So could McNeil beat Chelanga in a fast race?

I'm in HS sitting at a table with a bunch of my parents' adult friends having dinner. Bored out of my mind, using the Wifi on my iTouch. So I'm trying to have fun cause I really don't have anything better to do.

What's you excuse for being on LR at this hour?

Does NCAA Cross count as a fast race?

Chelanga just seems like he is great running 64s and 65s over and over again and not that great at anything else. Bo Diddley had that one beat that he made a living off of for years. Chelanga has 64 second laps.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Chelanga just seems like he is great running 64s and 65s over and over again and not that great at anything else. Bo Diddley had that one beat that he made a living off of for years. Chelanga has 64 second laps.

You didn't watch Saturdays race did you? Celanga ran the last 400m in 55.1, the final 800m in 1:55.4.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

Chelanga just seems like he is great running 64s and 65s over and over again and not that great at anything else. Bo Diddley had that one beat that he made a living off of for years. Chelanga has 64 second laps.

This is false. While many of Bo Diddley's biggest hits use his Bo Diddley beat, some of his best do not. "I'm a Man" probably his second-most popular song (the b-side from "Bo Diddley") uses the very common blues beat, which he largely helped popularize (da daaa duh duh).

Even songs that became well-established covers didn't use his trademark beat: "You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover," "Roadrunner," "Before You Accuse Me," "I'm Bad," and "Pills" (covered by the New York Dolls).

So just like Chelanga runs 64 second laps very consistently, but then runs faster or slower depending on the race, Diddley switched it up too and quite often, even when he was at his most successful.

People who think Chelanga should have won that race seem to forget he ran a 10k a couple days before by himself, and while he could have run faster in that race, it doesn't mean he was capable of winning both.