Michigan Pro Ekiden Official Thread/ Predictions- Live 10am Eastern Wed - NAZ Elite vs Hansons vs ATC vs Roots...

Weather apparently knocked out the camera, bummer

Still pleased with the commentary, any long distance race is tough to talk about but without even being able to see the race that is a much bigger challenge

watcher2342 wrote:

exciting event wrote:

Can't complain about a free stream but obviously it would be great to see more. However I think the drone will be fine if the announcers were able to get a little more info to describe what's going on. I think so far they are doing a pretty solid job of talking about the teams and course.

what they really need is one of these:

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/RA6CXC/kanagawa-japan-2nd-jan-2019-naoto-takeishi-january-2-2019-ekiden-the-95th-hakone-ekiden-race-5th-section-in-kanagawa-japan-credit-naoki-nishimuraaflo-sportalamy-live-news-credit-aflo-co-ltdalamy-live-news-RA6CXC.jpg

but yes to be clear, can't complain about the free stream and excited to see this happening

Hopefully this is enough of a success that when we have a return to normalcy this continues to become a bigger event that could take place on the roads with crowds and cameras

For those that know what they are doing this is the direct video link (but there's not much to watch just a lot of Ritz talking)

https://www.facebook.com/video/playback/playlist.m3u8?v=363710271372761

Okay drone video is rather cool and remarkably stable.

But most drones can't stay in the air more than a half hour?

They supposedly had six fixed cameras set up along the course plus a drone. But there was a storm last night and it knocked out the 6 cameras and a drone's battery doesn't last very long plus it's windy.

I don't get why they couldn't manage to get a camera on the lead bike. Seems like they could have at least mounted a phone on there this morning after finding out about the other cameras.

How does rain overnight kill cameras for a race this morning? Did they set them up last night and leave them out in the rain?

rojo wrote:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/10/how-to-watch-michigan-pro-ekiden-streaming-information/

I've been on Letsrun since 2002, visit most days for a peruse and follow HS, NCAA, Pro happenings pretty closely and I honestly only recognize 8 of the names between those racers. Maybe I'm slipping or are these just "free shoes+travel/race entry" type athletes?

NAZ, as expected, takes the early lead.

NAZ is first through the first 2 miles of the women’s 10K(4th leg), followed closely by Hanson.

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how utterly embarrassing it is that Atlanta TC had to resort to recruiting a high schooler to run the men's 5K leg. How poorly run does a professional track club have to be to not have a professional runner capable of competing in that position ?

orsilochus wrote:

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how utterly embarrassing it is that Atlanta TC had to resort to recruiting a high schooler to run the men's 5K leg. How poorly run does a professional track club have to be to not have a professional runner capable of competing in that position ?

Maybe their 5k guy misplaced his fuel belt. Could be a disaster to run out of gels on a course like this

Bo Jackson Baseball wrote:

rojo wrote:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/10/how-to-watch-michigan-pro-ekiden-streaming-information/

I've been on Letsrun since 2002, visit most days for a peruse and follow HS, NCAA, Pro happenings pretty closely and I honestly only recognize 8 of the names between those racers. Maybe I'm slipping or are these just "free shoes+travel/race entry" type athletes?

I readily recognize about half--there are some top runners in there. But also a mix of lesser known runners.

orsilochus wrote:

One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how utterly embarrassing it is that Atlanta TC had to resort to recruiting a high schooler to run the men's 5K leg. How poorly run does a professional track club have to be to not have a professional runner capable of competing in that position ?

"Had to resort to"??....... How about, how awesome is it that the ATC gave one of the best H.S. distance runners an opportunity to race with the pros?

Nick Willis is giving some good updates on his instagram story. Tyler Day split 28:40 for 10k on the first leg which is very impressive IMO

NAZ had an enormous lead 2 miles into the the 5th leg (Scott F). Followed by Hanson’s still.

NAZ drinks Hanson's milkshake.

Great discussion here! Glad to see everyone take a few minutes and talk about something other than alt right conspiracies.

nick willis had some nice footage on his instagram account @willisnick and their are some videos on twitter #michiganproekiden

https://twitter.com/todd1021/status/1318922347693355008

https://www.instagram.com/stories/willisnick/2424981253058348142/

Recap is done:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/10/hoka-naz-elite-wins-inaugural-michigan-pro-ekiden/