It looked to me like she was losing it and was having trouble running a straight line. I didn't think there was any way she was gonna come back on Goethals. Very impressive.

was it really 104 degrees? that sounds rough. Makes no sense to hold the 5000 in the middle of the day. Should have been last night after the men's.

Looking forward to seeing Abbey at the Trials (along with Tebo, Sisson, Infeld, etc)

off topic, but whatever happened to Sveinsson?

She had a sacral stress fracture and missed her final two years of high school competition (basically - the races she ran were very sub-par). I thought she would make a big comeback this year but she ran 22:xx unattached at the Stanford Invite and rumor is got injured again.

Word at Stanford is she's toast. Very sad story, as I thought she was the future of US Distance running. Too injury prone I suppose. Still hoping she makes it back to the elite level

No, it was not over 100. The official temp. at the airport was between 85 and 87 from noon to 1:00 p.m. CDT.

Larry (5th grade chemist), Dwight, and Jill are so stoopid that they think a reading on a conventional bimetallic-strip coil thermometer placed in the sun has some relevance (it does not).

They will never quit marveling that such a thermometer placed in the sun might read over 100 degrees when the air temp. is only 80. It means nothing. Zip, zilch, nada.

You are welcome.

Does anyone have a link to a replay of the race?

Abbey rocks! Isn't she the female version of Cam Levins, a good but unspectacular high runner turned elite college runner? From now own perhaps we should refer to her as Abbey MF D'Agostino!

With an artificial infield, the ambient temperature will be far warmer than it was "at the airport."

You are right on. It was hot, but the humidity was low and it wasn't that bad. Not great for a 5k but not horrible. Those morons put a thermometer down on the field turf and gaze in wonder that it says 100 degrees. Jill is God awful, loved when she almost took a header falling off her 6 inch heels on Friday.

here u go wrote:

http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player/_/source/espn3/id/480472/size/condensed/

Thanks very much!

Upper-80's in the direct sun, inside a giant solar collector and sapping winds are poor conditions for a 5000. Every athlete out there was suffering, some just less badly. I'm more inclined to believe a commentator who is actually on site rather than a keyboard jockey 2000 miles away.

Other than running the meet in the middle of the day and getting crap TV coverage, when the ladies finished the 5K there was no water. Are they brain dead at the NCAA (of course)? Even the lowest fun run has H2O for the competitors. Morons.

The last 6 laps of the race were constantly interrupted with field event updates and a replay of the 100 yard dashes, to which I paid no attention.

Is it just me or is LRC recap on this race overly negative--" D’Agostino almost had an epic and utterly embarrassing collapse" etc. How about, "capping a fantastic season..."?

Way to go Abbey!! Good luck at trials

too negative wrote:

Is it just me or is LRC recap on this race overly negative--" D’Agostino almost had an epic and utterly embarrassing collapse" etc.

Agreed, it was definitely over the top. But I guess they're prone to hyperbole when trying to write recaps of races. Running a 67 last lap and just getting nipped at the line would have hardly been an epic or embarrassing collapse. If she had a 10 second lead at the bell and ran a 90 second final lap to get beat at the line, that would have been a collapse. If you want to see an embarrassing performance, look at Shelia Reid.