Jump on the bandwagon now. Parker Valby is officially a SENSATION!!! Should we hand her the NCAA 5000 and 10,000 records now?

18:25 6k

Chelangat 18:33. Amazing times all round.

She's definitely my favorite to win now

Truly psycho. Times in cross dont mean much but if an ncaa women split 15:24 en route in a 6K track race that would imo make her a favorite to win NCAAs in the 5 and 10

Here are PV’s splits:

1k
1
3:09.8
3:09.8

2.12k
1 0
6:42.6
3:32.8

3k
1 0
9:11.8
2:29.2

3.87k
1 0
11:54.5
2:42.7

5k
1 0
15:24.1
3:29.6

Finish
1 0
18:25.9
3:01.8

I think this races proves it’s gonna be a toss up who is the best on the hills in OK.

Mercy was 12 sec behind Tuohy at Joe Piane in a 5k and only 8 seconds behind Valby here in 6k.

Also any info on this course? Are the times typically this fast?

Here are MC’s splits:

1k
2
3:10.2
3:10.2

2.12k
2 0
6:43.0
3:32.8

3k
2 0
9:12.4
2:29.4

3.87k
2 0
11:59.4
2:47.0

5k
2 0
15:31.2
3:31.8

Finish
2 0
18:33.7
3:02.5

Poor Mercy, after winning in 2020 she must have been thinking this is easy, I’m gonna win every year. She’ll be lucky to be top 5 this year

They were even at 3k. PV had a 2sec lead at 5k.

After her run at Texas A&M, people were wondering what she was capable of. We thought, "Well we'll find out at SECs." That race just ended. Well before the 10 minute mark, she broke free of 2020 NCAA xc champ Mercy Chelangat. She ended up winning in 18:25.9 with Chelangat 8 seconds back.

John Kellogg and I were watching it together in the office and he was super impressed.

He thinks if that was a legitimate 6000 that someone could almost run a full 10,000 on the track at that pace (she was running 30:40 pace today). I asked him what could she do for 5000 and he's saying something about 14:40s. I'm hearing him talk about Sally Kipyego running stuff like this. In case you dont' remember, Kipyegon ended up being pretty darn good as a pro (Olympic silver).

The collegiate records are 15:01/31:18.

If those marks are crazy, please realize the 10th placer today has a 16:00 5000 pb and ran 20:00 so Valby beat her by more than 90 seconds.

Wow.

Split a 15:24 5k (in a new 6k race) on a rolling golf course!

Parker had a 6 second lead at 5k. She broke it open in that 3rd k and then it was fairly even

Valby won by a .7% margin over Chelangat, so not a huge margin. Those times overall are crazy. Is this course short?

Edit: remove word ‘new’. Not sure how it got in there.

PS. I don't expect her to run the 10,000 and she just said post-race that the 10k is too much for her. She split 5k today in 15:24.

Yep, correct. My bad. 🤦

H'm. Tuohy beat Chelangat by 12, Valby by less than 8. Still cannot discount that Solinsky magic.

Is this course measured correctly? 18:25 in a 6k X-country for an NCAA woman is astonishing.

At one time Milli Vanilli was also considered a sensation.