Amazing: The Vaporfly Controversy Has Come To Cross Country - Vaporfly Wearing Teams Stun Fields at Northeast Regional

No way was the course accurately measured to 10,000m. They literally made it up a day ago.

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

NoWayJose wrote:

No way was the course accurately measured to 10,000m. They literally made it up a day ago.

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

They probably used mapmyrun to measure the course.

NoWayJose wrote:

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

1. Rojo said $3500, not $4000

2. There are 14 runners to buy for, not 7

3. $250 x 14 = $3500 (plus tax)

NoWayJose wrote:

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

2 genders x 7 + 1 alternate x $250 = $4000

I agree the mens' side is more convincing. Still hard to say. I think no way the course is 10K.

We will see at nationals

Possible the teams that shocked you, such as Harvard, train on the road and track more and race bad on grass.

Harambe wrote:

I agree the mens' side is more convincing. Still hard to say. I think no way the course is 10K.

We will see at nationals

If nationals is dry, maybe they keep wearing the Vaporfly Next%s?

FloTrack is an ugly, toxic stain on Collegiate and pro running. A festering cancer that sucks the life out of an already struggling sport. I really, really hope they go away.

rojo wrote:

A few schools were able to drop $3500 on some Vaporflys (or maybe they already had them) and the results were impressive.

At 5% interest, Harvard's endowment grows by $4000 every 30 seconds.

So are we just gonna ignore the rest of the results from this year that indicates that isn’t true? Bar Wisconsin, their results have been pretty good throughout the year. Besides, you could make this argument about other teams from Boston or New York. BU and Columbia ran very poorly compared to their ranking. They both train on roads more than likely. The difference there... those two teams aren’t Nike. You can also maybe factor in Yale for that, but they’re not as much of a city team.

Hate to sound conspiratorial, but the more I look at the men’s the results the more I’m convinced.

Anyone know if the course was short? 57 guys sub 30 is pretty crazy no?

484 omg. Good on ya Huelskamp.

was told by one of my kids that it measured 6.16 in the race.

NoWayJose wrote:

No way was the course accurately measured to 10,000m. They literally made it up a day ago.

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

As a former Dallas city math champion, ye s I'm waell aware that 250 * 7 = 1750 and when you multiply that by 2 you get $3500.

And guess what I wrote?

rojo wrote:

A few schools were able to drop $3500 on some Vaporflys (or maybe they already had them) and the results were impressive.

Since the Brothers Johnson keep complaining about the VaporFly, I decided to buy a pair. PRs here I come!

Dr. Van Nostrand wrote:

FloTrack is an ugly, toxic stain on Collegiate and pro running. A festering cancer that sucks the life out of an already struggling sport. I really, really hope they go away.

Anyone know how often they've butchered the results?

In 2016, we wrote this:

LetsRun.com wrote:

For those of you not paying close attention, there is an update. Flotrack for the 2nd year in a row has butchered the predictions and now is saying that our predictions are correct.

History repeats itself.

Maybe we should start charging $150 for our predictions.

So we know it's at least 3 times in 5 years.

2015- Flotrack gets it wrong. LRC is correct.

2016 - Flotrack gets it wrong. LRC is correct.

2017 - ?

2018 - ?

2019 - Flotrack gets it wrong. LRC is correct.

Anyone remember if they got it right in 2017 or 2018?

back in my university days we were sponsored by adidas. There would have been no way I would have shown up to that road race without the vapor's. The only problem is that as a half starving partial scholarship athlete there is probably no way I could have afforded $250. Strange times that one shoe company has such a strangle hold on almost everyone who is trying to achieve the goals that they set in this sport.

rojo wrote:

NoWayJose wrote:

No way was the course accurately measured to 10,000m. They literally made it up a day ago.

And Rojo is so dumb he doesn’t even know how much Vaporfly’s cost $250 x 7 = $1750 not $4000

As a former Dallas city math champion, ye s I'm waell aware that 250 * 7 = 1750 and when you multiply that by 2 you get $3500.

And guess what I wrote?

rojo wrote:

A few schools were able to drop $3500 on some Vaporflys (or maybe they already had them) and the results were impressive.

Dallas has a "city math champion" and you were crowned the winner? Did Wejo enter?

This 100%. Any school could've bought their team vaporflys and used a sharpie to cover the logo. It's been done many times before (just google and you'll see tons of pictures). Any school complaining about the result just didn't want to spend the extra $ (which is a very legitimate reason don't get me wrong).