Pony Express is stopping for food break. T&FN will be out 3/1.
Pony Express is stopping for food break. T&FN will be out 3/1.
sawthatonecoming wrote:
What's up with Simpson? Was she not going all out? Is this just not her distance? How do you lose with home field advantage, in Boulder, at altitude, as probably the best female distance runner in the USA?
JB is a tier 1 world class MD runner and a tier 2 LD and XC runner; I have said this several times before. JB was never a dominant NCAA XC runner and has never run a 5K anywhere close to her mile performances. I don't think she has ever run under 15 in the 5K. Obviously if you can run a sub-4 1500 and a 9:12 SC you are going to be a very good national class XC runner, but if athletes like Huddle or Flanagan had run today she would not have even got 2nd.
Rowbury has the same range, and I don't recall her ever running a pro XC race.
I doubt it ever broke 40 in terms of temp.
Course could use a real hill or two.
I would say not her distance
I believe Van Alstine has been living in Flagstaff thus negating Simpson's altitude advantage.
Not much of a home course really. Nothing tricky about it.
JS ran 14:56 at Zurich in August
note that she is no longer JB
some rough video footage of the races:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJo9dpt4cuc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUh_w_vLvlZNBeTAP8qaWhoA
Didn't see master's races, four other races were BORING. Seemed like extremely thin fields. I guess with no worlds not much else could be expected.
Remember when the WXC was in Africa? Weren't we getting live lap splits? How can some bass-ackwards third world continent outdo us in technology. Good thing the USATF has Max looking over them. Ever vigilant Max, ever vigilant.
I would blame the Local Organizing committee but we all know that it is USATF. AGAIN.
going on six hours and zip from Max's Kids
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USA-Cross-Country-Championships.aspx
Are these the results?
http://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=9&mgroup_id=45365&year=2014
1. Chris Derrick 511 Nike Naperville IL 23 36:14
2. Luke Puskedra 571 Nike Eugene OR 24 36:39
3. Bobby Mack III 552 Reebok Raleigh NC 29 36:43
4. Joseph Gray 526 Club Northwest Lakewood WA 30 36:58
5. Sean Quigley 572 Boulder Track Club Boulder Track Club Lafayette CO 29 37:02
6. Brent Vaughn 671 29 37:08
7. Patrick Smyth 587 Nike Salt Lake City UT 27 37:13
8. Jacob Riley 576 Hansons-Brooks Distance Project Rochester MI 25 37:18
9. Christopher Barnicle 489 Mammoth Lakes CA 26 37:19
10. Joe Moore 562 Manhattan KS 30 37:36
11. Jonathan Grey 527 Team USA Minnesota Minneapolis MN 26 37:40
12. Gregory Montgomery 561 Boise ID 23 37:40
13. Kenyon Neuman 565 Champions League Athletic Performance Boulder CO 27 37:47
14. Elkanah Kibet 540 U.S. Army Fayetteville NC 30 37:48
15. Josh Eberly 515 Brooks Gunnison CO 33 38:06
16. Christopher Landry 544 Mizuno Ann Arbor MI 27 38:07
17. Hillary Bor 493 U.S. Army U.S. Army A Colorado Springs CO 24 38:09
18. Jeremy Freed 520 Longmont CO 26 38:13
19. Nicholas Hilton 531 Team Run Flagstaff Team Run Flagstaff Flagstaff AZ 24 38:21
20. Stephen Pifer 605 Superior CO 29 38:29
21. Tyler McCandless 556 Team Alchemy Boulder CO 27 38:32
22. Benjamin Payne 569 U.S. Air Force Fort Walton Beach FL 32 38:37
Read more: USATF.TV - Events - USA Cross Country Championships - Official Website
http://www.runnerspace.com/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365#ixzz2tRjdro3X
Thanks
sawthatonecoming wrote:
What's up with Simpson? Was she not going all out? Is this just not her distance? How do you lose with home field advantage, in Boulder, at altitude, as probably the best female distance runner in the USA?
Well, it was light years better than her last xc performance, so there is that.
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Jetset Jezus wrote:
Full results:
http://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?do=view_event&event_id=9&mgroup_id=45365&year=2014
So now we need to go to USATF.tv to dig around to get results? Guys (USATF) the meet website is here
http://www.usatf.org/Events---Calendar/2014/USA-Cross-Country-Championships.aspx(right on YOUR website)...PLEASE USE IT and stop making us crawl around in the dark on auxiliary sites like RunnersSpace, USATF.tv, and USARunningCircuit. If you setup a meet website use that as the place to for THE MEET information...it makes life much easier for all of us fans.
Well, Derrick ran away from the field easy but I suppose that was expected given his recent results in Europe and the field he was against. He pretty much just chilled in the pack for about 5 or 6k then decided it was time to roll and cruised away.
Was pretty funny watching some people all meet screaming "Let's go True" at Sean Quigley as he was in the green Saucony outfit that Ben usually wears and I guess people thought they looked the same.
Course itself was honestly very, very tame given the general hilliness of Colorado in general and Boulder especially. The golf course itself has a gentle slope from west to east as the course primarily runs, but we are talking 1-2% here. Other than that it has what could best be described as "undulations", with the biggest one being maybe 6-8 feet high. There was one spot of about 10m of really thick mud (claimed some shoes)and then another 5 or 6 little 5m type patches that were muddy but nothing bad. If you aren't the type of person that gets their rhythm totally interrupted by stuff like that I could honestly see it being a fast course.
renewed marathoner wrote:
how about some patience? a few hours is really no big deal.
Why do we need results ASAP ? Simple , results are done within in 20 minutes at the race site to compile team results and individual age group breakouts.
It s simple task to file those results ( actually seconds ) to connect to a link that all can access.
Its important from a media perspective to let the world know we just had a national cross county championship and maybe , just maybe if filled on time may make the papers the next morning. Miss the deadline for submission you miss the paper. Old news a day later is dead news. The regional aspect impact is significant , those local heroes that finished 25th or 38th get headline coverage in the local paper . No results no coverage.
How should this all happen ? Designate one person as the press lead at the event to coordinate all pre event press and post ,in this case get the results out.
The event management failed as did USATF.