London Diamond League Meet Results HERE
Barbora Špotáková 1st in javelin
Hassan Mead 7th in 3K
Ben Blankenship 10th in 1500
Showing posts with label 1500. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1500. Show all posts
Sunday, July 09, 2017
Sunday, June 25, 2017
Saturday, June 24, 2017
USATF Day 3 Results
USATF Day 3 Results HERE
Emily Lipari 11th in 1500
Jamie Cheever 13th in the 3K Steeple
Ben Blankenship 12th in 1500
Rose Jackson 16th after Day 1 of the Heptathlon
Emily Lipari 11th in 1500
Jamie Cheever 13th in the 3K Steeple
Ben Blankenship 12th in 1500
Rose Jackson 16th after Day 1 of the Heptathlon
Thursday, June 22, 2017
Saturday, June 17, 2017
Travis Burkstrand PRs in 1500; Teschuk Wins Steeple
PR and a USA standard for Travis Burkstrand as he wins it in 3:38.96! Jmac, Wynne, Timlin 3:39 https://t.co/Z8HeR6jJF3 #StumptownTwilight pic.twitter.com/Mo8XZjhAxf
— FloTrack (@FloTrack) June 17, 2017
Sumptown Twilight Recap HERE
Results HERE
Erin Teschuk wins women's steeple
Friday, June 16, 2017
Gabe Grunewald Accepted into USATF Championships 1500
Entry List HERECongrats to @gg_runs on being accepted into the #USATFoutdoors women's 1500m!— USATF (@usatf) June 16, 2017
For more on Gabe's story: https://t.co/R1tc5fZNaJ pic.twitter.com/U7tabCXJ5v
More on Gabe's journey HERE
Friday, June 02, 2017
Gabe Grunewald 4th in 1500 at Adidas Boost Boston Games
Gabe Grunewald 4th in 1500 at Adidas Boost Boston Games. Race result HERE.
I feel like I'm racing with a fricken anchor tied to my leg but HEY I'm glad I tried. Sometimes that's all we can do. Grateful. ❤️— gabriele grunewald (@gg_runs) June 3, 2017
I'll be flying back home during, but my thoughts will be with @gg_runs as she races the 1500m in Boston tonight! Good luck Gabe!!! 👊💪🤞 pic.twitter.com/Wc04d5y45p— David Torrence (@David_Torrence) June 2, 2017
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Gabe Grunewald Finishes 5th in USATF Distance Classic 1500 in 4:12.29
Gabe Grunewald Finishes 5th in USATF Distance Classic 1500 in 4:12.29(12 aecond improvement over last week). Results HERE.
Medtronic 2017 TC Mile champion Emily Lipari. 3rd. TC Mile runner-up Sara Vaughn 2nd. Laura Roesler 8th.
Medtronic 2017 TC Mile champion Emily Lipari. 3rd. TC Mile runner-up Sara Vaughn 2nd. Laura Roesler 8th.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Joe Klecker Part of a Colorado Sweep in the PAC-12 Men's 5K
Joe Klecker Part of a Colorado Sweep in the PAC-12 Men's 5K. Results HERE.
Klecker was also 8th in the 1500. Results HERE.Did you Buffs bring your brooms?— Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) May 15, 2017
That's a @CUBuffsTrack SWEEEEEP in the men's 5,000m! #Pac12TF pic.twitter.com/UeN410hqrJ
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Joe Klecker qualifies for PAC-12 1500 Final
Joe Klecker qualifies for PAC-12 1500 Final. Prelim results HERE
Friday, May 05, 2017
Gabe Grunewald Runs 4:20.17 for 1500 at Payton Jordan Invitational
Gabe Grunewald Runs 4:20.17 for 1500; Hassan Mead 4th in 10K, Biya Simbassa 5th. Meghan Peyton 30th in 10K
1500 HERE. Men's 10K HERE. Women's 10K HERE. Full results HERE
Mead gets IAAF qualifying standard. Simbassa misses it by .78 of a second.
Ben Blankenship 13th in Doha Diamond League 1500 meters
Doha results HERE.
1500 HERE. Men's 10K HERE. Women's 10K HERE. Full results HERE
Mead gets IAAF qualifying standard. Simbassa misses it by .78 of a second.
.@HassyHass35 goes 27:34 at #PaytonJordan, thrilled to hit that 10K world standard. 🎥 -> https://t.co/HFGl3cNyl5 pic.twitter.com/xAdwriOecG— FloTrack (@FloTrack) May 7, 2017
Ben Blankenship 13th in Doha Diamond League 1500 meters
Doha results HERE.
Saturday, April 29, 2017
SEC Relays Results; Ruby Stauber Wins 1500
Among #LSU's individual champions were @J_Jack71 in the hammer, Rebekah Wales in the javelin & Ruby Stauber in the 1,500m! #SECRelays pic.twitter.com/kJ4I8zEvTC— LSUTrackField (@LSUTrackField) April 29, 2017
SEC Results HERE
Friday, September 09, 2016
Barbora Špotáková 2nd in Javelin; Ben Blankenship 9th in Van Damme Memorial 1500
Barbora Špotáková 2nd in Javelin. Results HERE.
Ben Blankenship 9th in Van Dame Memorial 1500. PR. Results HERE
Ben Blankenship 9th in Van Dame Memorial 1500. PR. Results HERE
If told in 2012 that in 2016 I'd be disappointed w/ a 3:34.26 PR & 8th at the Olympics, I guess I wouldn't have believed it #riskeverything
— Benjamin Blankenship (@benfblankenship) September 10, 2016
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Blankenship 8th, Willis 3rd, Centrowicz Gold in Men's 1500
Kicker's race with a blanket finish as less than two seconds separate the top 12. Blankenship 8th, Willis 3rd, Centrowicz Gold in Men's 1500. Results HERE.
#Rio2016 1500m final#Gold @MattCentrowitz 3:50.00#Silver Taoufik Makhloufi 3:50.11#Bronze @nickwillis 3:50.24 pic.twitter.com/X6JyyyHCO0— IAAF (@iaaforg) August 21, 2016
Centrowitz splits: 66+, 69+, 55+, 38.7. Last 400 in 50.62. Last 800m in 1:50.flat.— Tim Layden (@SITimLayden) August 21, 2016
Thanks to @USATODAYsports for capturing @nickwillis #MedalMoment!#MGoRio pic.twitter.com/wHllVwEwbA
— Michigan Track&Field (@UMichTrack) August 21, 2016
Friday, August 19, 2016
Blankenship and Mead On a Mission
Hassan Mead and Ben Blankenship are both gifted, dedicated, and intense. Both are on a mission to see how far they can go with their talents, and on Saturday they face the challenge of testing themselves against the very best in their profession.
The journey to this milestone has not been easy. For Mead especially the road to Rio has had a number of potholes. While running for the Gophers, out on a routine training run along the River Road, Mead's lung suddenly sprung a leak. Not only was the physical breakdown scary it came seemingly out of nowhere and, though he was able to recover from it, his doctors had no explanation why it happened and/or if it could ever happen again. The condition was rare, he was told, and tended to happen to ectomorphs like him.
His body type wasn't going to change, so Mead put fear in the rear view mirror and gradually worked back into his regular program. He not only recovered from the River Run surprise, but has steadily improved as his "comeback" progressed. Over the past few years, Mead set personal bests in nearly all the distances he runs. He broke through last year on the international scene by making the US team for the World Championships. Blankenship has made similar progress. In 2015 in the midst of his breakout season he anchored the US team to a World Record, defeating the Kenyans, as the anchorman on the US Distance Medley Relay team.
While Blankenship and Mead excelled in both high school and college, neither had been a world beater, someone tagged by those ranking talent as a potential world champion and/or Olympic medalist. When each graduated from the University of Minnesota their coach, Steve Plasencia, had to "sell them" to the folks running post-collegiate development/support programs. Each ended up getting spots in the Nike OTC Elite Track Club team in Eugene. Their development was passed from Plasencia to former UK steeplechase Olympic medalist Mark Rowland, who is one of the coaches in the Nike programs.
In 1988 Rowland demonstrated his prowess as an athlete by winning a medal in the Seoul Olympics in the steeplechase, an event that had been the possession of Kenyan runners who often swept the medals in that event. As a coach Rowland's task is to develop underdogs like himself. One of the ways he has done that is to collaborate closely with his athletes who respond to such an approach.
Neither Mead nor Blankenship experienced immediate success. The training program was similar to that at the U of M, but the competition was more challenging. Instead of collegiate competition, both Gopher alums were now facing the best in the world. Searching for what the right event would be for them and how to exploit the gifts they had to climb the ladder of success.
Both Blankenship and Mead credit the collaborative approach Rowland has taken to help them in their quest. Last year Blankenship noted that at least part of his development was due to his increased involvement in his training program. Rowland was letting him be more in charge of his workouts. One of the favorites to make the 2015 US World Championship team in the 1500, Blankenship was outkicked by Leonel Manzano. Thus the goal for this year was to either change events or get ready for this year's Olympic qualifying in the 1500 so that it didn't happen again.
Blankenship worked on increasing his training volume with the possibility of moving up in distance, but that didn't pan out, so he found himself in a similar spot in the homestretch of the 2016 1500 final. This time Blankenship won the battle with Manzano for the final spot on the Olympic team in the 1500.
Mead faced a different challenge. If he wanted to repeat and better his qualifying for the US Worlds team by repeating that feat in an Olympic year, Mead raced at shorter distances, running fast 1500s and in the 5K. In the Olympic Trials he was overcome by the heat and unable to finish the 10K, the event he had qualified forWorlds in 2015, the challenge of duplicating his top three finish in the 5K was not seen as an exercise in last minute desperation. Mead was confident of his ability to make the team. All he had to do was execute on race day.
In Rio, Mead tried to duplicate his Olympic Trials performance in the heats of the 5K. As the racers approached the last 200 meters of that race, Mead was in prime position to gain a qualifying spot for the Olympic final when he was tripped and ended up flat on the ground as the other runners were accelerating to the finish. Unable to scramble to his feet and finish fast enough to get a qualifying mark for the final, Mead was deemed to be worthy of a "second chance" by the IAAF appeals panel. It's a chance doesn't want to waste.
For Mead the challenge of another "comeback" is not foreign. It's a spot he's been in before and he's demonstrated that he is up to the task. Will he be the "comeback kid" again?
The journey to this milestone has not been easy. For Mead especially the road to Rio has had a number of potholes. While running for the Gophers, out on a routine training run along the River Road, Mead's lung suddenly sprung a leak. Not only was the physical breakdown scary it came seemingly out of nowhere and, though he was able to recover from it, his doctors had no explanation why it happened and/or if it could ever happen again. The condition was rare, he was told, and tended to happen to ectomorphs like him.
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| Lagat, Mead, and Chelimo at the Olympic Trials. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia |
While Blankenship and Mead excelled in both high school and college, neither had been a world beater, someone tagged by those ranking talent as a potential world champion and/or Olympic medalist. When each graduated from the University of Minnesota their coach, Steve Plasencia, had to "sell them" to the folks running post-collegiate development/support programs. Each ended up getting spots in the Nike OTC Elite Track Club team in Eugene. Their development was passed from Plasencia to former UK steeplechase Olympic medalist Mark Rowland, who is one of the coaches in the Nike programs.
In 1988 Rowland demonstrated his prowess as an athlete by winning a medal in the Seoul Olympics in the steeplechase, an event that had been the possession of Kenyan runners who often swept the medals in that event. As a coach Rowland's task is to develop underdogs like himself. One of the ways he has done that is to collaborate closely with his athletes who respond to such an approach.
Neither Mead nor Blankenship experienced immediate success. The training program was similar to that at the U of M, but the competition was more challenging. Instead of collegiate competition, both Gopher alums were now facing the best in the world. Searching for what the right event would be for them and how to exploit the gifts they had to climb the ladder of success.
Both Blankenship and Mead credit the collaborative approach Rowland has taken to help them in their quest. Last year Blankenship noted that at least part of his development was due to his increased involvement in his training program. Rowland was letting him be more in charge of his workouts. One of the favorites to make the 2015 US World Championship team in the 1500, Blankenship was outkicked by Leonel Manzano. Thus the goal for this year was to either change events or get ready for this year's Olympic qualifying in the 1500 so that it didn't happen again.
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| Ben Blankenship winning the Medtronic TC 1-Mile Photo by Gene Niemi |
Mead faced a different challenge. If he wanted to repeat and better his qualifying for the US Worlds team by repeating that feat in an Olympic year, Mead raced at shorter distances, running fast 1500s and in the 5K. In the Olympic Trials he was overcome by the heat and unable to finish the 10K, the event he had qualified forWorlds in 2015, the challenge of duplicating his top three finish in the 5K was not seen as an exercise in last minute desperation. Mead was confident of his ability to make the team. All he had to do was execute on race day.
In Rio, Mead tried to duplicate his Olympic Trials performance in the heats of the 5K. As the racers approached the last 200 meters of that race, Mead was in prime position to gain a qualifying spot for the Olympic final when he was tripped and ended up flat on the ground as the other runners were accelerating to the finish. Unable to scramble to his feet and finish fast enough to get a qualifying mark for the final, Mead was deemed to be worthy of a "second chance" by the IAAF appeals panel. It's a chance doesn't want to waste.
For Mead the challenge of another "comeback" is not foreign. It's a spot he's been in before and he's demonstrated that he is up to the task. Will he be the "comeback kid" again?
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Mead and Blankenship Ready for Saturday
Saturday night in Rio will be fun: Ben Blankenship in 1,500, Hassan Mead in 5,000, both racing for medals. @benfblankenship @HassyHass35— John Millea (@MSHSLjohn) August 18, 2016
BOYZ 2 MEN.— Oregon TC Elite (@OregonTCElite) August 19, 2016
Behind every finalist there's a journey and a story to tell. @NikeRunning #tbt pic.twitter.com/I2qQRLXW2e
#Gophers great @benfblankenship punches ticket to Olympic 1,500 final. https://t.co/JIBmWKUyya pic.twitter.com/lTEihLDbAd— Minnesota M CC/TF (@GopherMCCTF) August 19, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Ben Blankenship through to the Semis
Ben Blankenship through to the semis. Results HERE
— Benjamin Blankenship (@benfblankenship) August 16, 2016
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