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good lord did burns miscount the laps??

I wasn’t watching the stream. What exactly happened?

He kicked hard on the second to last lap, then had nothing left when he realized he had another lap to go.

kicking VS leo and just stopped at the line full on a lap early, leo nearly ran full force into him

How does that happen? Is there no bell to signal the last lap?

It was actually highly entertaining. At 4k it looked like Burns was going backwards, and it looked like Leo was just barely hanging on the back of the train for most of the race. Then with 600 to go they both suddenly remembered they’re two of the biggest U.S. high school prospects of the past decade and went screaming to the front, kicking hard and gapping the field. I guess the consensus is that Burns miscounted laps and that makes sense; I thought Leo just bumped him by passing on the inside without room, but in either event Burns then shrugged like “WTH?” and slowed almost to a jog. Leo had this wrapped up…until some unattached runner named Oisin O Gailin caught him at the tape to win by .1 seconds.

This reminds me of that 5000m in Lausanne in 2019 where Hagos Gebrhiwet ran like a 54s penultimate lap and thought he had won but he miscounted his laps and then had absolutely nothing left over the actual final 400m.

Respect to all those guys who got lapped for moving to the outside and letting Blanks take the rail for the record.

Wow. I'm not subscribed to Flotrack, but I'd love to see video of this. Hopefully it ends up online somewhere. Maybe nocontext will have it.

Oh, oops.

Ramsden and Maatoug were in a dip finish today just like cross country nationals where Maatoug rallied during the final strides to barely finish one spot ahead of Ramsden.

It's evidence of progress for Maatoug because last year Ramsden was always beating her fairly handily.

Listen: I realize my comment was a little insufferable. However, nocontext does indeed already have that clip posted.

Some of you just don't understand how good Valby is. We were telling you that they didn't have a pacer fast enough and that she wouldn't stay behind them. That was always the plan.

Link??

Second slide. It doesn't show the whole penultimate lap.

I’m the guy that was saying that for Valby to break 15min, the pacer would absolutely need to go through 3600m in 10:45, because I thought 15min would be near the edge of her fitness, and thus an even-split would be the best shot at achieving it.

I also said lapped runners could be a problem if it came down to the wire.

Well Rodenfels did an admirable job, but only went through 3600m in 10:51 (5 seconds faster than last year’s pacing). However, you know the story by now; quite surprising to me, Valby kicked the last 1000m solo in 2:53!

Many of the posters couldn't understand that Valby woukd refuse to stay with pacers at 15:12 pace. Read the silly comments. This worked out great but I think she would have run even faster if all alone. She kept coming up her shoulder. If alone, she would have pushed to a 14:49.

She maxed out.

The plan to go with a second independent pacer was pre-approved by her coach.

I suspected the possibility of this happening (“an alternative plan”) after I saw the called-for pace had been changed from 15:12 to 15:15-18.