We help make sense of a very busy weekend for you. *MB: WTW 12/6/21: It Was A Good Week For D'Amato, Mantz, Cherono, Cook, & Rodenfels + Is Sara Vaughn the 2nd Coming of Sara Hall?

Conner Mantz pro debut was a victory in 1:00:55 over Sam Chelanga as Keita D'Amato dominated in 1:07:55.

There is so much distance action going on this weekend it's wild. Get out your popcorn as we break it down for you here. Between the RunningLane Cross Country Championships, the Cross Champs at Mt. SAC, the first BU meet, the Valencia Marathon, and the US Half Champs, it's going to be a busy weekend of racing.

Spurred by a $40,000 prize money purse ($7,000 for the winners), 49 women and 62 men have registered for the championships division of the race including Conner Mantz who will make his pro debut.

Conner Mantz is not resting on his NCAA xc title laurels. He appeared on the LRC Friday 15 SC podcast and not only revealed he may do this weekend's USATF Half Marathon champs, but that he may try and break Ryan Hall's 59:43 American record.

We break down all the action for you from Tallahassee. Full recap with analysis and post-race interviews.

A second NCAA XC title would vault Mantz into the NCAA XC pantheon, but to win he'll have to beat a loaded field featuring Kiptoo, Adriaan Wildschutt, Cooper Teare, Nico Young, and more. *MB: NCAA Predicted Men's Individual top 10 

After the Olympic Trials, Mantz's mind was made up - he was going pro, but he's back at BYU hoping to become the first American since Steve Prefontaine to repeat as NCAA xc champ.  

For the second time in five years, an Englishman from Tulsa has won the NCAA 10,000 title. Imagine running 27:50 and not even scoring.

• MB: Official 2021 NCAA T&F Championships Day 1 Thread
• MB: PATRICK MF DEVER DROPS THE HAMMER, MANTZ GOES HOME DEVASTATED
• MB: To all of you who have been saying the super spikes don't work, did you see that? 10 guys just broke the NCAA meet record. LOL.
• MB: 19-year old Charles Hicks 7th in 27:47 - how would Nico have done? Is that a WR for a 19-yr old non African? 
• MB: Average age of 10,000 runners at NCAA?
• MB: Fair or Foul? Reed Brown DQd in 1500 at NCAAs (video)
• MB: New Oregon stadium
• MB: NCAA 1500m Final Isaac Basten will be top 3

No man has ever won the 15000 and 5000 at the same NCAA meet. Can Cole Hocker make history? Hocker, Conner Mantz, and Wesley Kiptoo have all already won NCAA titles in 2021 and will look to burnish their legacies by adding more in Eugene. One event guaranteed to have a new champ is the men's steeple, which is completely wide-open.

The distance races at this weekend's Track Meet in LA are stacked and can be viewed for just $5.99 and Jonathan Gault has questions about Lopez Lomong, Matthew Centrowitz, Conner Mantz, Sifan Hassan, and Sinclaire Johnson will fare.

Mantz ended the American individual drought with a DOMINANT final four minutes as he won by 22.1 seconds. In the team battle, NAU (1st with 60 points) was magnificent and they needed to be as Notre Dame had the best runner-up score since 1997 (87 points).

At last, the 2020 NCAA xc championships are almost here (in 2021). Will BYU repeat or will NAU win it's 4th title in 5 seasons? And can anyone stop Wesley Kiptoo?

The #2 BYU men may have upset #1 NAU, but NAU held out one of the top runners in the country in Luis Grijalva. Young finished an impressive second as NAU's Taryn O'Neill won the women's race.

Edwin Kurgat of Iowa State came through as the individual favorite but there was a big upset in the team race as BYU won its 1st-ever title.

Galen Rupp was the last American man to win an NCAA xc title in 2008. Conner Mantz, Joe Klecker, and Thomas Ratcliffe hope that changes on Saturday.

BYU took home both individual titles and the men's team title but #8 Washington upset them to win the women's team race.

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