Get both of the NCAA first-round marks out of the way in one day so he doesn't have to think about NCAA stuff again until the end of May. Allows him to travel to Aus for the trials, maybe chase the Oly standard in the 5k somewhere, whatever, AND then recover from all of that without having NCAA stuff looming over him.
Anyone care to explain to someone who does not understand college/NCAA sports at all?
I assume Ky running these events now qualifies him for an event later on?
For outdoor track and field, the NCAA is split into two regions -West and East. The top 48 declared athletes based on descending order of marks in each region compete at West and East "first-round" preliminary meets to narrow that 48 down to 12 which then combine to make the fields of 24 at the NCAA championships.
One can achieve a mark at any NCAA-approved event during the outdoor season to qualify for the preliminaries. Outside of whatever meet someone achieves their qualifying mark at nothing else in the regular season matters for the championship. While a team is required to compete a certain number of athletes at a certain number of meets in order for their school to be eligible for the post-season, there is no competition minimal for individual athletes themselves.
Based on previous years the two marks that Ky just ran will safely put him in the top 48 by the end of the regular season, so he does not need to run any NCAA meets between now and the West preliminary (end of May) if he doesn't want to.
The real question is why did a girl from Bryant University run a 10k and a 5k on back to back days in March? They were good times, sub 36 and mid 17 minutes, but they aren't national qualifying times.
For Ky it makes sense to hit nationals marks before having to go back to Australia, but for this girl WHY? It was just a home meet against local teams.
Well 5k is 13 minutes of running so hardly anything. shouldnt be too fatigued for the 10k as long as your preperation the 2 or 3 days before was good and you recover properly the 2 or 3 days after.
Ive never heard of this guy though
Tell us you're not a distance runner without telling us you're not a distance runner
Ummm literally every distance runner in the 80s & 90s did the double and it wasn't odd to throw in the steeple or 1500 also.
Ahh the good ol days. Most of the doubling, tripling and quadrupling in distance back then was to score points in order for the team to win meets.
These days the purpose of regular season meets is simply to make qualifying times for conference and NCAA. In the old days you actually tried to win dual meets and the big weekend relays/invitationals as a team.
After watching the Australian 5k final I now see what a terrible mistake this was. Racing 15k in one day takes a significant amount of time to recover from. Unfortunately Ky's coach let him down. One of the worst coaching I've seen with someone who had and I mean had a shot at making an Olympic team.
In the Aussie final he lost to Wisconsin runner Jackson Sharpe who has never beaten him at the NCAA level.
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