Why is Heat 2 of the men's 1500 so much harder tonight?

That's the craziest seeding I have ever seen:

http://trialsresults.usatf.org/

HEAT 1

LN/POS ATHLETE

1 Graham Crawford Unattached

2 Sam Prakel Oregon

3 Ben Saarel Colorado

4 Izaic Yorks Unattached

5 Craig Engels Ole Miss

6 Kyle Merber Hoka One One

7 Duncan Phillips Unattached

8 Robby Creese Penn St.

9 Brandon Hudgins Unattached

10 Isaac Presson Unattached

11 Colby Alexander Hoka One One / NJ-NY TC

12 Thomas Awad Penn

13 Daniel Winn Boston Athletic Association

HEAT 2

LN/POS ATHLETE

1 Frezer Legesse Under Armour

2 Robby Andrews adidas

3 Johnny Gregorek ASICS / NJ-NY TC

4 Andrew Wheating Nike OTC / NIKE OTCE

5 Matthew Centrowitz Nike Oregon Project

6 Jordan McNamara Nike OTC / NIKE OTCE

7 Ben Blankenship Nike OTC

8 Dorian Ulrey Brooks / BROOKS Beasts TC

9 Matthew Maton Oregon

10 Leonel Manzano Hoka One One

11 Dusty Solis Big Bear TC / New Balance

12 Eric Avila Hoka One One

Heat 2 has the top 4 from last year, plus Wheating and Ulrey who have made US teams in the past.

Heat 1 doesn't have anyone who has ever made a US team or even threatened to.

Also, I noticed in the prelims that the 5 runners with Olympic standards were divided in heats 2 and 3, while none were in heat 1.

Did you just cite Ulrey?

Hey, Ulrey made a World Championship team before.

No one in heat one ever did.

The seeding is base on times from the preliminary. They "snake" the seed times.

It actually evens out because the guys in the first heat have to contend with Sareel rigging up and pinballing around track.

completely agree. might as well just call Heat 2 the final.

No one from heat 1 is on drugs. Let's call heat 1 the clean heat and heat 2 the dirty heat. Separate finals

Yorks and Merber are the top guys in Heat 1. Engels will be DFL as usual.

Shannon McF wrote:

It actually evens out because the guys in the first heat have to contend with Sareel rigging up and pinballing around track.

top kek

POD

Yorks is in the easy heat. Would he be in the hard heat if he had a different sponsor? #thinkaboutit #runcrappy

Shannon McF wrote:

It actually evens out because the guys in the first heat have to contend with Sareel rigging up and pinballing around track.

That is really funny and I think even Sareel would get a kick out of it.

Now Engels is really happy.

Heat 2 Gonna Blaze wrote:

Shannon McF wrote:

It actually evens out because the guys in the first heat have to contend with Sareel rigging up and pinballing around track.

That is really funny and I think even Sareel would get a kick out of it.

Pardon, I mean Saarel. Sareel sounds Moroccan or something. I am guessing Saarel is either Norwegian or Swedish.

That's what she said.

Heat 2 Gonna Blaze wrote:

I mean, holy smokes. I would MUCH rather be in the first heat.

ttc wrote:

Now Engels is really happy.

Yep! Looks like Ole Miss coach hooked up Engels YET AGAIN! I hope other athletes in Hayward are talking about this. I hope they investigate this malarkey going on with Engels the Ole Miss coach. Bunch of fooey.

CWRP wrote:

The seeding is base on times from the preliminary. They "snake" the seed times.

This is the price for simulating the Olympic schedule.

It would be inappropriate to seed the semis on anything other than prelim performances.

Lol at the ole miss coach dictating the exact time everyone ran in their prelim. Brilliant. Can she coach my Knicks?

you just gotta put on your tinfoil hat man!! (Re: Engels)

Ok but seriously, the guys in the first heat need to haul some serious a$$ because the time qualifiers are definitely coming outta heat 2 otherwise.