Schumacher's boys raced at 8:40 pm - Lopez Lomong just set the AR at 13:06.99!!

congratulations to Lomong and Derrick. solids races!lomong ran 1/2 second per mile faster than bekele's 10,000m world record pace. wowza

Come on mayne wrote:

Lomong 13:06.99 AR

Derrick 13:11.99

Bumbi 13:23

Heath 13:33

Jager 13:33

Teg 13:35

https://twitter.com/Flotrack/status/307672900138311680/photo/1

It early to be running that fast , long year ahead..

LOMONG 12:49 OUTDOOR 2013 YOU HEARD IT HERE.

We are in NY for business today - our selling talks with Time Warner Inc. are entering their final stages - so we'll cover the men's 5000 in NY for you. Schedule is as follows:

FRIDAY, MARCH 1

8 pm Women's distance medley relay

8:15 pm Men's 1,000m run

8:20 pm Women's 5,000m run

8:40 pm Men's 5,000m run

We'll probably cover it using a new blog service we are trying out and will give you the link later.

If you want to watch it live, u can get in the Armory for free or pay $20 for FTP.

Note.

But he will still get beat by Rupps 12:46

if qualifying for worlds at 13:15 was the goal wtf happened to Jager and Teg??

sounds like SOMEBODY'S gettin FUKED!!

SDRunner wrote:

if qualifying for worlds at 13:15 was the goal wtf happened to Jager and Teg??

We need to celebrate the fact that they are clean.

are you implying LL is not?

5kays wrote:

lomong ran 1/2 second per mile faster than bekele's 10,000m world record pace. wowza

And he only ran 9+ seconds per mile slower than Bekele's 5,000 world record pace! Wowza!

Raptured wrote:

5kays wrote:

lomong ran 1/2 second per mile faster than bekele's 10,000m world record pace. wowza

And he only ran 9+ seconds per mile slower than Bekele's 5,000 world record pace! Wowza!

Indeed. That's why we're celebrating an AR, a-holes.

Come on mayne wrote:

Lomong 13:06.99 AR

Derrick 13:11.99

Bumbi 13:23

Heath 13:33

Jager 13:33

Teg 13:35

https://twitter.com/Flotrack/status/307672900138311680/photo/1

Lopez Lomong is my favorite runner (ironically) so, very happy for him. I just hope he can learn to be more consistent.

And really impressed with Derrick. He's got a great future. He's in good hands at Nike to stay injury free.

So who wants to call the TOP THREE who make the USA team in the 5,000?????

Rupp

Derrick

Lagat

Lomong (can he be consistent enough to make the team again?)

The USA could be looking pretty stacked in the 5,000!

Amazing times.

[quote]5kays wrote:

congratulations to Lomong and Derrick. solids races!

lomong ran 1/2 second per mile faster than bekele's 10,000m world record pace. wowza

1.5/10

Love what Lopez (and Derrick) is doing now...on the first day of March. Don't know if that will translate to June-August, but certainly hope so. Old Man Lagat running at the same level as well in the winter, so its going to be a real, real interesting track season...

Derrick is gonna run sub 27:00 this year...

Barely.

Can someone tell me why the photo shows everyone to be very, very close (like almost a photo finish for 2nd and 3rd place), but the results say that there were very large time gaps?! (As in 12 seconds between 2nd and 3rd place?!) What's up with that photo showing everyone finishing within 2 or 3 seconds of each other?

based on how indoor has went so far, here are some premature calls for the USA championships

10000 (in order):

Rupp; Derrick; Ritzenhein

The way Derrick has ran so far, no way he doesn't make the 10000 squad, especially that Solinsky is still trying to rebuild. Rupp is obvious and I'm sure Ritz will find a way to not lose to Tegenkamp.

5000 (in order):

Lomong; Lagat; Rupp (Derrick 4th)

Lomong will be timing a peak better this year as at least he is not experimenting with the 5000 this time. a year of experience helps a lot. Cannot count out Lagat and Rupp here and it looks like Derrick is the odd man out.

1500 (no order):

Centro; Manzano; ?????

Wild event here, recent years have shown Centro and Manzano don't care about anything before the trials, and given their current stranglehold of the 1500 they'll be looking at peaking for worlds. 3rd place will be a lot wilder this year, especially if Wheating doesn't step things up (or if Big Wave makes another breakthrough)

question, please wrote:

Can someone tell me why the photo shows everyone to be very, very close (like almost a photo finish for 2nd and 3rd place), but the results say that there were very large time gaps?! (As in 12 seconds between 2nd and 3rd place?!) What's up with that photo showing everyone finishing within 2 or 3 seconds of each other?

Looks like the wrong photo. There are 8 runners in the photo, but only 7 finishers listed in the results.

New photo above helps solve the mystery. Girma Mecheso appears twice in the photo finish image as he got lapped (by both Lopez and Derrick).

As for the spacing, it appears that for distance races the x-axis (representing time) is not continuous, otherwise the photo would be excessively long ... a close-up view presumably shows discontinuous time labels.

Interesting article about photo finish images here:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/belden-adams.php

If you think you already know all about photo finishes, take a look at the following photo from the article and see if you can explain why the shadows fall in opposite directions:

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/direction%20of%20time1.jpg