Woodbridge is not a full 3 mile bruh

not sure if you're trolling or not but a simple cross reference of the guys in that range shows what you say is beyond wrong. Please educate yourself.

I am not trolling. A 14:00 3 mile is a 14:30 5k on road/light grass, and despite what people say there are turns a bumps. You really think a 14:30 5k on road/grass is not equivalent to a 8:50-8:55 3200?

even further evidence if you go back to last year's arcadia 3200. Most of the runners in that race were at Woodbridge. Despite it being a season later, and maybe they improved a bit. You can still see that the talent was there for all those sub 9s

thats exactly what I'm saying, these guys are not peaking for this meet. Think of this like a soccer match, woodbridge is a friendly, a exhibition match - so to speak. Now, do you think Chelsea is going to play Cole Palmer or are they going to resort to the likes of Danny Drinkwater. If you're in the seen enough you'd know that NXN and state is where these coaches place the emphasis. Please educate yourself

If Runninglane wasn't short, why did they make it longer?

I second that: I helped out on Thursday to set up and I saw three OC school coaches with a wheel going forward and backward in the afternoon and morning. The one thing about Woodbridge and Arcardia is that with the high level of competitors everyone tend to push even harder such that even the competitors themselves are surprised at the time. If we had stuck with the logic that the times are only possible if the course was short then we would not be seeing 2:01 marathons. That is the beauty of human performance in that where the mind go the body follows (and the record falls).

Powell also didn't have the super shoes...

You don't see guys negative splitting much in cross-country, especially at the pace they were already at. Let's say this race was on the track, do you know how many guys would be sub 14:30 for a 5k? At first I was cautious, but now I definitely believe the course was short by 15-20 seconds.

whatever people who are not there and don't have runners on the course say this every year. Just wait until track season and see what they run. Especially powell and tostenson

The course is short. The biggest problems is the race director changes the course and location constantly. You can’t even compare year to year and forget about time. Even the Newbury Park coach said the course wasn’t legit when his guys went 1,2,3,4 and destroyed everyone. Probably why those guys ran it in 2021 and not 2022.

If the race is short, why has there be no physical evidence of this? Prove it. Do you have any idea how many different people went out there to measure the course? Wheel and watch?

Some people have it as 2.98/2.99 on Strava.

And some people have it as 3.02 or 3.06. Does that prove its long?

In 2023, Elizabeth Leachman ran Woodbridge in 15:33, which she followed up this past spring on the track with a 15:25 5k. Does this mean we might see Rylee Blade (15:20 at Woodbridge) break 15:15 in a track 5k next year?😮

Stay tuned.😍

I saw someone post this on another thread but you can submit your woodbridge 2 mile splits to hoka festival of miles. Menlo #8 team overall at woodbridge submited theirs and are now #3 in the national at Hoka Festival of miles 2 mile competition

no, your logic is so ill it worries me that people think like this

Hard for me to believe this is a legit 3-mile despite coaches measuring all up and down the course. Just look at the times of some of the backend SLC kids put up and go look at their 5k times on a flat, fast SL course.

That being said, the race is a great competition all in itself. When you get so many great runners in one place and go fast it can be fun... the fact Powell and Tostenson were 11 seconds faster than Leonard was impressive

Everyone knows the Arcadia Track is Down Hill!!!

Regardless of whether the course is “too short” or “too long”, everyone in the same race is running the same course