All these PRs at this track are nuts. First Nico’s 26:52 and Habtom Samuel’s 26:53 (massive PRs). Now Parker Valby’s 30:50 and Alex Philip’s 27:51 which were both big PRs by them as well, 40 seconds for Philip. Great performances by great runners but it’s too ridiculous of a drop, needs to be investigated.
Hm... Lets pick this apart. First off Nico Young raced his 26 min 10k at JSerra Highschool in south west LA Asuza Pacific is in Northeast LA. Next why are alex phillip and parker valby running so fast. Alex phillip is a grad transfer from a d3 school that set him up to race really fast clearly the north carolina distance coach knows what he is doing between phillip, strand, and wolfe. Valby is training in a way we have never seen before using the arc trainer and having one of the strongest and relaxed mindsets when it comes to racing.
There is a simple explanation for this. When the Rieti meet in Italy was discontinued, the (short) track there was moved to Azusa Pacific University in CA. Please do not share this info...
J Seera HS (named for Junipero Serra the Spanish missionary) is in San Juan Capistrano which is in Orange Couty - Not Los Angeles. Azusa Pacific is in Azusa, Ca, which in in Los Angeles county, but not in the city of Los Angeles.
I commend you for trying so hard, but you're troll attempt has several loopholes:
1. The TEN and Bryan Clay are not at the same track, nor are they the same meet
2. Nico and Parker's 10ks were their debuts; you seem to think they were "big PRs" (shows how much you know lol)
3. Your entire point of the track being short is based on two 10k races, when there are *wait for it* other events at track meets too. If the 30:50 and 27:51 never happened, I highlyyyy doubt you'd be accusing the track of being short based on the other events.
Conclusion: you're apparently weirdly butthurt about people running 10k PRs at tracks in Los Angeles (apparently you think there's only one track in the whole city?). If you need help being better at trolling and fact checking, I'm sure there are plenty of other fine posters on this site that could lend you some advice!
Wait! No one is going to claim that Nike secretly re-surfaced the track in Zoom X foam and added underground springs to make strides bouncier and longer? No sightings of huge industrial fans pushing 30 mph winds at the backs of runners on each straight? No hidden system that pumps pure oxygen onto the track competition area for the benefit of the runners? No talk of hidden people movers like those at airports disguised to look like a normal track surface?
Bryan Clay was downhill the whole way. The track is hydraulically banked so nike can lower portions of it, as the races go, essentially creating a downhill slope. They've installed this whole system all over LA County, so as to fool all but the keenest eyes. By watching birds though, you can tell, as they appear to fly straight up.
why do people obsess about shoe construction but the first thought on tracks isn't the mirroring composition of the surface, it's gotta be distance or something weird.