Incredible performance. Meet record. All alone. So lonely.... :P
LRC's note. Hunter's time was 8:25 not 8:15 so we changed the title to reflect that
Incredible performance. Meet record. All alone. So lonely.... :P
LRC's note. Hunter's time was 8:25 not 8:15 so we changed the title to reflect that
Thanks for the update, Parsons
For 3000m or two miles?
2 miles
Wow. It wasn't very long ago that 8:15 was the national record.
I see it was a typo and it was 8:25. Still props to him for forcing the A heat to run fast.
No, not a typo. He ran 8:15.
8:25.29
Queue the Tinman haters... time trialed the best time by a long shot today.
Heat A was won in 8:32 so guess who the champ is?
Jim Ryun ran 8:24 as a frosh in college, pretty good.
Wait a second. The guy wasn’t even supposed to be in the meet and he has his teammates pace him in a TT in the non championship race? Kind of bush league move if you ask me. Avila robbed.
Championships are about racing. USATF screwed up on this one.
At some some point these Tinman guys need to win something that matters in against real competition.
That was just lame wrote:
Wait a second. The guy wasn’t even supposed to be in the meet and he has his teammates pace him in a TT in the non championship race? Kind of bush league move if you ask me. Avila robbed.
Championships are about racing. USATF screwed up on this one.
At some some point these Tinman guys need to win something that matters in against real competition.
He had his team mates “pace” him to a horribly slow first mile of almost 4;18, then he negative split a 4:07 by himself. He could have gone just as fast if not faster without his team mates.
4:18.2 at 1618. This was lame. Joke .
The dolts of LetsRun rule the world in sneering at superb accomplishments, as if winning a national championship is a shameful thing!!!
Lemme join 'em: What a bad young man Drew Hunter is! Shame on him! Shame on him! He cheated his way to his first national championship/meet record by time trialing in the B Heat! The A Heat runners must have been drugged. Blame it on Drew. Lemme diss Tinman, while I'm at it.
Does anyone have a spare hankie for any of those A Heat also-rans?
Give me a break please wrote:
4:18.2 at 1618. This was lame. Joke .
Says the guy with a 4:52 best 1600 meters....
Give me a break please wrote:
4:18.2 at 1618. This was lame. Joke .
Joking aside, if we interpolate Hunter's 1609.3m (1-mile) split from his 4:18.25 1618m split, it would have been 4:16.86, which gives a second mile of 4:08.43. That's if the 1618m was actually exactly 1618m and not rounded. But still a more accurate sense of the what the actual negative split was.
And kudos to Hunter for doing it all by himself the last mile. The kid has guts. That's a lot more than you can say for the sit-and-kick whimps in the second heat. Gotta love the Tinman crew's spunk in how they get things done.
That was just lame wrote, in part, "Avila robbed."
Um, help me understand how Avila was robbed. Hunter won his heat by over 13 seconds. Avila knew that if Avila ran 8:24, Avila would be the champion. Avila won his heat by .31 seconds, so he had someone to push him. In fact, there were 12 guys in Avila's heat within 10 seconds of Avila. So there were a bunch of guys to push Avila.
But Avila ran a lot slower than 8:24, he ran 8:32.41, so how exactly was this robbery committed?
It doesn’t make sense that heat 2 knew the time from heat 1 so why didn’t they go out faster? I guess nobody cared to beat Hunters time
It was the Lalang effect.
McQurty tucked behind. Didn’t have the confidence.
Such a weird Bowerman day.
Where’s Hill? He could’ve had that. Chelimo and Shad sent him a Christmas present staying off the track.