WINS 800M IN 1:44.71!!

I despise myself so much for missing this race. Hope a video is posted up soon...

Yes, you are correct about Rudisha...but I was referring to NCAA athletes

Another sensational job by Robby Andrews. Congrats !!

Nj possible wrote:

Robby ran an extra meter, maybe two. Stop exerragerating. And Greer ran like an ass at the finish, cutting right in front of Loxsom who was lucky not to go down.

An extra metre? maybe 2? hahahaha your a fun maker. WHen Andrews went around Greer he had to run a loop around him popping out into Lane 3.. he was in lane 2 the whole way around the bend.

van houtte wrote:

1:44.56 > 1:44.71. That's all I'm saying.

Mathematically speaking, this is not true. For evaluating performance, perhaps.

It's tough to even compare Andrews vs. the rest of America's 800 runners who choked at Pre because Robby Andrews was looking to peak for NCAAs after a long season of tune ups. The rest of the 800 elites haven't had a whole season to tune up, and arguably get tired like some say the NCAA season does to athletes. It should be a good 800 race for the US title and the World Champs spots.

THREE American collegians at 1:44.7!

It's tough to even compare Andrews vs. the rest of America's 800 runners who choked at Pre because Robby Andrews was looking to peak for NCAAs after a long season of tune ups. The rest of the 800 elites haven't had a whole season to tune up, and arguably get tired like some say the NCAA season does to athletes. It should be a good 800 race for the US title and the World Champs spots.

Do you really believe this?

Andrews had not run a scratch race faster than his semi into this one? he is just getting going, missed all of Indoors ran a couple of 1:49's , monster split at Penn and a 3:40.xx 1500.

Andrews is clearly looking past NCAAs in which he dispatched a great field with only a seasonal best of 1:46.99 run in a pre lim, on Wednesday.

I said he would make this year's world team, no rocket science there, he may not, the event is pretty unpredictable, but the futire of 800M running doesn't look so bad right now.

Jock under 1:45.00

Primm already under, rough day today

Greer and Loxsom right there only a step and a meter away from 1:44.xx

Loxsom also a college soph, cannot ask much more from him either.

race also went out in 49xx with Loxsom right there along with Primm. Might have just been a little too fast at the start. Everyone has a bad today and Primm just didn't run well today. But he will be back.

I hope that one Alan Webb is paying attention. If he needed another reason why Jason Vigilante should be his coach, he just saw it today. Remember that Andrews has been coming back from injury this season.

Great job by both athlete and coach.

The only thing you need to do is look at the guy's splits who did not go out in sub 51.00 which optimally is little too fast for all these guys at the level they are at really. 49.85 for Jock(4.9+) just a hair too quick 50.10 Loxsom(+5.22) actually held on really well for how fast he was out. I doubt he was ever out that fast in an 800M.

Not ridiculously unbalanced, but who is the only guy who cannot run 46.2 or better for relay but can run 3:40.xx

Andrews? (+2.43?)

For anyone who thinks you kick off speed and not strength take a look at those splits.Andrews is .7 to the good of the field in last 200 , and there is not another guy in the field that can run 3:43, I don't think , but I would think 7 out of 8 have 4 x 4 splits that are faster?

It was really a very very good College 800 race, one that lived up to billing and hype, they rarely are this good?

I don't know if Andrews will ever run 1:43.5, but I would think he runs 3:33.xx and 1:44.00 or better, within 2 years.

Trialswatcher wrote:

Loxsom also a college soph, cannot ask much more from him either.

Ummm...Andrews is also a sophomore...and so is Greer who beat him...and Brown who finished 5th...

And all of these guys are true sophomores, no redshirting here.

That class is f'ing stacked!

4 sophs in final wrote:

Trialswatcher wrote:

Loxsom also a college soph, cannot ask much more from him either.

Ummm...Andrews is also a sophomore...and so is Greer who beat him...and Brown who finished 5th...

And all of these guys are true sophomores, no redshirting here.

That class is f'ing stacked!

my bad Brown was 7th

don't know why I thought he was 5th

still a great sophomore class though.

i dont think martin and primm peaked too soon.. not if they made the 800 ncaa final. sometimes people can have off days. plus, we all knew there were several guys that could win so if there are that many guys, it can be really easy to get 4th, 5th, or 6th rather than 1st.. so i dont think you can really say they "peaked too soon"

Video????

jojo the calibrated monkey wrote:

van houtte wrote:

1:44.56 > 1:44.71. That's all I'm saying.

math is hard.

HAHA! This deserves Post of the Year. Way to encompass LRC in a nutshell.

great race from many of those guys. brown had dropped so much time in the prelims, never having touched that territory before, so this can happen. did he too go out crazy fast? jock is a stud and he is a good bet to go sub 1:44 in the next couple years. he has plenty of speed for it. andrews is showing that his ceiling is high. anyone who can beat wheating as a freshman is awfully good and this guy hadn't run any 800m particularly fast in his comeback prior to this week. What will happen if he opts for a more aggressive first 400m at USA nationals? Loxsom has plenty of speed. Martin has good speed. Primm already has a 1:44.7 this year. Greer is now an Oly/World A qualifier. How many of these guys will eventually go sub 1:44? With this kind of depth and youth in one event, you have to like our chances to get a 1:42 out of one of them in the next five to six years.

Amazing how many fast 800m runners we have in America right now.

Brown came through 400 in around 4th-5th with what looked like a 50.x or 51low split. Certainly a good 1-3sec. faster than he is used to going out in. But a race is a race and you have to play with what you're given, when Jock takes it out in 48.9-49.1, you're just forced to go with. Solid effort and given that he's only dipped into that sub-46 range once, the struggle was forceable. Better luck next year and go Zips!

Check your splits they are all available

Jock was 49.85, not nearly 48.9 or 49.1 he may have run 700M off that

All the 400 types are or feel forced to go with that 49.85 leader, not the 800/15 type.

Andrews had no panic at 51.14 1.2 back