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LM wrote:

Haha letrun getting mentioned as informative.

"Some of it was really thoughtful, and some of it.....wasn't"

The lead announcer is Tom Heinonen...former women's coach at Oregon.

Well I must say this was a complete disgrace of a meet for the honest spectators of track and field. The 1500M was an absolute joke as it's precursor was an absolute joke of a "middle school mile" with ignorant middle schoolers thinking they can start off a mile with a 64. The 1500M was probably one of the worst events I've ever seen, with hardly any rivalries or exciting finishes. Then up comes an absolutely painful 3000M that Mary Cain could've won, and finally Rupp completely bombs the race with an abysmal 3K. I mean he's 7:30 on a f*cking indoor track and he runs some horrid time of 7:46? The 800 was extremely boring, don't know any of the f*cks that decided to run it. The men's 800 was a complete waste of time when even Scherer didn't pace the 400 to a respectable opening split. For an Oregon meet this was an absolute disgrace to the sport and I'm ashamed to have sat here for a good 90 minutes to enjoy this bloated piece of ill-conceived crap. Signing out.

the average male runner wrote:

LOL THE ANNOUNCER'S COMMENT ON LETSRUN!

Did he mention anything about a riddle involving fierce, man-eating animals?

This was a workout and a workout with race-like conditions for the NOP guys.

Centro looked pretty smooth and easy with his stretch run. And did not look exhausted after the finish...

Rupp didn't look to be running hard at all, and he only closed in like 58 high or something. Pretty sure he was taking it easy with the hammy.

Trolling Along wrote:

Hmmm, announcers were obviously trolling LRC to build interest for the meet.

Yes, they tricked me into watching despite my low expectations, which it lived up to.

Okay then.

Earlier in the week Ritz ran 20 and I can't imagine that he backed off training at all for the rest of the week. More importantly, he looked pretty good. I'm encouraged by the run.

the way I see it wrote:

Ritz crackers wrote:

I realize its a season opener, but it Doesn't look like Ritz will touch sub 13 again... And his sub 27 is looking pretty unlikely. He seemed pretty spent after the race and, to the best of my knowledge, he's been having one of his longest stretches of consistent running.

Not so sure about that. I didn't get to see the 3000, but Ritz ran 1sec slower than Rupp, and Rupp is certainly sub13 & sub27. And I think it's safe to say with Rupps recent indoor mile that Rupp has better shorter distance speed than Ritz.

Get some rest. We'll see in the morning. We have work to do.

LM wrote:

Rupp didn't look to be running hard at all, and he only closed in like 58 high or something. Pretty sure he was taking it easy with the hammy.

I'm betting that both of his hamstrings were a little sore from a workout...i.e., not fully recovered.

My guess is that if he had one sore hamstring and the other just fine...Alberto wouldn't have raced him at all.

I gotta say that his form does look smoother than even a year ago. His head bob is less...

Puskedra, however, is still making the transition...

A Duck wrote:

LM wrote:

Rupp didn't look to be running hard at all, and he only closed in like 58 high or something. Pretty sure he was taking it easy with the hammy.

I'm betting that both of his hamstrings were a little sore from a workout...i.e., not fully recovered.

My guess is that if he had one sore hamstring and the other just fine...Alberto wouldn't have raced him at all.

I gotta say that his form does look smoother than even a year ago. His head bob is less...

Puskedra, however, is still making the transition...

Yea, that sounds somewhat probable to me, as one being significantly tighter than the other doesn't sound like normal workout fatigue, and racing on a potential injury, even at a "relaxed" effort wouldn't make lots of sense for a random B meet.

AlSal has brough Rupp and Farah along amazingly as everybody knows, and I'll admit I'm quite curious to see how he can do with the newer crop of guys like Puskedra, Centro, Levins, not to mention Cain.

All in all though not a bad time at all to be a fan of America distance running.

Bad Wigins wrote:

webfoot wrote:

I've lived in Eugene for 20+ years. A warm mid-70s spring day like this is similar to summer. All week we have had windy afternoons and calmer evenings.

Don't give up your day job to become a weatherman.

How many legal times so far? Suck it. Ha ha.

When you argue with me, better be right, or else.

I was at the meet. The wind died down for the 1500, 3000 and 800 races. The conditions could not have been better.

webfoot wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

How many legal times so far? Suck it. Ha ha.

When you argue with me, better be right, or else.

I was at the meet. The wind died down for the 1500, 3000 and 800 races. The conditions could not have been better.

Sounds like Hayward at that time of evening.

Perhaps, you're right about Ritz... I've been a fan of his since his Footlocker XC days and I keep hoping for another 2009-esque year for him. In my mind, I was comparing his time today to Eric Jenkins (with his 7:46 indoor time (dq'ed) and his recent 13:18) and thinking Ritz was a bit behind him. But, then again, this was only ~9s from his 3k pr and he could probably keep up with Solinsky in a 5k right now.

Hopefully Ritz will be update soon

Is it possible to watch archived footage somewhere of the race? I missed it.

I hope Ritz can get to low 27s.If Ritz is a 27:30 guy this year,, I'd rather see Derrick and True on the team. I'd like to see what they can do.

I still think Ritz could get close to Hall's peak in a marathon. I thought Chicago was promising.

bad wrote:

The 1500M was an absolute joke as it's precursor was an absolute joke of a "middle school mile" with ignorant middle schoolers thinking they can start off a mile with a 64.

You obviously don't know much about middle schoolers, huh?

LM wrote:

Hillary Holt runs 4:11 to win Women's 1500m

Phenomenal performance!!

missed it wrote:

Is it possible to watch archived footage somewhere of the race? I missed it.

Here you go!