No love for Simplot today?

I don't care about high school running

When they call it "Simplot Games" which nobody fcckeing know what it is, they get no coverage.

WTF is Simplot???

I giant meet including all of the western states (aka all the fast distance runners)

I just gave them some love.

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=8066807

4fainfxg wrote:

When they call it "Simplot Games" which nobody fcckeing know what it is, they get no coverage.

WTF is Simplot???

The J. R. Simplot Company was founded in 1929 by 20-year-old John Richard Simplot near the small agricultural community of Declo in south central Idaho. Wikipedia

waaaaaaaaaa my meet didn't get mentioned on letsrun

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Remember J.R. Simplot every time you eat McD's French fries....

You gotta admit. It's pretty uncommon for someone to run 8:52 at elevation, someone else run 4:48, get two sub-10 1600's, a 2:10 800, three girls run 10:44, get two guys sub 1:55 in the 800, and have 18 people sub 2 and have it not mentioned on letsrun. All of these are at pretty high elevation. After altitude conversions, these times are pretty freaking fast.

Jayordon wrote:

You gotta admit. It's pretty uncommon for someone to run 8:52 at elevation, someone else run 4:48, get two sub-10 1600's, a 2:10 800, three girls run 10:44, get two guys sub 1:55 in the 800, and have 18 people sub 2 and have it not mentioned on letsrun. All of these are at pretty high elevation. After altitude conversions, these times are pretty freaking fast.

OR it proves that altitude conversions aren't worth anything.

Also this is letsrun. Most people don't care about HS running at the level you're talking about.

Hey man I ran a 3:40 mile at 13,000 feet.

The Simpleton Games.

I love SimpleLot.

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7/10 trolling is real

SimplotEnthusiast wrote:

On the boys side, Casey Clinger set a new Simplot Games record for the 3200 with a US#1 8:54.97. Talon Hull set a new Simplot Games record for the 1600 (besting Slagowski's record from last year) with a new US#2 4:08.78.

On the girls side, Grace Ping got out leaned by Annie Hill and Camila Noe (all three crossing in the 10:44s, good for US#5-7). In the 1600, NXN champ Brie Oakley just missed the Simplot record but still ran a US#1 4:48.53.

Sprinkle in some impressive performances in the 800s and 400s, and I'd have assumed I'd find more chatter on the LRC Board.

im with you mate, hype meet

SimplotEnthusiast wrote:

On the boys side, Casey Clinger set a new Simplot Games record for the 3200 with a US#1 8:54.97. Talon Hull set a new Simplot Games record for the 1600 (besting Slagowski's record from last year) with a new US#2 4:08.78.

On the girls side, Grace Ping got out leaned by Annie Hill and Camila Noe (all three crossing in the 10:44s, good for US#5-7). In the 1600, NXN champ Brie Oakley just missed the Simplot record but still ran a US#1 4:48.53.

Sprinkle in some impressive performances in the 800s and 400s, and I'd have assumed I'd find more chatter on the LRC Board.

The meet had no sprinters for the MSM to fawn over, and no over-age African "refugee" athletes that would provide openings for b.s. human interest propaganda pieces, so the fantastic performances of Clinger and others are to be ignored.

Depressingly true.

It would help if an unnamed large international semicknductor operation would partner up with Simplot to help raise the visibility of this great event

Jayordon wrote:

7/10 trolling is real

You think I'm trolling? Let me spell this out for you:

1) This site is geared towards pro running. 8:54 in Pocatello is a nice effort, but we've seen enough of these guys come and go that nobody here thinks we've got the next Rupp/Webb/Solinsky on our hands. Come back in 3 years and let's review Clinger's medal chances.

2) 8:54 at altitude is 20-30 seconds slower than HS East Africans are running.

3) Many of us have run sub-9.

4) The end of Dyestat's message boards was a sad day for all of Letsrun. We liked the separation.

5) Your thread is a perfect example of whiny HS behavior. Instead of writing "Why no love???" why not just start a thread about Clinger (like rojo did)? Then you could give all the shoutouts you want, bro.

Let's be realistic here. This site is geared toward running in general. I see just as many active threads about high school running as I do pro running. Maybe Clinger won't be the net Rupp or Webb, but he is dangerously close to the high school record of 8:34. Especially considering he did this indoor, at elevation, on a 200m wooden banked track, and pretty much solo the whole time. How many of you "sub-9" guys have run your sub 9's in those conditions. Maybe he won't get an Olympic medal but Cheserek hasn't either and he still gets mentioned all the time. Same with various other pro runners. And who gives a flying freak what the East African high schoolers are running? They don't get mentioned at all so your argument there is pretty weak. "Your thread is a perfect example of whiny HS behavior." There is so much wrong with that sentence. First off, this isn't "my thread." I didn't start it. Whiny HS behavior? it's only whiny if you think of it that way. The guy who started this wanted to see a discussion on the various performances that went down at Simplot. Nobody had started any yet so he decided to start one. Your ignorance intrigues me.

Jayordon wrote:

And who gives a flying freak

You can't make this stuff up.