Soratos Opens Outdoor Season

Download the NCAA altitude conversion program, awesome tool.

Closest on the calculator to 7,382 (elevation of Mexico City) is 7163 (elevation of Laramie, Wyoming). According to the NCAA Calculator @ 7,163ft -> Sealevel:

14:05 -> 13:24.79

29:05 -> 27:28.2

8:50 -> 8:26.49

I walked up to meet right as the 800 started on friday evening, was contemplating running the 5000 myself but from the seed times the coach gave me i thought i'd be embarrassing myself, although i would have finished at least 2-3 spots from the back. i had no idea soratos was running until the announced some names over the PA, wish I would have gotten in earlier to watch closer. the U's track facility is gorgeous, they need a goddamn men's team back.

Hold on.

Wasn't this new phenom in a boot for a stress fracture or stress reaction the last 4 weeks?

And if so, racing now, and doubling seems nuts.

If anyone knows the story, please comment.

His coaches tripled him during indoors, hopefully they know they have a gem and will figure out the smartest and healthiest path to NCAA's and post collegiate racing .

Do the right thing!!

ghwatchcoach wrote:

Hold on.

Wasn't this new phenom in a boot for a stress fracture or stress reaction the last 4 weeks?

And if so, racing now, and doubling seems nuts.

If anyone knows the story, please comment.

His coaches tripled him during indoors, hopefully they know they have a gem and will figure out the smartest and healthiest path to NCAA's and post collegiate racing .

Do the right thing!!

Seriously, take German Fernandez as a note and all he's had to go through

They need to be a lot more conservative with this guy, especially if he's a senior and trying to find a shoe contract

He stubbed his pinky toe. It was sore. He was only in a boot for a few days.

asterisky wrote:

he has a sea level showdown coming up Friday night with an interesting roster (Lomong, Noelle, GF, etc)

Event 150 Men's 1500 Meter Run INV -A

Friday 4/17/2015 - 6:39 PM

What happened in this race?

Event 150 Men 1500 Meter Run INV -A C/O

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Name Year Team Finals

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Finals

1 Michael Atchoo Strava TC 3:40.47

2 Cristian Soratos Montana State 3:41.17

3 Eric Avila HOKA One One 3:41.35

4 Matt Hughes Canada 3:41.49

5 Tamas Kazi Santa Monica TC 3:41.71

6 Zak Seddon Florida State 3:42.02

7 Kemoy Campbell Arkansas 3:42.30

8 Jonathan Peterson Team USA Minnesota 3:44.90

9 Johan Rogestedt Hälle IF 3:46.76

10 Daniel Herrera UCLA 3:48.82

11 Valentin Pepiot Academy of Art 3:51.49

12 Felix Kitur Santa Monica TC 3:54.69

malmo wrote:

Dial it up wrote:

Nope 2nd wasn't bad, it was excellent. However, watching him race, he is more like a freshman than a senior. The more experience he gets racing the top guys, the better. As for what he should have tried at indoor nats that would have been better? Anything, literally anything else.

How disappointed he race like a freshman? He ran brilliantly at nationals and was beaten by a better runner, who by the way, ran the exact same splits.

I'm pretty sure that first sentence isn't english so I'll move on to the second. Ches ran the same splits(not really, he ran faster) because he sat on Soratos while he wore himself out and easily cruised by him. He took his chances of victory from 5% to 0% with those tactics.

Dial it up wrote:

malmo wrote:

How disappointed he race like a freshman? He ran brilliantly at nationals and was beaten by a better runner, who by the way, ran the exact same splits.

I'm pretty sure that first sentence isn't english so I'll move on to the second. Ches ran the same splits(not really, he ran faster) because he sat on Soratos while he wore himself out and easily cruised by him. He took his chances of victory from 5% to 0% with those tactics.

The better plan would have been to sit and kick on cheserek because that is a proven winner

Gotthosehindsitespecson wrote:

Dial it up wrote:

I'm pretty sure that first sentence isn't english so I'll move on to the second. Ches ran the same splits(not really, he ran faster) because he sat on Soratos while he wore himself out and easily cruised by him. He took his chances of victory from 5% to 0% with those tactics.

The better plan would have been to sit and kick on cheserek because that is a proven winner

Can you beat Cheserek in a mile?

No

Can you beat Cheserekin a 1500?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 1200?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 1000?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in an 800?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 600?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 500?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 400?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 300?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 200?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 150?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 100?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 50?

No

Can you beat Cheserek in a 25m race?

Maybe, but it's your best shot.

Honestly I feel like 90% of poster's here have either never won a race in their life or have only won races where they were 15 seconds faster than the next fastest hobby jogger.

If you have to race someone who is significantly better than you, your chances of winning dramatically increase the shorter the length of the actual race. If you can force Cheserek to try and outkick you in the last 200 and you have 47 400 speed like Sorotos does, you stand a much better chance at winning than randomly throwing a 53 into the middle of the race.

At this point it seems like the only way Ches will lose is if Jenkins is in the race or Ches waits until the last 100 to kick and then celebrates 50m later like his teammate did.