List of unbelieveable performances today - 1/26/2013

Indeed!

Share the joy.

Hope someone posts a phonevid or something of Rupp's run.

Once every 5400 years or so there is a rare astronomical event in which the earth is at one end of an alignment of multiple astronomical objects (most notably Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, our largest planet neighbors).

Today is the day for the height of this alignment to occur. A physicist friend of mine who studies such events and how they affect the earth, informs me that this alignment reduces the effect of gravity as its felt on Earth by 0.615%. This is not large enough to be noticed or felt by anyone or have any real implications on life on Earth. I assume this is why the science media doesn't even report on it.

But when looked at in the world of athletics, particularly the world of track in field it may be important. This small change is like Galen Rupp suddendly being a 1.5 pounds lighter, but with the same power and muscle strength as before. In a world class athlete such a reduction can make a big difference, such as several seconds in a mile race.

I just exchanged e-mails with friends he agrees that this is probably the reason so many great track & field performance were delivered today. These same athletes would not likely be able to duplicate these performances in a few days, when the event has completely passed.

I'd be impressed if someone could tell me how many collegiate guys subbed 4 today, seems loads have.

Combining two threads into one. Here is what LAC wrote:

600:

Duane Solomon: 1:15.70 (US Record)

Cas Loxsom 1:15.7

Dai Greene 1:16.22 (GBR Record)

Andrew Osagie 1:16.76

1500:

Matthew Centrowitz 3:40.27

Mile:

Galen Rupp 3:50.92 (2nd Fastest American, 5th All time)

Other Sub 4s:

Patrick Casey 3:56.28

David McCarthy 3:57.22

Riley Masters 3:57.74

Eric Jenkins 3:58.11

Kirubel Erassa 3:58.24

Mattew Gillespie 3:58.55

Joseph Stilin 3:58.66

Andrew Poore 3:58.85

De’Sean Turner 3:59.17

Fabian Clarkson 3:59.47

Shane Moskowitz 3:59.48

Rich Peters 3:59.57

Ben Hubers 3:59.83

Oklahoma State with 5 sub 4s.

Mary Cain 4:32.78 (High School Record)

3000:

Lawi Lalang 7:42.79 (3rd fastest collegiate all time)

Bernard Lagat 7:53.36 (25.xx last lap)

5000:

Emily Sisson 15:44.40

4x200

Penn State 1:24.70 (Collegiate Record)

Probably missing a few. Just so everything is in one place.

A few more from the other thread:

Come on mayne wrote:

Sheila Reid 4:30.41 Mile. PR by 5ish seconds.

and

stopwatchrunner wrote:

Donn Cabral ran a 1:50 800 as well. A pretty darn good showing for only his second race of the season.

*Rupp running 3:50.92 to put himself fifth on the All-TIme Indoor MIle list, and just to say he split 3:34.78 en route to his incredible mile run, showing he has the tools to run with the best in the world at the 5 and 10k and best in America at the 1500m.

*Cain running 4:32 to beat Decker Slaney's former indoor record by 6 seconds.

*Solomon running 1:15.70 to beat out a 27-year old indoor American record for the 600m event.

*Cas Loxsom also running under the previous 27-year old mark, running 1:15.79 to go under the record that stood until about 5 hours prior by one-hundredths of a second, if it had been a day earlier he would have been the American record holder. Insane.

Notable mention also go to Lawi Lalang for opening up with an impressive 7:42 3000m solo run.. And unfortunately for Centrowitz not quite having the season opener of his dreams, as he only ran 3:40.27 for the 1500 meters, but considering Rupp, his training partner, ran 3:57 in the mile a week or two ago and has come back to run 3:50 it's possible this could just have been a rust buster for Centro.

All in all, quite an impressive day and I think the performances speak for that. Hopefully vids for those events come out soon, I know Centro's 1500 and Solomon's 600 are out, but we'll have to wait a little while for the other vids.

not to be nit-picky (which means now i will make a nit-picky statement), but Cabral ran 1:51 if i saw the results right...a great run.

Abby D. 8:55

Hasay 8:57

Was Rupp's 3:50 on regulation track or oversized? Was Lagat's 3:49 on regulation or oversized? If Rupp's was on reg and Lagat's was oversized doesn't that make Rupp's the actual AR?

Both tracks were legal.

What Decker Slaney record are OU referring to?

Heald was the mile record holder and Jennings the 1500.

you, not OU.

Hmmm..... S.I. Finch ... sounds familar

klskldjkdj wrote:

Was Rupp's 3:50 on regulation track or oversized? Was Lagat's 3:49 on regulation or oversized? If Rupp's was on reg and Lagat's was oversized doesn't that make Rupp's the actual AR?

The BU track is 195 meters per lap.

knox harrington wrote:

The BU track is 195 meters per lap.

False. It's 200m.

Brannon Kidder, 3:59.48

knox harrington wrote:

The BU track is 195 meters per lap.

I really wouldn't be surprised if it were 199m or something. Fastest indoor track I've ever been to (faster than Armory). I've heard Arkansas and now Texas A&M are faster though.

S.I. Finch wrote:

Once every 5400 years or so there is a rare astronomical event in which the earth is at one end of an alignment of multiple astronomical objects (most notably Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, our largest planet neighbors).

Today is the day for the height of this alignment to occur. A physicist friend of mine who studies such events and how they affect the earth, informs me that this alignment reduces the effect of gravity as its felt on Earth by 0.615%. This is not large enough to be noticed or felt by anyone or have any real implications on life on Earth. I assume this is why the science media doesn't even report on it.

That, and the fact that not a single word of it is true.

Note the name: S.I. Finch.

As in Sports Illustrated's Sidd Finch - an April Fools joke story and one of the greatest trollings in the modern mainstream media history.