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TrackCoach wrote:The NXN race was not weak, the last 2 years it has been as strong as FLN.
Yeah, because the top guy at nx only managed 4th place at FLN.
Oh I guess that's cause he peaked a week early.
Look, dude - If you seriously think that Matt McElroy and Wade Meddles are even remotely close to being as good as Craig Lutz then you have pretty much defined your understanding of the sport right there as basically nil.
TrackCoach wrote:
I don't know if they were ever in 13:30 shape, but they ran much faster at Holmdel than many NCAA all-Americans and some Olympcians did on that course when they were in H.S.
XC course records mean little, last year for all we know the course was short, very easy to happen.
TrackCoach wrote:
The NXN race was not weak, the last 2 years it has been as strong as FLN. I am not sure how anyone can say that when last year's NXN race had 3 of the top 5 XC runners. Which is a shame that the best kids are split between to meets.
NXN was weak. NXN had Craig Lutz and that's it, who also ran FLN and was only 4th. Joe Rosa with his lousy 3rd in NXN, would be unlikely to even crack the top 10 at FLN, probably why he was afraid to race it.
TrackCoach wrote:
The Rosas were beyond their peak fitness by the time NXN came around...they had run a lot of tough races on tough cources. Keep in mind that NJ had about half dozen kids with 2-mile PRs around 9 minutes. In the NE and NJ in particular, you don't get a lot of easy races.
A very basic analysis will tell you that at some point during last year's XC season, they were in at least sub-14 5K shape.
Lame. Only results matter in running and in life, especially results at championships, FLN in particular, but without those then results from weak NXN (3rd and 18th). If the Rosas were in sub-14 5k shape then they should have coasted through their NJ races with ease, regardless of "about half dozen kids with 2-mile PRs aorund 9 minutes."
TrackCoach wrote:
From what I know, Oregon is at the bottom of the list, probably because of academics, but who knows what will happen after a visit. I think the Rosa's were beat up by the end of November last year; the early season high level invitationals on courses like Belmont and VCP, combined with then 3 straight weeks of running on the Holmdel course, which is the NJ championship pathway and back to VCP for the FLNE ...that's a very difficult season to survive. Couple that with the fast that the Rosa's continue to run hard even when they are way out in front. I have always felt that most of NJ's top kids are tired by the time the National championships come around.
I guess you weren't paying attention...they didn't run FLNE...and even if they had run FLNE, it wasn't at VCP last year, it was at Sunken Meadow.
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
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