not a moron. wrote:
Smarter Than Frank wrote:
Doubt there's an advantage to running on flat asphalt versus dirt, grass and a hill? What planet are you from?
The difference between the two courses is less than a second. Seriously.
Having compared footage of Austin Tamagno's run versus the D3 sweepstakes this past Friday we can see it takes Tamagno (14:23 - 2014) 31-32 seconds to finish the last section, where the new course has diverged, while it takes Moises Medrano (2nd place @ 14:55 in 2017 D3 sweeps) 24-25 seconds to finish the new final section.
One would expect Tamagno, gunning for the course record, would run the last section faster than Medrano, who can no longer win his race and is 9 seconds ahead of the next guy behind him.
New course was 1% faster. Top boys would need to add 9 seconds to their 2017 times to be equivalent with the previous editions. Claudia Lane would need to add 10 seconds to her 15:49 to get the equivalent time on last year's course.
Final verdict?
Claudia Lane's 15:49 is no more than 1 second better than Sarah Baxter's 16:00
Great Oak's 2017 boys team time of 74:31 is equal to 75:15
Great Oak's 2017 girls team time 87:46 is equal to 88:38
You can see Medrano's finish below and Tamagno's at the bottom
http://ca.milesplit.com/videos/232594https://youtu.be/srFuukQ0bd8?t=670