World of Running

AtoZrunner update: RJ Ultramarathon

#1. NCAA Indoor Track champs

Katelyn Tuohy

• Won the 5,000 and 3,000
• 5 years since Karissa Schwiezer won the double

Women’s distance

• 5,000m: Katelyn Tuohy (NC State) won her first indoor title (3rd overall)
  • Made it look easy
  • Alabama’s duo strong: Hilda Olemomoi and Mercy Chelangat in 2-3
  • NC State teammates Kelsey Chmiel (4th) and Sydney Seymour (8th) strong as well
  • All of the top 4 came back the next day for the 3,000m
• 3,000m: Tuohy takes away uncontested victory over Olivia Markezich (Notre Dame) and defending champ Taylor Roe (OSU)
  • Amazing to think that Roe edged Tuohy only a year ago
  • Tuohy looks like she’s now on another level than the NCAA–credit? “Staying healthy”
  • Olemomoi strong double for 5th; Chelangat 11th
  • NC State also had 3 women in this event, Chmiel doubling for 7th and Samantha Bush for 9th
• 800m: freshman phenoms and teammates at Stanford fulfilled the hype
  • Roisin Willis and Juliette Whittaker (best US HS 800m runners of all-time)
  • Willis held of Whittaker in a meeting record 1:59

Men’s distance

• • 5,000m: Dylan Jacobs (Tennessee) took his second NCAA title (outdoor 10,000m last year, though for a different school–Notre Dame)
    • Overcame an aggressive team strategy from NAU’s Drew Bosley and Nico Young
    • Bosley and Young ended up 3-4 

• Casey Clinger (BYU) late surge for 2nd

• • • 2022 XC champ Charles Hicks (Stanford) ended up 9th

• 3,000m: Fouad Messaoudi (OSU) took the win over record-holder Bosley coming back to double

• Clinger also had a strong double to finish 4th

• • • Jacobs came back for 6th
  • Mile: Washington delivered–Luke Houser won
    • Washington had 4 men in the finals (of 10), and coach Andy Powell said he had no idea which one would win
    • Houser’s strategy was straightforward: hold the lead and stay in lane 1

• Isaac Basten (Drake) nearly caught him with a late inside surge

• Anass Essayi (South Carolina–leading time this season) was a close 3rd

• Joe Waskom and Nathan Green (Washington) 4-5, Waskom fading and Green coming on strong

• • Washington: 3 in the top 5

Unexpected DQ:

• • Men’s 800m
  • Rule is impeding a runner’s opportunity to get to the finish
  • Navasky Anderson (Mississippi State) made the nasty move: drifting outside down the home stretch

• Yusuf Bizimana (Texas) inherited the victory after Anderson impeded him
• Texas teammate Crayton Carrozza was 2nd

#2. Nagoya Women’s Marathon 

(Japan Running News)

• Defending champion from 2022, Ruth Chepngetich soloed a  2:18:08 
  • Split 16:14- 16:19 for 5 of the 6 5km splits up to 30k.
  • 1:08:47 at halfway
  • Prize purse of $250,000.
  • Deshun Zhang was 4th in 2:24:05, the fastest time by a Chinese woman since 2012
  • 7 of the top 11 women ran PBs

#3. A glimpse into world rankings system

(source: LetsRun)

• We’ve been talking about it, but here’s a precise look at what affects world rankings and championships qualifications
• Race gives you points in 2 ways: time and place
• Time is the key, place gives a little bonus nudge
• Woody Kincaid ran 27:06 to win the TEN race last weekend
• Earned 1216 points for the time
• Last year, Grant Fisher won that race in American-record 26:33, good for 1268 points
• BUT, they both won, which adds a bonus
• Difference: the classification of the meet defines how much of a bonus. 
• Though the same meet, least year it was a level F meet; this year, meet director was able to get it upgraded by WA to level B
• Difference: Fisher won a level F race, which gives a 10-point bonus (total of 1278 then)
• Kincaid won a level B race, which gives a 60-point bonus (good for1276 points)
• They both ended up with basically the same score
• Note: must have 3 or more performance scores in the main event, average of scores calculates world ranking

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