Fastnbulbous wrote:
Schwocky wrote:Wow, that was an incredible race. Olaf led by 40 or more at one point and started kinda falling apart. Saw several NCC, Olaf and Wash U guys swapping positions the last 100m.
That is simply not true.
Only one St. Olaf runner lost significant ground, #5 man Calvin Lehn, who was reportedly seen sitting out conference wearing a boot. Reporting is so shitty for D3, can anyone say what happened to him? Did he run through an injury at Regions and Nationals in order to help the team? At 6k he was 33rd, and dropped to 65th. Jake Brown slipped only slightly from 6th to 8th and Wintheiser moved up from 4th to 3rd. Brian Saksa stormed from 26th to 17th and Jake Campbell moved up from 33rd to 31st. #6 guy Phillip Meyer moved up from 88th to 75th. North Central's #6 guy was Aron Sebhat in 160th.
Next year St. Olaf only loses one of their top 5 has only Saksa and #7 guy Dillon Davis graduate, while both North Central and Wash U lose 4 of their top 5, and WI-La Crosse loses 3.
C'mon Schwock. How are you going to say your Oles kinda fell apart. I agree with Fastn, they held their ground well.
I can't say what Lehn's injury issues were towards the end of the season, but from watching the race, he and Campbell were running together and at some point late in the race Lehn fell off. He hung on well enough and Saksa and Campbell had great last kilometers to seal the deal.
Glad I was able to watch a replay on the interwebs.