Track Town SS - Live Thread

Impressive runs by Colby Alexander and David Torrence. I can't believe Blankenship's PR was just 3:35 high before today, but good to see him lower that by a few tenths tonight. Andrews looked toast. Our crop of 1500m runners looks pretty awful at this point.

ou/yvv wrote:

wowzers wrote:

You must think track is really boring, rojo. So boring that you can't imagine anyone wanting to go to a whopping 4 meets in a year. Craziness!

Well, many people struggle to afford a ticket for one event, let alone four, so Rojo has a point.

Tickets were 10 buck. 5 for kids.

That 1500 was actually really good. Jenkins should get a lot of credit for going with the rabbit

queen gyms wrote:

nice run by merber

wtf is andrews doing

I was really rooting for Jenkins to do well stepping down in distance. But he just doesn't have the wheels for the 1500. Also, he is really handsome :)

Lost my sh!t at alexander's sarcastic post-race interview. Half expected him to give a shoutout to Dasani.

vamp wrote:

my god.......... ill be surprised if that interview doesn't end up on /r/cringe.......

for what exactly?

vamp wrote:

my god.......... ill be surprised if that interview doesn't end up on /r/cringe.......

This is for youuuuuuuuu, San Francisco.

AW Pharmacy wrote:

The interviewer is ex-Duck 3 sport athlete Jordan Kent

Any relation to Kent Brockman, the "Springfield News" anchor?

Flo'da boy wrote:

That 1500 was actually really good. Jenkins should get a lot of credit for going with the rabbit

For real. Dude held on for much longer than I thought he could. 3:35 high is really respectable for a guy like him.

WTF?

COLBY MF ALexander.

So all spring, no one in the US could run 3:36.20. Now everyone does it. And Alexander - a guy who couldn't even make NCAAs as a senior last year - has a 3:34 pb?

My God, his PR is almost better than Robby andrews. It's 3:34.88 versus 334.78. Robby's PR is form 4 years ago. Robby blew it in this one. If he'd gone out faster, he could have won this thing and PRd. INstead, he had too much ground to make up and died in the last 100.

Place Athlete Affiliation Time

1 Colby Alexander San Francisco 3:34.88

2 David Torrence Peru 3:34.95

3 Ben Blankenship Philadelphia 3:35.02

4 Kyle Merber Portland 3:35.83

5 Eric Jenkins New York 3:35.94

6 Johnny Gregorek New York 3:36.04

7 Robby Andrews San Francisco 3:37.19

8 Ryan Hill Portland 3:40.19

9 Eric Avila Philadelphia 3:45.90

Edward Kemboi Unattached DNF

A bunch of guys just got the standard for Worlds next year.

How are we not talking about how bad RYAN HILL was? He finished like 6 seconds behind the leaders.

That's raciss wrote:

rojo wrote:

OK I just started watching. WHose the black dude doing the interviews. He's asked the same question on 2 straight interviews. What does it mean to compete in the US? Has he been asking that of everyone?

Why do you qualify him as "the black dude" doing interviews? He's the only guy doing interviews. Just say "whose the dude doing interviews"?

rojo sez: us had lots o them theyre black dudes choppin cottin down on us pappies plantation. WHose they be? they be the propertie of I and my bruther soon enuf akordin to that their will

Sub 336 is no joke for jenkins, 3 second PR for him. I think that is the first domestic race where I have seen andrews get sent backwards in the last 100m, very weird to see. That would concern me more than centro.

Have to say also, that was pretty damn good rabbiting by Kemboi.

Kiplacat wrote:

1st, and hopefully last Track Town Summer Series.

This was the "preview" edition.

Not a bad group of athletes and performances.

3 women under 2:00 in the 800.

Smokin hot Men's 1500. PR's abound.

Nice cash prizes for athletes, appearance fees, team bonus's for team win.

The "Series" starts next year, 2017.

And yet some people have to just bitchbitchbitch.

info pls wrote:

How are we not talking about how bad RYAN HILL was? He finished like 6 seconds behind the leaders.

Dude just ran 3:35 in Europe. Do you think all these athletes are bs'ing when they say there is an advantage to staying in the States and avoiding jet lag, etc?

AW Pharmacy wrote:

Centro beats decathlete Beach by about a second. He did not look good.

Sure, but he beat 800 specialists Casimir Loxsom and Brandon Johnson by a second and over. Beating beach is never easy. Beach was an amazing 800 runner in HS despite focusing on decathlon. And then under 1:48 while focusing on everything but the 800 (plus the recent sub-50 in the 400H).

What the heck is this mixed gender relay thing? Too many androgynous names- it's hard to tell which is which

Rockgip wrote:

Impressive runs by Colby Alexander and GUEST. I can't believe Blankenship's PR was just 3:35 high before today, but good to see him lower that by a few tenths tonight. Andrews looked toast. Our crop of 1500m runners looks pretty awful at this point.

Fixed it for you. Swap GUEST with Peru in two weeks.