USA cross coverage

Results are up on

http://www.usatf.org/events/2009/USAXCChampionships/schedule.asp

Must have been an awesome finish. Not a good day for Fam. Curtis just wow. Also surprised by Gottcher (despite his strong half marathon indicated great shape).

stop whining wrote:

OK in the 1st degree wrote:

Winning this qualifying round doesn't mean much

Right, because you didn't win it and weren't even in it.

However, this was the National Championships, and it's a big deal to people who care.

German Fernandez won the National Junior Cross Country Championships.

1ST PLACE - what did you get?

No, because I know of no Olympian in 2008 who did win it. It doesn't matter because Ritzenhein didn't win it yet medaled at WXC and was the highest US finisher. You paint yourself as an idiot fanboy when you try to take the argument to a personal level. Quit fantasizing about licking his marble bag and then come back and try to make a real attempt at making a coherent point.

Wow you sure are jealous.

By the way, how did you do at NCAA cross Nationals?

Excellent run by Ryan Vail in sixth--only 18 seconds behind Meb and 8 behind Torres. Doesn't this have to be the most surprising finish on the men's side?

Very impressive by Vail. Looks like German and him are excellent training partners, congrats to both of them.

Big props to Tim Nelson who has Always been overshadowed in Madison by Teg and Solinsky. Also a great run by R. Vail! Looks like he's back living and training (well) in Oregon.

Montesquieu wrote:

Excellent run by Ryan Vail in sixth--only 18 seconds behind Meb and 8 behind Torres. Doesn't this have to be the most surprising finish on the men's side?

You're right, especially considering his 18 or 19th place at NCAAs in November. But who knows what he trained for...

carumba wrote:

Big props to Tim Nelson who has Always been overshadowed in Madison by Teg and Solinsky. Also a great run by R. Vail! Looks like he's back living and training (well) in Oregon.

What happened to OSU? Has he finished and moved back to OregonN?

Wow, you're sure an idiot. You have nothing to refute my logic. When your brain can't come up with real points all you have left is ad hominem attack. Sucks to be you!

heyyo wrote:

use the force luke wrote:

blah blah blah.... Soooooo, just speculating, blah blah blah

Sorry man, thems the facts. blah blah blah.

How old is this kid?

Fam sucks

Yes, you are only stating his record, but who cares about his record of one? Why don't you just come out and say what you want to say rather than spouting off meaningless facts? Why also bring this to a personal level?

Go back to the playground, unless you have something of value to say that we don't already know.

DUH! That's been my point all along! That this race doesn't mean that he's going to kill it in Jordan like NCAA's doesn't mean that he can't rebound and run well again.

You took it there, dipshit. Why don't you just fucking pay attention to this thread and think about the context that I was responding to people who think a couple of relatively unimportant races mean he's going to go trample the Kenyans and Ethiopians and get gold in Jordan and then will set an AR on the way to a medal in Berlin? All of the "haters" around here aren't "hating on" GF, they're "hating on" the ridiculous, cracked-out idiots who go so far overboard to frontrun and jump on the GF bandwagon.

Why, is it lonely for you there? Between the two of us, you're the one who's most been acting like some pimply high schooler.

Fam Sucks wrote:

Fam sucks

Cabada sucks. AR-holder getting rolled by the likes of Ed Torres, Pifer, and Glaab over 12k? How the mighty have fallen, where are his self-aggrandizing youtube soliloquies now?

There you go again... You are really aggressive for a message board.

And there you go again. Instead of worrying about your misperception of my intent, how about you put up something, ANYTHING to refute my view? Unless you just can't, in which case you'll be better off if you just STFU!

Fam doesn't suck, but I don't know why so many people voted for him over Meb in the letsrun poll. Nothing about Fam's past exploits suggests he'd win at 12k cross country.

Fam has rather solid 10k credentials from the not-so-distant past and has a decent reputation of strength. At least he stuck his nose in there, but he faded big time and probably just wasn't ready to go with that type of race plan.