Kansas men packed over Indiana. Michigan women outkick Toledo at Rim Rock Invite

College Running

11 years ago 09/29/2012 3:31pm EDT

Kansas men ran together as a pack the entire race and put five guys within aboun 8-seconds to defeat the #11 Indiana Hoosiers. The race was blown open by Texas Tech's Kennedy Kethucka who has to be a favorite for the NCAA title. This is a very tough place to race. Great to see such a solid team effort for the Jayhawks. Looks like Kansas is way better than unranked and maybe Indiana isn't the #11 team in the nation.

Women's race was gritty between #11 Michigan and #22 Toledo. After the covered bridge at 5k it appeared that Toledo was winning but in the final straight, the 4-5-6 of Michigan passed the 4-5 for Toledo and that was the difference. Furious finish by the Addison girl the last 200m. I cannot imagine there are 11 teams between these two programs.

Overall a great meet and I'm so proud to see inter-regional competition return to Rim Rock. So much tradition at this place. This is a tough course but fair!

11 years ago 09/29/2012 4:56pm EDT

re: KU/KSU alum

Ummm, thanks for the recap but no one is beating Lawi Lalang for the men's individual title, unless it's his teammate Stephen Sambu.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 5:37pm EDT

re: riley stops

Kithuka has some very good credentials. He will be up with the AZ boys.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 5:53pm EDT

re: African Champs

Kennedy Kithuka 13:28 last year. Expect BIG things from him this year,

11 years ago 09/29/2012 5:54pm EDT

re: riley stops

riley stops wrote:
Ummm, thanks for the recap but no one is beating Lawi Lalang for the men's individual title, unless it's his teammate Stephen Sambu.

I will reiterate the above someone with a 28:18 10k pr and 13:28 5k pr is not going to beat lawi (13:08i) Sambu (27:28) or Mo Ahmed (27:34). Individual title wil come down to those three

11 years ago 09/29/2012 6:15pm EDT

re: KU/KSU alum

Course was not tough. All the hills were removed but one. Also, looking at the results I suspect it was about 150m short as well. This 8k format has never been run before and I think they misjudged the correct distance it would make. Still a great run by Kithuka but not what you make it out to be. Women's 6k seemed about right though also flat with one hill.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 6:52pm EDT

re: midwest region

You are clueless! You obviously know nothing about the Rim Rock course. It is anything but flat. It is probably one of the hilliest courses in the country.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 7:02pm EDT

re: midwest region

They don't even mow a course that doesn't have hills, they do have a short cut mowed right before you enter the woods ( girls 4k I assume) and have the huge downhill into the coveered bridge followed by an uphill, but even with that you have a load of hills no matter what.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 7:19pm EDT

re: GetReal

check the new course format wise guy. They are staying on the top side for pretty much the whole race. Only real hill is after the covered bridge with 1k to go. They are trying to host regionals and other big meets so they cut out almost all the hills to entice people to come back.

11 years ago 09/29/2012 8:49pm EDT

re: midwest region

It was very hilly. Uphill start. Uphill to 1k. Uphill to 4k. Uphill. Uphill. Uphill. Womens course same. Very hilly.

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