Monday, January 20, 2014

Nittany Lion Challenge Recap

Another fine showcase at the Nittany Lion Challenge.

I am going with co-performance of the meet honors. Bernard Bennett-Green with his break though 400 (46.61 and 4th fastest in the NCAA this season) and Robby Creese winning the 1000 in a US leading time of 2:20.65.

In my meet preview I mentioned that the 1000 meter run has been a showcase event for this meet and it certainly didn't disappoint on Saturday. Robby used his trademark bell lap speed to pull away from the field. Winning with a big kick should be referred to as a Creese Lightning. Although my prediction of a new alumni record did not come to fruition. Owen Dawson came close clocking a 2:22.94 for 4th place and .28 seconds behind Randy Moore's 2:22.66 from 1986.



Event 13  Men 1000 Meter Run
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    Facility: F 2:19.53  2012        Robby Creese, P S U      
         PSU: P 2:19.53  2012        Robby Creese             
        Meet: M 2:19.53  2012        Robby Creese, Penn State 
    Name                    Year School                  Finals
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Finals                                                        
  1 Creese, Robby             JR Penn State             2:20.65
  2 Bile, Ahmed               SO Georgetown             2:21.42
  3 Ledder, Billy             JR Georgetown             2:21.77
  4 Dawson, Owen                 Unattached             2:22.94
  5 Peavey, Bobby             SR Georgetown             2:23.87
  6 Dillenbeck, Alex          JR Iowa State             2:25.96
  7 Sorensen, Dylan           SR Georgetown             2:26.54
  8 Gioielli, Joseph          SO Iowa State             2:27.33
  9 Baldwin, Alec             SO Iowa State             2:27.52
10 Reher, Michael            JR Georgetown             2:28.46
11 Seitzer, Dominik          FR Ohio State             2:28.98
12 Kinnare, Kieran           JR Cornell                2:30.79
13 Castelli, Tyler           SO Pittsburgh             2:31.90
14 Dawson, Kyle                 Unattached             2:32.95
-- Zingsheim, Zach           FR Georgetown                 DNF

Kyle Dawson, looking to work on his finishing speed, ran the 1000 after pacing 7th in the mile with a 4:18.43. He will be back in the 3000 meters in two weeks at the Penn State National.

Down in Houston Tyler McCandless started his 2014 with a PR at the USA Half Marathon Championships, part of the Aramco Houston Half Marathon and Chevron Houston Marathon. Tyler tweeted his thoughts on his run. (Officially 17th in 1:03.25)


7 comments:

  1. Off topic, but Chris Chataway's obit was in the NY Times today.

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  2. I did see that. Paced Bannister in the first sub 4 mile.

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  3. I once paced Greg Fredericks in 50% of his 6 x mile workout just before making the Olympic team. I only made 3 x 800M with others filling in the others. I doubt even he remembers it. And if you are laughing, it's OK. It's all I got! But thinking about it, I'd kill for 3 x 800 in 2:10 about now. RIP Chris.

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  4. The 1000 results show Geoegetown also stocked with 800 types so Penn Relays may be interesting battle.
    KKOB80

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  5. Chris Brasher (a steepler) was pacer for first two laps and was dead on the pace. Chataway (a 5K + guy) took over and normally lagged not lead his races so in THE race he fell off the planned pace by 2-3 in that one lap. Roger almost got sucked into it for too long but his kicked (and his performance-enhancing graphite :-) ) saved him. I wrote a paper on the race at PSU. Interesting choice for Chataway to lead late but he did great in light of his much longer distance specialty. KKOB80

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  6. Truthbetold. Very interested in this paper you speak of. I wrote a similar paper on the quest for sub 4 in Dr. Lucas Olympic History class.

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  7. I did a bit of pacing in Europe in the summer of '84 (low key meets as a tune up instead of work outs) and found it to be harder than racing.

    Also have fond memories of trading training laps with GLF in the spring of '80 as he geared up for his Oly Trials assault. We did plenty of 10x400 workouts that spring. The icing on that cake was watching Greg work his way through the field in the Trials 10K and finish 2nd to Craig Virgin and make the US Olympic team. Although he wasn't on our "roster" that year, he was the teammate who helped me have my best season as a collegian. LTM

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