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Yes. No. Yes.

Lax Takeover wrote:

Yes. No. Yes.

What are your predictions going into indoor?

Yes

Can Lamere be beaten?

No

Is the 3k completely up for grabs?

Yes

Will anyone break Jamie Norton's 4:06 mile?

Unanswered by our lax friend, but the answer is no, unless Jamie Norton runs it, in which case he will run a 4:06 mile because Jamie Norton run the mile in 4:06.

Anyone can be beaten. WILL Lamere be beaten is a more appropriate question. Barring injury or some other unforeseen circumstance I don't see him losing at nat's. He could lose a mile or 3000 that he's using as a training race though. I believe his main focus is on bigger things than collegiate racing

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Ian Lamere will win every race he runs 801m and up. The only way he loses is if he poops his pants in the race.

How about the DMR? Any strong teams this year? WashU won last year in a weak field. How do they look?

In Lamere we trust wrote:

Ian Lamere will win every race he runs 801m and up. The only way he loses is if he poops his pants in the race.

And maybe not even then.

Indoors:

Mile- IGC, Hernandez, Becker. I truthfully don't know how this years crapshoot will go.

3k- Lamere, Pitone, Hale. Lamere loses to 3:46 speed Pitone if it's slow.

5k- Lamere, Pitone, Plank. How fast will Lamere go is the only question.

DMR- ?

Outdoors:

1500- IGC, Hernandez, Becker. 1100m jog followed by 400m race.

5k- Lamere, Pitone, Nichols/Lau/Plank. A fresh Pitone should get 2nd. 3rd for whoever can double back best.

10k- Lamere, Plank/Nichols/Lau. Great race for 2nd!

Steeple- Bugler, O'Connor, Adlfinger. Tight race, would put Bugler 3rd but he is the defending champ.

DMR Groupie wrote:

How about the DMR? Any strong teams this year? WashU won last year in a weak field. How do they look?

Keep an eye out for the NCC DMR. They lose Sebhat, but have reloaded with a mid-d recruit from Alabama. Not only that but they have some 400 guys to play around with. They might actually stir the pot instead of eating dong last year.

DMR Groupie wrote:

How about the DMR? Any strong teams this year? WashU won last year in a weak field. How do they look?

WashU loses Josh Clark (1600) and Alex Bastian (400), but retain Deko Ricketts (800) and Mike Sullivan (1200). Clark will be tough to replace as he was all-american level 1500m and no one else on their roster has come close to his times in the last 2 years. If someone steps up, they have a chance to make an impact again.

I mistook Becker for Clark. For the 1500/mile I'll change him to Coffey.

Y'all remember McKenna Ramos? that was weird.

oh he went there wrote:

Y'all remember McKenna Ramos? that was weird.

Tsk tsk, he could've completed the trifecta of the d3 all-hispanic team of him, Hernandez, and IGC. Too bad

The DMR is wide open at this point so its going to be hard to tell until we see who is actually going for it, which makes it interesting. Wash U and Eau Claire should be good again, North Central could put a good team together. That leaves a lot of room for teams to come out of the woodwork. UW lacrosse is always dangerous, Haverford, UW Oshkosh, Williams, UW Stevens Point could all do something. Comments? Opinions?

Throw La Crosse, Eau Claire, Oshkosh, Olaf, and an out east school or two in a hat and pick one. It's way too early to try and predict a DMR. School's you may think as favorites may end up sending their top guns into individual events and be content with their B-team getting 5th or something. Then again a team like WashU last year wins it because Josh Clark had a slow start and didn't qualify in the mile, yet Clark was ready to roll by indoor nats on that anchor leg. Who really knows right now.

Don't sleep on the Lord Jeffs aka "DMR U". Ned's boys will be all revved-up and ready to roll on some UW-Whitewater b*tches come natties.

1200 - Sogaard: 1:53.xx 800 guy with some XC/distance lungs

400 - literally anyone who can muster a 50.x or faster

800 - Butko: 1:51.xx open 800 guy

1600 - Connors: 3:52.xx 1500/4:13 open mile (splitting 4:10 1600s last season)

Indoors

Mile - IGC (SUNNY G), Jeremy Hernandez (Ramapo), Donson Cook-Gallardo (Carleton)

Slow race, fast last 400m.

3k - Ernie Pitone (Widener), Peter Hale (Williams), Nick Peterson (Eau Claire)

I don't think Ian will do the 3k at nationals. If he does, though, he is a top 3 favorite, but I think the 3k is deep enough that one of the mentions above can contest. Especially if it is slow.

5k - Ian Lamere (Platteville), Ernie Pitone (Widener), Zach Plank (North Central)

From the gun Ian pushes it. It will be interesting if others will go with him or will it be a strategic race for 2nd from the start.

DMR - It's a crapshoot. You can never really predict these things until nationals. And even then who knows who will actually stack it.

Outdoors

1500m - Joe Coffee (Olaf), IGC (SUNNY G), Jeremy Hernandez (Ramapo)

Coffee pulls off the upset for the continued Ole magic at the distance

5k - This is hard to do because you never really know how they will bounce back from the 10k...except Ian. He takes the win.

10k - Lamere, Plank/Nichols/Lau/Thomas Shultz

What a hell of a race this will be.

Steeple - Ethan Adlfinger (North Central), Luke O'Connor (Tufts), Mitch Ryan (Cortland St.)

Bugler winning last year was a fluke. All-American perfromance by him, still. Adlfinger is most consistent and peaks well. Luke O'Connor is a great steeple talent and 3k runner. Mitch Ryan has the fastest returning time.

Now that Mitchell Black is gone is the 800 going to be wide open?

Deko Ricketts from Washington U. is probably the slight favorite since he is the top returner. It is pretty open, though. Without a dominant 800m guy like Mitchell Black, its so hard to predict the D3 800m champion. They are all so close together in terms of times.

I'd say Cook-Gallardo from Carleton and Wall Khat from Oshkosh are good picks, too. Both ran well at nationals and have good foot speed.

This is a pretty assuring fluke race...