USATF Juniors: 10th place for Dietrich Mosel

First things first: Kudos to USATF and meet management for moving this race to 10 a.m. Conditions were still far from ideal – 80 degrees and extremely humid – but there was cloud cover and it was not nearly as dangerous as it will be at 6 p.m., when forecast highs are close to 100 degrees. Put it this way: Friday at 6 p.m., we were sitting at Hayward Field watching the meet, and it was 98 degrees in the shade. Yikes.

Dietrich ran well. He wanted to do better. But he ran well. Start with the finish: Superb! His last lap was in an eye-popping 67.87 seconds, vaulting him into 10th place out of 14 entrants. The early pace was very slow, then very fast. Deet got gapped by most of the field, and settled into an 82-83/lap pace. He had some slow laps toward 8km, but then rallied for a strong finish.

This meet is about representing the program well on a national level. Dietrich did that. And for that, we are proud of him. Nicely done.

USATF Junior Championships

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Hayward Field, University of Oregon

10,000-meter run

10. Dietrich Mosel 33:39.87

83, 2:48 (85), 4:04 (76), 5:19 (75)

6:36 (77), 7:52 (76), 9:07 (75), 10:26 (79)

11:44 (78), 13:04 (80), 14:25 (81), 15:47 (82)

17:09 (82), 18:32 (83), 19:55 (83), 21:18 (83)

22:41 (83), 24:05 (84), 25:27 (82), 26:54 (87)

28:20 (86), 29:44 (84), 31:08 (84), 32:32 (84)

33:39.87 (67.87)

5km: 16:28; second 5km: 17:11.87

1600m splits: 5:19, 5:07, 5:21, 5:31, 5:36, 5:38

Here are the official results:

1	Cerake Geberkidane		Oklahoma St.	31:29.15			1 (1)
2	Chase Weaverling		Virginia	31:32.88			1 (2)
3	Connor Hendrickson		Texas	31:53.10			1 (3)
4	Kyle Gronostaj		Albany	32:00.57			1 (4)
5	Benjamin Kendell		Detroit	32:09.45			1 (5)
6	Jose Macias		Portland St.	32:28.70			1 (6)
7	Daniel Lathrop		Illinois	32:46.92			1 (7)
8	Austin Post		Nebraska	32:56.23			1 (8)
9	Cody Drisko		Azusa Pacific	33:23.81			1 (9)
10	Dietrich Mosel		Marist	33:39.87			1 (10)
11	Faris Sakallah		William & Mary	33:44.97			1 (11)
12	Dray Carson		Wichita St.	34:17.20			1 (12)
13	Duncan Reid		Unattached	DNF			1,
14	Caleb Webb		Unattached	DNS			1,