Team LetsRun.com just doubled in size - Meet Matt Crowe - We're sending him to 2019 World XC as well

sub sub elite local hobby jogger wrote:

This is far and away the coolest thing letsrun has done. Awesome. Way to step up to the plate and put your money where your mouth is. And give an opportunity to lesser known runners.

Absolutely. So many great unheard of stories in running. This birth of LRCTC.

This guy sounds awesome. Good Luck, Matt!

Greg wrote:

Congrats to him, the woman from Dallas, and hats off to the Brojos for a creative and cool idea.

+1

LetsRun.com wrote:

We've decided to send a 2nd person to World XC. LRC, meet Matt Crowe.

Matt never came close to 15:00 in college but now he's a 13:57 guy dreaming of the 13:30s. The story of how he got there, going from 15:40 in college to 13:57, is incredible.

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/03/from-1540-in-college-to-1357-at-age-28-meet-matt-crowe-the-letsrun-com-mens-entrant-to-2019-world-cross-country/

this incredible groundbreaking , 1000 thumbs up.

this is supporting the sport.

this creating the sport.

i'm up for creating like a paypal donation to athletes, no names.

like they have a bio or something and you click on the guy or girl and donate your $20 bucks.

and bam, they're funded for some crazy event.

this is how sports are created, from the ground up.

I just wanted to put on serious hat for a second to chime in with everyone else about how great this is. Honestly, I love everything about this and I'll be rooting hard for team LRC this weekend. Great work guys!

will you guys do follow ups? after race, a month later and a year later? you should. this is amazing.

But does he make 100,000 and have a trophy wife???

“I know I can hit the marathon (Trials) standard but you are nowhere near the top guy if you hit the standard. A lot of the guys playing in the woods, they join these teams and call themselves professional, but there is nothing professional about running the same equivalent in the marathon as what you ran in another event (that would be considered mediocre). That’s not what I want to be. I want to run fast. If I do a marathon, I want to run fast, I don’t want to run some stupid, made-up standard.”

Not American but will definitely root for the guy. Hats off to the Brojos for having done it. This is great. Really. I am proud of you. If that makes sense.

Just caught up with the podcast and with the videos on the homepage.

Both Matt & Kelsey seem like thoroughly lovely people. I'm a fan already!

Best of luck to them both today and I hope they have a blast on that wicked course!

a reader wrote:

will you guys do follow ups? after race, a month later and a year later? you should. this is amazing.

I hope so! If Matt & Kelsey have the time and inclination, a written piece about the whole World XC experience would be a great start!

Don't see him in the results. Did he race? Or did the non championship runners just get left out of the results. Nothing on results site yet either:

https://www.sportstiming.dk/event/5422/results?round=24207

FYI - IAAF results:

https://www.iaaf.org/competitions/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships/iaaf-world-cross-country-championships-aarhus-6265/timetable/byday

Looks like only the athletes entered by their country get splits a a place in the results

LR saying Nate pulled off the course and seem not to have info on Kelsey.

Nate?

nbrowne1 wrote:

Don't see him in the results. Did he race? Or did the non championship runners just get left out of the results. Nothing on results site yet either:

From our men's race recap:

Matt Crowe of Team LetsRun.com Pulled from Course

Our motto may be “Where Your Dreams Become Reality” but that doesn’t mean you always get the running result you want. Matt Crowe was selected to run the senior race and represent LetsRun.com and he has a very cool backstory. His run today however did not go as he wanted and the officials pulled him from the course even though he was beating some of the “official” athletes in the race who were representing countries. The race had certain time checks along the course and you had to be within so many minutes of the leaders and Matt fell behind them.

We’ll have more on his experience later but short video with him below. Matt’s in pretty good spirits as when we told him he made our official race recap he said, he wanted to know if he “went home devastated.”

You can view results for all the mass racers here:

As for Kelsey, she was 83rd in the women's race.

Bruce, whom we flew to Aarhus from Dallas after she couldn’t get into the Stanford Invitational 10,000 this weekend, ran 42:08 to finish 83rd (81 women from national teams plus Woolven of GBR who also entered on her own beat her). She finished 1:09 behind Team USA member Courtney Frerichs.

Thanks for the update. Impressed with Pippa from GB. Very surprised she was left off the team and very cool to see her racing so strong despite the selection snub. I'm surprised more people didn't want to race in the event.

I've got Rotterdam next weekend and was thinking about going early to do the XC but seeing the course I'm glad I didn't. I definitely would've been lapped out like Matt Crowe, and messed with the marathon too much as well.

Serves him right for not wearing a LetsRun singlet.

Speaking of which do we have a pic of Kelsey in the team singlet?

Come on Rojo tell the real story. Courtney shut down once she realized that she was no longer a scorer for Team USA. Saying how far Kelsey finished behind her is disingenuous.

Kelsey Bruce a 2:31 marathoner could not finish within 2 minutes of the last scorer for Team USA. And Team USA ran horrible.

That is the real story.

Tell the ENTIRE story wrote:

Come on Rojo tell the real story. Courtney shut down once she realized that she was no longer a scorer for Team USA. Saying how far Kelsey finished behind her is disingenuous.

Kelsey Bruce a 2:31 marathoner could not finish within 2 minutes of the last scorer for Team USA. And Team USA ran horrible.

That is the real story.

And Kelsey Bruce has a better day than Matt Crowe.