The end of this race was pretty strange. The finish line clock clearly showed 13:39 when Burns crossed the line, but the commentator said he (and Liking right behind him) finished in 13:10. The live results page had both of them listed at 13:10 for a few minutes. It turns out the clock stopped on Burns' 4800 split. They were talking about Burns setting a new meet record before correcting themselves a couple minutes later. Weird stuff.
Habtom and Kipkirui ran 13:33 in Albuquerque. What’s the conversion there?
not sure but it must be a lot...Big 12 W 5000 a little tough to watch with almost half the field (including Grace Ping and Natalie Cook) dropping out at some point, and Hutchins of BYU going from running 15:35 pace with her team mate to suddenly slowing, then getting lapped and finishing 3rd in 16:24
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The end of this race was pretty strange. The finish line clock clearly showed 13:39 when Burns crossed the line, but the commentator said he (and Liking right behind him) finished in 13:10. The live results page had both of them listed at 13:10 for a few minutes. It turns out the clock stopped on Burns' 4800 split. They were talking about Burns setting a new meet record before correcting themselves a couple minutes later. Weird stuff.
Who are the announcers? I should volunteer my services. How i the world do you not know the difference between at 13:09 and a 13:39?
Noe looked fantastic. However, I was surprised to see at the end of the race an Ole Miss runner finished relatively close to Noe, followed by Ashley Jones of Tenn and a few others. They were shown in the results in the top 5 and Dwight went on about how they had also broken the meet record. It seemed pretty clear that they were lapped runners who stopped (or were told to stop) but I can't find any confirmation online of what happened other than that they are now showing as DNF.
In other SEC races, did anybody see the Alabama runner get hipchecked into the high jump mat during the pentathlon 800m?
They broke meet record for lapped runners.🤔
Apparently, if you were lapped they asked you to stop, hence high # of dnfs.
Possibly experimenting with the elimination race. Start with your entire roster of 10. Eliminate last 2 runners on each lap. Tough to double back from this event.
What the F@ck happened to UCLA. I just looked at the results so far from Big 10’s and what an insult to a program that was once at the top. They need to get a director that knows what they are doing. How long has Avery Anderson been there?
What the F@ck happened to UCLA. I just looked at the results so far from Big 10’s and what an insult to a program that was once at the top. They need to get a director that knows what they are doing. How long has Avery Anderson been there?
Coach Avery Anderson doesn’t coach at UCLA anymore. The current Director and head coach is Joanna Hayes.
Heat 1 of the Big12 women’s 3000m tomorrow has a start list with a whopping 43 athletes (16 in heat 2, presumably the “contenders” heat). The men’s will be just as bad at 39. Jamming 40+ athletes into a 200m banked indoor track is ridiculous, the meet organizers really should know better and should have limited the entires. This means there are nearly 7 athletes per lane for the dual/staggered waterfall start, so there will be 3-4 layers deep of 2 athletes side-by-side stacked up in every lane. This is going to be a goat rodeo if anyone false starts, stammers, or inevitably gets clipped and falls in the mass of bodies.
I understand meet organizers don’t want to devote nearly an hour of meet operating time to run 4 heats of 3000m races when realistically only one heat will have athletes competing for the individual conference title, and rightfully so. But allowing this many athletes to congregate in one heat is inexcusable. Meet organizers need to set a cutoff time qualifier or limit entires to somewhere around the top 16 or so fastest times. They clearly already understand the necessity of doing so for the fast heat(s) by separating them in the manner that they have. I’m interested to see how pedestrian the first lap splits are for the unlucky athletes stuck at the rear, and how on earth the top runners will navigate hoards of lap traffic
a different year for AR. they only qualify 2 W to SEC 400 m final.....despite 6 breaking 53. But they did qualify 4 to W 800 m final (2:05.59 and faster)
Heat 1 of the Big12 women’s 3000m tomorrow has a start list with a whopping 43 athletes (16 in heat 2, presumably the “contenders” heat). The men’s will be just as bad at 39. Jamming 40+ athletes into a 200m banked indoor track is ridiculous, the meet organizers really should know better and should have limited the entires. This means there are nearly 7 athletes per lane for the dual/staggered waterfall start, so there will be 3-4 layers deep of 2 athletes side-by-side stacked up in every lane. This is going to be a goat rodeo if anyone false starts, stammers, or inevitably gets clipped and falls in the mass of bodies.
I understand meet organizers don’t want to devote nearly an hour of meet operating time to run 4 heats of 3000m races when realistically only one heat will have athletes competing for the individual conference title, and rightfully so. But allowing this many athletes to congregate in one heat is inexcusable. Meet organizers need to set a cutoff time qualifier or limit entires to somewhere around the top 16 or so fastest times. They clearly already understand the necessity of doing so for the fast heat(s) by separating them in the manner that they have. I’m interested to see how pedestrian the first lap splits are for the unlucky athletes stuck at the rear, and how on earth the top runners will navigate hoards of lap traffic
SECs has 48 starters entered in section 1 of the men’s 3k (and 39 for women), but a note that runners will be removed when lapped until the field is 24. Of course, that does nothing to prevent chaos at the start and early stages.
Must be weird for some of those athletes to game your strategy around being one of the finishers.
Noe looked terrific. Essentially a solo effort, I have to believe she would've come home 5+ sec quicker in a pack with faster runners.
A note to anyone who hasn't been paying attention: Noe is a special one. Due to roll into 14:4X/30:4X country in 2026, imo, but that's not the point. Mind the racing, not the times.
She went to high school 25 miles from my house and I watched her dominate a couple meets at Drake Stadium, so I’ve kept tabs on her college career and her progress has been awesome. She strikes me as someone who has complete self belief and no fear of racing the likes of Lemngole, Olemomoi, Valby, etc.
14:40s/30:40s next year seems like rushing it, but I can’t rule it out at this point. I think she’ll get there eventually, and she’d be a pretty shrewd pick to make the L.A. Olympics 10k team at this point.