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In the 10K Sprout 4th and Hicks who ran about the last half of the race with a bloodied nose and mouth was 6th.  Rough sport

Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume Charles had a nose bleed of its own volition. He had one in a recent 5000 too. Don't think it was an elbow, and can't fathom that really happening in a distance race, though of course it's possible however unlikely. 

I called Sprout beating Hicks to some of my other Stanford buddies. Charles has seemed off in recent weeks, and Sprout has looked fantastic. And, even at Payton Jordan in April, Sprout was only 2 secs back in the 10000. That said, I did think Nur would win with probably Wildschutt second (I had Sprout third), so my powers of prediction aren't all that amazing. :-)

The announcers were talking about the nose and a split lip as a result of some sort of jostling in traffic. Now whether they were speculating or saw the elbow that drew blood, I'm not sure, but given the specifics, I'm guessing that they saw it and that it happened on one of the commercial breaks.

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In the 10K Sprout 4th and Hicks who ran about the last half of the race with a bloodied nose and mouth was 6th.  Rough sport

Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume Charles had a nose bleed of its own volition. He had one in a recent 5000 too. Don't think it was an elbow, and can't fathom that really happening in a distance race, though of course it's possible however unlikely. 

I called Sprout beating Hicks to some of my other Stanford buddies. Charles has seemed off in recent weeks, and Sprout has looked fantastic. And, even at Payton Jordan in April, Sprout was only 2 secs back in the 10000. That said, I did think Nur would win with probably Wildschutt second (I had Sprout third), so my powers of prediction aren't all that amazing. :-)

The announcers were talking about the nose and a split lip as a result of some sort of jostling in traffic. Now whether they were speculating or saw the elbow that drew blood, I'm not sure, but given the specifics, I'm guessing that they saw it and that it happened on one of the commercial breaks.