Muddy, but way better course than Portland Meadows was. Very good course for nationals. How many World XC races have been similarly muddy.
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2016 NXN RESULTS: 2016 Nike Cross Nationals Race Results
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NXN 2016 Predictions – Official 2016 NXN Discussion Thread
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Holy crap!! wrote:
105 points for Bozeman... damn those guys closed great!!! One of the lowest winning scores ever, on the boys side.
told you so. told you all so.
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4 of top 10 boys from Texas
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Oh, so you are watching.
You said it's not a real championship and it's just high school so who would care anyways.
And true, I have enough fat going for both of us since I stopped running after world cross championships, which I won by the way.
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Does she still have the head wobble?
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qwe wrote:
DJ all the way wrote:
Principe. 15:18 solo, on a wet course at Bowdoin, is ridiculously good.
Ridiculously good, I agree, he would've won if nationals were that day at Bowdoin. But they weren't. Given it is only one week later, he could take a little step back in performance. His mind will certainly be there, though, and I think if he's physically ready he's the one to beat.
Good call on DJ having a bit of a letdown. That was one helluva race he ran last weekend & gotta be tough to recover from physically at the end of a long season
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Brianruns10 wrote:
highkeyMNfan wrote:
With NXN right around the corner, who are your picks to win??
Here are mine
Girls Individual:
Brie Oakley looks like the clear favorite, she's smashed the field in every single race. Plus I hear it's only her second year running. Crazy stuff.
Kate Murphy looks solid after struggles in cross in previous years, and her track speed is unmatched.
My dark horse is Molly Born out of Heartland. She ran 16:49, but is still flying pretty much under the radar coming from Kansas. Yes, it's a really fast course, but that time is almost 20 seconds faster than the Hasz twins meet record, and they would go on to get 5th and 9th at NXN in 2014.
1. Oakley
2. Born
3. Murphy
Thoughts?
Look, full disclosure, I'm an SMNW alum so of course I'm rooting for Molly. But I've also done a lot of statistical runs of the various competitors in the race, and I do agree that Molly is really underrated. She's been running great all season, and has had three great weeks of prep between her qualifier and now.
Two others I'd watch out for are Gregory and Schadler, who have both run very similar track and cross times to Molly. And all three are ranked rather low by Dye and Flo which boggles my mind. I would wager a month's salary that one of the three will crack into the top three. And I hope, believe it will be Molly.
And as for the Heartland course, it may have been fast when compared to the old Nike Cross Course, but compared the new one I've found that based on the performances of its qualifiers next to Nationals, they've actually run very close times. I think on average they were 3 seconds slower at Nationals. So needless to say I think Molly's 16:49 is HIGHLY indicative of what she can do at Nationals, and given her training, she's going to surprise a lot of folks.
Good call on Schadler, top 3 with Gregory not too far behind
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Stream wrote:
If you video is skipping, they added a new link:
http://cdn.runnerspace.com/nxnlive2.htmlThis link saved a lot of us from getting motion sickness today, thank you.
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Butt-hurt Californian wrote:
Ping's success is only because her coach had access to her as a 4th-grader.
I've had access to my daughter since she was one (adopted) & she's now in 7th grade & can only run a 23 min. 5K. I think Ping's success is due to more than this.
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Kate Murphy: 33rd, not even the first Murphy. Muddy courses like this are the bane of milers and a gift for a turbo-shuffler like Oakley.
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Oakley is going to be insane next year with more training under her belt and an increase in intensity. If Rainsberger got 4th at NCAAs this year and Oakley's been destroying her times, who knows what she can do next year.
She is going to CAL Berkeley where all runners go to run like crap after ffeshman year.
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7911783&page=5#ixzz4RpvGXhFt
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Sadly for you you're wrong, the rules for regionals say you have to be a teenager, she pushed zero rules
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