So what? Top 60 at NCAA XC could easily break 50:00 for 10 miles on the road.
I agree that its not a big deal at all.
Suppose the only countries participating were Japan,Kenya, Ethiopia and Britain or US.
There are at least 50 guys per country that could break 50 minutes for 10 miles, which would put 200 under 50 minutes in that race. The numbers are not impressive.
Claiming that "50 or 60 guys could do it" is not the same as the fact that 80+ guys actually did it.
my high school teamate ran 51:20 for 10 a couple weeks ago, so not really to impressive.
rufruf wrote:
my high school teamate ran 51:20 for 10 a couple weeks ago, so not really to impressive.
what does your teammate being in high school have to do with how impressive it is?
joe mcgruder wrote:
So what? Top 60 at NCAA XC could easily break 50:00 for 10 miles on the road.
A couple times a year the brojos post something implying that Japan has superior depth in distance running to the US, and a bunch of Americans get up in arms over it. who cares. it was a fast race.
no they couldn't wrote:
joe mcgruder wrote:So what? Top 60 at NCAA XC could easily break 50:00 for 10 miles on the road.
Sure they could. 60th place ran 30:25 on grass. Add in all of the milers that don't do xc and I'm sure you'd have an additional 5-20 guys that could do it.
the other chipotle wrote:
A couple times a year the brojos post something implying that Japan has superior depth in distance running to the US, and a bunch of Americans get up in arms over it. who cares. it was a fast race.
+1
I think it's cool that there are all these super-deep races there that almost nobody has heard of. Why turn that into a pissing contest?
surey wrote:
rufruf wrote:my high school teamate ran 51:20 for 10 a couple weeks ago, so not really to impressive.
what does your teammate being in high school have to do with how impressive it is?
Well, if you knew me you wouldn't have to ask. Nobody who is even the least bit impressive has ever been within 20 miles of me.
jsjs wrote:
[quote]no they couldn't wrote:
Sure they could. 60th place ran 30:25 on grass. Add in all of the milers that don't do xc and I'm sure you'd have an additional 5-20 guys that could do it.
Oh, well that's great, but they didn't do it. The point is that this is the most competitive 10 miler, not that some group of guys could theoretically run faster if they were to all get together and run a race. You don't have to bring everything back to Amurica #1.
joe mcgruder wrote:
So what? Top 60 at NCAA XC could easily break 50:00 for 10 miles on the road.
Yes, but Top 200 from 1976 NCAA XC could do it....easily.
28 high school boys ran under 5:00 pace.
50 minutes for ten miles is equivalent to about 31 flat for a road 10K. Assuming that the NCAA XC was about a minute slower than a road 10K (reasonable if you examine the results) you'll see that 131 guys were at this level. Nonetheless, this is an impressively competitive ten miler, as I assume most of the runners were from Japan, whereas NCAAS have more foreign athletes.