Let's talk Ohio HS XC

Sorry, BEAR attack prediction.

Speed ratings have been a thing for a while now but I really don't much about them. How do they work, exactly? Is course difficulty taken into account similar to what milepsplit tried to do with course ratings?

In one instance I noticed that Lakota West sophomoreEvelyn Prodoehl is in the speed ratings with a 18:21.9 that she ran at the Obetz early season OHSAA meet. She ran a 17:57 a week later at VOA park in West Chester. While neither course could ever be called "difficult," Obetz is not appreciably more difficult than VOA so I don't understand her have a spped rating there with no mention of the VOA time.

I'm sure that there are other instances of this but I haven't really taken the time to scour the data.

Oh...was that when the crazy guy released wild animals, like monkeys, tigers, bears, etc, around the course? I think I remember hearing something about that.

Centerville, Coffman, and Davidson boys are all at the MSU Spartan Invitational today

my.raceresult.com

MSU Spartan Invitational 2022, 09/16/2022 : : my.race|result

MSU Spartan Invitational 2022, 09/16/2022, East Lansing, MI

Link:my.raceresult.com/219154/participants

Watkins is basically the same course it had been for years. It is the correct distance.

Davidson 2nd, Coffman 6th, Centerville 8th at MSU Spartan

Ackley with another super impressive win. 14:56.

Davidson girls 1st, Centerville 6th, Coffman 14th at MSU.

Mason, Davidson, and Perrysburg all seem to be clearly the best in the state for the girls.

For the boys after # 1 Mason it is a bit of a toss up. Even though they were 2nd today, Davidson seems to be a bit suspect at 4 through 7.

3 through 7 actually

I expected their #3 to be doing much better based on his 9:45 in the 3200.
And yeah, 4 and 5 is where it’s been a problem for them all season

St. X didn’t run their whole team at Trinity. Would have been interesting to see how they would have matched up with Mason if they did, it looks like they might have a solid #3 and Mason doesn’t look as strong at the 4-5 spots as I expected. One of their returners from last year didn’t even score. I might need to change my ID from “race for second” to “maybe there’s a chance.”

False.

Where are the Trinity results? I can't find them and not yet posted on milsplit. If anyone has a link, please post it. Thanks

Never mind, I found them. Impressive showing from Mason

Mason has their #5 in before Louisville St X had their #2 in. At least I think that is Louisville St X & not Cincy St X. They really should specify that in the results.

Next year mason brings back:
15:35
16:03
16:11
16:17
16:34

Hopefully mason’s Neuberger comes back. They could challenge for an NXN berth if he comes back. Although Center Grove is starting to figure things out. but today CG barely beat a team from Indiana that’s not Carmel

Mason was also missing markich who ran a sub 16 last year.

so now they are at 5 guys on the team this year who had already broken 16 in the 5K.

With him and Neuberger out, and putting out a performance like this, it shows how deep they are