Here are Ritz's splits compliments of Marc Davis. Ritz did crawl in at the end of the race with a 34.75 final 200 to just miss the World Champs standard:
63.5
2:08.5 (65)
3:13.5 (65)
4:16.5 (63)
5:20.5 (64)
6:25.5 (65)
7:30.5 (65)
3k at 8:02.50
8:34.0 (63.5)
9:36.5 (62.5)
10:39.5 (63)
11:42.5 (63)
- 4:12 previous 4 laps (13:08 pace)
12:48.0 (65.5)
34.75 13.22.23
5/7/05
5,000 - 1, Dathan Ritzenhein, Nike, 13:22.23. 2, Jorge Torres, Unattached, 13:30.77.
appears he ran out of gas a little too early... his 2800-4400 maybe took a little too much energy
Is Davis that poor at math? There is no way those splits were on the half second. C'mon, get some real credible reporting on important events.
Yeah right on! I need to know where he was in thousands of seconds, none of this rounding off shit.
You're a jag off.
was torres even close to him during the race? thanks for the splits
tortfeasor wrote:
Yeah right on! I need to know where he was in thousands of seconds, none of this rounding off shit.
You're a jag off.
He has a valid point. Davis took splits to the nearest "mississippi" which screams inaccuracy. I want to see some real splits.
Get there yourself, take a watch, and quit bitching
michigan runner wrote:
was torres even close to him during the race? thanks for the splits
I read somewhere that Ritz dropped Torres going into the last mile. Obviously that flying 2nd mile was too much.
Ritz' slowest lap (don't know his last lap exactly though) of 65.5 still works out to 13:38 pace. Going into the last 200m, his 12:48 split works to exactly 8:00 3K pace. I'm not sure why he didn't run better (by his standards) during XC and the road racing, but I think he's going to be big time come August.
Top 8 at the 10K world championships.
ttc wrote:
Top 8 at the 10K world championships.
I also predict he will break the American record at the world championships.
I made the same 2 predictions in 2004, but injury struck. Now seeing what he just did, I make them again.
I heard someone say he was getting blisters...
Herblindsey wrote:
I heard someone say he was getting blisters...
Haha, this wouldn't be Letsrun.com without posts like that.
Thanks very much.
Once the rabits dropped off, Torres stayed with Ritzenhein for a couple of laps and then dropped off the pace.
Maybe, just maybe, he was trying to win the race.
ancillary advice wrote:
Maybe, just maybe, he was trying to win the race.
I don't know what you're replying to.
Wow. Isn't that his PR by a long way? Sure looks like Ritz vs. Webb in 5k could produce some legendary battles (the tactics of Ritz with his "surging" vs Webb's mile speed, etc....).
Very cool indeed.
At this point you have to think Ritz would drop Webb before the last 3 laps.
no way ttc!
Webb would drop a 1:55 last 800m and drop Ritz by 30m or more.
Sorry. I misread your post about the 2nd mile being too much. I thought you meant too much for Ritz to get the A standard.