The Starved Elephant wrote:
Goat is Goat wrote:
Sorry, didn't notice his splits because he finished 103rd.
Logic says the 277 (it's actually 277 in the results) is a mistake. That's almost last, so the device must have missed his chip. The rest, however, must be true. Sometimes great runners just blow up late in races. Happened to Reichsling last year.
The dude won the New England region. He should have been able to hold that pace. Must have had a rough day. Real shame.
Definitely no way someone can make 250+ passes in 1.7k, so that must be a chip error. I'm pretty sure he was one of the guys who got knocked down/trampled in the first start, which could explain the rough race.
The question no one can be bothered looking up:
Which region was stronger over their respective fields, Midwest Men or New England Women? Adding the genders together, which is the stronger region between NE and MW? I'm guessing fairly close.
While we're on the regional who's is bigger debate, seems like a good year to remind everyone there should only be 1 auto-bid per region. New England women have had 3 more teams (to go along with the 6 that were selected) that didn't go to the meet who could have been top-25 at this year's meet (Colby, Coast Guard, and Wesleyan), That type of thing looks bad when there are 3 auto-qualifier teams outside the top-25 in the final results.