2014 DI Men's NCAA Cross Country Championship | FULL RACE

at a very competitive women's race kate avery picked up the individual title that was about a half hour ago and michigan state the team title here at terre haute at the laverne gibson cross country course this is my first visit to this course i've been wildly impressed this is awfully an awful neat facility and a great place for these runners to race they have taken their marks ready for the gun here in terre haute and we're off here the ncaa division one cross country national championships and uh immediately bob i think different from what we saw from the women i'm already seeing some guys sprinting ahead to start this race well the start of the cross country race is uh is counter intuitive you are getting out hard harder than you probably want to physiologically to handle a 10k race but you have to be in position the pack's too big to pick off people uh too many people late in the race there is oregon right in the center of your screen you'll notice them from those bright yellow uniforms that they are running and the runner out ahead is edward cesarec right behind him he's got a teammate eric jenkins who has been awful impressive this year as well in his first cross-country season in fact bob oregon feels like they may be able to go 1-2 with chesric and jenkins couple of very very impressive runners here in terre haute and that's really their chance of winning the team title to have to have jenkins and chesrick one two one three something like that and hope that some of colorado's three four five runners falter a little bit that's their chance you just saw colorado on the left side of the screen there they're out front in position where they want to be it's a long race though and certainly we're going to see how this thing pans out nobody's jumped out to an early lead colorado as you mentioned they're led by blake thoreau easily the top runner on that school and it really has an opportunity uh we all expect to be maybe in the top five top ten and look at that seed bob there is all the fans making their way down to that first corner they watched them take off on the front straightaway and now they're gonna hustle to their positions to watch these runners take the course good workout even when you're out here spectating and the nice thing as we talked about the temperatures have been pretty nice 50 degrees a light breeze and i've noticed that the breeze has calmed down maybe over the last half hour or so so the conditions are very strong very good for a lot of these runners as you see those fans some out there hustling a little bit more than others we won't be too hard on them we see one with a stroller there takes a little bit time to get out to the positions but certainly lots of great vantage points here at the laverne gibson course uh where would you if you're a fan where do you want to watch these runners really i think right in the middle you can go back and forth through the loop course and there's some inside loops and you can see so much of this uh just within a couple hundred meters one way or the other um and see them come by and watch the race develop such a neat course uh that the the runners from the ncaa have been coming here for on and off for about a decade here in terre haute indiana as we mentioned the weather conditions have cooperated quite a bit here as the pack makes their way i see edward cesarec about 15 to 20 positions back there uh and really no one's separated that's a large group making their way around this course early on bob yeah then they are really relaxed right now there's nobody pressing at this point trying to push the pace uh almost looks it's not a jog but it looks that way at this point this will pick up uh at some point i can't tell you when but someone's gonna say look i can't do this anymore we need to separate are you almost relieved early on when everybody's just kind of feeling each other out no one's jumping out there because i would think if someone jumps out to a 10-15 length lead early on mentally that might be able to take you out of your game but i think it depends on the runner some some runners might be thinking oh no this is too slow it doesn't play on my strength but it looks fast you see how bunched up there they're actually running off the course that's how slow this pace is right now yeah dodging some of the weeds that they're just on the outskirts of the course here in terre haute indiana saw edward cesarec in the middle of that pack also saw northern arizona's stud put some zenith lassie who was fourth in nationals a year ago to help northern arizona post a second place finish right behind colorado northern arizona maybe not expected to win the team title but cena celestia's been awfully impressive and i'm sure a year ago you guys were awfully impressed with how far here how far he was absolutely and he's a local boy went to north central high school in indianapolis won a state championship here out on this course when he was in high school and so coming back to something he's familiar with backing up a great performance last year with local family and friends and fans supporting him can be an exciting time they're in the four and a half minute mark and that is a large pack of runners no one has quite separated but we have noticed colorado has quite a few runners up there at the front is that you know the coaching staff and kind of the thought process do they want to be up front early on and just establish that they could dominate this race well i think i i think generally yes but especially on a slow pace and it's hard so so it's hard to coach this from the side of the course right now the runners have to instinctually uh or at least through the coaching over the season understand what's going on here because with a pack like this if they're too far back and then the pace changes like i said they can be 10 15 20 spots places out of place and before they even know it so being up front for a team like colorado makes a lot of sense right now many of these runners have already had an opportunity to race here at the laverne gibson uh course here in terre haute indiana and they did in the ncaa pre-nationals and bob colorado how impressive is that to score just 35 points in the pre-nationals here a month ago it's phenomenal i mean 35 against a great oregon team gets a good georgetown team that is just a phenomenal result colorado it's been an impressive season of course they are the defending national championship champions excuse me they've won three of the last five so it's been quite impressive to see just how good they are and then you see a couple of their runners in bib 87 and 94. a couple of the colorado runners uh starting to poke their way towards the front of this pack but no real breakaway runners a little bit further back the taller runner in red and stanford that's maxim koralev he is the individual who won uh the west uh regional about a week ago defeating edward cesarec so uh as stanford and colorado and all these schools representing uh their areas and their universities certainly a great opportunity uh and look at oregon starting to make their way up they got a group about four or five there bob starting to poke their way through on the left side of the course they already see chesric right in the middle of the oregon jerseys there just buying his time he's he's within striking distant he's has his eye on the lead there goes colorado's um i can't see who that is right here but going to the front a little bit what i was going to say is looks like the pace is uh about to quicken and as i say that it flattens up again but there's a real opportunity here i think for someone to to to finish better than they otherwise may have in a normal race or or even unsee chesric is and when a pace is as slow it's very difficult to change pace it's very difficult to get out of your rhythm and all of a sudden go faster and if a runner has trained mentally and physically to change the pace what we call fartlek and running you have a real opportunity to break some people here in a race like this reach the seven minute mark here in the national championship race here at the laverne gibson course in terre haute indiana should be seeing the first splits come across but bob honestly uh those splits aren't going to mean much are they they really won't way this race is being run right now this early there's the large pack as we see them make their way around yet another corner uh not many sleeves not many gloves i know a year ago past couple years we've seen some runners bundled up but everybody pretty comfortable out here with the conditions of the video right right and we just saw um luis vargas from ellen uh uh he's undefeated this season not not from one of the powerhouse known across country programs but he's undefeated won his regional last week and he's right up there front uh mixing it up with everybody else it's gotta be awfully neat if you're one of these runners from a smaller school you know certainly the edward chesrex of the world the patrick diernans they get a lot of attention but what an opportunity to come here and race against these guys and really prove yourself on a national stage absolutely and it's just uh it doesn't matter that what you have on your on your vest out there it's one foot in front of the other fastest guy to the finish wins eight minutes into this event we also see the runner from indiana state john mascari he's starting to nose his way up to the front as well as some of the runners from oklahoma state of course they're very recognizable in that bright orange many of these schools they you can really tell who's running for who with the uniforms that they wear oregon of course always represented that bright yellow uh but uh colorado still leading the pack here with two runners one of those i'm pretty sure is uh blake thoreau who's had a tremendous season he nearly beat edward cesarec at the pre-nats earlier this season we took a look at those scores and colorado certainly dominated that event but he won the early season rocky mountain shootout was fourth the top colorado runner at the pac-12 nationals which the buffaloes won as well so uh this pack bob nine minutes in i'm surprised that no one has jumped out there and said okay enough is enough i need to lead yeah i'm a little surprised too except it's it's coming um call call another four or five minutes most likely you'll start to see the stretch out in my opinion um but but so far everyone seems to be content with where they are i think we might have a little push on the on the left side of the screen there can't tell who that is but you can also tell by by and i said this earlier uh um if it's flat across the front or now it's starting to skinny up or or flatten out a little bit sorry string out a little bit then you know the pace is changing it's certainly not a sprint here in terre haute it's all about pacing and we're starting to see a couple of the runners break away as we reach the 10 minute mark you're starting to see those 3 000 meter splits but again everything just so tight and those positions changing uh really every second just about around every quarter so it's hard to really call those accurate because they certainly are changing uh quite a bit bob uh certainly we talk about the mental aspect and physically though 10ks how often are these guys running 10k when it comes to practicing year in year out and through the through the months leading up to this event well they're only running um probably two maybe three races in the season in the cross-country season uh um at that distance normally shorter like eight eight kilometers uh but you know they're training um relatively high volume and so the distance itself uh is not a big factor it's the kind of um more the physiological um um when you're running at this pace whether your body's ready to go for or not now i think the distance is going to be less of a factor today because the start's been so slow let's take a look at those team splits after 3 000 meters here at the laverne gibson championship course of course uh early on colorado looking pretty good and bob we saw with a couple runners up front if they can keep it that way they'll be in a good position to claim this race right and no no surprise uh right there even syracuse down in eighth i mean they're they're seconds out of first really when the pack is that that packed together so uh but everyone's where they need to be at this point if you're towards the back uh when do you panic when there's a pack this big because i walked this course just like you did there's some parts where if you're in the back of the pack there's not a lot of way you can maneuver your way to the front that's right i mean my coach sam bell at indiana always used to tell us once you get to a mile or into the race you're probably only going to finish 10 or 15 spots from where you are either forward or backwards and so if you're in a hundredth right now and you want to be 20th uh probably unlikely the traffic you can't get through the traffic even if you have the fitness to get there three runners have breaking away from the rest of the pack representing auburn and lamar and another runner there in third making their way around this corner of course colorado the top team after the splits and a couple of the runners up front uh just pure individuals and and bob certainly they've got an opportunity to prove themselves on a national stage when you're out there by yourself and you don't have any other team to worry about you're just strictly running for yourself is there a little extra pressure taken off your back uh probably yeah i think when you're running on team and your team has expectations of doing well um you you you you have the pressure of i can't let five people go by me here because that might affect my team and my team score but when you're an individual um you can run free and worry about yourself that's ty mccormick from auburn university who's found his way to the front of this pack second right behind him was uh lamar's uh runner that was sam stabler so those two out front early on it'll be a little bit easier to identify some of these runners once we start getting some further splits because that pack was just so filled uh we talked about edward cesarec at the beginning of this show he's a guy that likes to get out front and dominate surprised that we haven't seen him really make a move and flex a little muscle early on not yet and we're not halfway yet and uh he knows there's a lot of talent in this field and sometimes front running can be to an advantage if you're stronger than everyone else but um it also can be a disadvantage if really talented runners just suck off your your your uh drafting as you said in race car lingo it can be a disadvantage so sometimes you want to wait and pick your time uh strategically of when you're gonna go to the front and push yeah you can pick out uh edward chesrick he's in the middle of that pack uh right there he's uh a smaller guy he's not very tall but boy it's so impressive you talked about what he's done um in his career easily one of the most accomplished runners and he's only a he's only a sophomore now that's got to be awfully scary for a lot of these other runners as you see him there on the right of your screen bib 451 for oregon to know a guy is only a sophomore and if you're an underclassman i got to compete against this guy for the next two years that's pretty daunting it is you get you know you worry about yourself but you know he has all the tools and that's why i think he does not have to go to the lead because he has such great finishing speed if he wants to go to lead he can he has that kind of ability um there's a a on the very far right of the screen you can barely see him in the hat from utep uh is anthony rotich and he is probably one guy in the field who has similar finishing speed as chesric he's the uh two-time ncaa steeplechase champion he won the indoor mile in the ncaa last year and has uh that kind of pedigree as well so but you have so many options when you have when you're edward cesarec you can you can run this race so many different ways and still win and rotich with a lot of experience certainly knows his way around this terre haute course uh the laverne gibson championship coach as we've reached 15 minutes into this 10k run those three or four that had stretched away from the pack well they've backed up to the pack and uh the top contenders starting to reel them in there's edward cesarec in the bright yellow to your left of your screen bib 667 for villanova that's patrick tiernan from tawumba australia he's had an impressive season he's only a sophomore as well so i mean for for the fans of collegiate running the idea that they're going to get to watch patrick tiernon and king chess edward chezrek for the next couple years that's pretty exciting it is a lot of young talent and i think some great races not only this year but for years to come as you just said there's the 5 000 meter splits uh halfway through this event here in terre haute of course still a large pack so a lot of positions to be gained we're on the front straightaway portion of this course uh i'm surprised that we haven't seen things widen out and spread out because i would think these guys are probably getting tired of running heel and toe with runners right in front of them and then right there on their heels yeah and 15 30 uh through 5k is is not quick uh it's not it's not jogging but it's not it's 31 minutes obviously if you double that up for your 10k time and i think they're playing right into edward chesrick's hands no someone the only way in my opinion that that an athlete has an opportunity to try to beat cesar today is to run away from him before the finishing straight away you think cesarec has that good of a kick speed at the end uh that when it's time to turn it on he can really make his way to the front i i do i do let's take a look at those team splits and uh oregon has started to make their way towards the front they have the the top uh score right now at just 97 points but bob it's so tight look at that 12 points uh separating the top three and all west coast schools all representing the pac-12 yeah yeah it's that'll all that tells us is most of the favorite teams are up where they need to be right now but we don't know uh we can't tell we think you know oregon or colorado has an advantage for the team at this point what is it about uh running out on the west coast because right now it seems like with oregon and colorado's not the west coast but they've got a real story to tradition and program stanford's been awfully good uh what is it about running out there that gets these guys ready and they've just programs have been so good yeah i just think it's cyclical to be honest with you i mean wisconsin's a story program and you've got programs like villanova and providence over the years from all over the country and just right now it happens to be west coast heavy three oregon runners up front there awfully impressive to see early on patrick tiernan [Music] just about everybody still has a good shot to make their way to the front of this field as that pack is really not separated much and bob it's awfully interesting to see some of these runners uh towards the back you know everybody has a different strategy what was yours i mean did you like to pace yourself early that you pride yourself on maybe how you could finish those guys that like to get out front uh it depended you know the first year i won an ncaa championship out kicking someone in the final straight away and never let a lot of step until the final few steps in the race my senior year i took the was there the whole time so it just depends on on uh who's in the race who you think will be your biggest competitor what their strengths and weaknesses are and trying to match them up to your strengths and weaknesses nearing the 19-minute mark here of course this is a 10k race here at the laverne gibson championship course edward cesarec our defending champion he won a year ago upsetting kennedy cathuka and you know hey there are a lot of talented runners in this race and we saw edward chesrick finally go down in the west regional uh to uh maxim korlev from stanford right now it looks like there's 20 30 runners right now that think that they have a chance uh to upset edward cesarec how tough is that coming into an event where everyone labels one guy is the favorite is that that'll be awfully tough for edward but certainly tough for the rest of these runners as they want an opportunity to knock them off yeah and i think that the longer the pace stays here and not does not get faster the more confidence uh everyone bill it builds more confidence that maybe they can make a run to win this title and beat edward chesric today even though that's all they've heard about leading up to this is how how he's uh dominant he's the favorite to win and he is yes he's earned that right but the longer that this pack stays together the longer that uh runners that have great talent uh feel good about where they are and don't get under pressure the more confidence they have and then i think it's more of a roll the dice for for the finish nick yeoman and bob kennedy here in terre haute for the ncaa division one cross country national championships and bob this is uh this raised a stark contrast from what we saw about an hour ago in the women's race where kate avery i mean she picked them up and laid them down and had no problem running away with that race why was that one so much different than what we're seeing right now it's a great quest it's a great question sometimes personality of a race kind of just happens organically at the start of the race you don't really know unless someone has a very specific strategy like kate avery seemed to have where i am going to take it and i'm going to go from this point of the race and i'm going to run for home i'm not sure at this point that anyone in this field has as as dramatic of a strategy of that chesric's probably strategy is i'm gonna feel it out for seven kilometers and i'm gonna see what i need to do at that point either i'll go and try to run away with it or someone's really pressing the pace and so i'm to sit on the shoulder and try to out-kick them but knowing what can happen too and it's hard to know from watching us but if you're so keyed off one runner everyone else is following that runner even if so chesric is not technically in the lead right now but they are all aware of exactly where he is and so they don't want to be his rabbit they don't want to be his pacemaker and so all of a sudden the whole race slows down uh that can happen too and i'm trying to think which team does this favor this kind of pace is it colorado's such a deep strong team uh they're not maximizing that on a slow pace you know as co is villanova a school like villanova that is more uh i don't know i wouldn't necessarily track oriented but but kind of faster shorter 5k guys less 10k guys as it played into their favor to have a slower pace like this you see the runners making their way up hill one of the runners from cal chris walden he's representing his school alone the only runner from cal saw him up front uh you mentioned as edward cesarec and how sometimes everyone can kind of play their their race off of what he is doing is that still the case though despite the fact that he hasn't been up front because i would think that if he's up front yeah everyone is behind him following that pace but he's been mid-packed for most of this it's not been packed but about fifth sixth seventh on deck right and but but all the favorites corelev and tiernan and footsim and ro teach they all know where he is i i i can tell you that they all know where he is and they have their eye on him and frankly if you think you have a shot if you if you're a corlap or tiernan and you think you have a shot you want to know where he is because as soon as he moves you want to be on a shoulder you can't let a 10 meter gap happen or a 15 meter gap happen it can happen quickly and so you have to be aware of where your competitors are you have to be aware of when they move there's footstool number four 406 from northern arizona the indiana native uh coming up on to the front of the pack on the left side and there's blake thoreau for colorado number 93 uh making his way on the right side of the track also stanford's uh joe rosa he's in the red there and sunglasses on a minute ago the red head he popped him up on top of his head but he sat out all of last season with injuries so uh for some of these and he's not the only one there sir there's many runners that weren't able to make it to nationals a year ago the opportunity to finally get on the stage to finally be here that's got to be awfully exhilarating and something some of these runners i know from the upper class and have been working on really their entire collegiate careers absolutely and sometimes it's such a fine line with illness or little injuries that keep you from training full capacity and keep you off the starting line and to just stand and be in the race competing is is such a great feeling for some of these athletes because there's so much that goes into it over not only the season but for years and years and years i loved how you put it sometimes it happens organically in this race for 24 minutes in we still have a front pack there of about 20 30 40 runners we see a couple of the oregon teammates starting to surge ahead and there is edward cesarec right now in second running toe to toe with the leaders right behind him eric jenkins who's awfully impressive as well and bob those two talked about publicly that they wanted to come here to terre haute and they legitimately they wanted to go 1-2 because that's something that just doesn't happen very often for a school to have two runners that good uh certainly there's there's there's depth like colorado has but to have a couple guys that have a chance to uh to win a title is awfully impressive right and the last time i can remember and i'm sure there are other examples but iowa state uh back when i was running i had uh john nuttle and john jonah koich who finished a great one-two punch and um it's just such a great advantage for your team to have two front runners let alone one front runner the pace is definitely quickening right now you can see it stringing out a little bit people starting to look around a little bit more uh almost got rammed into the fence there that would hurt a little bit but yeah you can see the pace quickening and um i think we're going to see some action here and here goes chesric to the lead yeah chesserwreck uh certainly as you mentioned he dodged that near miss with the fence there and he has slipped around into the lead and uh you can i mean i'm not a running expert but visually bob you can see those guys are really starting to push harder and uh chesarec and bim 451 for oregon starting to push out front yeah i think he really wants to run run away from here he's not trying to just go to the lead and test he wants to make his break for the line here and get away and be in front and he's starting to gap people and what you can watch is as he looks back which is interesting um he he hasn't changed much except his cadence so now he's going quicker he's not he's not increased his stride length at all he's just putting him picking him up and putting him down at a rapid more rapid rate than he was such an impressive career and as we talked about he's only a sophomore he's the ncaa 10 000 meter outdoor champion the ncaa 5000 meter indoor champion the 3 000 meter indoor champion of course picked up uh the cross country title a year ago is there anything this guy can't do i mean it's so impressive how good he is as only a sophomore he looks very much in control and you you can almost guess that just by watching this pretty pretty much the strategy was look at eight kilometers if you're still in a pack that's where you're gonna go and make your move because that's almost exactly what happened and he looks so much in control uh uh so smooth right now uh there's still you know probably 1500 meters left in the race but and lots of things can happen but he's putting such a big gap on right now it's his race to to win and to your credit partner you called it you said you thought that maybe it was kind of playing into his hands and right about at the 8 000 meter split as we saw edward cesarec has certainly turned it on let's take a look at those team scores colorado still out front but oh so close with stanford just six points back bob right now though and with eight thousand meters this is really when it's starting that these numbers are solidified mean a little bit more than what we saw it at two thousand or four thousand looking like a two-team race it is looking syracuse is not out of it yet but yes colorado and stamford and they've you know colorado's beat uh stanford earlier this year at the at the pac-12 um sorry at the uh at the at the regional i believe um anyway um you're right the last two kilometers uh positions three four and five team runners three four and five will win this race for whichever team ends up ends up ahead yeah that's so impressive because so many of these programs have top runners and that seemingly that's where it's won it's those third fourth and fifth runners uh they've got to do their job as well they're not necessarily going for top 10 top 15s if you can slip in the top 60 top 70 a lot of times that'll win you an event right and if you look here you've got jenkins in colorado up front footsome in fourth place right now and you if you looked if you saw the the screenshot right behind that colorado had three or four runners in that next pack yeah colorado was a school i think a lot of experts thought that they could put maybe five in the top 20 because they've been that good this season so colorado certainly starting to make their run for a team title here in terre haute up front though it is still edward cesarec he was born in kenya moved to the united states in 2010 attended saint benedict's prep school in newark new jersey and uh really one of the most highly recruited runners coming out of prep school i mean everybody really wanted this guy in their uniform yeah and he was a dominant high school runner running great times winning national high school championships with ease and he keeps looking back and um and that's not as he goes around turn that's not a terrible thing he just wants to make sure he doesn't get surprised as he as he um finishes up crosses the start line he's in the final straightaway now and again he looks good you can tell by his cadence he's just got a great cadence just churning him turning those legs over uh as he as he gets the finish line and here comes his teammate for this possible one-two finish that they were talking about boy they said they wanted to do it and here's eric jenkins surging ahead i'm surely that edward cesarec just took a peek back he saw that that's got to make him awfully happy put some zenizalasi for northern arizona he was fourth a year ago he's trying to run down jenkins for second but up front it is all cesarec he's taking a peek back multiple peaks he knows he has this in bib 451 down the stretch they come here uh we're gonna crown some national champions edward cesarec king chess he wanted a year ago and he is well on his way to doing it back to back and maybe just maybe it's good enough for oregon to go one two with eric jenkins right on his heel now footsome's in his alaska he has moved into second but here comes king chess edward chesareck for the second straight year is your ncaa division one national champion and bob it looks like jenkins is going to edge him out an impressive one-two finish for oregon that is very exciting you rarely see that first of all you rarely see the back to back championship and to go one two from one school is impressive and there's three colorado right across the line just like that so colorado with their talented runners it looks like they put at least three in the top 15 uh but wow the story is the oregon dynamic duo eric jenkins comes home second and king chez edward cesarec for the second straight year he defends his national championship crown he's wanted his freshman year he's wanted his sophomore year that's an awfully scary thought to see if he can maybe come back and do it again as we see the rest of these runners come across the line though you saw it right away colorado with three runners the depth for this program is just so impressive it is impressive and we'll find out where their fourth and fifth were but i mean look at these finishes here i mean every every place counts but your team is fourth or fifth or eighth or ninth uh and so it's i love the fight all the way to the line from every one of these guys there's your top eight across the line edward cesarec and eric jenkins one two for the oregon ducks the local favorite as you mentioned earlier footsome zenizalasi who went to school at indianapolis north central had a lot of fans in attendance he represents northern arizona very well with a third place finish maxim korolev who's been kind of inconsistent follows up that strong win in the d1 west regional he comes home fourth there's your first colorado runner at amar moussa in fifth uh stanley kabini who was up front for a majority of the race slipped back to six another colorado runner in ben sorell in seventh and then there's john mascari he's from right here in terre haute indiana a lot of people thought that maybe he could compete for a top 10 and to come home eighth making the home fans here in terre haute awfully proud very impressive that is impressive very exciting congratulations to john just saw patrick tiernon he slipped back to 18th a little surprised by that that we didn't see him up there the villanova runner was really leading the pack was up there for a majority of the first uh eight to six thousand meters but he slipped back outside of the top 15. all the runners now making their way across the finish line uh but bob edward cesarec has done it again and uh certainly it wasn't maybe as i mean last year he upseted uh kennedy cathuka and that was the storyline today though certainly when he when he wanted to put the throttle down and jump into the lead it was his race to win he was in complete control and and as i said earlier no one for whatever reason either couldn't or decided not to uh put him under any kind of pressure and if you have a chance of beating an athlete like like edward cesarec you've got to put them under pressure early and he basically was able to do whatever he wanted to do in this race and he did today and what can we say about eric jenkins uh the top american runner i mean he comes home in second that's what they wanted to do one two i mean how much has has it paid off for him practicing and running i'm sure every day uh with edward cesarec for these guys to come home one two it's just incredible it's it's it's fun and um you know i i was on a high school team where i was a state runner up in ohio my teammate was a state champion that same year and it was a bit of a surprise but it's you work so hard together the whole year uh to have that result it's the best possible result you could wish for well we talked about that early on the pace was slow but none of us are going to call these runners slow because you could see the agony on some of these runners faces the weather conditions cooperated in the mid 50s but these guys were just pushing so hard at the end because every position was certainly up for up for grabs with how tight the pack was for the majority of the race right and sometimes when the when the race starts slower it's actually harder it's harder to change pace and and now you're running faster over the last five kilometers than you would if the if the pace was fast early in the race how long did it take you bob after say a 10k until you were starting to feel normal and ready to walk around after a race like this well define normal but yeah you know it's it's a it's it's an all-day recovery for well for me it was anyway i mean not that i wasn't able to walk or anything but to feel uh not fatigued and not feel the the fatigue in your muscles is at least at least a full day if not longer it hurts but all these runners have plenty to be proud of just to make it uh to this stage the ncaa nationals is just so incredible these are the best collegiate runners that the country has to offer and uh certainly as all of them make their way across the finish line i want to send our congratulations to everyone who made their way out to terre haute for this event uh this has been a lot of fun for me a lot of fun for you and maybe not so fun for that young man but certainly everyone will hold their high head high pretty after after all these runners have recovered

Channel: NCAA Championships

Views: 15,485

Rating: 4.9375 out of 5

Keywords: NCAA, ncaa sports, college sports, cross country, men's cross country, edward cheserek, oregon, oregon track, oregon cross country, 2014 D1 Men's Cross Country Championship, 2014 cross country championships, ncaa cross country, track and field, ncaa track, best cross country races, best track races, ncaa d1 cross country, d1 track, cross country finals, oregon cross country championship, college cross country, ncaa xc, xc, xc race, xc full race, ncaa cross country 2014

Id: S2dc4lJ8iyA

Length: 35min 36sec (2136 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 02 2021