Time: 70:00
Distance: 11 mi.
Goals: run for top-10 individually and for the win as a team; give 100% effort.
Race: 14th (25:10), fairly good effort/race; 3rd as a team behind Colorado and Oklahoma State, who both ran well.
Stan, Jake and Me
An okay day, but a little frustrating to be third. We were a little too aggressive early in going for the win as a team (we were leading at 3k and in second just past 6k), which probably kept us from getting second as we all faded a bit after 5k. Leo sacked up bigtime after falling a bit back in the middle, and Kyle and Stan were both solid. I would've really liked to be in the top ten, but felt flat over the last 3k. Overall, though, this still ranks as one of the best cross country races I've run and there is still a lot of room for improvement in our races in the next few weeks. Our team performance was almost undoubtedly better this year than last (despite getting 3rd), with 4 in the top 15 this year and just 1 in the top 15 last year.
The rumor is that the course was 160m long in the last mile, which seems to make sense from my splits: first two miles were about 4:45, hit 4 miles at under 19:40 (~5:00?) and finished the race in 25:10 (5:30 for 1600m, just about 5:00 for 1760m). The course was surprisingly difficult: all those little bumps added up to making it hard to get into a rhythm. Also, it was dry as hell... and the altitude shouldn't be totally ignored.
Place Team Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Coverage: Flotrack Video | TexasSports
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1 Colorado 34 1 2 4 11 16 17 24
2 Oklahoma State 48 3 8 10 12 15 25 40
3 Texas 58 6 7 9 14 22 45 55
Place Bib # Name Team Time
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1 52 Brent Vaughan Colorado 24:22.30
2 45 Kenyon Neuman Colorado 24:36.50
3 225 Ryan Vail Oklahoma State 24:35.80
4 47 Stephen Pifer Colorado 24:64.30
5 110 Colby Wissel Kansas 24:51.05
6 243 Erik Stanley Texas 24:53.05
7 241 Kyle Miller Texas 24:55.20
8 217 David Chirchir Oklahoma State 25:02.60
9 240 Leonel Manzano Texas 25:04.00
10 220 Sean Fleming Oklahoma State 25:04.10
11 43 Peter Janson Colorado 25:04.30
12 222 David Jankowski Oklahoma State 25:08.50
13 302 Edwin Sang Texas Tech 25:09.60
14 244 Owen Washburn Texas 25:10.05
15 215 Matt Barnes-Smith Oklahoma State 25:11.80
22 242 Jacob Morse Texas 25:30.75
46 238 Jay Heller Texas 26:19.40
57 237 Darren Brown Texas 26:33.50
61 236 Habben Berhane Texas 26:37.45
84 245 Robert Wetzel Texas 27:24.80
Lubbock is pretty out there, but now I can't say that I've never seen prairie dogs of cotton patches.
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