{"id":5049,"date":"2009-04-03T15:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T22:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5049"},"modified":"2009-04-03T16:19:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T23:19:28","slug":"carlsbad-5000-not-so-fast-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5049","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad 5000 Not So Fast Anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crw-3374-tmjpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crw-3374-tmjpg.jpeg','popup','width=430,height=286,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/crw-3374-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"286\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Crw-3374-Tm.Jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbad5000.com\/press\/_World_s_Fastest_5k__Returns_To_Carlsbad_April_5th.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Carlsbad 5000<\/a><\/strong> bills itself as the &#8220;World Fastest 5K&#8221; but <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/apr\/03\/1s3bad232251-world-marks-carlsbad-stalled-out-mens\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong> writer <strong>Don Norcross<\/strong> has discovered that on the men&#8217;s side at least there hasn&#8217;t been a record broken in Carlsbadistan since 2000 when Sammy Kipketer&#8217;s ran the race in 13 minutes. Norcross asks the question, &#8220;Why the lull?&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBecause the world record was such an incredible performance that it was unfricking real,\u201d said Tracy Sundlun, vice president of the Competitor Group, which owns the race. . . .By comparison, the women have continued taking an eraser to the record book. From 2002 through 2006, women broke the world record four times and tied it once. . . Kipketer&#8217;s 2000 mark was stunning, shattering the existing world mark by 12 seconds. Eighteen years old at the time, Kipketer took the first mile out in a shocking 3 minutes, 59 seconds. . . . As Kipketer steadily pulled away from the field, the late Mike Long, who recruited the elite athletes, made a prescient remark aboard the press truck. . . \u201cHe&#8217;s going too fast,\u201d Long said. \u201cHow will we ever break this new record?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, getting the fastest runners to race here is just too expensive. What happened to the joy of running?<\/p>\n<p>The race takes place Sunday April 5, 2009 in The Village of Carlsbadistan. And who knows, maybe <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaaf.org\/news\/kind=100\/newsid=50026.html\" target=\"_blank\">Maregu Zewdie<\/a><\/strong> can pull something out this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/apr\/03\/1s3bad232251-world-marks-carlsbad-stalled-out-mens\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbad 5000 bills itself as the &#8220;World Fastest 5K&#8221; but San Diego Union-Tribune writer Don Norcross has discovered that on the men&#8217;s side at least there hasn&#8217;t been a record broken in Carlsbadistan since 2000 when Sammy Kipketer&#8217;s ran the race in 13 minutes. Norcross asks the question, &#8220;Why the lull?&#8221; \u201cBecause the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5049"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5051,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5049\/revisions\/5051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}