Diamond5 wrote:
At the meet wrote:I'm at the meet. He ran 4:11 officially
So is Lukas V done as an elite athlete? Maybe this is karma catching up with him for selfishly abandoning the Oregon cross country team right before nationals.
So if he ran 4:11 and was 60 seconds at 400m and a 70 last 400m like he said, he was 3:01 at 1100m. That would then be a 2:01 middle 700m, which is about 69 pace. So he did splits of approximately 60-69-69-53(last 300m). Could have probably run 65-66 pace or 4:03-4:05 if he had run a smarter first lap.
To the second poster (Diamond5), shut up dog. What about Bernard Lagat abandoning Kenya after competing for Kenya in world championships and two Olympics? That is his home country . Lukas just dropped out of NCAA XC where nobody outside the US gives a crap. This is abandoning your "college" vs abandoning your "country." One clearly trumps the either. Are you also not a Lagat fan, or a fan of anyone who has changed citizenship and competes? But you're probably a Lagat fan, in which case you should calm down a be a Lukas fan. He didn't owe anyone anything, this is college XC where no one cares. He had the chance to leave so he could do a professional sport and pursue the Olympic dream, as would anybody in that situation.