Pac-10s should be fun

Should be even funner considering Pullman is supposed to be about 35 degrees on Saturday afternoon, snow is in the forecast as possible for tonight through Thursday night and they have one of the hilliest courses in the country.

dang i didn't know it was going to be that cold. it is just going to make it funner

Low of 12 looks like fun...Pullman is a big fan of being windy too...

http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USWA0356

Who is Stanford racing? Not that it really matters, I was just curious if they were going to sit anyone.

noone reallt know who stanford will race. Most likly they will rest some of there top guys. they will probably race like 3 or four main guys to be in te top 6. then a coulpe of other b team guys to run with most the teams number 1 and 2 runners.

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is "funner" even a word? shouldn't it be "more fun"?

tough weather could give some underdogs a chance. watch out for the bears. they won't win, but they always improve at Pac-10s and regionals.

I think its funnerer

Here are my women's Pac-10 picks:

1st - Stanford

2nd - ASU

3rd - UCLA

4th - Washington

5th - Arizona

6th - WSU

7th - USC

8th - CAL

9th - Oregon

who do you think will win the men's race?

my guess is if dobson runs, he'll grab it, but it could be any of their top 3. is grant robison going to race?

also, a side note: is craig hall [UCLA] running? if so, i think this would be the first time he would race his bro (Ryan hall of stanford) in a collegiate race.

My guess is that Dobson could win but watch out for Louchini from Stanford. Arizona has twp African runners also. It should be a tight men's race. The women's race will be won by either Craig or Bei.

Men:

Stanford

ASU

Oregon

Arizona

Washington

UCLA

WSU

Cal

USC

Cheseret wins. Stanford will pack it up. Robison leading the way for them. Cheseret right around 24:30.

Women:

Stanford

ASU

UCLA

Arizona

Oregon

Washington

WSU

Cal

USC

Craig wins. Bei second. Lambie third. Winner in about 20:30... Craig's a beast.

USC men dropped their cross country program a few years back because of Title IX. I don't expect them to show up.

I heard Lagat holds the course record at 25:30ish. If that's true, I have a hard time seeing Cheseret running 24:30. Robison has won the last 2 Pac-10 titles, I would imagine he would race just for the threepeat. And no, Cheseret won't beat him.

Lagat did run about 25:30 for the course record, and I think only two people have been under 26 on this course.

I searched online and Lagat did run 25:30 and the next closest time is Danny Wolf at 25:59. I doubt with the weather and everything anyone can go under 25 on that course I hear it has more hills than any course in the country from people who have run it. Also it is going to be improbable that any women will go sub 21:00, Anna Blue ran 23:15 on it and she ran 20:43 at pre-nats. So it looks like it's faily slow. Although I don't know what the competition was like, the results do show it's a slow course. I think it will be the toughest runners who will do well not the fastest.

Men

1. WSU

2. WA

3. Stan

4. UCLA

5. AZ

6. AZST

7. Ore

8. Cal

women:

1. ASU

2. UCLA

3. Stan

4. Wash

5. USC

6. AZ

7. WSU

8. CAL

9. ORE

Puh-Looose wrote:

Men

1. WSU

2. WA

3. Stan

4. UCLA

5. AZ

6. AZST

7. Ore

8. Cal

This has to be a joke.

I ran there when it was a 10k and the course was very slow and very tough. It will be a very good indicator of who is fit and who is not.