Wow Wow Wow!! The greatest 5000 in NCAA history. Lawi comes back on Ches!!! NCAA Record. UO goes 2-3-4!!!

i was SO happy for Lawi. i was SCREAMING at my computer screen for him. he did all the work and chez just stuck to him like glue. to see him come back on chez like that after taking the pace was phenomenal. GO LAWI!

vampgaze wrote:

i was SO happy for Lawi. i was SCREAMING at my computer screen for him. he did all the work and chez just stuck to him like glue. to see him come back on chez like that after taking the pace was phenomenal. GO LAWI!

So was I! He ran amazingly well!

GO LAWI!

someone want to put at least the finish up on youtube for those of us who are unlucky enough not to have ESPNU? Please??????

Wow!! That was the most exciting race I've ever seen. Adrenaline is still pumping. Wow

What a great, great race. Congratulations to both of them!

And Degfae outkicks the guy from Harvard, that's karma!

Ches is a fantastic runner, but he does really weird stuff with his hands. Adjusting his singlet when they are running nearly all-out, windmilling his arms during the final sprint.... It's like he has runner's Tourettes or something.

Lawi is a tribute to guts in running, period.

And Dunbar....WOW.

A lot of break throughout. Dunbar has been on fire. 13:40 was his pr coming into this year, 13:32 before this race.

The Rosas has a great meet as well, both always had enormous potential and both finally seem like they might put it together.

Jenkins is coming along. Not too far off last year in what was probably the only time all season he's gone all out.

I'm glad Lawi won after leading for so much of the race.

It looks like we have found a chink in Cheserek's armor.

If the pace is fast, he is vulnerable, as we saw in the pac 12 1500.

Good run by both Lawi & Edward. Both under the old NCAA championship record.

It would have been nice to at least see the finish of 3rd place on back...even in the replay of the finish it was just Lalang and Ches..

Cheserek had it coming, the bum. Lalang has run 13 flat and is waaaay above his level, and proved it by leading the whole way and then outkicking him anyway.

How is 13:18 the NCAA record? That's pretty bad considering how long the Kenyans have been involved. And no it's not the best race you've ever seen, once you and that random stranger in the stands calm down a bit.

Ches looked so drunk the last 50.

Took down a 25 year NCAA meet record as well:

NCAA Meet Sydney Maree - Villanova 13:20.63 6/2/1979

logician wrote:

I'm glad Lawi won after leading for so much of the race.

It looks like we have found a chink in Cheserek's armor.

If the pace is fast, he is vulnerable, as we saw in the pac 12 1500.

Good run by both Lawi & Edward. Both under the old NCAA championship record.

Um no, stop smoking crack. There is no chink is his armour, there is just a man named Lawi who when fit is better than ches. 3:33 and 13:00 last year is no joke.

Henry Rono.... 1308 in a college triangle meet in 1978, best 5000. Lalang beat Sydney Maree's meet record of 1320 which he set by kicking past Rudy Chapa. Maree still holds 1500 meet record.

Lawi still has one more race so his career isn't over. Unless you just mean 5000M racing.

logician wrote:

It looks like we have found a chink in Cheserek's armor.

If the pace is fast, he is vulnerable, as we saw in the pac 12 1500.

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Isn't that the chink in everyone's armor? No one has a good kick when they run close to their PR ability.

Chink in Chez's armor? He just ran a hard 10k two days ago. Lawi ran a sub max 1500 heat prior to this race. Lawi should have won. It was a minor miracle Chez broke the meet record. Maybe major miracle. It was a 35 year old record.