TWO sub-4 Miles at Tech Indoor

Wowzer!!

"altitude converted" ??

Lubbock is at altitude and the altitude conversion is about 3 seconds.

i think i know who will win juco nats now for the mile.

Lubbock's altitude is 3200 feet. I don't think you get a three-second conversion for that.

lubbockite wrote:

Lubbock is at altitude and the altitude conversion is about 3 seconds.

No way in hell is the conversion 3 seconds. Here in Flagstaff the conversion is around 1.2 seconds and that is at 7000 ft.

please!! Please!! answer me.

-Did Haron ran a 10k somewhere last week?

-who coaches him?

-His he fully funded by NB or he is just being given the running facilities?

-Did they did some reconstruction on Tech indoor track?if not that is damn fast.

I am really curious to know how the race developed, i have never thought 4 min barrier will be broken at Tech.

Whoops. I was thinking of a different race. It is more like 9 seconds in Flag.

he did run a 10k last week in south texas. It is the same crappy track that tech has always had. i'm not sure about the other questions. the race will be posted tomorrow on flotrack.

Thanks.Ronald, can you still find out about the rest of the Quiz? I don't know if he is still trains with Texas Tech team. I heard that he is still being coached by coach Murray at TTU but not sure.

Haron ran a 3:53 downhill mile in Fort Worth back in November. Pablo Solares was in the same race and ran 3:59.

I understand Pablo solares won Boston which tells a lot about haron capability these year.This is also the leading time in the world at the moment ( 3:55:15 altitude conversion). I watched Haron interview n he says he ill be doing road races, hope he does track these year.

dam juco wrote:

i think i know who will win juco nats now for the mile.

No becasue South Plains is on probation for Indoor Nationals!!

Chicken Fried Steak wrote:

Lubbock's altitude is 3200 feet. I don't think you get a three-second conversion for that.

Really. I think it is important to point out that this "altitude conversion" talk is all guess work and speculation. There is no official (or even quasi-official?) "conversion" factor for this sort of thing. We can make guesses--either out of our hats or with some degree of scientific understanding--but no one should be misled into thinking that there really is an agreed-upon "altitude conversion."

ncaa has an altitude conversion manuel, believe BYU has it on there site. sets lubbock's alt. adjustment for anything faster than 4:06 at 2.95 seconds.

ncaa altitude pdf file wrote:

ncaa has an altitude conversion manuel, believe BYU has it on there site. sets lubbock's alt. adjustment for anything faster than 4:06 at 2.95 seconds.

Fair enough--thanks for the reference. I'd never seen this stuff before. Clearly, the NCAA does accept these for qualifying marks. Beyond that, I'm not aware of any other entity that takes such things seriously. But, I stand corrected.

Those guys deserve the a big credit for running those times at Texas Tech indoor track, its always hard to ran a good distance race at Tech.

Good job haron, u are my hero

Did noone notice the women's 5k winner 16:23...3min faster than 2nd place??? Thats 5-lappin 2nd place!

What about Joe Vigil?