Sam Chelanga 13:41 5k 1/28

ryan foreman wrote:

Pretty good for a 26 year old college student.

Stop showing your damn ignorance, you tool. Sam Chelanga is only 24 years old.

I just double checked he was born Feb 1985 so he is 25 years old and still an extraordinary athlete.

What Else wrote:

Did everyone just overlook this or does no one care?

http://www.tfrrs.org/results/17921_1190125.html

Looks like he soloed the race, which isn't out of the ordinary for him. The biggest news is Liberty has an Indoor track?

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Liberty takes track pretty seriously. I wish more schools put as much into their track programs.

malmo wrote:

Hyperbole alert.

Chelanga is 25 years old, almost 26. He has run 13:19 and 27:08. 13:41 is unheard of? WTF? 35 years ago we had a guy on my team run 13:46 on a flat 200 track. He wasn't 25, and he didn't have 13:19/27:08 credentials. Even then we didn't think it was anything special other than being a school record.

Reality check.

Tell us a little more about Paul Stemmer.

Doesn't look like he ever ran faster (including outdoors) than that 13:46.

His best 10k was 28:50 or so. 1x all-american (outdoors 10k)

, but that's it.

BTW, in '76 when he ran 13:46.42, the American record indoors was only 13:40.9 (Glenn Herold, 1975).

So I understand that you guys were excited it was a school record, but surely you must've understood that it was one of the fastest times ever indoors by an American, no?

I don't know where you get your facts but they are off. Stem was AA in XC, indoors and outdoors. He ran 28:40.0 in college.

Stem is a legend. A cartoon character personified. At 122 pounds he could bench press 285. He was 5th in the 1975 NCAA XC, had a best of 28:29 for 10k. As far as getting exited over school records goes, that's for chumps. Harry taught us to act like we've been there before.

Stem's most amazing accomplishment was that he's never been sick in his life. Not even a common cold. A true freak of nature.

This is not a camera angle or trick of shading. It's what Stem's biceps really looked like.

You are an idiot. And I don't say that lightly. At least take a minute to look something up before you call someone a tool. Admittedly I rounded up. SC is 25 years and 11 months old. But I am right.

YouraDULLtool wrote:

ryan foreman wrote:

Pretty good for a 26 year old college student.

Stop showing your damn ignorance, you tool. Sam Chelanga is only 24 years old.

I bet the other Kenyan's are really worried!

malmo wrote:

I don't know where you get your facts but they are off. Stem was AA in XC, indoors and outdoors. He ran 28:40.0 in college.

Stem is a legend. A cartoon character personified. At 122 pounds he could bench press 285. He was 5th in the 1975 NCAA XC, had a best of 28:29 for 10k. As far as getting exited over school records goes, that's for chumps. Harry taught us to act like we've been there before.

Stem's most amazing accomplishment was that he's never been sick in his life. Not even a common cold. A true freak of nature.

This is not a camera angle or trick of shading. It's what Stem's biceps really looked like.

Image:

http://i54.tinypic.com/a1hcuf.jpg

Well, the Penn State media guide doesn't list him as an All-American indoors.

It lists him as an AA outdoors in the 10k (8th in 1977)

It lists his PR as 28:42.80 (Colonial Relays, 1977), and his outdoor 5k PR of 13:52.4 (just ahead of you, at 13:53.2)

And when I look at it, it notes that Stemmer's indoor 5k time was actually 3 mile time - converted.

Wha-Wha-What? wrote:

Well, the Penn State media guide doesn't list him as an All-American indoors.

It lists him as an AA outdoors in the 10k (8th in 1977)

It lists his PR as 28:42.80 (Colonial Relays, 1977), and his outdoor 5k PR of 13:52.4 (just ahead of you, at 13:53.2)

And when I look at it, it notes that Stemmer's indoor 5k time was actually 3 mile time - converted.

The Penn State Media Guide has become notoriously rife with inaccuracies and omissions since BAS took over. Stemmer was 6th in the NCAA 3 mile in 1977, All-America. Our DMR was 3rd that year, something you won't find in the BAS Media Guide, either. Stem's winning time in the 1976 Colonial Relays was 28:40.0.

Remember BAS is the person who told SFH she didn't have to run the finals at the 2004 Olympic Trials because she was 'already on the team'. BAS sets the stage for the level of competency at Penn State. Take the media guide for what it's worth. Old Media guides had the information correct.