BB is a tough course. Over 5000 feet altitude, rolling hills and a tough uphill just before entering stadium. A net uphill too and plenty of turns.
For context, In my late 40's I ran many times in the 36's and once in the high 35's at BB, compared to one go on a faster sea-level course running 34:15.
Not sure the exact altitude of the race itself but a 28:21 10k at 5430 ft (Boulder altitude) converts to 27:08 at sea level, and that doesn't take account of the hills. He's certainly in sub-27 10k track shape.
Definitely. He ran down a sub 27 guy(and world silver medalist) for the win.
I think Frank Shorter was incorrect in some of his commentary. He stated 4:30 pace was a 29:00 finish time. Then he kept saying the leaders were going even splits at 4:30 pace when it was clearly a positive split effort and they were much faster than 4:30 initially.
I thought his altitude discussion was good. His historical perspective was great (talking about Joe Klecker's elite running parents and comparing Bachelor to that guy who won the A wave). Even though he was off on the race splits -- I appreciated him talking about it in detail (take note Kara Goucher....it's not always about human interest fluff!).
You may be right, but Frank will be 78 on Halloween so please cut the guy some slack
I'd take him over Karen "talk about myself" Goucher all day long.
Nah, he chose to be on a hot mic in front of a camera. He's never saying no to getting that kind of attention. He could choose to have some dignity and step back when he's clearly just prattling away. He talks about himself just as much as Kara, and he says a lot of goofy, ridiculously untrue things. Of course, he's got close association with the race and town so they'll keep rolling him out there so long as he has a pulse. To be fair, Culpepper said a lot of ridiculous things on the broadcast, too.
Miles 4 and 5 are the too fastest miles on the course. Both with a very even downhill grade of about 1% with few turns. BB is a natural negative split course other than the last hill before entering the stadium.
Add Boulder Bolder to the (sadly long) list of race websites that doesn't provide useful info at the forefront - their results are limited to 25 ppl per page and don't include overall place or gender place (or age group place, for the multitudes of people who care about that as well). /Rant.
Anyway I found a couple interesting names deeper in the results:
Robert Andrews 34 M, Bib A337, Boulder, CO Pace5:25 Time33:38
Sara Vaughn 39 F, Bib A452, Boulder, CO Pace5:36 Time34:43
Add Boulder Bolder to the (sadly long) list of race websites that doesn't provide useful info at the forefront - their results are limited to 25 ppl per page and don't include overall place or gender place (or age group place, for the multitudes of people who care about that as well). /Rant.
Anyway I found a couple interesting names deeper in the results:
Robert Andrews 34 M, Bib A337, Boulder, CO Pace5:25 Time33:38
Sara Vaughn 39 F, Bib A452, Boulder, CO Pace5:36 Time34:43
