UPenn Mile - Marco Langon (3:54.60) over Liam Murphy (3:54.61) & Gary Martin (3:54.94)

Great run from Marco. Anyone know if he’s actually a true hood?

Surprise order a bit tho quite close. All guys threats at ncaas tho none probably fresh right? Could also go 3k

Marco won, diving ,but he surprised Murphy who had clearly Martin put away, never saw Marco at all, who rolled up from 10-11at 440, to 8th to 6th to still 5th at one to go. It was exciting if you catch a replay, it's worth it. I believe Langon will go 3K? 5K double, a lot depends I guess if they go DMR, they have the legs as 400 does not kill you too much really as 1600 usually gets slowed down somewhere, they have Watcke 1:47 frosh last year as well. It will be interesting to see what Murphy does too.

Listening to background music at UPenn, Kashmir, a classic!! LOL

Liam is still the better runner, means nothing to me

Nobody said otherwise

As I said in my account of race, he surprised him to beat him kind of

Agree but to be fair, Liam is also two years older. He’s the better runner right now but Marco may end up being better at 5000 and above.

Oh, as much as I follow Villanova and am a huge fan, and Murphy fan, I think Langon will go past him at some point I think, he has two years of time to get to that. Both have become better than I anticipated, and that was a pretty high bar.

I added in a video of the finish as well as full results to the first post. I also added to the title to make it more descriptive. This post was initially entitled Upenn mile.

Here is a post-race interview with the two Villanova guys.

Langon definitely sniped the win. Don’t think Murphy loses that if he’d had better peripheral awareness.

Can't find a video that shows the last 400m, but hell yeah Langon that was a great effort he looked like he was giving it everything he had. He was on the U20 XC team that medaled a couple years ago, great to see him progressing so well. No clue what we're gonna do with so much mile talent, but someone said Langon was gonna do 3k/5k. People went crazy iirc about Parker Wolfe running 3:54.17 last year at ACCs, and this guy is beating Murphy and Martin as a sophomore with a huge kick and a dive. So much to be excited about :)

I look at Langon as a 3K/5K and most likely down the road 10K guy who can run the mile, not a 15/miler as nearly his best event. He pipped Murphy here by surprise, I think, a win is a win.. and it was a 1.6 sec PR, while his talent was and is evident, Marco has improved just about as quick as any collegians in a while, and before folks go nuts, I know there are others. 3:54.60 7:43.x last year and 13:14 this year which is #15 or so performer all time? Murphy 6 or 7 performer at 13:10. Langon is a pretty well rounded 20 year old at this point.

Martin and he are same grade. Langon is a redshirt soph in Indoor and out. In today's world he is relatively young at 20 and 5 months .

I see Langon as more of a 3k/5k guy. He closed a 3:54 mile in 26. Your classic 10k guys aren’t closing a 3:54 mile in 26. Langon has really good speed.

A bit of a shock, and in the distances, shocks are a precursor of things to come, not a fluke. Langon's stepped up a bunch in quality to even be in position to beat Murphy.

Not really, though, you just had to have followed him close , not to be disagreeable, but he had run 3:56.x a year ago, and 13:14 weeks ago closing in 28.11? I thought he would run under 3:55.00 or right there, but a different way. The race was set to be 3:52.x-3:53 but no one followed close enough, pacers then slowed.. Langon was 6th over at 3/4, 2:59.xx ..5th with just 1 to go. I thought he could run 3:54.x , just not this way, he ran 3:56.x and 7:43.x last year at 19 , and now this off 13:14.