Lawi you may have not won the mile but you've got my respect

I thought he ran a little stupid bolting to the front in the first lap.

Rojo posting drunk, love it.

i mean its cool watching him go for and he is quite smooth but that guy has zero tactics. He'll never make it at the world level racing like that. I mean seriously go watch some of Bernard Lagat's races. Yes, he's incredibly talented and fast but HE also seriously knows how to race. Like flawless executing almost every championship race. That kind of race smarts and instincts is what it takes to succeed in the middle distances.

Jeremy rae ran 3:57 in early feb. and finishes 9th... feel bad for him!

A little Lalang sphincter smooching going on.

How many times have we read the brojo's talk about how the person who leads the race the most rarely wins the race?

Smooch, smooch, smooch.

Still crushed all of the Oregon runners in the field.

Just an observation. He clearly could have chased Cheserek hard in the last 400M yesterday but he didn't. Today he finishes 2nd but he beats a very good Mac Fleet. I get the sense Lawi is running very intelligently and within himself to maximize points this weekend.

A Duck you know I love you (go ducks!), but this is a classy post by Rojo recognizing a great runner.

Wow, absolutely zero tactics. He takes it out hard after having already doubled up with the 5k yesterday AND he has the 3k later tonight. Cheserek is going to destroy him in the 3k even worse than he did in the 5k.

If it's presented as a failure it's only because lawi has set the bar so high. People will have problems from time to time. Two 2nd place finishes at NCAA's (so far) is nothing to be ashamed of. Who knows how fast Ches will run this year. If this is any indication....it's that we have seen nothing yet.

Yea, going for it is cool but his execution if fvcking awful.

If you are going to try and triple you absolutely have to conserve energy unless you are a 13:20 guy running in a HS state meet or something. He has taken every race out hard and led plenty of it. Dumb, even if it is fun to watch some aggressive front running now and again...its not how you execute a triple.

Rojo-Please post this in the "Official 2014 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Day 2 thread" instead of making a new thread please. We are trying to keep these boards clear.

It's true that his attempt is admirable, but your post more/less says "Well, he tried." It's true he hasn't quite seemed like himself at these championships so far. Heck, he's a 3:52 miler and yet he only managed to close this 4:02 in 59. But it could've been much worse.

I agree fully rojo. Even a triple top-3 finish would be incredible and would be worth more than 20 points. I can't even fathom how he's running all these races.

LOL that the LetsRun tactics experts are all out again. Sometimes having to use a really fast kick takes more out of you than trying to break the field early and hoping for a slower finish.

heyyo wrote:

i mean its cool watching him go for and he is quite smooth but that guy has zero tactics. He'll never make it at the world level racing like that. I mean seriously go watch some of Bernard Lagat's races. Yes, he's incredibly talented and fast but HE also seriously knows how to race. Like flawless executing almost every championship race. That kind of race smarts and instincts is what it takes to succeed in the middle distances.

Lawi is way doing way better in the NCAA than Lagat ever did.

He scratched in 3k.

LM wrote:

Yea, going for it is cool but his execution if fvcking awful.

If you are going to try and triple you absolutely have to conserve energy unless you are a 13:20 guy running in a HS state meet or something.

Oh you mean like his 13:00 PR?

pretty stupid if you ask me, to run 3 distance races at Altitude, plus a aqualifier!

Grandiose attidute costed him!

BTW...anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?

BTW II....reminds me of the No Más Fight? What a Pus*y!

A Duck wrote:

A little Lalang sphincter smooching going on.

How many times have we read the brojo's talk about how the person who leads the race the most rarely wins the race?

Smooch, smooch, smooch.

Settle down chump.