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Are you giving the Robby Andrews PR in seconds or minutes?

Francis ran a smoking 400m leg. She better run the finals in Rio unlike last year.

SF! SF! SF!

;)

Rowbury warming up for a post race workout.

She looks good in yellow.

Cubism Cubed wrote:

Rowbury warming up for a post race workout.

Jim joke wrote:

Men's steeple was awesome. What a race! Always exciting

Since there were multiple posts about how "awesome" the steeple was and no results/times simply listed: here's results:

Place Athlete Affiliation Time

1 Donn Cabral New York 8:20.72

2 Mason Ferlic Portland 8:21.57

3 Andrew Bayer Portland 8:22.79

4 Stanley Kebenei San Francisco 8:39.95

5 Travis Mahoney Philadelphia 8:40.40

6 Donnie Cowart Philadelphia 8:52.78

7 Craig Forys New York 9:03.07

Tripp Hurt Unattached DNF

Great running up front. Ferlic punches his ticket into the true Pro ranks. It'd be great to see him and Bayer and Cabral run consistently into the mid/low teens.

That was an enjoyable event. I think ESPN deserves a lot of credit for televising a track meet the right way. They completely upstaged NBC, despite having vastly less experience filming these types of events. It was great to watch a race in its entirety without a commercial. It was great to get split screen coverage of multiple events. It was great that they showed off some of T&F's most likable athletes in prime time. And it was great to be able to see some fast times domestically.

I'm looking forward to seeing if they can build on this next year. There is certainly room for improvement, - matching jerseys, better location, more cohesive teams - but I think today's meet laid a solid foundation and treated track fans to some above-average Friday night entertainment.

I was blown away by the fact that ESPN successfully used a split screen to showcase two events simultaneously.

I agree it was a good event. The quality of the fields was good, and the racing was excellent. I was surprised at the lack of attendance. I'm guessing there was about 1,000 in attendance. Pretty surprising for this caliber of an event in Eugene - and tickets were only $10.

Rockgip wrote:

That was an enjoyable event. I think ESPN deserves a lot of credit for televising a track meet the right way. They completely upstaged NBC, despite having vastly less experience filming these types of events. It was great to watch a race in its entirety without a commercial. It was great to get split screen coverage of multiple events. It was great that they showed off some of T&F's most likable athletes in prime time. And it was great to be able to see some fast times domestically.

I'm looking forward to seeing if they can build on this next year. There is certainly room for improvement, - matching jerseys, better location, more cohesive teams - but I think today's meet laid a solid foundation and treated track fans to some above-average Friday night entertainment.

The 900lb Gorilla.

If you held this meet at Stanford, you'd have fewer fans in the stands.

In Sacto, the same deal.

In LA, just like at Mt. Sac, most of the fans are family.

The NY DL, sucks in attendance.

Only purists care about this sport anymore.

So what city are you suggesting that would have any kind of crowd unless it is an Olympic Trials? Or Olympics.

The only thing that could draw a crowd in the USA would be full contact mixed martial arts permitted in race, track and field.

rojo wrote:

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.

Yeah, what just happened?!? This is what makes this sport so much fun. The results of the LetsRun poll had readers picking Robby Andrews winning this thing with 197 votes to 31 for Blankenship and less than 10 votes each for the rest of the competitors.

Alexander winning this race in a totally legit time against a stacked field with 3 of the guys sharpening up for the Games was like a freakin' breath of fresh air!

That was the absolute highlight of the meet!

4x400 Relay - From where I sat near the 1500 start, it looked to me like Lalonde Gordon stepped on his inside lane line a few times and should have resulted in a DQ for Team San Francisco. This was on the 1st leg near the end of the first turn. A DQ would have dropped Team SF from 1st in the overall meet scoring down to 3rd or 4th. But apparently the turn judge was Stevie Wonder.

Sometimes you can observe a lot just by watching.

usnspecialist wrote:

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

If this was a legit dual meet (with 4 teams) there should not be a rabbit.

My Coach Sucks wrote:

usnspecialist wrote:

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

If this was a legit dual meet (with 4 teams) there should not be a rabbit.

Dual meets have only 2 teams. Look up the word dual in a dictionary.

Scored meets with 3 or more teams are not duals, they are triangulars, double duals, or simply scored meets.

mind blowing...

How about an American announcer?

What was it with all the gay pride flags all around the track last night?

My Coach Sucks wrote:

usnspecialist wrote:

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

If this was a legit dual meet (with 4 teams) there should not be a rabbit.

I am sure that was partially a concession to the athletes and their natural desire to run fast times. After all, they are still looking for championship qualifying marks and time bonuses in their contracts. Plus for the casual track fan (which I imagine is a big part of the market they are trying to attract), it always helps to have guys running fast.

Queen Harrison won best butt.