3:37.75 for Awad at Swarthmore. 0.01 off the NCAA lead

Much better race video with commentary and 2 angles.

David Torrence interview:

Soprano wrote:

Men's Top Non-Pro 1500 (rabbited by Nick Willis):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtv2ZhNyecY&feature=youtu.be

Willis looks like he is out for a jog in this video. And they were running pretty fast too! You can really tell the difference between a 4:00 miler and a 3:50 miler.

1. I remember watching Kate Murphy during her indoor season and thinking, "Man this girl is super-efficient and a mental beast...huge potential!"

2. Willis is the best pacer; really understands the "Wind 'em up " strategy, and carries them out past 1200.

3. Mathews owes Willis a beer...for the rest of his life!

rojo wrote:

malmo wrote:

Not to pick on you, Rojo, but there's no reason for you to be amazed at 42 year-old historical trivia that you, yourself, probably didn't know until your late twenties.

How fast did Fikes run in high school... and where? Did you know that?

No I didn't know it when i was younger. The Internet didn't exist. Much harder to know it back then.

Rojo - what are you talking about? You started Letsrun in 2000 when you were TWENTY SEVEN. Malmo's point is spot on and your defense is weak. The internet was alive and well for all of your 20's. As a Princeton alum, you should have had some of the best access at the time.

The dogmatic stammering about Fikes is chuckle-worthy though and kudos for knowing that.

looks like in the race video Will Lear covered the nike swoosh on his jersey with the race sticker. spikes and shorts still had the exposed swoosh though

SonOfLebanon wrote:

Awad=A God

Good stuff. I bet he could do a great jesus for halloween with that beard. Ironically, that's a costume that would be perfectly allowed on a college campus these days.

if Awad is a god, what does that make my boy Ben Rainero?

Just won the Heps MVP.

Nice to see Awad bounce back after he displayed some of the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen after the Heps 5K. From the stands, we saw him rip off his shirt, punch bushes, and throw a chair. A childish temper tantrum from a senior in college.

Lost a lot of respect for him, and I was a big fan. Made even worse by the fact that if he had led an at-all respectable pace, he would've easily won (given that he was far and away the best runner in the field) and there would have been no chance for incidental contact. Not to mention the gross tactics that he and Rainero used throughout the race, and that he supposedly hit the Brown runner during the race.

As an Ivy League alum, I liked Tommy a lot before that race but I can't really respect him anymore.

Congrats to him on the time at this one though, that's damn fast.

Full photo gallery on my blog here:

www.bit.ly/verynice1500

Hoka One One Gallery:

http://www.davidbracetty.com/Projects/Hoka-One-One/1/thumbs

Thanks for looking!

Really? All we saw on the webcast is that he picked himself up and ran across the track to congratulate Rainero, which kind-of looked like about the *best* sportsmanship I've ever seen.

But if he did do what you said, can you really freaking blame him? Jesus, how would you react if you got stepped on and knocked down in your last conference race of your life? (One you firmly expected to win.)

Yo might want to give the kid a Goddamn break.

I couldn't agree more, Rojo. It is absurd to me that Americans are interested in Americans. I mean, shouldn't we be hyper focused on the New Zealand Olympic team? How could we not be?

Forget all of our countrymen, from now on I will not read American newspapers.

Also, I really appreciate the way you showed that punk who suggested Awad's time "Must be a school record…" without any regard for the fact that the 1500 was not contested as often as it is today back in 1974. Nor did you consider that not everyone posting in this thread views such a thing as a life-or-death matter. You are truly a wise historian.

https://admin.xosn.com/pdf9/3643307.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=1700&

;DB_OEM_ID=1700

By the way, snob, you're missing something as well.

This is an international sport. Everyone is so clueless to these top guys who run in our races all the time. This was a great international race right under our noses.