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

per usual, the uptight Mrr82 has to chime in as a black cloud with some irrelevant criticism of someone making a good natured point that Ches was being virtually anointed as the savior of world running. Mrr82 continues to be a royal douchebag.

Congrats to Edward and especially Lawi. One a confirmed world class talent, the other a soon-to-be world class talent.

Batshitdumur wrote:

I'm a 1:50 800 guy, when I go out in 65 I can kick really hard!!!. When I go out in 49 I struggle kicking as hard and seem to close really slowly. I think I have the same problem you're describing. Or maybe I'm just bat shit dummmmm like you.

If you are a 1:50 guy going out in either 49 or 65 you are the very definition of batshitdumb.

logician wrote:

Some people have trouble kicking off of a fast pace.

Others do not.

Sorry this is hard for you to understand.

Would you say that Bernard Lagat has trouble kicking off a fast pace because he got outkicked in 3:26? I would say he was great kicking off a fast pace, but El Guerrouj was greater that day.

logician wrote:

isisk wrote:

You're a retard. He's not failing at understanding you. He's telling you that everyone has the same chink so it's dumb to even point it out. The faster you run, the slower your kick will be. If you run fast enough, you will not have a kick at all. Learn to read.

Some people have trouble kicking off of a fast pace.

Others do not.

Sorry this is hard for you to understand.

Good god you dweebs! Celebrate the race for what it was, sounds like it was a good one.5

gonchar wrote:

per usual, the uptight Mrr82 has to chime in as a black cloud with some irrelevant criticism of someone making a good natured point that Ches was being virtually anointed as the savior of world running. Mrr82 continues to be a royal douchebag.

Congrats to Edward and especially Lawi. One a confirmed world class talent, the other a soon-to-be world class talent.

Gonchar, you're one of the worst posters in the history of letsrun. There was no good point, it's a fit Lalang we have here. It has nothing to do with pace and everything to do with Lalang being fit unlike Indoors where he had a setback mid season. Ask anyone on our team, he got dusted indoors because he wasn't himself. Once he got fully healthy he's virtually unstoppable on this level at any distance. These are facts. He'd have beat Cheserek on a slow pace as well, which for a fit Lalang this was a slow pace.

Please see yourself out as no one wants you here.

Larry Rawson said leading a race saps 1% of your energy.

J.R. wrote:

Shawn H wrote:

Usually, if two runners are evenly matched, the drafter has the advantage.

I totally disagree with that.

My long time training partner had more speed than me. If I followed him, then he had the advantage unless he set too fast of a pace. The only way for me to have the advantage was to lead, and to run him out before we got to the finish.

The same is true for many others as well, and I think it is quite dumb that more people don't use this tactic.

Oregon 2,3,4 pretty much locked the Ducks for the team title!

Pretty good distance showing by the Pac 12

Lawi ran well and deserved to win. Ches is a freshman and he will be back

Even a thread about a stirring race between a couple of the best distance runners ever to grace the NCAA goes to utter, pointless shit as a result of amazingly juvenile, mindless bickering.

Requiring registration for the board would do away with at least half of this garbage and probably closer to two-thirds. People could remain just as anonymous as they do now, but the tide of bullshit would lessen in force because all but a few people would not be motivated to register a dozen accounts just to be pains in the ass.

Amazingly, this could be done for FREE. Yet these guys are just too naive and seem caught up in the demonstrably stupid idea that an unchecked free-for-all is by definition the best of all boards because anyone can and will have a say.

I am a volunteer assistant coach at a school with a decent program and I can tell you that for every NCAA athlete or coach who is able to tolerate Letsrun, at least two actively hate it, mostly on the women's side. The reasons are understandable.

Anyway, Cheserek seems more competitive at heart than he did in high school, like the fire is burning hotter every time out. He seems to be enjoying himself greatly. He'll own at least two NCAA records within a few years, maybe more given that he will always have a great supporting cast at Oregon (think relays).

Peace, my brothers and sister.

Final Buzzer wrote:

Lawi just became one of my all-time favorite runners, and that goes back four decades. Not just talent, but brains and guts. He's got it all, in spades.

Yeah, he's brilliant. I heard he has a 160 IQ. Ches: 16

Men’s 5000 Meters (6:10pm)

1.Lawi Lalang (SR), Arizona, 13:18.36 [MEET RECORD, CL]

final lap: 56.74

hometown: Eldoret, Kenya

2.Edward Cheserek (FR), Oregon, 13:18.71 [PB]

final lap: 56.84

3.Trevor Dunbar (SR), Oregon, 13:26.90 [PB]

10:45 at 4k, leaders Lalang, Cheserek, Ahmed … 11:18 with two laps to go (64.5 lap) … 12:21 with lap to go (Cheserek, Lalang) …

Oregon finishes 2-3-4 for 19-point pickup. … first time in event history since 1976 that the same school placed three in the top four (Washington State).

New meet record for Lalang, topping Sydney Maree’s 13:20.63 from 1979. … Cheserek also under meet record time. … best times in NCAA history for places: 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 … first race in NCAA history with top eight runners under 13:35 (prior best was 13:40.62 in 2011).

Lalang now No. 4 performer in in-season collegiate history, with eight career NCAA individual titles.

Lalang is the seventh man in Division I history to claim consecutive 5000 meters (or three-mile) titles outdoors, and the first since Chris Solinsky of Wisconsin in 2006 and 2007. … Lalang’s title is Arizona’s sixth in the event, only Oregon and Washington State (8) has more. … Lalang is the all-time (since at least 1982) career top scorer in the event with 34 points (2011 2nd; 2012 3rd; 2013 1st; 2014 1st).

The race featured the past three individual cross country NCAA champs: Lalang (2011), Kithuka (2012) and Cheserek (2013).

Intermediate leaders

1k: Kennedy Kithuka, Texas Tech, 2:39.04

3k: Kithuka, Texas Tech, 8:04.03

Batshitdumur wrote:

logician wrote:

First of all, I think you need to calm down and quit it with the insults.

Second of all, it is quite simple but for some reason you are not getting it. So I will attempt to explain it again.

Some people are better in slower races because they have faster 400m speed.

If you are racing someone that has better speed than you, and you are running at a pace that is relatively slow, and this person is with you at the end of the race, they will outkick you.

If you want to beat this person, you need to soften them up with a faster pace. This will reduce their kick.

I hope I've explained it simply enough now.

Except that's not what you said. You learned from others pointing out how batshitdumb you are why you were wrong.

Nope.

I'm not sure what else you can say other than this was a great race, between great competitors, where each athlete laid it all out on the track. It was a fast race, but not a time trial race. For me it doesn't get much better. There are a lot of factors that influence race outcomes (leading, previous races, etc), but I think some are completely over analyzing an amazing 5k where two guys went to the well from start to finish and were within a half second at the line. I'm just glad I got to watch it.

gonchar wrote:

per usual, the uptight Mrr82 has to chime in as a black cloud with some irrelevant criticism of someone making a good natured point that Ches was being virtually anointed as the savior of world running. Mrr82 continues to be a royal douchebag.

Congrats to Edward and especially Lawi. One a confirmed world class talent, the other a soon-to-be world class talent.

Gonchar and logicless are part of the reason letsrun sucks sometimes.

Ches coming off a 10k closes in 56.8 in a much faster race and it's the chink in his armor. Logicless, Gonchar, please see your way out.

As several others have pointed out using actually logic, running a race at a much faster effort will lead to a slower last lap. That's basic track 101 and is incredibly stupid to state. The fact that someone else closed faster does not mean you're better or worse off a fast pace, it can just simply mean the other guy is better. Lawi being the best miler in the NCAA would suggest he can do pretty well off a slow pace as well.

It always amazes me how unintelligent people on here are, and how much of a diuchebag people like Gonchar are.

What made this race much more exciting than the 10k was the drama over the last lap. The 10k(right or wrong) most people watching could predict that Ches was going to destroy the comp off the pace they were running. However with the pace, and last mile increase of the 5k, then it became a race for the ages!

batshit is not stupid…everyone who used this term please see your way out

In their dreams are the founders and employers of Letsruinrunning.com as classy a human being as Edward Cheserek.

Non sequitur.

Note to A Duck wrote:

Non sequitur.

That it was, but he's still correct.

Asu2themax wrote:

Gonchar and logicless are part of the reason letsrun sucks sometimes.

Ches coming off a 10k closes in 56.8 in a much faster race and it's the chink in his armor. Logicless, Gonchar, please see your way out.

As several others have pointed out using actually logic, running a race at a much faster effort will lead to a slower last lap. That's basic track 101 and is incredibly stupid to state. The fact that someone else closed faster does not mean you're better or worse off a fast pace, it can just simply mean the other guy is better. Lawi being the best miler in the NCAA would suggest he can do pretty well off a slow pace as well.

It always amazes me how unintelligent people on here are, and how much of a diuchebag people like Gonchar are.

Christ

Running a faster pace takes the kick out of the kickers

If you are not as fast of a kicker and you are racing someone that is, then you need to set a faster pace so they won't out sprint you

Do you need me to break this down further?