Tyrone Gorze is going for Chris Derrick's 13:55.96 HS-only 5000 record on Thursday night. Watch it live here at 11:40 pm ET
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My main takeaway is that every HS and college race should have a live chat ticker on the screen with well connected college runners chatting it up.
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Ssssssss wrote:
My main takeaway is that every HS and college race should have a live chat ticker on the screen with well connected college runners chatting it up.
I've yet to encounter one of these chat tickers that weren't completely littered with infantile spam.
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Why during the cross country season?
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Happyguymb1 wrote:
Why during the cross country season?
Why run a short course for a "PR" when you can run a legit one on the track
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kmaclam wrote:
Ssssssss wrote:
My main takeaway is that every HS and college race should have a live chat ticker on the screen with well connected college runners chatting it up.
I've yet to encounter one of these chat tickers that weren't completely littered with infantile spam.
Let me introduce you to the LR forums...
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CArunner12 wrote:
The more I think about it I am not against him taking a crack at seeing how fast he can run a 5000. That's a worthwhile thing for him to go after and if he is in the best shape of his life right now and wants to get after it. I don't mind that at all.
I guess it was the comparison to Chris's 13:55 at Arcadia that bothered me. It just seems like this falls more in line with the 13:50 (?) that Nico Young ran a couple of years back where an entire event was set up just so that one athlete can go after a time. I don't even think that is a bad thing, just a different thing than signing up for a race that already existed and doing your best there.
That being said, I am pretty sure every HS 5000 is contrived to some extent as it isn't a championship distance in US high schools. The 5000 at Arcadia in 2008 may have even been run specifically because Chris wanted to run a 5000 (I don't know that this is true). Additionally, I'll admit that some of my bias towards and reason for mentioning the Chris Derrick 13:55 and the German Fernandez 8:34 is that I ran in both of those races.
At the end of the day I would still enjoy watching Tyrone attempting to run a fast 5000. Best of luck to him tonight.
If I remember right, that was the first year Arcadia ran a 5K, but it was not his request that added it. They also had Brandon Jarrett (east coast kid who I believe was top 10 at FL that fall) in the race.
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He was so so close....
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Bad teammate wrote:
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I really do not think the bulk of the folks could care less about this. HS only? Probably with multiple paces? No One else had those, they had to get their time even in Elite fields in races not set up specifically for them. They were just in races with better older guys.
I agree. Plus this is cross country season. Why isn’t he focused on helping his team win cross country races? Seems selfish and attention-seeking to target an obscure record few people care about right in the middle of cross country season. He could make this attempt when the season is over. Why now? Bad teammate.
It was a team race u clown
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