Merrick beat him by 40 seconds 2 years ago. He beat him by 2 seconds last year. Decker is on a steep improvement curve while Merrick hasn't improved in 2 years.
Merrick beat him by 40 seconds 2 years ago. He beat him by 2 seconds last year. Decker is on a steep improvement curve while Merrick hasn't improved in 2 years.
Merrick beat him at state and showed up to state knowing he had stress fracture. Merrick broke 15 4 times last year so your 2 year no improvement don’t hold water. Obvious now you don’t pay attention
Check their track times. Merrick had been running about the same times for 3 years while Decker is on a steep improvement curve. These are just facts. It shouldn't upset you.
I’m not putting much faith in the 2.5k splits being accurate.
Not saying they were but I was there, the fade happened but it’s early in season. First mile was in roughly 4:45
Perfect - if the first mile was 4:45, then Nauman and Dunham would both have had to have run 4:33 pace from the mile split to the “2.5k” split in order for that split to be accurate. That seems highly unlikely, and it’s much more reasonable that the “first 2.5k” split was like 2.43k and the second ~2.57k. They slowed down in the second half, but not so dramatically (for Nauman, at least).
agree. lets keep the name calling and juvenile comments out of this thread. how about any early results that surprised anyone? It seems like a lot of the top runners and teams sat out the first meets, at least in 4A. How about Lili Denton running 17:09 already? I think that was a little over 40 seconds faster than her last years time at the same course
Lili Denton's time is impressive. I don't want to take away from the fact that she is a super talented, incredible runner. However, that Glenwood course is almost entirely downhill and it's only 3 miles as opposed to 5K. Still impressive, obviously. Just wanted to add some context.
Lili Denton's time is impressive. I don't want to take away from the fact that she is a super talented, incredible runner. However, that Glenwood course is almost entirely downhill and it's only 3 miles as opposed to 5K. Still impressive, obviously. Just wanted to add some context.
This statement is unfortunately true for far too many Iowa "5K" courses which is why most people in the Heartland don't take the Iowa times seriously. We see Iowa runners with all these great times and then when they come up to NXR They rarely qualify for NXN.
A perfect example of this is Keegan Decker's recent race. He ran a 14:47 but only got a speed rating of 179 due to how easy the course is, while Sean Fries ran a time of 14:56 at the St Olaf Classic and received a speed rating of 195. A time of 15:47 at St Olaf earned a speed rating of 178.
I am not saying Iowa runners aren't good, they have some very talented runners, I am just saying Iowa has too many easy courses that distort 5K times and make them tough to compare.
Lili Denton's time is impressive. I don't want to take away from the fact that she is a super talented, incredible runner. However, that Glenwood course is almost entirely downhill and it's only 3 miles as opposed to 5K. Still impressive, obviously. Just wanted to add some context.
This statement is unfortunately true for far too many Iowa "5K" courses which is why most people in the Heartland don't take the Iowa times seriously. We see Iowa runners with all these great times and then when they come up to NXR They rarely qualify for NXN.
A perfect example of this is Keegan Decker's recent race. He ran a 14:47 but only got a speed rating of 179 due to how easy the course is, while Sean Fries ran a time of 14:56 at the St Olaf Classic and received a speed rating of 195. A time of 15:47 at St Olaf earned a speed rating of 178.
I am not saying Iowa runners aren't good, they have some very talented runners, I am just saying Iowa has too many easy courses that distort 5K times and make them tough to compare.
The 14:47 was also well known to be 2.99 miles, course could do a little better to get to 3.1 at least!