Unfornately at a lot of evenly matched runners usually equals a slow race and this is a rust buster for a lot of those guys. The first 3 laps will be at a 4 minute pace with a 57 fo the last lap. 3:57
Unfornately at a lot of evenly matched runners usually equals a slow race and this is a rust buster for a lot of those guys. The first 3 laps will be at a 4 minute pace with a 57 fo the last lap. 3:57
Surely there will be pacemakers to push the pace?
Good to see Mac Fleet back racing. I know he had a long bout with a foot injury
I don't believe the rules permit the pacebunnies to pick up a runner and carry him through a 2:55 3/4s
T T wrote:
Surely there will be pacemakers to push the pace?
Based on PRs, looks like the two Oregon guys will rabbit. otherwise, there are several guys in the next heat with faster PRs. I am guessing that 4:06 Oregon guy = rabbit one, 4:02 Oregon guy = rabbit two.
I would be surprised if these were slow.
Yeah, you have your last chance meets but....
The college guys need marks, there are not a ton of spots left for real fast Q'ers and conf meets tend to be very tactical, cannot wait to see the 4:18 or so Big Ten mile this year!!
Is Oregon rabbiding the women's invite mile to....see they have a few entered in the race, including the number one seed?
sc42 wrote:
T T wrote:Surely there will be pacemakers to push the pace?
Based on PRs, looks like the two Oregon guys will rabbit. otherwise, there are several guys in the next heat with faster PRs. I am guessing that 4:06 Oregon guy = rabbit one, 4:02 Oregon guy = rabbit two.
Jager did run 3:54.35 as a 20 year old (in 2009) -- not since 2011, obviously, but despite his long stretch of injuries I think he proved last year that he's at a new level from 13:22 Jager. So that should count for something.
Probably at least a couple under 3:50 and several more under 3:55. Guaranteed.
and that is one of the dumbest posts of the night, congratulations
sorry distance maniac, but probably not the case
Distance Maniac wrote:
Probably at least a couple under 3:50 and several more under 3:55. Guaranteed.
This sounds about right, for 1500.
Nobody is sub 3:50 this early. (except Rupp)
I would be surprised if anybody is under 3:55.
fghrunner wrote:
Will be interesting to see where Mac Fleet is at, haven't heard from him in a while
It's the site of his first sub-four. 3:57 as a frosh. Man, injuries suck.
Merber will get killed. I honestly though the consistently being healthy and the move to Texas would pay off for him big time. Maybe that 3:35 last year was just a fluke. I wish him the best though.
Sloop John B wrote:
Merber will get killed. I honestly though the consistently being healthy and the move to Texas would pay off for him big time. Maybe that 3:35 last year was just a fluke. I wish him the best though.
It was a fluke. Dude couldn't even make the final at NCAAs last spring.
has Mudd from Wisco ran yet this indoor season?
i would discuss what i think about the husky mile, but i did it in my blog so my predictions and preview are on there.
http://thewoodrunningreport.blogspot.com/2013/02/husky-classic-2013-preview.html
Mudd ran 3:59 last weekend at Notre Dame. http://www.flotrack.org/coverage/250012-2013-Notre-Dame-Meyo-Invitational/video/689898-M-Mile-Meyo-Mudd-359
I'm not one to denigrate the performances of great athletes, which these are -- but I predict that this race doesn't make the top 50 of the year in terms of either average or winning times . . . so "stacked" probably isn't the right adjective.
Solinsky now listed as entrant in the fast heat, along with Bumbi, Jager, et. al.