Katie Mackey Wins Stockholm DL 3k!

Big Congrats to Katie.

With 500 to go I was thinking, "She needs to run like she can win this."

I felt like at that point she was running like Evan Jager pre2015, content to be up there but not believing she could win.

Last 100m was Evan Jager 2015.

Do we know why Huddle withdraw? A problem with her foot (that she talked about after her last race)?

Evan Yager 2015 was a lot like Khalid Khannouchi 1998.

Katie usually is just on the outside looking in and got unlucky at USAs this year falling with 700 to go. Good to see here get some good luck.

Every now and then Mackey looks like a world beater (she had a lot left in the tank today). I hope she has figured it out.

Happy for her win today

Nice payday to boot

wejo wrote:

Last 100m was Evan Jager 2015.

An Evan Jager 2015 last 100m is not a good thing.

Agreed, last 100 like Jager 2015 minus the fall of course.

Can we get her instead of hall?

Faster finish than centro. Nice work.

Are you kidding us, this as you state was a b meet at best and a time that would not get you in the top 25 world times. She got lucky plain and simple.

Time to pull a jäger and start running the steeple

There are no photos of her at intermediate points of the race. Galan DL 3000 is a notoriously easy course to cheat on. Just hide behind the clock on any of the laps.

She cheated!

Are you kidding us, this as you state was a b meet at best and a time that would not get you in the top 25 world times. She got lucky plain and simple.[/quote]

B MEET = CLEAN MEET.

This is about as exciting as True winning the NYC Diamond League 5k, which means it's not really exciting at all. This was a horrible field, Mackey was easily the second or third best on paper and while she had a great race, lets not delude ourselves by thinking she beat a legit, world-class field.

There were D-level Ethiopians, zero Kenyans, no A-level Americans, all of which means she did indeed win but faced one of the worst 3k/5k fields you'll ever see assembled for a Diamond League meet. The woman she outkicked from UAE is a 15:12/4:05 runners, so Mackey should have won.

Super happy for Katie! So often she has one string of bad luck after another, or she's playing second-fiddle, or whatever, but today she was excellent! I'm really not bothered that the "big players" were not this race today, because she still won A race, in front of a big crowd, and that is a HUGE confidence builder. ...and with a PR, too!

riley stops wrote:

This is about as exciting as True winning the NYC Diamond League 5k, which means it's not really exciting at all. This was a horrible field, Mackey was easily the second or third best on paper and while she had a great race, lets not delude ourselves by thinking she beat a legit, world-class field.

There were D-level Ethiopians, zero Kenyans, no A-level Americans, all of which means she did indeed win but faced one of the worst 3k/5k fields you'll ever see assembled for a Diamond League meet. The woman she outkicked from UAE is a 15:12/4:05 runners, so Mackey should have won.

Showing up is 70% of life.

The more I think about this race, the more pleased I am with Katie. Of all the runners that the US could have thrown at this race, the only Americans in the field were Katie and Marielle. Good job to both for saying, "To Hell with worrying about racing too much, I'm just going to race, race, and race some more!"

A tactical international 3000 is valuable, if not essential for Hall's development right now, and Mackey will be even more determined (and qualified) to make the team for RIo next year.

not Dave Mackey wrote:

The more I think about this race, the more pleased I am with Katie. Of all the runners that the US could have thrown at this race, the only Americans in the field were Katie and Marielle. Good job to both for saying, "To Hell with worrying about racing too much, I'm just going to race, race, and race some more!"