Gate River Run 15k : Speakers & Interviews

@double take - looking back isn't against the rules.

I am a proponent of the look back, however multiple takes is a no-no.

That guy at the start has an INTENSE vein in his neck... freakin crazy... never seen anything like that before... cool.

That was a crazy finish!!!!1

By the way Ryan, Todd Williams is not a native of Jax, he is from Michigan, but owns a house out at Ponte Vedra beach, which is southeast of Jax.
The 5-minute gap in start time is the time gap between the men's and women's American Records at the 15K distance. Williams ran the men's here, and Deena ran the women's here...so yeah, it's also the difference between the course records. However, it is kind of unfair. The two times were actually run on two different courses. See, the race historically starts on the north side of the St. John's River, goes over the main street bridge, runs most of the course, then returns over the river on the Hart Bridge, with mile 8 basically being right at the top of that monster. Then you come down off the bridge and to the stadium (the finish has moved around a little from outside to inside to outsdie, etc, but basically been in the same place). This is the course setup that Deena set her AR on. When Todd set his AR, the course was different, because of the construction on the stadium. The race started on the south side of the river, ran that part of the course, ran over the Hart Bridge, with mile 6 being even beyond the peak of the bridge, and then it returned over the main street bridge to the finish. He ran 42:22, which was only 9 sec off the WR at the time. HUGE time. However, no one, not even Todd Williams has broken 43 minutes with the race in its historical arrangement of the Hart Bridge near the end (mile 8-ish). Anyway...that's just my historical 0.02.

I was there. Watch the vid closely Fam had no idea at all anyone was behind him. It was amazing the guy passed him at full speed got 4 steps on fam and he thought it was spectator or something. Watch his head he did a double take and then took off like lightning when he realized it was another runner! Fam had a pissed off look on his face.
They would not let spectators on the bride at all for about 1.5 miles to the finish only the final shoot. Speakers covered the entire bridge blasting eye of the tiger and five pace cars driving and yelling not surprised he didn't he hear anything.

Good thing for Fam he's got miler speed, you really see him dig with 200m to go, looked like Tim Nelson had him.

Great job on the call, world class announcing, good energy and good info, props.
"she must have backtracked" LOOOL!

....that was a great race!
I'm sure Fam knew he was being reeled in, as there were enough fans lining the course over the final 1km. Doubt he was as comfortable as TC thinks, as i'm sure he wouldn't have let Tim get so close if he'd been able to step it up a gear before the final 200m.
As for you flotrack guys.....great footage, great commentary......until the final 1km, when you started kissing Tim's behind in a pretty big way. Surely you guys have seen enough of Fam over the last year or two to understand that you can't write him off in situations like this. If i were him, i'd be making you pay for the next interview i gave you! I'm sure he won't though, so you're just lucky he's not me ;)

Great challenge by Nelson too, he deserves huge props for that effort.
Well done again guys!

CABADA lost to the girls!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU FAM

fam looked very easy the entire race within himself. Seens like If he had looked back just once Tim never would have had a chance. Why didn't anyone tell him somone was trying to close the gap?

I cant hear you, its a race you can be loud, no one is studying

If I remember correctly, the gap was set at 5-minutes because that is the difference between the Men's and Women's 15k American Records.

The real question is how many seizures did the camera man have during the race?

I think it is the difference between the guy's and the girl's course records.

I wonder how they determined using a 5 minute gap?

Man, I wish Nelson would have got him. That was a ballsy finish to see a guy like Fam in front of him and still make himself push rather than be content with second and a little less pain. Fam said Nelson had him if he waited a little longer but in the moment it has to be so tough to know when to try and go by. Has Nelson won anything big in the past? Amazing response by Fam and great race to watch.