Does anybody know if the course was actually a 5k at the twilight meet? Everybody ran extremely fast, breaking their prs by significant amounts. Also, on the results, the average mile paces don't line up with the final times...for example what was Ariel Keklak's actual mile pace, because a 6:07 page (like it says on the results) is much slower than a 17:25 5k. It just seems odd that everybody ran so fast.
Yeah it's a 5k. They cut through the barn this year and added some distance on the fields to make it a 5k, I think the pacing was just a timing error. People ran faster on the old course (Hogan, Stafford, and Gonser), and they raced tactically last year so that's why nobody broke 15:30. Keklak is an animal on the course so that 17:25 is extremely legit.
Many of the times are faster for the mid-pack runners too. Runners that struggle to break 6 minute pace on a normal day ran around 5:30 pace. That's a significant jump.
Mr. OAR wrote:
Yeah it's a 5k. They cut through the barn this year and added some distance on the fields to make it a 5k, I think the pacing was just a timing error. People ran faster on the old course (Hogan, Stafford, and Gonser), and they raced tactically last year so that's why nobody broke 15:30. Keklak is an animal on the course so that 17:25 is extremely legit.
It's obvious by the times that the course was short, which, is somewhat pathetic. It's like "dunking" on a 9' high basketball hoop.