In Wetmore's early 1990s days CU used to hammer this opener at the Boulder Rez when they held the time trials there, but this first practice race has been de-emphasized as a group tempo for ten years or so. The course record for this 5.8K for the best CU girls is in 19s (Goucher, Barringer), so check back in October at the Rocky Mtn. Shoot-out when things heat up.
Should also point out that this course isn't really considered an easy course; even for a tempo.
This is impressive, the course is a challenge
My god, some of you guys are idiots. I can guarantee what happened. The CU girls treated the time trial as a tempo AS ALWAYS, and the high school girl treated it like a race. The CU squad would not try to beat her out of pride, it's precisely because they have pride that they wouldn't try to beat her. They have more important things to worry about than beating someone who doesn't matter when it doesn't matter.
That said, it's still impressive that a high schooler was able to run that kind of time on that course.
justaguess wrote:
Seems like unless the coaches said "don't run faster than xx:xx", the CU trio finishing in 22:04 would have run 10 seconds faster out of pride to win the race.
To me it seems like they stuck to the orders by their coach.
Didn't Niwot have a race this weekend? Why was she at this thing? Just to show up some CU runners at a "meet" they don't race?