Blast from the past. 1998 NCAA XCountry. Goucher over Abdi. Lagat 7th.

Was it the the quality of the tape or did Lagat look a lot thicker then?

"Running With The Buffaloes" culmination!

Lagat has not aged a day in 22 years.

Abdi made our marathon Olympic team 22 years later.

Oscar Ponce and Rob Krar are interesting sidenotes.

Great coverage and great course. Perfect set up to have the finishers file past the camera.

Some great names of the past in there.

kilti wrote:

Was it the the quality of the tape or did Lagat look a lot thicker then?

Absolutely.

Alot of people like to hate on Adam but he was phucking nails back then. Most thought he was going to be the Olympic medalist to break the U.S. drought, as U..S. running was in the dumps in the 1990s.

Not chip timed. 20+ years ago but seems like it could be longer.

Those billowy shorts look so old school now.

Other weird thing to me was that Lagat sounded about the same. Guess I would have thought his English would be worse back then.

I have a private recording of Big Ten championships 2000 in Madison Wisconsin on VHS, maybe I should upload it to YouTube.

kilti wrote:

Was it the the quality of the tape or did Lagat look a lot thicker then?

Lagat was primarily a miler in college, he had a far more powerful frame by design. What gets me is how fast Goucher was for having such a long, plodding stride. I can see how that would keep him on the edge of injury later on. Also in the mix was hunched over Keith Kelly, future champ for Providence. And the Hausers, who would have been America's first sub-2:10 twins if not for the downside of the grind of Lannana's program.

Goucher winning by almost 20seconds in last mile, 29:26 on hilly rimrock.

Can they bring that course back?

AdiVector wrote:

Goucher winning by almost 20seconds in last mile, 29:26 on hilly rimrock.

Can they bring that course back?

Yeah that was a real XC course. Now they’re gonna run on a fake Bermuda grass course at OSU.

Ghost of Jason Rexing's Trainers wrote:

kilti wrote:

Was it the the quality of the tape or did Lagat look a lot thicker then?

Lagat was primarily a miler in college, he had a far more powerful frame by design. What gets me is how fast Goucher was for having such a long, plodding stride. I can see how that would keep him on the edge of injury later on. Also in the mix was hunched over Keith Kelly, future champ for Providence. And the Hausers, who would have been America's first sub-2:10 twins if not for the downside of the grind of Lannana's program.

Could you elaborate on what you mean when you say "by design"? Was it intentional? Or do you mean that he was simply born with that type of physique?

He was primarily a miler after college too, and becoming more lean only seems to have helped.

Aside from the course/time, what was profound was that Mwangai beat Goucher at this course for Pre-Nats. To come back and dominate is a real testament to the training/timing of his taper.

btw RIP Sev

I don't know about his weight, but he definitely had the same stride! The video has about seven pixels but Lagat's form is unmistakable, it was easier to pick him out of the group than Goucher. I think I saw this video about a week ago (in coronatime it feels like a month...) posted somewhere else where they didn't say how Lagat finished, so I wasn't sure if we'd even see him in the video. Sure enough as soon as they showed the lead pack he was really the only person in the group who I could identify for sure.

Head Bone necklace!! Woot woot! Adam was a huge inspiration to me back in his glory days. He’s still at it from a different angle; Run the Edge.

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed watching it.

Thank you for posting this video. I've read Running with the Buffaloes many times. Goucher looked so strong the entire race. Good team win by Arkansas too.