Terrier Classic at BU

has got nothing for next year....once they graduate those three they are done for awhile on the mens side. How did they not go to nationals in cross with that team, it still baffles me....

Doug Caves of UMASS Lowell is seeded at 46.XX and last weekend he ran 49.7.

There is hedging, and then there is lying. 3 seconds in a 400m, that is a little extreme.

He ran 49.7 at Tufts, a flat track. Last year he ran 47.xx.

Wow, Samuel Kosgei and his 8:05 5k seed look about right

Granted, UMASS Lowell has produced some solid sprinters in recent years, but they notoriously juice their seed times at the Terrier and FastTrack meets.

Yeah, picking seed times is an art. Usually when I seed myself at the time I want to run I end up just barely making the cutoff for being in the meet, but then I usually win or get top 3 in the slowest heat. Whereas if I lie, I end up in the middle heat, beat about half the people, and run the time I want to run.

Hey bcal, the lying hasn't stopped in mass because of the performance sheets. They don't check them unless someone questions a performance at the meet.

Last year a certain league in cmass had as over 17 girls using times that were converted from the slower central mass track they ran on to what they thought it would have been had they run the race at Reggie. It was complete BS and complete fiction. Last year one of thaose coaches had a converted time put his athlete into the fast heat of the 600 and bump out my kid. I called him and told him if he didn't fix it i would turn him in at the meet. Two days later her time was corrected and she was out of the fast heat.

Totally unfair to the athletes running under legit times.

Anyone have results from today's races at Boston?

women's results from Fri.

http://www.bu.edu/track/2008/Indoor%20Track/Terrier/Women_Results.htm

Thanks!

They wouldent happen to be doing live resuls for the men?

Videos from Friday's races:

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/coverage.php?c=163

Wow, Samuel Kosgei and his 8:05 5k seed look about right

Yeah, his 14:00 seed in the 3k doesn't quite match up with that blazing 5k seed...oh wait. Couldn't have looked 1 inch higher on the list?

both grange and caves ran 46.xx last spring.

and with the success that team has had they have the results to back it up.

Not buying it. Doug Caves's PR outdoors last year was 46.49. He is a great runner, no doubt. He could be the fastest collegiate from Massachusetts since Calvin Davis.

But I would say that if he ran under 48.00, that would be terrific run for January of the indoor track season.

Leonard Byrd and folks like that run 46.3 indoors. If he been seeded at his all-time PR for 400m indoors, 47.5, that would have been at least defensible, but 46.3 is not legitimate as a seed time for this meet.

Paolo Natali ran 8:48 last weekend in the 3k at the GBTC Invite and he seeded himself around 8:15 for today.

I remember watching him get lapped in the fast heat about three years ago when he seeded himself at 8:08.

Correction: Natali's seed time is 8:18.9.

Results? wrote:

Videos from Friday's races:

http://www.flocasts.org/flotrack/coverage.php?c=163

was the womens' 5k filmed?

Hayden Mclaren from providence just ran 3.59.