NXN won in 15:16?

Watch the replay. They might as well have been swimming.

besides the lakes, the whole course was soft I think

OBVIOUSLY YOU WEREN'T THERE. Not a grass track, muddy, lots of turns and possibly close to 5000m unlike many of the Regional sites

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Great analysis. Literally every single boy had a bad race.

Check out the 2012 NXN results

dumb post..... shows total lack of understanding the sport

Another person that has no idea what XC is all about.

Zombie mud runs?

I believe 2014 was real muddy too. I was out there then.

they wouldnt let you warm up on course day before.

was this the same course?

which conditions were worse or were they the same?

tanner anderson won back then with olin hacker runner up. Hacker later became ncaa 5k champion albiet in like 7th year.

0/10

In addition to what everyone else has already said, 15:00 is pretty fast on the NXN course. CR is 14:44 (last year) and Nico Young ran 14:52. Given the conditions, I think this was a dececnt run, probably worth 10-15 seconds faster on a better day.

If I’m going to take a wild guess, every single athlete had their legs feeling like trash. They then decided to save their legs for the next big race and just did a tempo. You know, their excuse aligns with every Strava workout hero’s race so it’s okay.

I have been at every single NXN here in Oregon. Not one ever came close to the conditions of this one. The entire top layer on the race path would engulf your feet today….

nico young year was just wet not swampy.

We had wet years with wind but not swampy.

I have my favorite all time athletes but i have to be brutally honest this years conditions were unlike any other year…..maybe Rich can back me up on this one.

Are you sure you were at NXN 2012? The conditions today were bad, but I don't think you can fairly compare them. The Portland Meadows course was an absolute mess then. The winning time was 17:06 by Sam Wharton who went on to run 15:16 for sixth at Footlocker.

Then you would have been totally shocked by NXN 2012. Not one boy broke 17 minutes. What do you think about that?