I'm sorry to everyone for pumping up a World Record attempt this week with the prediction contest. I feel like a sucker.
This was presented as a world record attempt and the 1st 800 was somewhere in the 2:07-2:09 range.
The record was over at that point. They didn't even try for it.
Ben Flanagan, who ran the first leg, beat Hobbs Kessler last week. He posted on instagram about 15:49 (the record) in the last 2 days. Ollie Hoare had retweeted stuff about the world record attempt so we can't say that everyone thought they weren't going to go for it.
Yet Ben went out with everyone else super slow. Weather and stuff makes it difficult but I'm glad the Oregon guys at least went for it. Maybe I should just appreciate the race but I couldn't.
Maybe I shouldn't admit this, but I quit watching before the end of the first leg. That was the pissed off fan in my coming out.
Joe Klecker with a decent run in first race of year (3:58.26 completely solo) and Olli Hoare really went for it (according to Rojo) and ran 3:55.
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I feel like Rojo ranting but let me know if I'm way off base. Maybe I'm the only person who cared about this race :) I just told Rojo this week he shouldn't be so critical of stuff in the sport. With that in mind, I toned down this post a little bit. At least someone was talking about the Friday night distance races at Penn again is the silver lining right:)
1 On Athletics Club - Ben Flanagan, Tom Elmer, Joe Klecker, Oliver Hoare - 16:04.69
splits: 4:07.15, 4:04.11, 3:58.26, 4:04.11, 3:55.18
2 Dublin Track Club*Andrew Coscoran, Sean Tobin, Paul Robinson, Hiko Haso 16:10.04
3 Empire Elite TC*Eric Holt, Colby Alexander, Luciano Fiore, Ben Allen 16:26.67
4 Philadelphia Runner TC*Ryan Mahalsky, Zach Michon, Greg Morgan, Paul Matuszak 16:39.72