USATF Indoors Live Thread - Saturday

wejo wrote:

row row rowbury your boat wrote:

Rojo, which employees are with you?! You are doing some amazing live coverage while contributing to the LRC discussion boards. This is how the internet was designed to be used.

I think it really is what employees are not with you. I'm on my couch in Ft. Worth. Jon Gault is there with Robert.

Lol, are you feeling at all left out? At least there isn't 20 feet of snow outside your door.

Running 8 months pregnant. It's a good story.

What else do you want them to talk about? It's a prelim of the 600.

Can't believe Montano doesn't have a baby sponsor. Who is her agent?

The Uceny post-race video is now up:

http://youtu.be/OEycc3bwFOk

Here is Jordan Hasay. She joked that she'd like to see the milers race here in a 10,000:

http://youtu.be/1_A_eXlr9xQ

A disgrace they don't allow us to watch the action outside of the U.S., the effing backwards states

rojo wrote:

The Uceny post-race video is now up:

http://youtu.be/OEycc3bwFOk

Some fairly good insight on Uceny's exploits of late. She has to be one of the most heartbreaking stories in T&F, fan or not. Top of the world for 2 years and falls in both major championships when it really is difficult to argue how she would have been beaten any other way. It's no surprise she really wants to prove herself by getting back to that level and accomplishing what her fitness was capable of then.

Angry european wrote:

A disgrace they don't allow us to watch the action outside of the U.S., the effing backwards states

Does that USATF.TV link for you?

It's just like the EPL. The British links don't work for us. We have to use the US official links or resort to the unauthorized streams

Cas Loxom is disgustingly attractive.

I was impressed with Brycen Spratling in heat 1. I figured the 400/500 guy would take it out and try and hang on. He did the opposite and blasted it from behind. His time 1:17.17 was faster than Erik Sowinski's 1:17.33 that won heat 2.

Loxsom however is the man to beat. His 1:16.26 was fastest of the day and he is the AR holder.

Lewis Johnson just moved up the announcer rankings asking Hollis Conway, "Was that a real clap or a fake clap?" talking about when he was clapping as Erik Kynard tried to break his AR.

Wieczorek 2nd fastest time of day in final heat of 600.

epl wrote:

Angry european wrote:

A disgrace they don't allow us to watch the action outside of the U.S., the effing backwards states

Does that USATF.TV link for you?

It's just like the EPL. The British links don't work for us. We have to use the US official links or resort to the unauthorized streams

Nope, it did not work.

And it's nothing like the 'E' PL, that's because someone bought the rights to broadcast it in the US, I can assure you no European TV network has bought the TV rights to the US indoor athletics champs!!

A white guy with rubber bands beneath his knees just won heat 1 of the 300 wearing Brooks.

row row rowbury your boat wrote:

Rojo, which employees are with you?! You are doing some amazing live coverage while contributing to the LRC discussion boards. This is how the internet was designed to be used.

Thank you. It's all me.

No, Jon Gault and I are doing the interviews. My tmobile internet saved the day as the WIFI here sucks.

Men's 2-mile is coming up. Take a look at the letsrun fan polls. The audience is very split. The biggest favorite has less than 30%!

More women's mile interviews:

Mackey post-race after nearly catching Rowbury:

Rowbury after winning:

Women's 600:

Alysia Montano after winning her heat

Ajee Wilson told me she wasn't surprised by Montano's quick return post-pregnancy. She said when she saw Montano run while pregnant at USA that it was clear that Montano really loves the sport:

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nerd_alert wrote:

A white guy with rubber bands beneath his knees just won heat 1 of the 300 wearing Brooks.

What about 41.54 guy, I woulda beat him easy

I guess the meet record is in jeopardy.

They just recapped 2 mile race walk. I told you they were going to run out of stuff to cover!

2 mile up next.

The guy with the bands was William Shell. Former D2 400 guy if I googled the right guy. 46.01 outdoor best. Ran 47.94 this year.

Men's 600 nuggets:

Brycen Spratling surprised everyone by going out slow in his race and moving from 3rd to first with a big move on the backstretch.

He said afterwards he didn't think anyone would outkick him so that's why he used his strategy. He felt like the little distane was a little long for him but is prett confident about the final.

While he looked amazing during the race, he did seem to be hurting a bit after this one, sitting down for a good long while.

http://youtu.be/luuOSOXjPyI

Loxsom loves the 600. Little known fact. Before today, the 600 facility record belonged to Loxsom - he ran 1:18 something at the New England champs in HS. He says he loves the 600 and wanted to keep the facility record which he did (it' snow 1:16.26).

http://youtu.be/flQqVsi8I20

We made a point of catching up with Ryan Martin as he's never really done indoors before. Tilastapaja doesn't even list an 800 indoor pb for him. After running a 1k (2:22) , he wanted to try a 600. While he didn't make the final, he's real happy with his training and hopes to get back to the 1:44 form he showed in 2012 (2013 was awful for him, but he got back to 145 last year).

http://youtu.be/v1aPJACYBQY

Sowinski post-race:

http://youtu.be/p4XCGwCbcjI

If German wins this thing from the front, I'm giving him a black page.

62 and 2:07.6 for 440 and 880.

It's German, Ben, Heath, Jager, Hill, BAA guy, Derrick.

Fernandez still in the lead 3 minutes in. This should be fun