Anyone have updates from the Princeton meet?
Anyone have updates from the Princeton meet?
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Can't give anything especially specific, but...
VT women won the women's championship race, both individually and as a team. Today the men's and women's courses differed only by the addition of a third, ~1800m loop for the men, so the women's course was probably ~6200m.
Thomas Awad won the men's race in 23:59, Villanova won the team race by finishing all five scorers at 24:20.
I never ran this course in college, how fast is it? Times overall seem very quick.
Keystone Ice wrote:
I never ran this course in college, how fast is it? Times overall seem very quick.
Quick, it's mildly undulating, particularly on the back of the loop which the men do 3 times but overall it's a quick course with just the sharp bends to knock your pace. But generally its short grassy trail loops of corn and soy bean fields and then a loop in the playing fields. Today was dry underfoot, a slight wind, but generally good conditions.
Results for all four races are on the princeton tigers website.
First, apologies for getting VT as the winner of the women's race rather than Villanova. Villanova looked close, and I should have mentioned that they did well, but I must have missed their fourth or fifth runner. Or just checked the official results sometime while I was at the meet.
Keystone Ice wrote:
I never ran this course in college, how fast is it? Times overall seem very quick.
It's definitely a pretty fast course. The surface is almost entirely well manicured grass and most of the turns aren't particularly tight. There's a hill that's run twice a little before the mile and three mile, but it's pretty gradual and immediately followed by a downhill section. This is then followed by the bigger hill (run three times for the men, twice for the women), which is pretty gradual except for the last stretch.
At the course website (http://www.goprincetontigers.com/fls/10600/XC_Course_Site/XCcourses3.html?DB_OEM_ID=10600) you can look at the course maps and the elevation profile for the main loop. I'd say it exaggerates the size of the second hill - I have a hard time believing it's around 40 feet high.
Keystone Ice wrote:
I never ran this course in college, how fast is it? Times overall seem very quick.
Very flat course, slightly short as well (60 meters or so)