After watching that, I tend to agree with what others have already said: Valby pressed that to the red-line. She tested herself like she will likely be tested at Nuttycombe.
But now I think Palmer needs to have her pack-run or tempo it at Regionals (one week before Natty’s), or sit her altogether.
After watching that, I tend to agree with what others have already said: Valby pressed that to the red-line. She tested herself like she will likely be tested at Nuttycombe.
But now I think Palmer needs to have her pack-run or tempo it at Regionals (one week before Natty’s), or sit her altogether.
By the latter, I mean she still would do her scheduled workout, but apart from the extra stress/adrenaline of a hard race; she goes hard whenever she toes the line. She feeds off the adrenaline, and now having a solid contending team around her, she wants to pull her load and set an example.
Wow, that is about the most ridiculously biased "race report" I have ever seen. The guy who made it clearly posts here regularly.
Three weeks until Valby produces one of the largest margins of victory ever in the NCAA meet. I wonder what his excuse will be then?
I don’t know about the ‘margin of victory’ part of your post, but yeah, I would not be at all surprised that he’s biased, considering what happened at Nuttycombe and underwhelming his video on it was.
After watching that, I tend to agree with what others have already said: Valby pressed that to the red-line. She tested herself like she will likely be tested at Nuttycombe.
But now I think Palmer needs to have her pack-run or tempo it at Regionals (one week before Natty’s), or sit her altogether.
By the latter, I mean she still would do her scheduled workout, but apart from the extra stress/adrenaline of a hard race; she goes hard whenever she toes the line. She feeds off the adrenaline, and now having a solid contending team around her, she wants to pull her load and set an example.
I'd be surprised if Palmer did not give her the same instructions he gave his AL runners last year.
Watching the race, I'm curious if Doris Lemngole lost track of where she was on the course. She accelerated and even opened a small gap on Valby at 4k, which is where they run across the finish line before heading out for the final 2k loop. Then as soon as they were past the finish line, Valby took over again and dropped her, hard. I'm wondering if Lemngole didn't realize there was another lap to go.
JG, can you contact someone from the AL squad to comment on this? I can't argue that Valby wasn't always going to break her at some point, but It would be interesting to know if Lemngole did indeed "space out" momentarily.
These people who measure these courses - do they have any self-respect where they would want to measure these courses accurately. How can you not measure a Conference championship correctly. Go out there the day before and measure it 4 times. How hard is it?
100% agree.
That’s REALLY obvious mis-measurement.
course was spot on. actually 6010m for women, 8000m for men. Splits were off because there was a hard curse at the top of the 2k loop so they bumped the split mats up about 50m so the athletes wouldnt be turn hard on the mats. Hence: why 3/5/7k splits were much faster than 4/6/8k splits.
course was spot on. actually 6010m for women, 8000m for men. Splits were off because there was a hard curse at the top of the 2k loop so they bumped the split mats up about 50m so the athletes wouldnt be turn hard on the mats. Hence: why 3/5/7k splits were much faster than 4/6/8k splits.
My suggestion would be to label the splits as what they actually are - like they do at Apalachee Park and Stillwater.
course was spot on. actually 6010m for women, 8000m for men. Splits were off because there was a hard curse at the top of the 2k loop so they bumped the split mats up about 50m so the athletes wouldnt be turn hard on the mats. Hence: why 3/5/7k splits were much faster than 4/6/8k splits.
How do you know that? Did they bump all the split mats up or just 3/5/7? A split mat issue woukd make sense....
course was spot on. actually 6010m for women, 8000m for men. Splits were off because there was a hard curse at the top of the 2k loop so they bumped the split mats up about 50m so the athletes wouldnt be turn hard on the mats. Hence: why 3/5/7k splits were much faster than 4/6/8k splits.
How do you know that? Did they bump all the split mats up or just 3/5/7? A split mat issue woukd make sense....
I work for a local high school and helped set it up. Course was very fast - only 1 quick hill, a long downhill section, and several long straight aways. there was only 2 split mats on the course. when they passed by the finish (actual 4k,6k,8k) and another on the other end of the course that they ended up having to set up maybe 50-70m before the actual 3k,5k,7k marks.
I wish you people would stop saying "fast courses". They are "short" courses and they should all be certified otherwise stop talking about the fastest times, lists etc...
I’m still disappointed that there is no free full race replay of this on the interweb. I assume because ESPN has the rights they want money for watching. Disney is anti-family and anti-American by suppressing another magnificent performance by Parker. Obviously, they are not fans of Valbymania.