1983
1983
theOTHERwhitemeat wrote:
big pile ups in the men's race at about 1200...very amusing to watch, probably not so much fun to run in.
mead looked great, never challenged...may have dinged up his hammy somewhere on the course though.
MN looked great through 3, but that doesn't help them at all.
very impressive race by oklahoma imo.
They sucked last year. I knew they had a couple of miler but where did the rest of those guys come from?
BTW....most of the results posted are wrong for the women's race. They accidentally scored the non-university runners and it really changed the outcome. For example UAB and UConn swetched places by 1 point.
Anyone else at the meet think it was a little disrespectful when they started playing the national anthem while a race is still going on....and they did that twice.
How would you feel if you were one of the last runners in that race coming over the hill to the finishing stretch in complete silence because everyone else is paying respect to the flag. Is an athlete still running supposed to stop and do the same? Pretty bush league on Minnesota's part to do that. Griak otherwise was very well run as it always is.
Sorry, but the organizers can't account for people running 46 min 8ks
Tell me this...whats the point of playing the national anthem multiple times? And I don't care how slow some of these kids are running, there's no excuse for playing that while someone is still competing. That's just bad judgement on the officials part.
Besides, at the most, they would have had to wait one more minute to allow those last few women to finish the D1 Women's Race. The last woman had finished the race before the song was done.
It was in poor taste and I think they should have had the decency to allow everyone to finish before playing the national anthem. And remember...it happened twice...no excuse
Ski U Mah wrote:
I was surprised at how many Africans run for Iowa State. Their top 3 guys were either from Kenya or Eritrea and the 2-5 of the women are the same. When did they start recruiting so heavily from overseas?
Majak is an African (Sudan I believe), but he ran all throughout high school in New Hampshire.
Oklahoma redshirted their top 5 or 6 last year. Most are freshmen or sophomore’s. They spent the summer in flagstaff. Very talented young group.
i think it was in poor taste for those runners STILL competing to not stop and pause for our national anthem.
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Unless you actually know Torch's story, you probably shouldn't go saying stuff about what may or may not have caused his injury. Torch did nordic skiing and triathlon last spring BECAUSE he's had so many injuries from running. Plas and Torch came to an agreement about this and Torch agreed to focus on running and not do any tri's over the summer.
Other than his charity fundraiser (is this the "ultra" event you were referring to?) where he biked, rollerskiied, kayaked and ran in May, he did exactly what plas wished and stayed away from biking and tri's and focused on running over the summer.
From what he has said, he never ran more than 70-80 miles a week over the summer and still managed multiple stress fractures that more or less came out of nowhere. Based on his track record with injuries, obviously this kid just has some biomechanical issues and running is just hard on his body.
Bottom line: It would be great to have Torchia back. He was just as pumped about cross season as everyone else and was extremely disappointed about his injuries. Who knows, he may even be back by regionals. But please, don't go saying stuff about what may or may not have caused his injuries unless you know the whole story.
Sorry, I'm with Steve Hoag on this one. Strange that a runner recovering from multiple stress injuries and sitting out the cross season would run a hard half right at the beginning of cross season:
http://onlineraceresults.com/race/view_race.php?race_id=11771&submit_action=select_result&re_NO=6i thought he was healthy prior to running the half? and plus, do you really think a 68-69 half was an all-out effort for him. I kind of doubt it.