Can't edit my post for some reason... But it was 1967... Lindgren won a six mile race in 30:45. So almost 32 minutes for a 10K for the national champion that year.
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Top 5 at NCAAs? For safety reasons, please get back on your meds ASAP.
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This reads like it was written by someone who is either on the team or otherwise invested in seeing them do well. But what the heck; everyone loves a good underdog story, right? Here's hoping they run well the rest of the way and turn some heads once the meets start to count.
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GOWYONAU wrote:
they probably won't qualify for NCAA nationals as a team on the men's or women's side....
and Laramie really isn't that great from a trails perspective because Medicine Bow National Forest has soooo much snow all winter and the city doesn't have really nice soft-surface trails like Flagstaff/Boulder do
Love the Snowy Range (named for the white rocks, they really aren’t that snowy). Plenty of great trails up in the snowy range, but they are a little ways away. Some are rocky, others are not. Trails in Boulder are plenty rocky. There are plenty of other trails and dirt roads in and around town:
Surfaces are fine. The wind on the other hand…
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Why in the world would they add Texas tech, one of the very few competitive teams in south central to mountain west. I was getting tired of Texas just getting a bye to nationals every year?
but yes, Roy griak was an extremely weak field this year. I’d be surprised if Wyoming even gets Kolas points from the win
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bladerunner wrote:
misfitlove14 wrote:
First snowfall is 30 Sep, last one is 25 May, not unusual to see summer snow as well. Wind is brutal, never gets better. Horrible place to train, and nothing to do in that town, 45 miles to Cheyenne which isn’t much better. The team had a solid showing but terrible weather will impact their training before XC regionals. My money is they don’t qualify, they will be running on the indoor track most of the time
Complete nonsense. Snow is extremely rare in Sept. or October. Fall is beautiful in Laramie. It's a complete crapshoot from about the middle of November till May. It can get very cold. But Laramie doesn't get anywhere near the amount of snow that Flagstaff gets.
I lived in WY for over 6 years ace, I know my stuff. Laramie is an isolated armpit of a town with wind, ice and snow galore. Good luck to anyone who lives and trains in such a god forsaken place
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25 minutes wrote:
You realize their team average was 25:19, right?
Their fastest runner was 25:07.
This race proves nothing.
25:19 average for women is not too shabby. You ARE talking about the ladies, yes?
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your joke is lame women run 6ks. stop being obsessed with time griak is a minute slow. real ones should be talking about the maroon race
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misfitlove14 wrote:
bladerunner wrote:
Complete nonsense. Snow is extremely rare in Sept. or October. Fall is beautiful in Laramie. It's a complete crapshoot from about the middle of November till May. It can get very cold. But Laramie doesn't get anywhere near the amount of snow that Flagstaff gets.
I lived in WY for over 6 years ace, I know my stuff. Laramie is an isolated armpit of a town with wind, ice and snow galore. Good luck to anyone who lives and trains in such a god forsaken place
Is that much different than Alamosa or Gunnison and their piles of D2 National Championships? Would rather live in Laramie than Albuquerque, El Paso, pretty much anywhere in the northeast ot Wisconsin.
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Interesting comment. You tell him not to worry about time and then state that the course is a minute slow.
Wyoming is a top 50 team but will not qualify.
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Some of the posts are disingenuous. Guys who lived year for a short while many moons ago (before the recent infrastructure was built) or visited here very briefly that happened to have a bad impression because that one day it was stormy.
So I thought I'd clarify the misinformation:
1. Laramie is more similar to Alamosa than Flagstaff. If we recall, Pat Porter did just fine training in the winters up there and still managed a great professional career. Adams State is not too shabby either.
2. All higher altitude in the lower 48 are cold and windy in the winter. It's a downside of being closer to the jet stream. I don't consider Boulder high enough but any wind/snow storm that passes through Laramie will also hit Boulder. They are not that far apart as the crow flies.
To the "don't have the trails and dirt like X location" crowd.
Laramie has 32 miles of dirt trails that is connected to city limits. Then there are trails that connect to the nearby national forest. Totaling well over a 100 miles and, in fact, has more dirt running than both Boulder and Flagstaff combined w/o having to drive or deal with hipsters. You can get to 8800 feet within 5-6 miles of running. Facts.
You get all this for a fraction of the cost of living in Boulder or Flagstaff (plus no state income tax). It's the best value place to start your journey into pro running, D1 distance running, or even just as a remote worker who happens to take running seriously.
So back to the main point:
Kids in the Southern Rocky Mountain region are figuring the value of this program. WY is rising as a distance program. Take a look at who is coaching them. They have solid credentials.The Cowboys will qualify to NCAAs this year. Guaranteed.
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misfitlove14 wrote:
bladerunner wrote:
Complete nonsense. Snow is extremely rare in Sept. or October. Fall is beautiful in Laramie. It's a complete crapshoot from about the middle of November till May. It can get very cold. But Laramie doesn't get anywhere near the amount of snow that Flagstaff gets.
I lived in WY for over 6 years ace, I know my stuff. Laramie is an isolated armpit of a town with wind, ice and snow galore. Good luck to anyone who lives and trains in such a god forsaken place
Sydney Thorvaldson grew up in Rawlins, not far from Laramie. Worked out ok for her. I lived in Wyoming far longer than 6 years. Laramie doesn't get as much wind as Cheyenne and Casper. Would I move back? No. The town itself is not scenic. It is too isolated. Winter can be unbelievably cold. So cold that I don't know how livestock and big game survive the windchill.
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25:19 is Wyoming's slowest Griak team average. They were better in 2022 and 2023. Griak was just weak this year.
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when I lived in Laramie I had to drive down to Fort Collins or over to Cheyenne just to see an ENT because the hospital never had one on staff
it's a tough place to live
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Ok7272 wrote:
Why in the world would they add Texas tech, one of the very few competitive teams in south central to mountain west. I was getting tired of Texas just getting a bye to nationals every year?
but yes, Roy griak was an extremely weak field this year. I’d be surprised if Wyoming even gets Kolas points from the win
Huh? TxTech has been Mountain Region for a long time.
I agree, it's stupid. Flat training at 3200 feet is not much of an advantage. My teams would have had a legitimate chance to qualify for nationals had they been in the South Central Region those couple of years.
Same for UTEP at 3700 feet but at least they have some terrain to work with.Also, I'm a Wyoming native from the eastern side of the state near Nebraska.
My Laramie opinion: it's only considered a somewhat desirable place to live because of the university. Otherwise, it would get lumped in with Rawlins and Rock Springs as one of the more awful places to live in the state. I liked visiting for UW football games, because the weather had not turned yet. Hardly ever made it to basketball games due to the likelihood the weather would be bad.
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biasedwyoming wrote:
25:19 is Wyoming's slowest Griak team average. They were better in 2022 and 2023. Griak was just weak this year.
It was also close to 90 degrees and humid so it was more like Florida than Minnesota in late September.
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This is letsrun craziness at its most extreme. Wyoming is such a sucky state for anything. Even Yellowstone is lackluster when compared to Glacier NP. xD
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I appreciate the enthusiasm for the locally-sourced roster, as the influx of 25 year-old foreign runners (many who are pretty much pros) to the NCAA is hard to get excited about. But Wyoming XC has plenty of history of foreign runners making up it's roster. Check out their 3rd place finish in 1977. I'm pretty sure not an American in the top 5. Yes this was a long time ago, but still, the history is there.
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you can be serious shirley wrote:
This is the single most delusional post in the history of this website.
you must be new here
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too old for this wrote:
Hardly ever made it to basketball games due to the likelihood the weather would be bad.
always thought it was crazy they had actual video boards showing road conditions inside the AA for night basketball games because people drive from all over and I-80 and Hwy 287 got sooooo bad
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