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Kakoona wrote:

The fastest 1600m split of the weekend across all divisions goes to David Ribich of Western Oregon. He took the baton in 8th with a 7-8 second deficit and brought his team back to first on the 300m track at Pitt State.

My split probably isn’t exactly right because it was tough to see where the line was within the exchange zone, but it should be close, and I had Ribich at 3:55.1. Anyone else get a split on him?

He ran it perfectly. Stayed patient and was around 58 mid at 400, 2:28.xx at 1200, and pretty sure his last 300 was around 41 mid. Impressive race - it’ll be interesting to see how he approaches the 3k tomorrow.

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Bgbhubygybg wrote:

Western Oregon's web site says that his leg was "sub 3:57". I think that it's unlikely that it was 3:55.1. I also saw the video of the last 50m of the race. He was looking right and left and did not look completely tanked. Again, unlikely to be a 3:55.1.

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Thats why its called baby nationals wrote:
Also worth noting that the DII 5000m was absolutely ridiculous with huge surges thrown in by Ngandu and followed by Sydney Gidabuday, with Ngandu dropping a 44 sec 300m from 4100-4400m. Way crazier than the DI snooze fest.

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Eggsellent Obbzervatoin wrote:

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Kakoona wrote:

The fastest 1600m split of the weekend across all divisions goes to David Ribich of Western Oregon. He took the baton in 8th with a 7-8 second deficit and brought his team back to first on the 300m track at Pitt State.

My split probably isn’t exactly right because it was tough to see where the line was within the exchange zone, but it should be close, and I had Ribich at 3:55.1. Anyone else get a split on him?

He ran it perfectly. Stayed patient and was around 58 mid at 400, 2:28.xx at 1200, and pretty sure his last 300 was around 41 mid. Impressive race - it’ll be interesting to see how he approaches the 3k tomorrow.

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If Ribich was a 21 year old freshman - who didn't have such pale skin - he'd have at least three threads put up by various SJW types yakking about how awesome he is.

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Eggsellent Obbzervatoin wrote:

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Kakoona wrote:

The fastest 1600m split of the weekend across all divisions goes to David Ribich of Western Oregon. He took the baton in 8th with a 7-8 second deficit and brought his team back to first on the 300m track at Pitt State.

My split probably isn’t exactly right because it was tough to see where the line was within the exchange zone, but it should be close, and I had Ribich at 3:55.1. Anyone else get a split on him?

He ran it perfectly. Stayed patient and was around 58 mid at 400, 2:28.xx at 1200, and pretty sure his last 300 was around 41 mid. Impressive race - it’ll be interesting to see how he approaches the 3k tomorrow.

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If Ribich was a 21 year old freshman - who didn't have such pale skin - he'd have at least three threads put up by various SJW types yakking about how awesome he is.

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Kakoona wrote:

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Bgbhubygybg wrote:

Western Oregon's web site says that his leg was "sub 3:57". I think that it's unlikely that it was 3:55.1. I also saw the video of the last 50m of the race. He was looking right and left and did not look completely tanked. Again, unlikely to be a 3:55.1.

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Do you have any other evidence of why it is unlikely to be 3:55 low other than Western Oregon’s site? It’s not unreasonable at all. He’s a 3:58 high miler, so he’s in a little better shape, running start, people to chase, running 1600 instead of 1609. I did not only watch the last 50m of the race on video, but I was at the meet and timed him myself and someone else had him only two tenths off from what I had. I’d only give it a half second margin of error from what I had him at.

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