Saw this in person, one of the best comebacks I've ever seen, here's the link:

Alpenrunner wrote:

I thought you might have an interesting point until I reviewed the video and saw how wrong you were. You should never testify in court under any circmstances. Fusaro (2nd leg) was 80 m down when he got the baton and finished less than 25m from the leader. The third leg made no headway at all.

Never give up, never surrender wrote:

He had a good leg, but basically held their position, as time, out of first.

#3 made up some time at the end of his leg.

Someone should have told the DV anchor to start running with 400 to go. He looked too relaxed.

Fusaro definitely ran fast, the third leg ran good too but nothing crazy, he did gain a tad bit of distance on the team in first it looked like, and he almost passed the 2nd place team, looked like he had a lot left in him to finish the race, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depends on what your strategy was going in.

And that handoff slowed down the third leg a little bit too.

The Overexplainer wrote:

sbeefyk1 wrote:

My team won the DMR national title in 2007 handing off the baton in 7th after 400 leg and 40 meters behind. Pretty sure that trumps a lousy state meet where there's only a few sub 2:00 800 meter runners in the entire field.

Wow ... you must not have watched the video. The winning team had a 1:56 leg and 1:53 anchor leg. Damn impressive!! I am sure that winning any national title trumps winning a weak state meet, but being a bellend is not required for this to be true.

??? Going into the meet 24 runners in this field had sub 2:00 times in the 2017 season and 34 were 2:00 or better, but okay...

Also imagine running in 100 degree heat, it's Arizona. It looked like it was in the middle of the day too. Kinda weird though how after DV there wasn't anybody too close to them. Curious as to why that happened.

cmonman96 wrote:

The Overexplainer wrote:

Wow ... you must not have watched the video. The winning team had a 1:56 leg and 1:53 anchor leg. Damn impressive!! I am sure that winning any national title trumps winning a weak state meet, but being a bellend is not required for this to be true.

??? Going into the meet 24 runners in this field had sub 2:00 times in the 2017 season and 34 were 2:00 or better, but okay...

Also imagine running in 100 degree heat, it's Arizona. It looked like it was in the middle of the day too. Kinda weird though how after DV there wasn't anybody too close to them. Curious as to why that happened.

18 relays x 4 members = 72 individuals

24 sub-2/72 individuals = 33% of people sub 2.

Only it was Evan Jager anchoring the 4x800.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVGhbbbaXc

Alpenrunner wrote:

I thought you might have an interesting point until I reviewed the video and saw how wrong you were. You should never testify in court under any circmstances. Fusaro (2nd leg) was 80 m down when he got the baton and finished less than 25m from the leader. The third leg made no headway at all.

Never give up, never surrender wrote:

He had a good leg, but basically held their position, as time, out of first.

#3 made up some time at the end of his leg.

Someone should have told the DV anchor to start running with 400 to go. He looked too relaxed.

80m?? What race were you watching, it was about 50m, give or take 7 seconds.

sbeefyk1 wrote:

My team won the DMR national title in 2007 handing off the baton in 7th after 400 leg and 40 meters behind. Pretty sure that trumps a lousy state meet where there's only a few sub 2:00 800 meter runners in the entire field.

Wow, I bet that's a real panty-dropper at the bar.

Another video of the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4UZfQi-74

jesus christ those handoffs were atrocious

stateroftheoblivious wrote:

Another video of the race.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oh4UZfQi-74

This looks like it was recorded and uploaded by one for the parents of the 3rd leg (both have last name Creighton lol). Quality isn't as great but it's a different perspective of the race, it's only focused on Hamilton, nobody else.

Anybody else notice that the 2:05 2:00 and 1:53 kid are all gonna be in HS again next year? Should be intriguing to see what they can accomplish.

And the 2:00 1:56 and 1:53 (2/3/4 legs) all ran the 4x8 last year for this team, the dude who ran a 1:56 was a 2:01 last year, the runner who was 1:53 was a 1:56, and the 2:00 guy was a 2:00 last year as well, looking online it looked like he didn't ran a lot this year, due to injuries most likely, so this team could've been even faster.

Congrats on a great race and good luck next year!

How do you let someone pass you on the inside????

In a traditional 4x800 doesn't the 2nd fastest go first and the slowest typically goes third?? The fastest obviously anchors but I've always wondered if there was a typical strategy to run the legs in the 4x800.

renewed marathoner wrote:

jesus christ those handoffs were atrocious

Only one of these guys got the baton with his left hand... why would the other two go right?

Guy you didn't see the Olympic final of the 4x100 free relay in 2008. Jason Lezak came from waaay behind to our touch the WR record holder Alain Bernard.

Now that was a comeback.

Kept Phelps' quest for 8 golds alive too.

Damn impressive. Curious as to what these guys can run in the 5K.

Wowzers wrote:

Damn impressive. Curious as to what these guys can run in the 5K.

According to athletic.net:

2:05 - 18:04

1:56 - 16:42

2:00 - 16:09

1:53 - 15:27

1:56 and 2:00 times are strange, the 1:56s 5k should been faster and a 16:09 should definitely correlate to a sub 2:00.

Yeah, well I had sex with your wife!

That second dude was awesome. I think I just got to admit that there exist real men with man buns.

Isawitlivetoo wrote:

...hawking teams down ...

... hawked down...

Who says that?