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Edmonds Finishes As Top American, Fourth Overall At NACAC Cross Country Championships
Joshua Edmonds finished as the top American in his final tune-up for the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Kenya.
March 4, 2007
Clermont, Fla.
Liberty freshman Joshua Edmonds placed as the top American and fourth overall in the junior men’s 6K race at Saturday’s North America, Central America and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Cross Country Championships in Clermont, Fla.
Edmonds (Peru, N.Y.), finished fourth out of 30 competitors at the event in a time of 19:31. He crossed the line two seconds ahead of Elliott Heath, the U.S. junior cross country national champion.
Edmonds and Heath led the United States team to a second-place finish. The Americans’ 27 points left them five points behind team champion Canada.
Canada featured the second and third-place finishers, but everyone was left chasing Mexico’s Diego Borrego, a 16-year-old who won the race in a time of 18:50.
The NACAC Championships served as a tune-up for the March 24 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya. Edmonds will represent the United States in the junior men’s race at the meet.
All of these accomplishments may just serve as a glimpse of Edmonds’ potential, however. “Josh is still a relatively inexperienced runner,” Tolsma observed. “He was a swimmer through most of high school and only got serious about running his senior year. Then, he ended up placing third at the state track meet in the 3,200 meters.”
This is an interesting backstory since one of the more highly regarded runners out of last years recruiting class was Steven Duplinsky out of DC, the US National Junior Triathlete Champion last year, who decided on Stanford. As a former runner who cross trained on the bike, but never in the pool, I see a strong correlation to developing lung capacity and efficiency of breathing technique through substantial cross-training by swimming, not to mention the benefits of preserving your joints as one gets a similar fatigue and cardiovascular pump from the swimming while forcing you to be "honest" in your breathing effort.
I would be interested to know if any sports case studies have undertaken this hypothesis.
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I'm glad Josh did well and I wish him the best of luck as he heads to world's. But...Is this the best thing for him? There is usually a natural cycle of training that includes base work, build-up, fine tuning, peaking, rest, base work... Most athletes can only stay at a high level for a couple of weeks. Josh has been sticking with a high level of cross competition for five months now. Now I know he hasn't been racing every weekend, but is it possible he could be messing himself up for next year by screwing with the normal training cycle? What is his outdoor season going to be like? He should be back to normal by fall as long as he doesn't seek more international competition this summer. Again, I am all for him achieving great things, but what will the consequences be?
The men’s junior runners were not alone in experiencing difficulties with the heat and humidity. Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele, the five-time defending world champion, dropped out of the men’s senior 12K competition.
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According to the article on the Liberty Flames site it was 91 degrees with 73 percent humidity. If you aren't used to that sort of condition its gonna sap your energy REALLY quick
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BJWilliams wrote:According to the article on the Liberty Flames site it was 91 degrees with 73 percent humidity. If you aren't used to that sort of condition its gonna sap your energy REALLY quick
Sounds pretty tame to me. But then again, I live in Houston.
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