Do we have to be subjected to such mediocre women’s 800m running most of the time
come on
Women should regularly be running 1:56.5 by now, certainly more often than they do
it’s pathetic really
How long have you been watching track? Post collegiate runners will peak in June/July. None of the women should be running 1:56.5 at the end of April. Michaela Rose of LSU has run fast but that's because the collegiate season peaks earlier. Let's see what she has left for the Olympic trials.
Way longer than you most likely
aside from Mu?
You don’t think that event should be better by now? And deeper better?
Haven’t seen it mentioned yet but Mario Garcia Romo ran IMO his best race since the Pre Classic taking 2nd in the 800m in 1:47 low. Good to see his season starting to trend upwards after a disastrous indoor season
Hurta wins the women’s 1500. Thought Tanaka would be faster. What’s up with Norris as a no show. Wasn’t she advertised as the “highlight” of the race? LoL
Licking her wounds from an injury. Rest of season looks dismal at best.
Ooo! But we’re not supposed to know Norris is injured! Top secret. She and her sidekick RA went all private on Strava one morning as soon as she was called out on a thread that she had no activity since March 13. Hilarious and so full of herself
Staying away from pro drama (Norris), which has very little to do with Penn Relays, the big story was this was the first year where we really saw the super shoes have a pronounced effect on performances in the college relay events. Last year the weather was so dismal that it tamped down performances - not this year.
CW DMR record from the 1980's gets broken by two teams and the winning team obliterates it.
CW 4x800 record from 10 years ago gets broken by two teams. Keep in mind in that 2013 race Emily Lipari outkicked Laura Roesler of Oregon in a major upset.
CM 4xMile record featuring none other than Nick Willis is destroyed dramatically as not one but three teams go under 16:00 and 3rd place ends up with a possible AR pending review.
CW 4x1500 does not break the record (3rd AT) but still ran faster than the 2009 Tennessee team that at the time was considered historic as it was an AR and I believe a WR.
There were also HS NR's in the HSG 4x400 and 4x800 as well.
Combine the above with the Bullis intrigue and what was possibly the fastest HSB 4x400 split in a HS only race in history . . . . in the classic Penn Relays sense it was a good meet.
Did anyone watch footage from the Mile? Eric was pretty damn close to Ollie & Yared. Still only the second race back since injury for Ollie, but that’s mega impressive by Holt.
Did anyone watch footage from the Mile? Eric was pretty damn close to Ollie & Yared. Still only the second race back since injury for Ollie, but that’s mega impressive by Holt.
Looks like the W Runner - un tintentionally with arm swing may have swiped it out but I cant tell for sure - how are they not showing this replay?
If you are on flotrack you can back up and watch again. Looking at it again and stopping it I believe she was only about one stride ahead and did hit Foerster on the back swing.
Look again. UW was clearly and cleanly in lane 2 down the home stretch when Providence's anchor moved over from lane 1 to cut UW off. If you are going to pull that crap, make sure you hang onto the baton. Providence should have been DQ'ed even without the baton drop.
If you are on flotrack you can back up and watch again. Looking at it again and stopping it I believe she was only about one stride ahead and did hit Foerster on the back swing.
Look again. UW was clearly and cleanly in lane 2 down the home stretch when Providence's anchor moved over from lane 1 to cut UW off. If you are going to pull that crap, make sure you hang onto the baton. Providence should have been DQ'ed even without the baton drop.
I don't think that Providence did that on purpose to deliberately impede Washington.
But it would have been interesting if Providence hadn't dropped the baton and won in national record time, if the officials would have had the guts to DQ a team who had just set a national record. I'm guessing that there wouldn't have been a DQ.
Hurta wins the women’s 1500. Thought Tanaka would be faster. What’s up with Norris as a no show. Wasn’t she advertised as the “highlight” of the race? LoL
Why can’t Penn get the best female milers like they do with the men’s mile? 4:07 win? 4:04 record? They can recruit better than that!
Sophia; the lead off for Harvard - There is a lot to point out and most of it is not good. Erratic, waited too late to kick and why is someone capable of running 2 laps at 60 seconds struggling to run 3 laps at 66? If Sophia could have run just 3:20, the outgoing 400m runner would not have had to run the entire race in lane 2 to get around all of the runners and the 800m runner probably would not have rigged having to chase so hard to get up with the leaders. I could easily say a decent leg for a freshman and the 1200 is not her event, which is all true, but I was expecting more. Yet still, Harvard set the record which emphases the DMR anchor importance. Btw, it looks to me like if they just have a decent 800m leg somewhere, the 4x800 record would go down as well. (Do the math!)