Cabada wins U.S.A. 25k Championship

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Here are the results.

Congrats to Fernando and Molly. Molly won by 3 minutes on the women's side.

Mens 25 km USA Championships

Name Time

1 Cabada, Fernando 1:15:41.00

2 Moen, Josh 1:16:09.00

3 Carlson, Andrew 1:16:35.00

4 Arciniaga, Nick 1:17:22.00

5 Gabrielson, Matthew 1:17:50.00

6 Chavez, Michael 1:18:11.00

7 Tapia, Danial 1:18:28.00

8 Kormanik, Leo 1:19:35.00

9 Bizuneh, Fasil 1:19:42.00

10 Wagner, Allen 1:19:43.00

Womens 25 km USA Championships

Name Time

1 Pritz, Molly 1:25:38.00

2 McMahan, Dot 1:28:38.00

3 Faber, Jeanette 1:28:48.00

4 Fryburg-Zaitz, Kristen 1:29:16.00

5 Houck, Jen 1:30:06.00

6 De Reuck, Colleen 1:31:06.00

7 Brown, Emily 1:31:55.00

8 Jazwinski, Katie 1:32:05.00

9 Williams, Alisha 1:32:24.00

10 Hilborn, Ariana 1:32:37.00

Read more: USA 25 km Championships - Official Website - Info/Results

http://www.runnerspace.com/eprofile.php?do=info&event_id=2514#ixzz1MLgnNsgz

Bad fade by Fasil. Was in contention for a good amount of the race but looks like he really suffered there.

Nice job Hansons. 1-2 on the womens side without Desi or Melissa running. You guys rock.

What weak fields, specifically on the women's side. Anyone else with me that there are WAY too many US Champs races on the roads? They are so watered down and essentially meaningless from year to year. Each road championship usually features one MAYBE two top tier runners.

Whats next the 800m road Championships? Maybe the 8.57329mile championships? It's getting a little out of hand. And two "national championships" in less than a week, really? What is our sport coming to?

waytoomany wrote:

What is our sport coming to?

Encouraging development, that's what.

The U.S. needs second-tier championships like this to keep the depth in the system to keep feeding the pro level. Kind of a feeder system. Athletes like Cabada and Pritz cetainly have the potential to make a National team in the future. Props to the athletes and the organizers for keeping things healthy.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

TR

Also, they've had all these races for YEARS, it's not like they're new. No, the solution to making distance running better is not to cut out popular races.

Surprisingly the course didn't seem to fast today. It was pretty wet and a little windy when it got to the hilly parts. I'm impressed they were still able to go 1:15... sounded like a pretty intense race from Cabada's post-race interview.

Count me among the surprised. But this is not a slow time nor was it against a weak field of Americans. Cabada is back. I've run that race many times. He could run 2:13:xx on a fast course right now. I wouldn't bet a nickel even against him making the team next year.

waytoomany wrote:

What weak fields, specifically on the women's side. Anyone else with me that there are WAY too many US Champs races on the roads? They are so watered down and essentially meaningless from year to year. Each road championship usually features one MAYBE two top tier runners.

Wow, you're clueless. American women's depth has drastically improved since 2008. It used to be you could run a 1:16 half to make a US Team or a 2:40+ marathon (see some of the team from 2000-2005). Now you have to run around sub 1:13 and 2:35. While the 25K Champs is generally one of the weaker US Championships, this was actually one of the stronger (if not the strongest) years on the women's side. Here's 10th place times for the past 9 years:

2011-- 1:32:37

2010-- 1:37:47

2009-- 1:34:15

2008-- 1:39:05

2007-- 1:35:22

2006-- 1:32:39

2005-- 1:34:16

2004-- 1:37:32

2003-- 1:35:47

2002-- 1:36:31

Link wrote:

Count me among the surprised. But this is not a slow time nor was it against a weak field of Americans. Cabada is back. I've run that race many times. He could run 2:13:xx on a fast course right now. I wouldn't bet a nickel even against him making the team next year.

Agreed, Cabada in form is a darkhorse, although I will say that he seems like the type of guy who will either run 2:12 or 2:32/DNF. Seems like an interesting guy.

Josh Moen is a baller. To go from an unknown D3 guy, to D3 champion, to 2nd in the US 25ks and to beat Arciniaga is insane. A testament to the virtues of hard work I would imagine.

King Cobra is back

Hmmmm wrote:

Josh Moen is a baller. To go from an unknown D3 guy, to D3 champion, to 2nd in the US 25ks and to beat Arciniaga is insane. A testament to the virtues of hard work I would imagine.

Moen has run faster than Nick for 10k to 10 miles. It is not a huge leap to think that he may be better for a 25k. Moen hasn't been a d3 guy in several years.

Thanks for the stats.

waytoomany wrote:

What weak fields, specifically on the women's side. Anyone else with me that there are WAY too many US Champs races on the roads? They are so watered down and essentially meaningless from year to year. Each road championship usually features one MAYBE two top tier runners.

Whats next the 800m road Championships? Maybe the 8.57329mile championships? It's getting a little out of hand. And two "national championships" in less than a week, really? What is our sport coming to?

It's not like USATF is paying to put these events on. They're just giving large, well organized, popular, already competitive races the designation of national, regional, or state championship. Why not give lower tier runners championships to shoot for, or top tier runners opportunities to race a rust-buster when starting out their season or coming back from injury, or heaven forbit attempt a new distance?