Of course I saw it. Did you think halfway through with Tuohy sitting with the pack that she would catch her? As someone wrote above, Valby ran quite even, she didn't get slower. If Tuohy could run such a negative split as she did she could as well have gone with Valby right away. It made it more exciting, I agree, but it was exciting precisely because one couldn't know if Tuohy would be able to catch her.
The amount of pressure on her was about as much as can be put on a collegiate runner, and a LOT of people couldn't wait for her to get beat. Strong physically, but just as importantly super mentally tough as well. That was a fun race to watch.
New Mexico having 5 All Americans and still not being that close to NC State shows that you really cant win without 1-2 in the top 10 and 2-3 in the top 20. Most years the team with the best #3 is the team that wins.
UNM's #5 came across UVA's 1st! But when you do that math, 20th place for your first runner is almost certainly not going to get it done.
You have to race as if the normal rules apply. Valby went out too fast and overestimated her strength on a tough course and Tuohy was smart enough not to go with her. If Valby was so strong she could have stayed away on that pace then there would have been nothing anyone could do. And Tuohy's training all year paid off. She kept practicing hammering the last 1.5k.
Does anyone here have Valby's splits? Did she slow in the final klicks?
Looks like she was pretty even, close to 3:15 kilometers the entire way. Annoying that the splits are slightly off from even kilos. Didn't pick it up at the end, maybe even slowed slightly, but there was the uphill.
ESPNU literally doesn’t work. Even when I’m signed into my tv provider it keeps saying an error has occurred. Why can’t they just have it on ESPN instead of college football pregame coverage (NFL is 1000x better anyway)???