Tanner Anderson drops the field in the last mile

Looks like it's listed as a 3 mile course, not 5K.

Fan of HS XC wrote:

At the Richland Invitational in Washington, Tanner Anderson ran a 14:36 to set the course record (previous was 14:44 by Kai Wilmot, 2nd best was 14:47 Joe Hardy) on the 5k course. 2nd and 3rd place was 15:26 and 15:27.

It looks like Tanner is ready to defend his state title against John Dressel and aiming to repeat his teammate's success at NXN with a national title.

On top of all this, the course which is usually a fast course where runners set season best times, seemed to run unusually slow. Maybe the field was deeper last year (Watchout can jump in on this), but looking at places, it seemed as though it was anywhere from 20-30 seconds slower than last year.

Wasn't John Dressel the buffoon last year who accused some Indian kid from Florida of being a foreign age-cheater despite the fact that he was born and lived his entire life in the US?

It would be fast if it was 5k, but I think it's 3 miles, and not a particularly fast course. As an example, an Illinois team was in the field today, and almost every one of their runners were a minute slower than they ran at the First to the Finish invite @ Detweiller (a flat/fast "3 mile" course).

Don't know if it's more impressive than Ostberg's 11:59 at Manhattan, but it's at worst the third best race of the year (the other one being Mantz's win over Anderson at Firman).

watchoutxcrankings wrote:

It would be fast if it was 5k, but I think it's 3 miles, and not a particularly fast course. As an example, an Illinois team was in the field today, and almost every one of their runners were a minute slower than they ran at the First to the Finish invite @ Detweiller (a flat/fast "3 mile" course).

Don't know if it's more impressive than Ostberg's 11:59 at Manhattan, but it's at worst the third best race of the year (the other one being Mantz's win over Anderson at Firman).

Also, before someone from Illinois comes on here and calls me crazy, I think the course generally runs about 45-50 seconds slower than Detweiller (and it will vary for some, obviously).

Uh if he won by 50 seconds then he didn't drop the field in the last mile. He would have dropped them WAY before that.

What in the world was a team from Chicago doing in Richland, Washington?

fsdfasdfasdfasdf wrote:

What in the world was a team from Chicago doing in Richland, Washington?

I'd imagine they wanted to get in some quality competition outside of their own state, and Richland has often been the strongest boys race in the NW outside of Firman. Hopefully they had the opportunity to visit somewhere outside of Richland on the trip, though.

fsdfasdfasdfasdf wrote:

What in the world was a team from Chicago doing in Richland, Washington?

Running a cross country race.

Any other questions we can clear up for you?

Someone told me it was 5k. Sorry.

At the race, with about a mile to go(at the top of the hill), Tanner was about 20 meters ahead of the East Valley kid (3rd place). By the time he had a half mile to go he open up a 50 or more meter lead. And over the last 600 or so, he opened up that 50 sec lead.

It was very ipressive to watch. Again I do wish Dressel would have raced. Anyone know why he didnt?

While it was impressive, the gap may be a little dramatized by the 2nd and 3rd place runners fading after trying to hang with Tanner the first 2 miles.

Tanners's run was VERY impressive and he took off like he was just starting the race the last 1/2 mile, he has great strength and endurance. Best race we have seen this year.

Dressel, along with other seniors on the team, were taking the SAT.

We will have to wait a little longer before the true matchup between them.

You all have major west coast bias. Not taking anything away from Tanner Anderson but there are a bunch of studs this year in other places than the west.

Sooooo wrote:

You all have major west coast bias. Not taking anything away from Tanner Anderson but there are a bunch of studs this year in other places than the west.

Yes, there are. Ostberg, Hunter and Fisher are just as good as the west coast quartet of Anderson, Dressel, Maton, and Mantz.

Call it Northwest bias. Now go take a look at least years NXN and FL results so you understand why it exist.

watchoutxcrankings wrote:

It would be fast if it was 5k, but I think it's 3 miles, and not a particularly fast course. As an example, an Illinois team was in the field today, and almost every one of their runners were a minute slower than they ran at the First to the Finish invite @ Detweiller (a flat/fast "3 mile" course).

Don't know if it's more impressive than Ostberg's 11:59 at Manhattan, but it's at worst the third best race of the year (the other one being Mantz's win over Anderson at Firman).

Ostberg ran 11:57 at Manhattan

XCavhs wrote:

watchoutxcrankings wrote:

It would be fast if it was 5k, but I think it's 3 miles, and not a particularly fast course. As an example, an Illinois team was in the field today, and almost every one of their runners were a minute slower than they ran at the First to the Finish invite @ Detweiller (a flat/fast "3 mile" course).

Don't know if it's more impressive than Ostberg's 11:59 at Manhattan, but it's at worst the third best race of the year (the other one being Mantz's win over Anderson at Firman).

Ostberg ran 11:57 at Manhattan

my apologies

Also, for what its worth, these are the 10 best ratings I've seen from Meylan this year:

201.98 for Tanner Anderson at Richland WA (Oct. 11)

200.68 for Alex Ostberg at Manhattan NY (Oct. 11)

199.90 for Conner Mantz at Bob Firman ID (Sep. 27)

198.78 for Bryce Millar at Manhattan NY (Oct. 11)

198.43 for Tanner Anderson at Bob Firman ID (Sep. 27)

197.70 for Grant Fisher at Portage MI (Oct. 4)

195.67 for Tanner Anderson at Tracy Walters WA (Sep. 13)

195.63 for Andrew Hunter at Great American NC (Oct. 4)

195.57 for Matthew Maton at Oxford OR (Oct. 3)

195.07 for Olin Hacker at Roy Griak MN (Sep. 27)

... there might have been others I missed, but I think those are all the 195+ ratings he's given this year. Interesting that Tanner Anderson is the only one listed more than once (he's in there three times).

Where's Dressel who ran 14:51 5k at the Stanford Invitational? Probably the best race I've seen all season. Can't wait to see what those two boys do at the WA state meet