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S_Fox
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 Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: Opinions Needed |
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Can I have your opinions please on the standard of competiton in my area.
I have included a link to the latest 5K race in my area where I completed the course in 20.53 and finished 63rd. Bare in mind it was a humid evening and the course had 2 100m 45 degree hills in.
I just wonder how good the top runners in this race are?
http://www.eye10k.co.uk/5kseries/5k.htm
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Dan
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Looks like pretty typical local road race results to me.
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Micah Ward
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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That looks like real tough competition to me. In the area I live, southeast Georgia, we wouldn't see that many runners under 19:00 in a small 5K. In the larger cities those results would be fairly typical but there would be a lot more runners between 21:00 and 29:00 probably.
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Paul
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I looked at the results in a couple of races, here, including the Iris Festival down Dan's way. None of them had the depth in the 16:00 to 19:00 time period yours did. And these two had twice the number of competitors. It seems your 5K series is drawing a very high caliber group of people.
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S_Fox
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 5:14 am Post subject: |
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I hope to be in that 16:00 to 19:00 group very soon, The winner Daniel Watts has just returned from his second semester at Oklahoma State University, where he was offered a track and cross-country scholarship. There are some pretty decent young runners in the area.
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Dan
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:52 am Post subject: |
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To be clear, I was just looking at the spread of times, not the depth of them.
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AM_Runner
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| Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 7:53 am Post subject: |
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Yeah its a good race good group of sub 17's too I was over in the UK the week before and woul dhave loved to have found a race lik ethat whil ethere - but work probably would have prevented my competing anyway so I guess its just as well
Based on what you say about the course I would say its a nice race
I run a bunch of the New York Road Runners Races and although they have more runners in the fast range the percentage is lower...
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