Men's 3000m - 2018 NCAA indoor track and field championship

get ready for the men's three thousand house to craig from arkansas setting the collegiate record low the delay has the competition record and justin knight our 5 000 champion from last night has the best time in the country this year there is andy truer not only the more valuable athlete, but he has had a very good career here at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, at 7000 feet, he said I love the altitude, sometimes we go up to 9000 to train where the ground is very thin and sometimes we go out from 3,500 to do our speed work, he said, and boy, the speed work is hard to do the tough interval training even at 3,500 feet, he could be a factor here, but the guy you need to worry about is this guy who is very close to his family and they came. to the

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from canada when he went to louisville this year and he had a wonderful victory here and has had an excellent competition so far winning the 5000 meters.

I want to make a correction from yesterday. By mistake I had a good When I came back from a preliminary in the mile, yesterday I didn't run the mile, so I was fresh for that 5,000 and dominated. Now let's see if he can successfully return in this 3,000 meters as a long distance race. Let me quickly add one thing. These guys, a lot of them know they'll run the three and the five if they qualify and you're happy that the first thing you do is the five. Psychologically, it is easier than running very hard, being tired in the three and knowing yourself.

I have all five, they do it the right way. 31 more for the first 200 meters. An honest rhythm, for sure, let's see if it doesn't double. I'd be surprised if it's hard here alone tonight. Curiously, you move forward. You know sometimes you can run. he runs a few laps in lane one, but he acts almost like a blocking agent and when you're the key alpha personality in this race, as he is, sometimes the others just follow you and don't challenge you right away. Lawrence Kipp, Campbell's coach, has come up today, so the 16th. The man is starting a little bit, he says the pace is picking up a little bit to show how good the talent there is and the level they have reached in college athletics for the last 15, 10, 15 years.

Justin Knight has done it. the fastest time along with colby gilbert of washington to have run seven minutes 45 seconds at 3,000 meters now let's say they were able to maintain that pace one more lap everyone understands the mile and the two miles let's say you kept the pace up one more time when you do the calculations, it's like running 409 miles and coming back and running another mile at 409 in total time, it would take 17. That's how good these athletes are to get to this competition, they have run so fast, the slowest ones have less than eight minutes for 3 000 meters andy truard the bailey senior of northern arizona from tucson arizona big sky champion in the 5 000 meters also a 358 miles so we have the wheels since this pace has slowed slightly 212 for 800 meters that I mentioned, I thought the first half could be slower than the second half, real art, to be quite honest, I had conversations with him about tactics and what he wanted to do, he talked about the 5000 meters, he said, I hope someone pushes him halfway through the race.

I don't want to do it, but I don't want him to slow down to a kick right at the end of the first thousand meters, two minutes, 47 seconds, the slower pace, for sure, by 20 or 30 seconds than what these guys have done before. . At this point you're just striding, that's Lawrence Tim Coetz, the Campbell junior from Kenya, who has now come to the key, it's just to keep yourself in a position where you have room to run where you're not in danger of putting your foot down where someone else's leg is and that's what happens when you bunch up when the pace starts to slow down that's cameron griffith griffith from arkansas the sophomore from australia the tall one in the all white from arkansas in second place and you know you could watch his arm move his pace and know he's holding back, it's like a horse in a pull race and it's almost like a race for these guys if they're going to run at pace, it doesn't matter if it's a big race, the question is when does anyone realize that they are playing into the hands of guys like Knight with his 355 mile speed and other guys who can really kick and have a raw speed of 1500 meters in four minutes and 13 seconds and add another 19 , so they are at a pace of 430 31 32 miles, this is easy, it is preparing you for a fantastic last 800 meters, but it is not surprising when the guys have already run 5,000 meters and many of these guys are just finishing last night, Yesterday afternoon, eight of the 16 athletes here are foreign athletes and the coaches go to see the world juniors and sometimes they get phone calls from abroad from someone saying this is what I've done.

I'm interested in talking to you. I know your school and they recruit the best. foreign athletes too to compete here in the united states for the scholarships that are available now cole rockhold the junior from colorado state gets into the mix all the beans right on the shoulder of cameron griffith and here goes kim co edge from the university of campbell he's I've been here before over the last few years like Lawrence, his speed and this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Dwight, he's a 406 mile runner which isn't going to be enough if he slows down to a big kick as we get to five. those are your top four left to finish, but almost all the athletes registered, all 16 are in this, let's see what happens to Grant Fisher, from Stanford University, a great runner, just a sophomore, anchored the team of the Cardinals last night to his first place and ran 357 and changed now, what is needed of him? number one number two this is a slow easy pace that will help your confidence and he is running about 6th right now he has speed we are down to 63-3 kip koesh for the last 400 meters utah state's dylan maggard has a speed of 356 miles he is in the race that I mentioned gentleman before the real r 358 james west of great britain and oregon in the race a mile 357 or more he is in the middle of the group right there and the orange shirt in the part top, so the speed is there, when did they start spinning?

We have 600 meters left in this race, well there are a lot of people left in this race as we reach the last 400 meters. Two laps to go and Andy Tuard regains the lead, followed closely by Washington senior Colby Gilbert and Utah State's Dylan Maggard later tonight, with some issues there, but has to make a position hasty if you want to shoot. since the 5,000 double last night he goes long on the straight and tries to enter the curve there is only one night in the blue of Siracusa but Truart stops him when he reaches the bell just over 200 meters ago and that is tonight, just like yesterday he took the lead but he didn't give up he threw up he took the lead again and now we are in a foot race that's right he is a 358 miler and Justin Knight who is a 355 miler How much energy is Justin Knight using? trying to make that pass for the second time gerard lifts and the double won't happen for justin knight andy truart of northern arizona the senior wins the 3000 meters his last 400 meters about 54 more seconds and he won't be able to have the speed to activate to get through truart so he can't cut into truard right here this was a moment of decision right there he made his move he came back to the front and was able to hold off the highest speed we all thought mike would have have in this race look at him get up in the true art again true of 418 high school miler lowered his time to 358 Northern Arizona coach Mike Smith must be thrilled that they were the

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division one team this year and he certainly has Running extraordinarily well here in this meet has true art.

They were division one ncaa cross country champions. Andy Truart, who is a huge Star Wars fan, the force was with him in this case against Justin Knight. Knight finishes second after winning the 5,000 last night and Arkansas. Cameron Griffith scores six points for third-place Pigs