Grant Fisher - 7:50.06 3K @ Husky, wins fastest section

Frant Gisher wrote:

winning is everything wrote:

Here is the race:

http://www.flotrack.org/video/922126-tasty-race-grant-fisher-takes-down-ncaa-field-in-the-3k

Probably one of the worst calls of a track race I have ever heard.

But congrats to Grant for a great race - looking forward to seeing what he can do over the next several years.

"I don't think that's Kentucky" made me lol.

cwarcarblue11 wrote:

anon wrote:

They went through a mile at 4:17-4:19 and closed their last 1k in 2:30. Ran around 4:03 for the last mile.

Not true. From the video, it looks like they pass the halfway mark in 3:55, meaning even splits.

Still a very impressive performance, especially since he's planning on peaking for outdoor season. He should be able to break 3:38 OT standard. Hey, Ryun's 3:36.1 is a fairly soft record (mile seems untouchable though)

I was standing on the track watching to splits. In the video you can see when they pass the kid holding the blinking light. The pacer was slow they were supposed to go through in 4:10-4:12, he couldn't even make it to a mile.

Grant's splits were:

63.mid

2:08 (65)

3:13 (65)

4:18 (65)

5:18 (60)

6:19 (61)

7:20 (61)

7:50.06

cwarcarblue11 wrote:

anon wrote:

They went through a mile at 4:17-4:19 and closed their last 1k in 2:30. Ran around 4:03 for the last mile.

Not true. From the video, it looks like they pass the halfway mark in 3:55, meaning even splits.

Still a very impressive performance, especially since he's planning on peaking for outdoor season. He should be able to break 3:38 OT standard. Hey, Ryun's 3:36.1 is a fairly soft record (mile seems untouchable though)

Actually the guy that said 4:17-:19 is pretty close. Plus another poster just posted splits, so case closed. But, for the sake of helping you use logic... "From the video", notice they start at the beginning of the backstretch (actually a bit setback from the tangent point). This is because the track is longer than 300m (307m?). So the halfway point would logically be just a touch before the top of the turn with just under 5 laps to go. The leader crossed that approximate point at 4:00. So that's what, a 4:18-:19 mile? (Exactly what the poster above states.) So yeah, his last mile was likely no slower than 4:04, depending on where they truly shifted from 4:19 pace to low-4:00 pace.

Oh lord, whoever that woman was commentating was so annoying, made me want to just mute the video and watch. Such an idiot

Then she claimed it was a little bit slower than the heat before when it was 8 seconds faster. Quality commentating.

It was unreal the announcers doing races do not know where the split lines are, it was horrific in Wash and in Iowa

It was pretty painful to sit through those eight minutes. Unlike when people on these boards criticize collegians and pros and high school superstars, I think just about anyone could actually have picked up a microphone and been far more competent.

The announcers were Phoebe Wright and Riley Masters.