This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
What do you expect from a team and coach that are narcissistic? Bit them in the arse this time. Made it into a comedic circus act... Actually I thought the ending was very entertaining
All of your “don’t run hard, stay in the pack, wait to the final lap”. you want a herd of runners cautiously running to the 9600m mark, and then race all out for 1 lap! And you call that great! Valby would never allow this.
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
This raced was paced at 72 per lap (30:00). The winner ran 29:48.
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
This raced was paced at 72 per lap (30:00). The winner ran 29:48.
If anything, wasn’t the pace a little slow.
It was paced for a sub 29:40, a full one minute faster than the Olympic standard. I'm not saying it's an equal comparison, but imagine if the men's pace was set for 26:00? Again, this event was fully designed to get athletes a one and only opportunity to try and get the World or Olympic Standards. Next time, if OAC wants to make a spectacle of things, they should just pick another event.
And for the argument that some may make that athletes need to just go out and throw down and race and not worry about the time, I agree 99% of the time. Yet The Ten is not one of these times. It's a time trial. Nothing more. Thanks to OAC's antics last night, some athletes may not be going be going to Paris.
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This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
Every other runner could have ignored them and run their own race. They chose not to so that is on them.
This raced was paced at 72 per lap (30:00). The winner ran 29:48.
If anything, wasn’t the pace a little slow.
It was paced for a sub 29:40, a full one minute faster than the Olympic standard. I'm not saying it's an equal comparison, but imagine if the men's pace was set for 26:00? Again, this event was fully designed to get athletes a one and only opportunity to try and get the World or Olympic Standards. Next time, if OAC wants to make a spectacle of things, they should just pick another event.
And for the argument that some may make that athletes need to just go out and throw down and race and not worry about the time, I agree 99% of the time. Yet The Ten is not one of these times. It's a time trial. Nothing more. Thanks to OAC's antics last night, some athletes may not be going be going to Paris.
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1:12.28/1:11.93/1:12.16/1:11.81/1:12.18…
actually even slower that a 1:12. How do you get 29:40?
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
Lol obviously the winner asked for that pace and since Monson already has a time she figured she'd go for it.
And Monson is not just hoping to sneak under 30:00 — the Wavelight will be set at 29:37 pace for her (72.0 per lap through 3000m then 71.0 through 8000m and 70.0 to the finish), with a second Wavelight set at 30:40 pace for the rest of the field.
I just watched the tape. If you want a fast compelling race you're going to need more than one Ethiopian. That should have been obvious from the outset.
Ayana hasn't been doing anything. Bring her in on 5 days notice.
Last year's race was memorable because of Monson vs McColgan. The outcome wasn't clear to me because neither one is agile or athletic with a big kick. Once McColgan cleared her easily I have no idea how anyone set that aside and pretended Monson was in medal contention in Budapest, regardless of position with 400 remaining.
I couldn't have guessed what time they ran last year. The head to head was everything.
In watching the tape today I was hoping they had focused more on Megan Keith. Instead the primary entertainment value was the two women who raised their hands and celebrated at the finish line, despite having another lap to run. The one in yellow walked into the infield beyond the line, only for a guy in her camp to frantically duck under an infield barrier and dash toward her, imploring her to get back in the race. She did, and is seen finishing just before the video concludes.
I'm too young to really remember politics in Obama's era. The idea that once upon a time this was an 'own' is actually the funniest thing to me lmao like how far we have fallen
Monson had her own lights. The rest of the field had their own lights set at Oly standard pace. I think Monson already has her qualifier? I like that she went big here, we need more of that in the US . The top 5 in the men's race could've run 26:45 if Nico or Fisher had pushed it from 1200 out. What I don't like is that Monson put off indoors to full-send a 10k for less than 5k.
When I heard the plan for Monson to try and run 29:37 for 10k I was pretty surprised. I following what OAC do through various platforms and there didn't seem to be any indication she was at that level of fitness.
On entirely different note why didn't Morgan McDonald race? He was off a strong 5k. Hope he is not injured again.
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind. Hopefully next year this event can go back to what it was intended for.
What an uninformed post. There was a pacer for the group going for the standard, it was paced by Abbe Goldstein and had corresponding white wave lights. Everything you said is ridiculous and clueless.
This meet was originally designed to be a World or Olympic standard race only. Instead, Monson and Ritz asked for a pace that was astoundingly outside of her capabilities and chaos ensued behind.
You're such an idiot. I can tell from your post that you didn't even watch the race. You just felt like complaining about something so you made this up. What you said is most definitely NOT what happened.