Grace is in California tonight, racing what I believe to be her first-ever 10K on the track. The remainder of both track and field teams will be at the University of Houston tomorrow.

Rachel Johnson, who ran for Baylor, and who is now the track and field/cross country coach at Liberty University, will be trying for the Olympic qualifying standard of 31:25 (about 5:04/mile for 6.2 miles).

A safe time for Grace to be among the top 32 in the West at the end of the season would be about 33:30 (about 5:24/mile).

To watch it live, go on Instagram to @soundrunning and click on "College Invite". Women's 10K is scheduled for 10:00 CDT (8:00 PDT).

Alternate way to navigate is to go HERE - lists the schedule and entries. Click on "Follow" to go to where you click on the live feed.

Grace is the first runner listed for her 10K event on the Sound Running College Invite website:



The website says it's being run in Irvine, Calif. But I didn't see any specific track mentioned.

Good luck, Grace!!

Of course the live feed which was perfect all evening gets frozen now ....

About halfway - on about 33:20 pace right now. Conditions are great 60° and no wind, low humidity.

32:24.38!!!!!!

She crushed the field.

In 2019 - the last outdoor season, that time would have been 6th nationally.

1st 5K 16:23
2nd 5K 16:01

Those of you who run know how incredible that is.

(04-02-2021 10:49 PM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  1st 5K 16:23
2nd 5K 16:01

Those of you who run know how incredible that is.

I couldn't even run a single 5K at either of those splits in high school...probably explains why my stint on the varsity XC team was short-lived

She also qualifies for the Olympic Trials. That mark is 32:25.00

New school record (old record 32:40.82 by Becky Wade).

Grace is now NUMBER ONE on the national list in the 10,000 meters:

1. Grace Forbes, Rice 32:24.38 (FR)
2. Mercy Chalangat, Alabama 32:31.43 (SO)
3. Clare O'Brien, Boise State 32:43.70 (SR)
4. Lexie Thompson, Weber State 32:49.62 (SR)
5. Aoibhe Richardson, San Francisco 32:56.62 (SR)
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6. Carmela Cardama-Baez, Oregon 32:57.01 (SR)
7. Aubrey Frentheway, BYU 33:03.49 (SO)
8. Cailie Logue, Iowa State 33:09.99 (JR)
9. Molly Born, Oklahoma State 33:10.77 (FR)
10. Anna Pataki, Portland 33:11.30 (JR)

(04-03-2021 09:46 PM)WRCisforgotten79 Wrote:  Grace is now NUMBER ONE on the national list in the 10,000 meters:

1. Grace Forbes, Rice 32:24.38 (FR)
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Wow!!! Congrats, Grace!!

It also puts her 26th on the current World list (7th American). The average age of the runners ahead of her has got to be close to 30?

https://www.worldathletics.org/records/t...sOnly=true

(04-04-2021 10:59 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  It also puts her 26th on the current World list (7th American). The average age of the runners ahead of her has got to be close to 30?

https://www.worldathletics.org/records/t...sOnly=true

The average age of those ahead of her is between 26 and 27.

Wow, congrats. That's throwing down the gauntlet.

So, she beat everyone? And is the Olympic standard 31:25 (which you said in post #1) or 32:25? By crushing the field, is she the only one who qualified? Or was she paced for a bunch of it? I didn't follow along, so wasn't sure how it played out tactically for her.

(04-04-2021 10:21 PM)gsloth Wrote:  Wow, congrats. That's throwing down the gauntlet.

So, she beat everyone? And is the Olympic standard 31:25 (which you said in post #1) or 32:25? By crushing the field, is she the only one who qualified? Or was she paced for a bunch of it? I didn't follow along, so wasn't sure how it played out tactically for her.

The standard to be able to participate in the USA Olympic Trials is 32:25.00. The standard to be eligible for the Olympic Games is 31:25.00.

Here's a hypothetical situation (that's occurred several times):

In the USA Trials:
The 1st and 2nd finishers in the 10K ran slower than 31:25 in the race, but have run faster than that over the past couple of years. They will go to the Olympics. Finishers 3 and 4 obviously did not run the Q time, and have never done so. But finisher 5 has hit that mark in the recent past, so she will be the 3rd American representative in Tokyo.

Qualifying for the 10,000 meters occurs from January 1, 2019 to April 5, 2020 and from December 1, 2020 to June 29, 2021.

There's also the IAAF World Rankings pathway, but I don't want to get into the weeds on that.

Absolutely amazing.... and a FRESHMAN

3 MORE YEARS!!

3 MORE YEARS!!

3 MORE YEARS!!

lol