CABADA AMERICAN RECORD 25K!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Congrats on the AR, that is very impressive and motivates people to go out and run fast. Especially us NAIA runners. Keep it up. Keep that attitude that made you crush the competition but Stay humble. Humility is a great trait to have. Awesome Job!

WAY TO GO CABADA!!!! you freakin animal!!! keep it up, live the dream, i want to see you become the #1 runner that you have been dreaming of! im rootin for ya

Greg Meyer IS on top of the elite entries. Cabada was a late addition, as were several Kenyans who weren't mentioned either. He definitely could not have been considered the favorite, even for the American title. I mean, the guy had a 'breakthrough' race a few weeks ago at the half with a 1:04, and today he goes through 13.1 at 1:02:40. Give the organizers a break. Everyone on the media truck knew who Cabada was, and that he was American. Good for him that he was able to use the perceived snub as motivation, but it's not like Greg and the organizers totally ignored him.

Great run!!!!

Here's hoping Cabada not only gets the running contract he wants but a FAT ONE.

Was his time really that fast? What was Meb's 25k split at boston? Didn't he come through 1/2 in about the same time and wasn't he just running marathon pace...?

Yes Meb's 25k split was 1:14.24.....only four seconds slower than Cabada....And KK has easily ran faster than that enroute to about 4 different marathon times!

do the do steriod testing at the USTAF 25K? I know everyone will get pissed but seriously Cabada has dropped some amazing times recently, huge drops from a year ago, I know he trains hard but still it seems a little too much...allright rip away.

cabada has been in the usada pool since finishing 5th at the us indoor in 2005. i think he's been tested like three times per quarter.

but, with that hulking physique, i can see where you are coming from.

he's a f***ing cheater and needs to be banned from racing all together the fu*king ahole...no way you drop so many minutes sec's in just over a year which = ROIDS....

The thing that you don't understand, mr jealous Armory, is that the 25k record ain't that fast.

Letsrun trolls, raise your hand if you can run a sub 4:35 mile? What? All of you? We'll then train like hell, ignore idiots who doubt you, and you can all break the record.

And how many minutes did he drop from his previous best 25k? Aha! caught you!

(you're an a-hole)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! CABADA IS THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!! a little alan webb type shit there, sorry. man, i'm so happy for you, keep rolling, you're living the dream.

Armory quote ; "he's a f***ing cheater and needs to be banned from racing all together the fu*king ahole...no way you drop so many minutes sec's in just over a year which = ROIDS...."

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hey Armory dont be jelous just because you are just like the many other sub-par runner who look for ways to bash good runners on this site. where i came from, i was taught to congradulate those and shake the hands of those who performed exceedingly above all expectations put on them. maybee you should race Cabada, let him dust you, then tell him that he is a good runner and "good job"

its just common runner's courtesy.

GOOD JOB CABADA! IGNORE FOOLS LIKE THIS GUY AND DO YO THING!!!

peeinthis cup wrote:

with that hulking physique, i can see where you are coming from.

are you being sarcastics?

He really slashed (wink wink) the record

Hopefully he didn't need to use the snub for motivation. Because if he keeps running like this he won't be over-looked for long and then where will his motivation come from? Don't drive angry!

You know what is ironic,tragic and evil all at the same time? It is this: when someone steps out of the crowd and does something incredible, they are opened up for broccoli headed-chowder puffs to take weak but unkind shots at them. Isn't that crazy? If Cabada doesn't run this incredible race he doesn't have to read some 8th grade level comment from a live-at-home 34 year old named "Slasher," who once won a JV 800 race in a Barstow High School dual meet with a sizzling time of 2:12.

Sorry Fernando. Just know there are many, many who have watched you emerge as a runner and a person. We could not be more proud of you. You have done this all with hard work, an incredible discipline and an ability to ignore chowder puffs while still enjoying those who love competing against such talent.

at least Slasher was kind enough to offer his email address:

aheun@mines.edu

Mr Heun from Colorado School of Mines had these fine times for the xc season:

8k - Heun

29:40(37)

28:36(176)

27:49(54)

durgcheck wrote:

do the do steriod testing at the USTAF 25K? I know everyone will get pissed but seriously Cabada has dropped some amazing times recently, huge drops from a year ago, I know he trains hard but still it seems a little too much...allright rip away.

This is because you haven't been following his career for very long. You let people tell YOU how people are doing instead of looking for results and seeing who is really good.

When Ritz was favored for a Footlocker Title as a junior (based on going there the year before as a sophomore and winning the NSO 2-mile title on the track as a sophomore as well) I kind of scoffed even if I was a fan as I thought, "So he's run 9:01y, so what, there has to be five guys in California who have run faster."

I looked it up and There were a bunch of guys who ran faster that year before ('99 track season), but they were all graduating, all except for one senior-to-be from California anmed Fernando Cabada. I think he ran 8:55 for 3200 as a junior and figured he might have an edge over Ritz since Ritz had to race hard twice a week from August until December and Cabada got to train in the ideal climate of California in November and December.

Turns out I was wrong and Cabada didn't really do much the rest of high school and he had a few spotty years where he was switching schools and maybe injured I don't know, but my point is and I do have one: Cabada has been a stud for about 8-9 years now, it just took putting it all together with the right coach and doing the work for long enough to reach 13:35/28:25/1:14:20.

I think that the AR matters less than a win at this race as Kenyans have won it for like 20 years, but you guys should remember that the others who ran as fast (Eyestone, Meyer, and Lindsay) did not much faster than Cabada at 5k/10k by age 24.

Eyestone ran 27:41 but rarely got below 28:00 for the rest of his career. Meyer was a steepler but he had a great 27:53 but it was when he was 30 or so. Lindsay was a good XC runner in college but I think he concentrated on the 1500 and the mile/2-mile indoors.

Incidentally, I don't know Eyestone's 5k best but Meyer and Lindsay never ran faster than 13:35 for 5k and I think that the is what Cabada ran a few weeks ago.

Fernando is clearly the collegiate distance runner of the year, if such a title exists. Here's to hoping he parlays that success into future accomplishments.