US Olympian Lopez Lomong was the talk around the world after miscounting laps in the 5000 meters at the 2012 Payton Jordan Cardinal Invitational at Stanford on April 29th, however he still went on to win and run the world leading time of 13:11. Many wondered what he was thinking….so were we…..so we asked him. Check it out
See the full race here:
http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/248561-2012-Stanford-Payton-Jordan-Cardinal-Invitational/video/632322-M-5k-H01-Lomong-lap-mishap-2012-Payton-Jordan-Invite
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My friend ran 9 laps in a 3200 and still won beat the people who ran 8 laps…
Lopez graduated from my high school, no big deal.
And people say Usain Bolt celebrates early, haha
He ran at Tully New York and ran xc with my uncle. My grandfather helped coach him in high school. Plus I met him!
lol that is awesome. Love listening to the Flotrack guys, they are so passionate about track and say exactly what I'm thinking as I'm watching!
Lol. Crazy race
They do…it didn't ring because it wasn't the last lap yet. Pretty simple: Lopez was in the zone.
LOL and he still won!!! wtf!
He didn't think that with a 60 second last lap that 12:14 would've been a bit too fast for a 5K a time?
Ahah! That was not easy. You sprint for 400m, give all that you can. Haha!
hahaha i guess Lopez never looked at the clock! he was just in the zone and miscounted
im reading running for my life and i think lopez is my favorite athlete of all time
I seriously doubt he was looking at the clock. When I ran, it was all about going all out. Never bothered to look at the clock. My pr in 5k was okay. A 14:52 isn't much to brag about. Wish I could've ran as fast as these guys.
I'm going to run a relatively fast time that blows 99.99% of the population away and be modest about it on YouTube.
good one; I lol'd ….except the crazy thing is that that would imply 1/10,000 wouldn't be blown blown away, whereas the rest of the world would have, so it's more like 99.99999992% that one beats with a world-leading time.
I've done this on my 2 mile indoors. After 14 laps out of the 16 I lost count and shaved off my pr by 30 seconds. I got away with it too… oops.
Great strategy…
I guess he wasn't surprised too much that he broke the world record by over 25 seconds.
modest
miscounts his laps on his first professional 5k race, get's 13:11
it's smart though.
Thats actually a brilliant way to win a race, and I think as time goes on all athletes get faster and fitter we will start to see the races sprinted from 800m out as a regular not the final 150 or 200 or even 400.
haha I love Lopez.
And he still won!! Very cool guy!
That's how you know even the best runners are holding back…everyone should realize they have so much more in them
What a great race it was 😀
This was great!! 😀
What a warrior
Amateur mistake.
OK, if he wasn't on roids, and this is real, then that has to be the best ever win next to Bolt with his untied shoe
I like how everyone was telling him to keep going xd
This is great! The next time you want your runner to give 110%, tell them that its the last lap with two laps to go
The new strategy to racing???
To think the world record is 12:37.35 DAMN! So basically this guy would have broken the record by finishing a lap before but the other guys would have gotten lapped in the 5k LOL
I am doing this…….
atleast he didn't ran an extra lap like me 😂😂😂
He finished twice 😁😆😆
WOW HE STILL WON
Lopez would have won anyways. And this strategy wouldn't always work unless you were way better than the rest of the field. I mean, Torrence (RIP) ended up getting passed up, which would have happened to everyone else that isn't Lopez Lomong
This might be the motivational track video of all time. It shows that we all hold something back. When you hold nothing back, you can exceed all expectations and shatter your wildest dreams!
Man thought he ran a 12:00 5k
What a great Catholic Runner!
Ou man jajaja you'r crazy
Stop saying this was optimal lol. He slowed down and the 59 is from 4400 to 4800 not the final 400. He simply was in the best shape in the field and would be hard to stop no matter what strategy played out
clown
That’s one way to win it lol
What makes it so funny is the fact that he still won lmao
this is a classic lmao, so glad i got it in my recommended
His sprint with 500m left made me laugh 😂
Sorry, poor meet management. A bunch a officials standing around with a $300 lap display and they can't keep the athletes informed? 12+ laps and an official should be keeping them informed the entire race.