Clayton Young Wins Men's 10K - 2019 NCAA Track & Field Outdoor Championships

[@alohatic]

Oh man, he is not even out of breath in the end. Excellent strategy and mind over matter. Congrats Clayton Young and the BYU team.

[@giantsdiscord3857]

Endurance training mixed in with some hills. Shouldn't be out of breathe.

[@Carlosediaz543]

The amount of times Clayton young looked at the stands... 24 times

[@iRunfastXC]

Given that it’s a 25 lap race, I’d imagine so 😍

[@andrearatkovic4048]

I noticed that too. Weirdest thing ever. Like wtf is he looking at?🤣

[@alohatic]

You have the observant mind of an investigator. LOL!

[@iRunfastXC]

Andrea Ratkovic I mean, probably his wife and baby. And all his BYU teammates / coaches in the crowd.

[@Carlosediaz543]

imapieface yeah you’re definitely right! Just found weird at first

[@gseegrist6679]

55 second gun lap in that insane heat/humidity, Clayton Young is a beast! The Cougars also finished 3 in the top 4!!! Rebounding off their 1st NCAA XC Title, BYU managed to place 6 in the finals of this race, one short of having a whole cross country team in there! Incredible job boys!!! ...and hats off to legendary Coach Ed Eyestone for getting them there! #cougarnation #byudistancedynasty #byutrackandfield

[@iRunfastXC]

G Seegrist Agreed! Although this race was before the XC title! It’s amazing that 2/3 of the guys in this 10k final graduated before the Fall XC season, and BYU STILL won Nattys. Eyestone is a legend. And that 55 second lap...Clayton had been training for that specifically for three years. Legendary work ethic.

[@obiwan042]

I also got 4:18 for last 1600m and 1:59 last 800m which is some powerful running

[@goatbrxdy4148]

plz don’t tell us the winner in the title

[@chili9419]

much more interesting if we dont know who wins.

[@RavishingSailor]

Goat Brxdy same with flotrack. The always spoil the race

[@logiconabstractions6596]

Just a thought: the NCAA men final 10k on TRACK was at a slower pace than Kipchoge's 1:59 marathon. Isn't that crazy?

[@iRunfastXC]

logicOnAbstractions FR though. There are a ton of factors that contributed to that, but it is crazy. Actually, specialized road running (like the course Kipchoge ran-flat, mostly turnless, low elevation) has the potential to be much faster than the track. Then you consider: the massive difference in conditions (58° for Kipchoge’s marathon, 95° w/88% humidity at NCAAs), perfect pacing, INSANE shoes, a perfect course, massive fanbase, 0 wind resistance (made possible by rotating pacers), and the greatest marathoner of all time, it makes sense. But still, even considering all that, Kipchoge’s 10k average of 28:23 would have been the 7th fastest run by ANY D1 collegiate runner all of last year. The man is a monster.

[@anthonyvelardocchia7148]

Kipchoge was racing for time. These guys were racing for the win. Big difference.

[@PositiveLifeVlog]

imapieface kichoge was a world class runner at 18 years old. He defeated two of the world’s best runners (El Guerrouj & Bekele) to win the 5000m at the World Championships. He can run a 3:50 mile too. These college athletes are still close to high school times.

[@PositiveLifeVlog]

imapieface I already reviewed your original post: I agree. Just added more to this discussion.

[@gseegrist6679]

Positive Life, everyone of these guys in the top 7 could turn a mile significantly faster than 99% of high school runners. Clayton Young (BYU) ran his gun lap in 55 seconds after already running 6 miles!

[@kylejones5739]

That last lap was 🏃🏾🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@CoReOmega]

The bell lap is at 29:50

[@warioman91]

he finished with a 56

[@robertkent5329]

Love that race at the finish

[@Speedymisha]

This reminds me of good old days of bad echoing running track.

[@closmasmas9080]

The amount of people that stayed to watch the 10000m NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP RACE is sad

[@iRunfastXC]

Clos MasMas So there was a huge thunderstorm that was going to move through and EVERY other event was moved earlier in the day. What you see are fans that left and came back hours later. Meet organizers couldn’t justify having the 10k in the blazing heat of the day; if they had moved it with the rest of the events, it would have been run in 100+ degree heat. As it is, ~87° w/90% humidity was bad enough 🔥

[@noahstout3173]

Ay go cougs!

[@evanmegoulas]

Hell are you still making running videos

[@marcussosa5166]

Why is there so many BYU boys? 👀

[@iRunfastXC]

Marcus Sosa Did you SEE NCAA XC this year? 😂 BYU is insanely deep. There is an East and West regional qualifier for Nattys. Top 12 qualify from both. BYU put 6 in the top 12 from the West (half), which was 1/4 of the field ad Nattys. They’re that good.

[@flips220]

"Boys". Fun fact, Clayton Young was 25 years old in this race. BYU gets to trot out men in their prime against college kids.

[@Jmax-wj2be]

flips220 there isn’t a perfect age to run fast times

[@bradyeagar7775]

flips220 men who missed out on running for 2 years right after high school

[@gseegrist6679]

imapieface Ed Eyestone is arguably the best distance coach in the nation rn and has a very deep roster that just keeps getting better! Wait to see what Casey Klinger does post mission for the Cougs!!!

[@restinpeacedrip]

This is Austin Texas not San Antonio

[@alexanderschim9469]

Last lap of 59 jheez

[@iRunfastXC]

Alexander Schim 😂Actually just under a 56 🔥🔥

[@leotv8303]

Great

[@barchetta575m]

These guys are impressive! However, what's more impressive is a guy running faster than them while pacing for a full 26.2-mile run! It's insane that Eliud Kipchoge did a 10K in 28:20 while running towards 26 miles under 2 hours. If some find that "unfair," well, his 2018 Berlin Marathon run of 2:01:39 had a 10K split of 29:01. Regardless of which you count, both are much faster than these strong and young bucks in their early 20s! Not to mention these guys are using spikes for optimal grip.

[@guhmuhtruh]

It's a tactical race, they go out slow to set up for a fast finish. Most of these guys can go a lot faster

[@barchetta575m]

So is marathon running. Just about every running event is a tactical race. And they don't start out "slow." They are going at least at 80-85%. Just look at their splits.

[@guhmuhtruh]

@@barchetta575m They start out fast, then slow wayyyyyyyyyyy down. Like every tactical race. And marathon racing is not tactical. negative splitting is not the same thing as a tactical race

[@barchetta575m]

@@guhmuhtruh Marathon racing is not tactical? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 That's enough to tell me you don't know SQUAT about running competitively.

[@rosselynalvarez7156]

@@guhmuhtruh "marathon racing is not tactical" LOL We got some dumbass motherfuckers in the comment section! LOL

[@SamEnglish03]

How did these dude not collapse at the end 😨

[@romanmedveckij]

in my country we have only 2-3 athletes capable to run under 30min :/

[@philomenaakpanaadie2015]

What's your country?

[@kinglouie313]

The BYU guys are so easy dislike and I don’t know why

[@iRunfastXC]

Yahkov thegreat twitter.com/byucougars/status/1136659770688135169?s=21 Here you go!

[@jerks6215]

Because you're jealous?

[@Whopsie12]

again a disappointing tactical race. I don't watch the Super Bowl to see both teams scrimmage for 3 quarters then step it up in last quarter. The best of these guys could probably run minute and a half to two minutes faster when going all out. Especially when it is a championship race this is very anti-climactic. Fear that distance running on the track is going to become of less and less interest to the public when we aren't seeing the very best trying their very best. If I wanna see such a strategy based competition I'll watch a chess match.

[@iRunfastXC]

Eric Perry On any other night, I agree with you. But the weather that night was mid-90s with 88% humidity. It was about survival, not speed. For example, take the twins from Coastal Carolina. They decided to take the pack because it was getting slow; they fell HARD to a minute slower than their PRs set earlier that season. Rory Linkletter, former top-3 @ NCAAs, current pro, 28:12 guy was expecting to be right there again. He fell flat on his back (metaphorically). After the race, he talked about how the conditions were impossible. He had tried to go fast, but it wasn’t there. Look up and down the field, and you see guys who were minutes off their time-yet we’re absolutely dead at the finish. Yes, this turned into a tactical race at the end, but that was more a byproduct of the conditions than much else. Those who finished well trained for it. Clayton spend hours in the sauna after 16-mile days to prepare for the heat in Austin.

[@Whopsie12]

@@iRunfastXC Agree that the heat conditions certainly had to have been a factor here (lived in Austin for 26 years) but my larger point would be that I have seen a pattern of this over and over year after year in both men's and women's championship races in any distance of 1500 meters or more. Consistently finding Cross Country to be more interesting now because they simply don't seem to do the strategic based (tho I do know that strategy does come in to play at some level) racing thing. As I've said in other commentary streams on youtube I feel like i"m watching a race where a group of brilliant distance runners are warm-up jogging for half to 3/4 of race - then a bunch of mediocre middle distance runners or sprinters (as compared to real middle distance and sprint specialists) really hoofing it (relatively speaking) towards the end. Find myself consistently skipping through much or most of these races now because they're just not holding my attention the way they used to.

[@jonnyy4088]

What a stupid bloody idea to offer them cups.They have heard of bottles??

[@Whopsie12]

boring tactical race.

[@iRunfastXC]

Eric Perry Lets not forget - the pace was actually fast enough to drop all-Americans and past top-3 finishers like Rory Linkletter. Had a lot to do with the insane heat and humidity.

[@matthewkelly6012]

Eric Perry this was not a boring race at all

[@Whopsie12]

@@matthewkelly6012 I was bored. skipped most of it.

[@RogerPack]

There were some runners who tried to break away...apparently it wasn't easy in this race...

[@thelongrun5077]

@@Whopsie12 bruh then you shouldn't be watching a 10k... watch an 800 lol