Whose your picks for top five at the 2010 NCAA X-Country Championships in the following categories and why? I think trying to predict the top 10 has less to do with knowing the athletes and teams and just getting lucky.
It's alittle more reasonable to be able to predict the top five but how good are your predictions?
Top 5 for:
Men's Individual
Men's TEAM
Women's Individual
Women's TEAM
Women:
1.) VanDalen, Lucy (not sure if she can keep the momentum going though, but until someone beats her....I'm keeping her at #1)
2.) Reid
3.) Hasay
4.) Marino
5.) Kimaiyo
Men
1.) Chelanga
2.) Derrick
3.) McNeil
4.) Puskedra
5.) Mirchesco
Women Individual
1.) Jordan Hasay (Ore)
2.) Risper Kimayo (UTEP)
3.) Lucy Van Dalen (StonyB)
4.) Alex Kosinski (Ore)
5.) Sarh Pease (In)
Jordan seems to be in much better shape than last year, Risper should continue to improve not in top shape, Lucy may final have a bad race at the wrong time
Team
1.) Villanova
2.) Oregon
3.) Georgetown
4.) Texas Tech
5.) Colorado
Men's Invdividual
1.) Sam Chelanga (Lib)
2.) Chris Derrick (Stan)
3.) David McNeil (NAz)
4.) Colby Lowe (OkSt)
5.) Elliott Heath (Stan)
If Sam Chelanga is health and fit he can lower his course record from 28:42 (previously held by Galen Rupp 29:03) down to 28:34-36. If Chelanga goes kamikaze and try 28:24 pace or faster don't think he will finish in top 3.
Team
1.) Stanford
2.) Ok St
3.) Oregon
4.) NAz
5.) Iona
I don't have a fantastic top five. I do, however, have a top 5:
1. Stanford
2. Oklahoma State
3. Oregon
4. Colorado
5. Wofford
1. Chelanga
2. Fernandez
3. McNeil
4. Derrick
5. Heath
1. Stanford
2. Iona
3. Ok State
4. Oregon
5. Indiana
Not a single (serious) post has anyone other than Chelanga for first. I am not certain he is invincible. I think a bit too much is made of his run at Stanford - note how few in that and companion races got back to their marks in later races, so I think of Sam as a 27:30s guy, still very fast for college. I would like to see a true XC runner racing, like Bairu. Are there guys out there that routinely perform better at XC than at track (Portland and Iona?)
prediction of last years race...so many wrong there to!..LOL!
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so I think of Sam as a 27:30s guy, still very fast for college.
lol how can you just deny the existence of his faster time like that? he ran what he ran
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lol how can you just deny the existence of his faster time like that? he ran what he ran
It's really easy.. Try it. You just sit in this lotusy position for a while chanting ohmmmmm, ohmmmmm and after awhile you can deny anything.
Give it a try.
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lol how can you just deny the existence of his faster time like that? he ran what he ran
I guess it's kinda like when people do the same thing for a faster time...
For example,
"Well he ran 28:00 but I mean it wasn't the best day so essentially he's a 27:50 guy..."
Like ya said, what someone ran is what they ran. Nothing else.