IC4A Day 2

The final day at the Magic Carpet of Boston University provided two more breakthrough performances in a season littered with them.

Sophomore Quimes DelaCruz lowered his 5km personal best by 10 seconds with a vicious closing kick. The “slow section” on this day went out very, very hard, as you can see. Our boy Q faded a bit in the fourth kilometer, but rallied with a remarkable finish – thanks in part to chasing his teammate, freshman Kenny Walshak.

Speaking of Kenny … what a great run! He followed his usual pattern of going out hard and hanging on for dear life. The result was a five-second PR and a truly gutty effort from the only freshman in the field, who more than proved he belonged with the big boys.

Along the way, Quimes and Kenny moved up on the sub-15:00 list – Quimes is now second individual all-time and Kenny is sixth. Updated list is below.

A great way to end a long but strong indoor season.

OK. Time to shave.

5,000-meter run

14. Arquimedes DelaCruz 14:33.20 (personal best)
34, 68 (34), 1:42 (34), 2:17 (35), 2:52 (35)
3:26 (34), 4:01 (35), 4:36 (35), 5:11 (35), 5:46 (35)
6:21 (35), 6:56 (35), 7:31 (35), 8:06 (35), 8:41 (35)
9:15 (34), 9:52 (37), 10:28 (36), 11:05 (37), 11:41 (36)
12:18 (37), 12:53 (35), 13:29 (36), 14:02 (33), 14:33.20 (31.20)
Kilometer splits: 2:52, 2:54, 2:55, 3:00, 2:52.20

19. Ken Walshak 14:37.53 (personal best)
34, 68 (34), 1:42 (34), 2:17 (35), 2:52 (35)
3:26 (34), 4:01 (35), 4:36 (35), 5:11 (35), 5:46 (35)
6:21 (35), 6:56 (35), 7:31 (35), 8:05 (34), 8:40 (35)
9:15 (35), 9:51 (36), 10:26 (35), 11:03 (37), 11:39 (36)
12:15 (36), 12:51 (36), 13:27 (36), 14:02 (35), 14:37.53 (35.53)
Kilometer splits: 2:52, 2:54, 2:54, 2:59, 2:58.53

5km all-time list

Girma Segni, 14:18.42, 2009*
Arquimedes DelaCruz, 14:33.20, 2011
Adam Vess, 14:33.41, 2008
Peter Pazik, 14:35.84, 1986
Matt Flint, 14:37.45, 2010
Ken Walshak, 14:37.53, 2011
Michael Melfi, 14:42.36, 1998
Justin Harris, 14:42.88, 2007
David Raucci, 14:42.92, 2006
Michael Nehr, 14:45.61, 2001
Will Griffin, 14:47.86, 2010
David Swift, 14:50.24, 1995
Kirk Dornton, 14:50.89, 2002
Nick Webster, 14:52.54, 2009
Conor Shelley, 14:52.67, 2008
Greg Salamone, 14:55.79, 2000
Tim Keegan, 14:56.45, 2009

*holds both indoor (14:18.42) and outdoor (14:32.65) school records for the distance
Bold indicates current team member