WTW: One Final Look at The TEN, Where Nico Young & Lauren Ryan Were Big Winners

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Had been you asleep and missed our evaluation of The TEN on Saturday evening or our on-site protection of the United Airways NYC Half on Sunday morning? Catch up right here:

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****Final Week By The Numbers

0 – variety of NCAA qualifiers picked up by Northern Arizona’s Nico Younger and New Mexico’s Habtom Samuel at The TEN.

1 – % of the ten,000m race that Grant Fisher, who has a 26:33 10,000 pb, led at The TEN. He led the ultimate 100 and gained in 26:52.04.

1 – variety of collegiate information set by Nico Younger at The TEN as he ran 26:52.72 to obliterate Sam Chelanga’s 27:08.39 CR from 2010.

1 – variety of 10,000 Olympic Video games qualifiers picked up by Joshua Cheptegei, the 3-time World 10,000 champion, on the Villa de Laredo 10K in Spain. Cheptegei ran 26:53 in a race gained by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha, who ran 26:37 after going out in 13:11.

1 – variety of sub-30 clockings recorded within the girls’s race at The TEN as World XC silver medallist Tsigie Gebreselama of Ethiopia ran 29:48.34 to turn into the primary lady to interrupt 30:00 on US soil.

Nico Younger. Kevin Morris photograph.

2 – variety of Olympic Video games qualifiers picked up by Nico Younger and Habtom Samuel at The TEN.

2 – variety of girls’s nationwide information set at The TEN.

30:35.66 – Lauren Ryan (Australia)
31:33.07 – Florencia Borelli (Argentina)

4 – variety of girls’s Olympic qualifiers (sub-30:40) picked up at The TEN (together with Gebreselama, who already had the qualifier).

5 – variety of males’s nationwide information set on the TEN.

26:52.87 – Andreas Almgren (Sweden)
26:55.54 – Adrian Wildschutt (South Africa)
27:09.57 – Jack Rayner (Australia)
27:26.02 – Luis Grijalva (Guatemala)
27:41.81 – Gulveer Singh (India)

8 – variety of males’s Olympic qualifiers (sub-27:00) picked up at The TEN.

15 – variety of girls who’ve hit the Olympic requirements within the 10,000 (30:40) should you restrict it to a max of three per nation (WA will take 27 however as much as 8 further spots may go to athletes based mostly on their cross nation world rating).

16 – variety of males who’ve hit the Olympic requirements within the 10,000 (27:00) should you restrict it to a max of three per nation (WA will take 27 however as much as 8 further spots may go to athletes based mostly on their cross nation world rating).

16 – variety of laps completed at The TEN by Alicia Monson, who was making an attempt to turn into the primary American lady to interrupt 30:00. Battling a abdomen virus, Monson maintained 30:00 tempo for lower than 10 laps earlier than spending a lot of the remainder of the evening within the restroom. The excellent news for Monson is she already has the ten,000 commonplace, which she picked up final 12 months at The TEN.

16:00 – 2nd half cut up recorded by Germany’s Konstanze Klosterhalfen within the Laredo 10K, which she gained in a disappointing 31:07 after going out in 15:07.

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Observe is a loopy sport typically: you’ll be able to qualify for the Olympics in a race like The TEN, however not the NCAA regionals merely based mostly on who else is within the race and what number of occasions are supplied. And a few might imagine it’s loopy that Cheptegei even has to qualify for the Olympics in any respect, however I’ll level out it’s not just like the NBA simply put Michael Jordan within the Finals yearly. His workforce nonetheless needed to play the common season and remainder of the playoffs, but it surely actually could possibly be argued {that a} sturdy displaying at World XC must be sufficient to place Cheptegei within the Olympics.

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One different thought I had about The TEN was it confirmed that the highest girls are nonetheless such large outliers, in contrast to within the males’s class. Straight away, the 2 girls aiming for sub-30 have been method forward of the others going for the usual.

If a person ran the world document (26:11.00), he wouldn’t come near lapping somebody working the Olympic commonplace — he’d end 302.5 meters forward of somebody working a fair 27:00 tempo. If a girl ran the world document (29:01.03), she’d end 537.9 meters forward of a girl working a fair 30:40.00 tempo.

****The Most Improved Award Goes to Beneath Armour/Australia’s Lauren Ryan

Can we give some like to new Australian 10,000 document holder Lauren Ryan, who ran 30:35.66 on Saturday evening? Earlier than the race, I used to be vaguely conscious of her title however determined to perform a little analysis on her backstory earlier than scripting this column. As a Baltimore resident, I used to be surprised to see this pop up on Wikipedia, “Primarily based in Baltimore, Maryland, Ryan…” Sure that’s proper, the Aussie document holder within the 10,000 is a member of the UA Mission Run Baltimore Distance workforce.

Lauren Ryan on the Baltimore waterfront (by way of her instagram @laurenryan____)

And to suppose on the finish of 2022, Ryan had a 5000 pb of 15:22.48 (and 10,000 pb of 32:56.53). She now can run a ten,000 quicker than twice her 5000 pb from simply two years in the past. To place that in perspective for you, if Nico Younger had improved at that fee (his 5000 pb on the finish of 2022 was 13:11.60), he’d be working the ten,000 in 26:13.8.

As for her backstory, Ryan ran pbs of two:12 and 4:20 (1500) as a excessive schooler in Melbourne. She then headed stateside to Villanova, the place she ran for 2 years with restricted success as she battled some accidents and solely ran 4:21.74 for 1500 (4:43 for the mile), 9:37 for 3000, and 16:26.06 for 5000. At Nova, she was 126th in her lone NCAA XC look in 2017 and by no means sniffed NCAAs on the observe as she was by no means increased than fortieth in two appearances at regionals within the 5000.

Ryan then transferred to Florida State, which she attended from 2019 to 2022. At FSU, she loved extra success however nothing that might come near predicting a 30:35 10,000. After ending 114th in NCAA XC in 2019, she then spent all of COVID locked down in Australia. Lastly again stateside in 2021, she was an All-American in XC (twenty sixth) after which a couple of weeks later in her second indoor race ever for the Seminoles, she set an FSU indoor document of 15:40.40 within the 5000.

Ryan then ran 8:47.68 for 3000, which on the time was the 4th quickest NCAA 3000 time (it’s now #10 all-time) and positioned 4th at 2022 NCAA indoors. Open air, she destroyed the sector at ACCs within the 10,000, successful by greater than 25 seconds in 32:56.53, however she by no means made it to NCAAs as she acquired COVID on the regional meet and didn’t advance. She graduated with pbs of 4:12.18, 8:47.88, and 15:22.48.

Florida State coach Bob Braman, who immediately coached Ryan throughout her final 12 months at FSU, spoke very extremely of her once I reached him by cellphone on Monday. “Credit score to Lauren. She simply retains getting higher,” mentioned Braman. “She’s not afraid to coach. She wished to be elite so I skilled her laborious.”

Final 12 months, her first as a professional for UA, she ran 15:11.84 for 5000 and went out within the heats of the 5000 at Worlds. Indoors this 12 months, she opened with a 15:15.79 in Boston on January 28 (2nd place), ran 8:42.31 for 3k on February 9 (1st place), then broke 15:00 for the primary time on February 23 in Seattle (14:57.67, 2nd place).

Then on Saturday evening, she skipped the 31s totally and dropped her pb from 32:09.82 to 30:35.66 to qualify for Paris, the place she’s going to compete on the Stade de France in August. That’s the similar observe the place the earlier Australian document was run: 2004 World XC champ Benita Willis clocked 30:37.68 in Paris in 2003 to position eighth at that 12 months’s Worlds.

So congrats to Lauren and her coach Lara Rogers.

Extra on Ryan from December: ‘It’s not about me; it’s about her’: Lauren Ryan dedicates Australian10,000  title win to her grandma The Aussie 10,000 was fascinating because it featured some fast laps and a few as sluggish as 91 seconds.

****Stat of the Week

There have been additionally a pair of elite 1500m races at The TEN on Saturday, and the largest story was Ventura (Calif.) Excessive Faculty junior Sadie Engelhardt working 4:09.70 for the win to maneuver to #5 on the all-time US highschool checklist. Jonathan Gault realized the next stat. Do you know the 4 highschool girls quicker than Engelhardt have by no means run quicker than their HS pbs?

Sadie Englehardt wins (Photograph by Kevin Morris)

Prime 5 US All-Time Ladies’ HS 1500 Listing

1. 4:03.39 Alexa Efraimson, 20152. 4:04.62 Mary Cain, 20133. 4:07.21 Kate Murphy, 20164. 4:08.71 Christina Aragon, 20165. 4:09.70 Sadie Engelhardt, 2024

The excellent news is the entire girls at #6-9 have run PBs after HS.

6. 4:10.95 Elise Cranny – pb is now 3:58.887. 4:11.43 Addy Wiley – pb is now 3:59.178. 4:12.62 Katie Rainsberger – pb is now 4:09.089. 4:14.11 Ella Donaghu – pb is 4:09.1010. 4:14.24 Ellie Shea – nonetheless in HS

****Odds & Ends

Former marathon world document holder Brigid Kosgei‘s prep for the 2024 TCS London Marathon appears to be going effectively as she broke 66:00 for the half for the fifth time in her profession and first time since 2020 by working 65:51 to win the EDP Lisbon Half Marathon (her pb is 64:49 from 2020).

Former Ethiopian half marathon document holder Jemal Yimer (58:33 in 2018) had a marathon breakthrough over the weekend in Seoul. In his 5 earlier marathons, the 27-year-old had recorded two DNFs and hadn’t run quicker than 2:08:58 (though he was third in Boston in 2021). In Seoul, he acquired the win in 2:06:08 as compatriot Fikrte Wereta took the ladies’s title in 2:21:32.

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France’s Jimmy Gressier ran a European document of 27:07 for 10k on the roads on the Semi-Marathon de Lille Métropole on Sunday, which is able to increase his rating on the Street to Paris checklist. Gressier earned a slender victory over Kenya’s Jacob Krop, who has medalled within the 5000 at Worlds every of the final two years, as Krop was given the identical time as Gressier. We assume Gressier didn’t have time to rejoice the win greater than 400 meters out like he did on the French nationals final 12 months.

Jimmy Gressier: “La carrera fue bastante complicada de gestionar pero según pasa el tiempo lo hago mejor y confío más. Hoy salí más lento de lo previsto pero aprendí de mis errores del pasado y fui recompensado con un gran récord. Espero que haya otros”. pic.twitter.com/5RI4hFoZ52

— EL NEGOCIO DEL RUNNING (@Asb71atleta) March 18, 2024

Within the 5k in Lille, 12:56 man Birhanu Balew of Bahrain acquired the win in 13:07 forward of two-time world 5000 champ Muktar Edris, who ran 13:11.

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There have been some large names working the 5k on the roads on the Podium 5K, which served because the Athletics England 5K Championships over the weekend. 3-time international out of doors medallist Hagos Gebrhiwet, 29, acquired the win in 13:19, as 2022 World 1500 champ Jake Wightman ran a 27-second pb to position eleventh in 13:52. 2023 800 bronze medallist Ben Pattison was 18th in 14:05.

MB: Be careful Josh and Jakob: Jake Wightman ran a 5k over the weekend and he lowered his pb by 27 seconds

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Despite the fact that the ladies’s marathon world document is 11:18 slower than the lads’s WR, the elite girls acquired an 17-minute head begin at Sunday’s Los Angeles Marathon. That additional 5:42 in cushion proved to be useful to girls’s winner Stacy Ndiwa of Kenya, who acquired $6,000 for successful the ladies’s title in 2:25:29 after which an additional $10,000 for the battle of the sexes bonus as males’s winner Dominic Ngeno of Kenya ran 2:11:01.

The elite males have been supposed to start out precisely 17:00 behind the elite girls so they might chase them down however that didn’t occur as race officers accidently began the lads round 4 minutes and 15 seconds earlier than they have been imagined to, per the LA Every day Information. Regardless of that, race organizers mentioned the 17-minute hole was what the lads needed to overcome, which meant Ndiwa took residence the bonus cash.

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Per week in the past, lululemon’s FURTHER race — a six-day race that was just for girls and lululemon-endorsed athletes (I assume lululemon’s a lot mentioned inclusion coverage solely goes thus far) — led to Palm Springs and Camille Herron was the large winner as she ran 560.330 miles (901.764 km) to interrupt New Zealand’s Sandra Barwick‘s previous world better of 549.063 miles (883.631 kilometers). Alongside the way in which, she set intermediate world finest marks at 300 miles (59:54:58), 400km (62:50:45), 600km (81:23:38), and 400 miles (88:34:26).

*Camille Herron units 6-day world document by working 560.33 miles on the 2024 lululemon FURTHER occasion

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