What a terrible idea wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:Bates said that the move was planned out beforehand and that her coach told her to run a 68 with a mile to go to break up the field (she actually ran a 66).
The coach lost the race for her.
No way. A couple seconds is huge. Any LRC staff member would agree. Maybe 68 would have worked and 66 would cause a collapse.
Day 3 is about to begin. Men's 1500 final goes off in 15 minues (7:45 pm ET). Who have you got, LRC?
Jonathan Gault wrote:
Day 3 is about to begin. Men's 1500 final goes off in 15 minues (7:45 pm ET). Who have you got, LRC?
Noelle or Williamsz
Dark Horse: Perkins
Big win for Arkansas
I'll take Williamz in the 1500
I want Soratos but I'm gonna say Noelle
not necessarily wrote:
What a terrible idea wrote:The coach lost the race for her.
No way. A couple seconds is huge. Any LRC staff member would agree. Maybe 68 would have worked and 66 would cause a collapse.
She wasn't going to run a 4:32 for 4 laps, so no.
Callahan ftw
In terms of trhe team action, Florida did worse than expected in the 4 x 100 as they were 6th. I think TFN had them getting third but Marquid Dendy put up a massive 57'5" in the TJ - #3 in the world so I think they've got 10 poitns coming there.
There's a pretty cool app to track the team scores here:
http://web.nmsu.edu/~ogden/formtracker/ft-outdoor15.php
In terms of the 1500, I'm going with Williamsz. I didn't really pay attention to Noelle in the heats but if you slay CHes you should be able to slay these guys. That being said, when's the last time a Nova guy won an NCAA title?
Anyone know?
J.R. wrote:
not necessarily wrote:No way. A couple seconds is huge. Any LRC staff member would agree. Maybe 68 would have worked and 66 would cause a collapse.
She wasn't going to run a 4:32 for 4 laps, so no.
The plan wasn't to run 4:32 for the last mile. The plan was to break up the field with a 68 and then settle into a hard, but manageable pace for the final three laps. She wanted to make a hard move to put a shock into the system of Scott and others. That part of it worked; the problem was that she misjudged exactly how hard she was going and wound up blowing up.
Maybe she would have died after a 68 as well but it would have been less likely than dying after a 66.
1500 on the line!
I'm stunned Callaahan is leading. He's a noted kicker. Maybe he's seen Mo Farah control stuff from the front and realizes it's bettewr to kick from the front than the back.
Still slow 63.42. That's a great spot to be for a kicker as long as you don't get stressed out form leading.
When Does Soratos blow this thing open?
was that soratos quote from yesterday a bluff to psych people out or expect him to start fast from the gun?
rojo wrote:
I'm stunned Callaahan is leading. He's a noted kicker. Maybe he's seen Mo Farah control stuff from the front and realizes it's bettewr to kick from the front than the back.
Still slow 63.42. That's a great spot to be for a kicker as long as you don't get stressed out form leading.
When Does Soratos blow this thing open?
well that race kinda sucked
Wow
Perkins would have won that if he had better positioning on the back straight
Good call!!Dewey_Runner wrote:
Jonathan Gault wrote:Day 3 is about to begin. Men's 1500 final goes off in 15 minues (7:45 pm ET). Who have you got, LRC?
Noelle or Williamsz
Dark Horse: Perkins
Noelle wins it.
Big win for Dave Smith's Cowboys.
I had the last 200 in 24.58 leader to leader so he was probably 24.3 or something.
It was all over for Soratos with 500 to go.
steeple next
kmaclam wrote:
Dewey_Runner wrote:Good call!!Noelle or Williamsz
Dark Horse: Perkins
If only I hadn't tacked on Williamsz to my post, then I would have looked REAL clairvoyant.