Bump for a true LetsRun classic. I laughed reading this one again, and it still holds true.
Bump for a true LetsRun classic. I laughed reading this one again, and it still holds true.
Why bump a stupid thread?
Wino Hobo wrote:
Bump for a true LetsRun classic. I laughed reading this one again, and it still holds true.
I laughed. It's amazing how insecure so many people got about what was essentially a joke thread.
A Not-So-Fast Fast Guy wrote:
Could last year's Foot Locker top five boys all forming a team beat those women?
1 Solomon Haile 15:15
2 Trevor Dunbar 15:22
3 Thomas Porter 15:26
4 Drew Shields 15:27
5 Jakub Zivec 15:29
vs.
1. Junxia Wang 29:31.78 10,000 meters world record
2. Yunxia Qu 3:50.46 1,500 meters world record
3. Meseret Defar 29:59.20 outdoor 10,000 meters
4. Tirunesh Dibaba 14:11.15 5,000 meters world record
5. Paula Radcliffe 2:15:25 marathon world record
?
I definitely take the women over the boys.
Your post really is off-based. Of course, they would slaughter the greatest boys HS team in history. The question for me is "How high up in NCAA xc would the top 5 women in history finish if they all ran their PB equivalent on that day?"
I think definitely top 15 and maybe top 10.
At Cornell, we regularly had individual qualifiers finish in the 80s at ncaa cross and John Kellogg and I once debated how'd they'd fare against Dibaba in a race.
JK could answer this better than me. But I think if they had the best day of their life they'd be top 100 individually at NCAAs, and that gives you a team score of about 70. 5 x 70 =350 which is about 13th place.
John Kellogg could answer this question eas