Truly amazing: 25 laps wasn't enough to decide SEC 10k, the race was 28 laps long!!

This year's MAC womens 10k got about 6 laps done when it was stopped for lightning. No lights at the track, so both womens and men's 10k got rescheduled for the next morning. AFAIK, only one athlete ended up doubling morning 10k/evening steeple...he scored in both but looked awfully tired.

The 2015 Mallory Elementary School (Norfolk, VA) Fun Run, first grade division. The lead bike mistakenly took the runners on the second grade and over route, a much longer route. About half the kids knew to take the correct route but all the leaders went with the bike. Well, I'd have hated to been that RD. She got it from both sides. Parents pissed that their kid lost out on a medal and then after deciding on re-running the race, parents pissed that their kid had to run a second race. That was a tense situation, RD remained remarkably calm in the face of a no-win situation.

Any big pr's? Sometimes a little tempo run before the race preps your system for peek preformance.

When was that?

While Elkaim is now 3 years removed from his 13:39 5000m PR, he did recently run 13:47 and placed eighth at the PAC 12 championship. He also has since run 7:48 for 3000m. Isn't that about 8:21 - 2 for 3200? Assume he would've run 8:40 on that day in high school he would be 20 seconds better today. While he hasn't performed as well as I'm sure he, his coaches or his fans would've wanted him to since high school, he has definitely had some high moments and seems to have a bright future ahead if he continues to train hard. I hope Jeramy chooses to pursue post-collegiate running on the roads as his PRs are much more slanted towards the long distances despite his lackluster XC times. I wonder if he doesn't fall out of shape during the summer or something.

I'm assuming that the 10k (and the steeple from another post) were restarted because the results would not be valid for regional qualifying (no electric timing, steeple barriers not regulation). This would be especially important for a conference meet as its the last opportunity for qualifying for regionals (not like theres ever a good chance at the race going fast enough at a conference 10k).

awad nation wrote:

While Elkaim is now 3 years removed from his 13:39 5000m PR, he did recently run 13:47 and placed eighth at the PAC 12 championship. He also has since run 7:48 for 3000m. Isn't that about 8:21 - 2 for 3200? Assume he would've run 8:40 on that day in high school he would be 20 seconds better today. While he hasn't performed as well as I'm sure he, his coaches or his fans would've wanted him to since high school, he has definitely had some high moments and seems to have a bright future ahead if he continues to train hard. I hope Jeramy chooses to pursue post-collegiate running on the roads as his PRs are much more slanted towards the long distances despite his lackluster XC times. I wonder if he doesn't fall out of shape during the summer or something.

Elkaim wasn't running anywhere near 8:40 that night. He dropped off the pace set by the Rosas in the middle laps, and was fading badly. When the race was forcibly stopped with a lap to go (400, not 600 as stated before), he collapsed on the track with heat exhaustion.

The multiple stupidities committed by the NJSIAA officials began with their idiotic refusal to postpone the meet when the forecast for that day said 100 degrees and likely severe thunderstorms in the later afternoon.

Even after the storm front came through, it was still in the high 80s and humid as hell when they started the race.

While Elkaim did NOT handle the heat well at all that day, the Rosas were incredible.

Joe came through 7 in ~7:37, and looked like he had a lot left.

Looked to me like he had a real shot to crack 8:40, and shatter the state record in the process.

Jim had fallen off Joe's blistering pace in the last lap, and was fading a bit.

I thought he probably would've ended up more like 8:50 --still a stunning accomplishment in those conditions.

Morgan Pearson, totally overlooked in that race, also ran brilliantly in brutal conditions, shadowing the Rosas for almost 6 laps.

He had dropped a little off of Jim, but still had a shot to crack 9 minutes.

Elkaim did run 8:46 the year before, as a junior --the same month the Rosas ran 8:44/8:51 at NBN, while blistering Verzbicas.

The distance talent that came out of NJ in '11 was ridiculous.

Pearson is a hell of a runner, and he was the FOURTH best guy in the state, and by some margin.

Rosa, Rosa, and Elkaim ALL would've been 13:20 guys in college if they'd been able to stay reasonably healthy for more than a few months at a time.

Very sad that none of those guys have really had a chance to show what they can do.

Here's hoping they still do, before they have to give it up.

Old Oregonian wrote:

In other news, the 800s at the Big Ten meet were invalidated because they ran nine athletes on a eight-lane track!

Austin Mudd is still listed on the accepted entries so doesn't look like this is true.

Anonymous volunteer wrote:

The 2015 Mallory Elementary School (Norfolk, VA) Fun Run, first grade division. The lead bike mistakenly took the runners on the second grade and over route, a much longer route. About half the kids knew to take the correct route but all the leaders went with the bike. Well, I'd have hated to been that RD. She got it from both sides. Parents pissed that their kid lost out on a medal and then after deciding on re-running the race, parents pissed that their kid had to run a second race. That was a tense situation, RD remained remarkably calm in the face of a no-win situation.

I remember seeing that on TV.

Very misleading title

macdaddy wrote:

Very misleading title

+1

Either deliberate for click bate purposes or the OP possesses a double digit IQ. Probably both.

2000 Sun Belt Conference Women's 1500m Finals, the timing wire that was run over the track at the finish line came down after 700m of running, clothes-lining the lead pack. They stopped the race and started it over again. A bit of an ouch, as 1500m effort is a bit more of an effort than 10,000m pace.

Lopps wrote:

Race stopped because it was too dark without the lights.

Humans can see in the dark.

Tuscaloosa has a history of not being prepared for adverse conditions. 2015 at the Alabama relays the power blinked at the start of the womens 1500, there was a lot of confusion and finally stopped the women about 400 metres in. 2016 was scheduled to be a very rainy and stormy first day for that meet,nothing was said by the officials so me and some of my buddies drive ourselves down there about three hours and they decide to cancel the first day of the meet, completely cancelling the 5000 from the entire meet in which we were supposed to compete. Being extremely pissed I tempo'd ten miles around Tuscaloosa. Sorry to get off on a tangent but this brought up memories of that.

Wasn't there a D1 XC Regional Meet that was stopped far into the race (like 8k) because of lighting or some other reason, and they had to restart the entire race? I believe this happened a couple years ago. D1 West or midwest?

I was at that race. It was called due to lightening at 2600M. Elkaim was not that close--maybe 10-13 sec off Joe Rosa. Joe Rosa was in the lead 5+ seconds ahead of Jim Rosa, and started running real hard at 2600 when he seemingly found out it was being stopped--he went through 2800M in 7:38-7:39. That was after pushing from 2600 to 2800. He would have probably run 8:42 or so. Probably would have gotten the NJ State Record which was 8:44 (he has it). Elkaim is in 5th year at Oregon just ran 13:57 5K and was not in the top 10 in his heat last week.

Although I wasn't stopped at any point in the race, I ran about 7.5 miles for an NCAA XC 10k regional qualifier. About the top 60 finishers in the D2 race at Belmont Plateau were directed to complete an extra 1.3 mile loop.

A year after the N.J. fiasco the same meet was cancelled due to lightning after half of the first running event (the girls 400 hurdles). Everyone was ordered to depart from the stadium. The sun came out minutes later. People using their smart phones reported no storms in the area. I don't think there was any bad weather the rest of the evening. The meet director had been pilloried the year before, so he didn't take any chances. Everyone had to come back early the next week as there were proms the next evening.

Haz Bin wrote:

This reminds me of that DII XC regional meet where the leaders took a wrong turn around 4 miles, and the entire race was stopped and rerun. That would've sucked!

That was in San Diego in 2008. Scott Bauhs and the Kenyans from Alaska followed the cyclist. A kid from Hawaii Hilo and myself turned the correct way while arguing with volunteers. This happened about 1.75 miles in. We were in about 30th-40th place at this point. Opening mile was 4:50 fpr leaders. I was at 5:04. We led for about a mile before the leaders caught back up, and the Kenyans threw elbows pretty good. The race got stopped at the 6k mark. Women started on time and once all the women were done we restarted. Times were about 2 minutes slower than pre race estimates. It was hotter than hell at that point too. A formal complain to the NCAA got ignored, as I should have been going to NCAAs. KNOW THE COURSE. It was the most confusing course ever too!

That was the same school year our GNAC outdoor track meet got cancelled because of possible swine flu. Was food poisoning from old chinese food. I would've ran 32:00ish for the 10k!