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Isaac Updike ran the steeplechase for the first time in 2011, when he was a college freshman at Eastern Oregon University. When the team was doing hurdle mobility drills, his coach plucked out a few who looked at ease and steered them toward the steeple.
Updike was among them. In his first attempt at the event, at the Northwest Nazarene Open in Nampa, Idaho, he ran 9:46.05 an underwhelming result that would have put him about a lap behind the best runners in the NCAA.
A decade later, on April 24, Updike ran the steeplechase at the Oregon Relays at the new Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. With the television cameras rolling for the meet broadcast on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN), he ran 8:17.74, including a final lap in 59.13 seconds, and won by a couple of steps over Mason Ferlic. It’s the fastest time in the world so far this year and under the Olympic standard (8:22.00).
For most of December 1920, Thomas Hynes, quartermaster of the Galway IRA, was in Queen’s College Galway - today s NUIG - hiding from Crown forces, sleeping on top of bookshelves, and assisting in the making of grenades.