Ritz Vs Hall

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The NCAA Cross Country Championships held today came down to this:

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MEN'S INDIVIDUAL RESULTS
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Place TmPl Name Cl No. School 3k Spli 5k

Spli

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8k Spli Timemen
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1 1 Dathan Ritzenhein SO 288 Colorado 8:50

14:46

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23:34 29:14.1 2 2 Ryan Hall JR 234 Stanford 8:49
14:45 23:34 29:15.4

Must have been an interesting race to watch. Stanford won the team

contest

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(surprise!).

Lyndon "Speed Kills...It kills those that don't have it!" --US Olympic Track

Coach

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Brooks Johnson

I read the article about this on cubuffs.com. It mentions that the race temperature was 3 degrees
below zero! Wow! That makes the performances even more impressive. A few weeks ago, I just concluded
my last year of XC in college, and our last meet was arguably the coldest I had ever run a XC meet
in. It was about 20-25 degrees with some wind. I ran a PR at 29:40 (8k).

-Aaron TheYAM.net

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I read the article about this on cubuffs.com. It mentions that the race temperature was 3 degrees
below zero!

C or F?

-3F would be about -19C, a temperature in which I wouldn´t care to run in shorts.

OTOH -3C is about 27F, which appears to have been the max temperature in Waterloo, Iowa on Nov
24th (the min was 13F, about -11C). Not that I´d venture out with anything less than long
tights myself:-)

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Wow! That makes the performances even more impressive.

Why? Frozen grass is a remarkably good surface to run on, not at all slippery and definitely faster
than the "average XC surface". The cold temperature may require a more thorough warming up, but
it´doesn´t have to take any toll on the result.

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A few weeks ago, I just concluded my last year of XC in college, and our last meet was arguably
the coldest I had ever run a XC meet in. It was about 20-25 degrees with some wind. I ran a PR at
29:40 (8k).

I´ve been faster than that in about that temperature.

On skis. On a day with a rocket glide.

Anders

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I read the article about this on cubuffs.com. It mentions that the race temperature was 3 degrees
below zero!

C or F?

-3F would be about -19C, a temperature in which I wouldn´t care to run in shorts.

OTOH -3C is about 27F, which appears to have been the max temperature in Waterloo, Iowa on Nov
24th (the min was 13F, about -11C). Not that I´d venture out with anything less than long tights
myself:-)

"The actual temperature was 21 degrees, the wind chill 8 above"
nytimes.comAP RUN NCAA Cross Country.htmlOpen ↗

but I went through the same thought process you did, including looking up the weather 😉

Dot

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