No, just in big time college XC. As a slow runner, I like to see if I would have been able to beat the last person. I never considered running in college (not that they would have wanted me).
No, just in big time college XC. As a slow runner, I like to see if I would have been able to beat the last person. I never considered running in college (not that they would have wanted me).
How slow did the course run, time wise? Any one have an educated guess?
estimate 35 seconds on the women + 5 for each race after gold - it got pretty bad out there.
ace hood wrote:
really, who cares? wrote:Honestly, only Americans go on and on and on about an irrelevant college race like it's the fvcking Olympics. Get over yourselves.
Please tell me where you're from so I can make fun of whatever idiotic sport your country obsesses over.
Thanks.
You've missed my point. I like running and follow it closely, but it's the American obsession with the college sports scene I find absurd. All that ra ra ra, national anthem singing and endless self-congratulation about races that really don't matter that much.
Please let us know which races we're allowed to be interested in for future threats.
How about for the mens? How slow was the time?
YARRRRRR
sheridan? wrote:
so sheridan is running slower than he was in his freshman year? i guess that move to nova is really paying off
I'm pretty sure Sheridan is coming off of an injury which kept him out for part of last year (after he left Iona).
Correct.
feet wrote:
sheridan? wrote:so sheridan is running slower than he was in his freshman year? i guess that move to nova is really paying off
I'm pretty sure Sheridan is coming off of an injury which kept him out for part of last year (after he left Iona).
Correct.
feet wrote:
sheridan? wrote:so sheridan is running slower than he was in his freshman year? i guess that move to nova is really paying off
I'm pretty sure Sheridan is coming off of an injury which kept him out for part of last year (after he left Iona).
You didn't answer the question, why isn't fernandez in the results?
PAUL SHORT MENS OPEN 8K
158 Liz Costello* 5:31 27:55
wow!
mens races too? wrote:
How about for the mens? How slow was the time?
I was thinking I could run 24:45 in the open race and ran 26:00, and finished with a group of people who I'm 90% sure were looking to break 25 as well. We went out only a few seconds under 5:00 and I ran 5:06, 5:28, 5:18 and 5:05 for the last 4 miles. That just shows you how slow the 3rd/4th miles were out there. 10:45 for 2 miles isn't even tempo pace.
So I would say around 60s slow. The middle miles of the course were so beat up and many of the 90 degree turns are slanted and caused you to almost come to a stand still to turn. Not to mention how soft the whole rest of the course was.
I heard that the course actually dried up nicely through the day, so after the Men's Gold race the course actually got faster.
The real question is who is this guy Chelimo that won and how good does this win indicate he can be? Top 25 or so at NCAAs?
I think that you were over estimating your fitness. Honestly, there is no way that the course was running a full minute slower than if it was dry. I've run the course many many times in all sorts of conditions and have never had a minute swing. The weather did get nicer as the day went on but the course was getting more tore up too. This is XC though so times are irrelevant, everyone has to deal with the same conditions.
rnn1ngf00l wrote:
mens races too? wrote:How about for the mens? How slow was the time?
...I heard that the course actually dried up nicely through the day, so after the Men's Gold race the course actually got faster.
...lol...you sound a bit delusional about your fitness...sometimes its just not your day man
shit!!!who is this guy chelimo!!!????he can be a threat>
another day, another race wrote:
I think that you were over estimating your fitness. Honestly, there is no way that the course was running a full minute slower than if it was dry. I've run the course many many times in all sorts of conditions and have never had a minute swing. The weather did get nicer as the day went on but the course was getting more tore up too. This is XC though so times are irrelevant, everyone has to deal with the same conditions.
Actaully, the course was running about 18-22 seconds slower last year(ie gold to gold brown to brown). This correction does however assume that the fields were approximately equal year to year, and corrects the place for # of entrants in each race.
Considering last year was far from perfect conditions, and this year was even slower, I would have no problem in the statement that the course ran 45-55 seconds slower than on an absolutely ideal day.
That said, times dont really matter in XC.