Rocky Mountain Shootout

If by 25 minutes you mean 26 minutes, then yes, your statement is correct.

1. 442 Adam Peterman FR 1. Colorado 25:55.0 1.

2. 439 Jake Hurysz SR 2. Colorado 25:55.2 2.

3. 424 Zach Perrin 0. Unattached 25:55.4 --

4. 423 Morgan Pearson 0. Unattached 25:55.7 --

5. 441 Pierce Murphy JR 3. Colorado 25:55.9 3.

6. 440 Ammar Moussa JR 4. Colorado 25:56.5 4.

7. 443 Blake Theroux SR 5. Colorado 26:03.6 5.

8. 434 Lee Troop 1. Boulder Track Club 26:03.7 --

9. 444 Connor Winter JR 6. Colorado 26:41.3 6.

10. 422 Christian Martin SO 0. Unattached 27:11.0 --

11. 433 Curtis Begley 2. Boulder Track Club 27:49.7 --

12. 466 Tobias Albrigtsen 0. Unattached 28:36.4 --

13. 452 Graham Frank SR 1. Colorado College 28:41.4 7.

14. 427 Tyler Scholl 0. Unattached 28:44.4 --

15. 421 Charles Lucero 0. Unattached 29:01.2 --

16. 456 Conor Terhune SO 2. Colorado College 29:26.4 8.

17. 453 Tucker Hampson JR 3. Colorado College 29:41.6 9.

18. 472 Joey Schultz 0. Unattached 29:49.2 --

19. 455 Jacob Rothman SO 4. Colorado College 29:57.1 10.

20. 467 Andy Boyle 0. Unattached 30:10.3 --

21. 474 Bradley Ziegler 0. Unattached 30:34.0 --

22. 475 Ryan Faulkner 0. Unattached 31:21.4 --

23. 450 Ryan Bing SO 5. Colorado College 31:39.4 11.

24. 451 Ezra Coopersmith SO 6. Colorado College 32:04.7 12.

25. 477 Andrew Armiger 0. Unattached 33:17.2 --

26. 470 Steven Moses 0. Unattached 34:16.2 --

27. 426 Shawn Scholl 0. Unattached 35:31.2 --

28. 468 Dan Palken 0. Unattached 36:59.0 --

29. 471 Dave Derdeyn 0. Unattached 46:59.5 --

Team Results

1. Colorado 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, (6), (0) 15

2. Colorado College 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, (12), (0) 45

If by "Rocky Mountain Shootout", you mean "Alumni Time Trial", then those results are correct.

Shootout results haven't been posted yet.

Those results are from the alumni time trial race. 7 under 25 at the shootout today. Results not yet posted

Two teams? This is nothing but a glorified dual meet. Why does CO even bother putting it on?

1. Blake Theroux 24:23.1

2. Pierce Murphy 24:24.4

3. Ammar Moussa 24:28.1

4. Morgan Pearson (unattached/CU) 24:32.1

5. Ben Saarel 24:43.1

6. Jake Hurysz 24:51.5

7. Connor Winter 24:52.9

14. Zach Perrin (unnattached/CU) 25:48

17. Adam Peterman 26:01

https://twitter.com/dlehn/status/518441607352561664

If anyone knows this course, that is absolutely unreal

Not only are those crazy times, they could have been even crazier. Pearson ran to the front from the gun -- he had a lead of a few seconds less than a minute into the race -- and had a sizable gap through three miles (14:27 vs. 14:42 or so) before the other three rolled him, and it's not as if he died miserably (10:05 for the last 2 miles of that course is actually pretty consistent with ~ 4:50 pace for the first three).

If this team merely maintains its form and doesn't get bitten by injuries, they will win NCAAs in a blowout.

Here is the official writeup for the shootout-

http://www.cubuffs.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=600&ATCLID=209696989

Sounds like all the times were helped by the best weather EVER for the race.

On the women's side, congrats to Buff Erin Clark for winning in the 8th fastest time ever.

If those times are for real this is the best team ever for CU.

Well above any performance at this meet. Typically there is one and maybe two runners under 25. This is just crazy. The weather was cool today which certainly made it a little faster but this is insane.

Typically running sub 25:30 at this meet sets you up with a vary good chance of being an All-American.

Jessica Biel wrote:

Not only are those crazy times, they could have been even crazier. Pearson ran to the front from the gun -- he had a lead of a few seconds less than a minute into the race -- and had a sizable gap through three miles (14:27 vs. 14:42 or so) before the other three rolled him, and it's not as if he died miserably (10:05 for the last 2 miles of that course is actually pretty consistent with ~ 4:50 pace for the first three).

If this team merely maintains its form and doesn't get bitten by injuries, they will win NCAAs in a blowout.

Would make sense if Pearson redshirted this year though and line up one last hurrah with the core of this group next year. Looks like they might be heading that way since they are so deep anyways. Big result from Moussa here, probably his best race as a Buff

We raced in Denver today. Conditions were not bad but they were no where near ideal. We have had three races so far this season with better conditions. Now if race was before 7:30 then I stand corrected but temp jumped from 37- 65 from 7:30 to 10:00 with barometric pressure dropping during this time. Course we ran was slower this year than in last few years. So with Boulder only 40 min away I can not imagine conditions that much better.

Now 65 is not based temp at all but the rising temps made it feel hotter. Those times by CU were smoking under the best conditions. Holy cow!!!

Not probably--vastly Moussa's best effort at any time and any place. Anyone know what's going on with Saarel?

buffs the vampire slayers wrote:

Would make sense if Pearson redshirted this year though and line up one last hurrah with the core of this group next year. Looks like they might be heading that way since they are so deep anyways. Big result from Moussa here, probably his best race as a Buff

True. I don't know how the process works, though -- could Pearson in theory come back and run varsity for the rest of the season? I guess that's a dumb or at least moot question given that, if that was the plan, he surely would have been in a CU uniform today.

I have been to numerous Shootouts and as good as some Buffs squads of the past have been, none of them is even close to the strength of this one. By all appearances, if Wetmore had asked them to go out and run 24:20 as a team with perfect pacing, five of them could have done it.

Sgh wrote:

We raced in Denver today. Conditions were not bad but they were no where near ideal. We have had three races so far this season with better conditions. Now if race was before 7:30 then I stand corrected but temp jumped from 37- 65 from 7:30 to 10:00 with barometric pressure dropping during this time. Course we ran was slower this year than in last few years. So with Boulder only 40 min away I can not imagine conditions that much better.

Now 65 is not based temp at all but the rising temps made it feel hotter. Those times by CU were smoking under the best conditions. Holy cow!!!

We'll we have a saying in Colorado that goes; "if you want different weather wait 30 minutes or go 30 miles".

What are the following PBs on that course?

Adam Goucher

Dathan Ritzenhein

Jorge Torres

Thanks.

Goucher-24:12

Ritz-24:47

Jorge-24:07 (Course Record)

Thearoux, Murphy, Moussa, and Pearson's times are 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th best CU performers of all time respectively.

Very different conditions in Boulder than in Denver then; at 9:16 it was 50 degrees with a dew point of only 37 and light winds (6mph at 10 meters above the ground, so about 5mph at runner level, especially if many trees, and calm before 9am):04 12:16 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 63 36 37% NA NA 30.13 NA 04 11:56 NE 6 10.00 Fair CLR 63 36 37% NA NA 30.13 NA 04 11:36 N 5 10.00 Fair CLR 61 36 39% NA NA 30.14 NA 04 11:16 N 5 10.00 Fair CLR 59 36 42% NA NA 30.14 NA 04 10:56 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 55 34 44% NA NA 30.14 NA 04 10:36 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 55 34 44% NA NA 30.15 NA 04 10:16 N 3 10.00 Fair CLR 54 34 47% NA NA 30.16 NA 04 09:56 N 5 10.00 Fair CLR 52 36 54% NA NA 30.16 NA 04 09:36 N 8 10.00 Fair CLR 52 36 54% NA NA 30.16 NA 04 09:16 N 6 10.00 Fair CLR 50 37 62% 48 NA 30.15 NA 04 08:56 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 46 37 71% NA NA 30.15 NA 04 08:36 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 45 37 76% NA NA 30.16 NA 04 08:16 E 3 10.00 Fair CLR 43 36 76% NA NA 30.16 NA 04 07:56 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 39 36 87% NA NA 30.17 NA 04 07:36 Calm 10.00 Fair CLR 37 36 93% NA NA 30.17 NA

Sgh wrote:

We raced in Denver today. Conditions were not bad but they were no where near ideal. We have had three races so far this season with better conditions. Now if race was before 7:30 then I stand corrected but temp jumped from 37- 65 from 7:30 to 10:00 with barometric pressure dropping during this time. Course we ran was slower this year than in last few years. So with Boulder only 40 min away I can not imagine conditions that much better.

Now 65 is not based temp at all but the rising temps made it feel hotter. Those times by CU were smoking under the best conditions. Holy cow!!!

If interested, the 2nd page of the following shows the list of all the top times- http://www.cubuffs.com/fls/600/cross_country/2014_Info_Guide/44-45_rocky_mountain_shootout.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=600

If interested, the 2nd page of the following shows the list of all the top times- http://www.cubuffs.com/fls/600/cross_country/2014_Info_Guide/44-45_rocky_mountain_shootout.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=600