It was refreshing to watch the post-race interview. All 4 athletes had clean faces and clean hair and normal haircuts and no weird beards. All 4 of them were articulate and gave each other lots of credit.
None of them mentioned God, or whooped it up, or degraded the competition. Uncommon class for four 18-year-olds from Ohio. Well done guys.
I was there. I was on the backstretch at that time and could only see the homestretch on the video board. We never saw the winner coming--he only came into frame on the video board at the very last step. That's one of the better races I've seen in 30+ years at the state meet; I remember Chris Nelloms splitting 44.8 one year and still coming up one step short of the win.
Anybody see Annie Heffernan from Cincinnati St. Ursula? She won the distance double in 4:48.39/10:38.04 which was good, but the way she did it was just nuts. She ran with the pack for 6 laps in the 3200, then put 120 meters on the field over the last two laps.
Splits:
1:16.749/1:26.768/1:21.256/1:25.771=5:30.54
1:19.946/1:20.556/1:13.470/1:13.517=5:07.50
Last 800 in 2:27, totally alone, and it was hot (well, by Ohio standards at least).
Haile Escobar wrote:
Good lord that is the worst rig I've ever seen at a champs meet!!!! Had her in 27?/60/75.
A must watch.
don't forget the girls wrote:This happened the day before in the girls 4 X 800. All three teams were under the old state record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dLlGT-Whog
Wow, her wheels just about fell off! It looked like she had a 6 or 7 second lead with 100m to go and she barely made it across the finish line in second.
Awesome video, thanks for posting.
oh man I felt her pain
Double_Dog wrote:
Haile Escobar wrote:Good lord that is the worst rig I've ever seen at a champs meet!!!! Had her in 27?/60/75.
A must watch.
Wow, her wheels just about fell off! It looked like she had a 6 or 7 second lead with 100m to go and she barely made it across the finish line in second.
Also look at how spread out the 8 teams were at the last exchange and then all 8 teams finished fairly close together in the end.
This is why I had the habit of looking back when I was in high school. I always went out pretty hard over lap two and would look back once in a while. My worst fear was hitting the wall early like this and getting walked down by everyone who didn't put push a blistering pace. If she had glanced back a couple of times over the last 200 she would've known to take her foot off the gas just slightly to get to the line in one piece. Racing 101