I think that the times this year from Eastbay were much slower then what the athletes participating could have actually run. RIley Hough had run 18 races this season and had just competed in a national championship a week prior. Hough beat Ritzhein's course record at Portgage earlier this season showing that he is an all time great runner. I think that the post comparing the running lane times to the Eastbay times is off by a large margin especially where it say that Methner would beat the Newbury Park team. Methner lost to Nico by a large margin at NXN. and the Newbury Park team ran similar if not faster times then NIco all year. Their was also the post saying that Runninglane was 2.93 miles, when every athlete who ran runninglane gps watches had the distance around 3.1