Truly amazing: 25 laps wasn't enough to decide SEC 10k, the race was 28 laps long!!

LetsRun.com wrote:

After reading our Weekly Recap -

http://goo.gl/GyfcGG

- a LetsRun.com visitor has sent us an amazing email. He reveals that the men's SEC 10k wasn't 25 laps long. No, Jacob Thomson of Kentucky won it after running 28 laps.

an NCAA rules expert wrote:

Lastly - one additional item of note that I didn't see get any play on the MB was that during the Men's 10k at the SEC meet the power & lights to the entire stadium (and a portion of the surrounding campus) went out. The race was being held after 10:00 pm so light was pretty important at that point. :) The race was stopped (they had run about 1200m) and once power was back they ran the full 10k.

We went to rolltide.com and found what they said about the race: "The men's 10,000 meters began ominously when approximately 1,200 meters into the race there was a general power outage in the area that caused a nearly 35-minute delay. After power was restored, Kentucky sophomore Jacob Thompson used a strong finish over the final two laps to claim the SEC title in a winning time of 29:47.89."

Was anyone there? What was it like?

Has anyone been in another distance track race that was stopped mid-race? What are the actual rules? What do you do if you are 4 miles into a 10k? Ring a bell and tell them it's over in 1 lap?

LetsRun.com wrote:

After reading our Weekly Recap -

http://goo.gl/GyfcGG

- a LetsRun.com visitor has sent us an amazing email. He reveals that the men's SEC 10k wasn't 25 laps long. No, Jacob Thomson of Kentucky won it after running 28 laps.

an NCAA rules expert wrote:

Lastly - one additional item of note that I didn't see get any play on the MB was that during the Men's 10k at the SEC meet the power & lights to the entire stadium (and a portion of the surrounding campus) went out. The race was being held after 10:00 pm so light was pretty important at that point. :) The race was stopped (they had run about 1200m) and once power was back they ran the full 10k.

We went to rolltide.com and found what they said about the race: "The men's 10,000 meters began ominously when approximately 1,200 meters into the race there was a general power outage in the area that caused a nearly 35-minute delay. After power was restored, Kentucky sophomore Jacob Thompson used a strong finish over the final two laps to claim the SEC title in a winning time of 29:47.89."

Was anyone there? What was it like?

Has anyone been in another distance track race that was stopped mid-race? What are the actual rules? What do you do if you are 4 miles into a 10k? Ring a bell and tell them it's over in 1 lap?

LetsRun.com wrote:

After reading our Weekly Recap -

http://goo.gl/GyfcGG

- a LetsRun.com visitor has sent us an amazing email. He reveals that the men's SEC 10k wasn't 25 laps long. No, Jacob Thomson of Kentucky won it after running 28 laps.

an NCAA rules expert wrote:

Lastly - one additional item of note that I didn't see get any play on the MB was that during the Men's 10k at the SEC meet the power & lights to the entire stadium (and a portion of the surrounding campus) went out. The race was being held after 10:00 pm so light was pretty important at that point. :) The race was stopped (they had run about 1200m) and once power was back they ran the full 10k.

We went to rolltide.com and found what they said about the race: "The men's 10,000 meters began ominously when approximately 1,200 meters into the race there was a general power outage in the area that caused a nearly 35-minute delay. After power was restored, Kentucky sophomore Jacob Thompson used a strong finish over the final two laps to claim the SEC title in a winning time of 29:47.89."

Was anyone there? What was it like?

Has anyone been in another distance track race that was stopped mid-race? What are the actual rules? What do you do if you are 4 miles into a 10k? Ring a bell and tell them it's over in 1 lap?

TrackCoach wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

After reading our Weekly Recap -

http://goo.gl/GyfcGG

- a LetsRun.com visitor has sent us an amazing email. He reveals that the men's SEC 10k wasn't 25 laps long. No, Jacob Thomson of Kentucky won it after running 28 laps.

We went to rolltide.com and found what they said about the race: "The men's 10,000 meters began ominously when approximately 1,200 meters into the race there was a general power outage in the area that caused a nearly 35-minute delay. After power was restored, Kentucky sophomore Jacob Thompson used a strong finish over the final two laps to claim the SEC title in a winning time of 29:47.89."

Was anyone there? What was it like?

Has anyone been in another distance track race that was stopped mid-race? What are the actual rules? What do you do if you are 4 miles into a 10k? Ring a bell and tell them it's over in 1 lap?

In 2010 or '11 in NJ, Jeromy Elkaim and the Rosas were in a 2-mile that was stopped with about 600m to go. From memory, they were on pace to run low 8:40x even if they didn't kick. There is a good chance that race would have went sub-8:40. Sucks! - There was a big debate as to whether the race should have been stopped because of lighting. I agree athlete's safety is paramount and a meet should be stopped when it is lighting, but there is no sense in stopping a race that's in progress with 2 minutes to go. Btw, that was also the meet were sophomore Ajee Wilson ran 2:04x in the 800.

Separate issue, is Elkaim still running; I haven't heard much about him in the last year or two.

A WR!!!!! wrote:

LetsRun.com wrote:

After reading our Weekly Recap -

http://goo.gl/GyfcGG

- a LetsRun.com visitor has sent us an amazing email. He reveals that the men's SEC 10k wasn't 25 laps long. No, Jacob Thomson of Kentucky won it after running 28 laps.

We went to rolltide.com and found what they said about the race: "The men's 10,000 meters began ominously when approximately 1,200 meters into the race there was a general power outage in the area that caused a nearly 35-minute delay. After power was restored, Kentucky sophomore Jacob Thompson used a strong finish over the final two laps to claim the SEC title in a winning time of 29:47.89."

Was anyone there? What was it like?

Has anyone been in another distance track race that was stopped mid-race? What are the actual rules? What do you do if you are 4 miles into a 10k? Ring a bell and tell them it's over in 1 lap?

That means the winner actually ran 26:36 for 25 laps.