You and the poster before you are the most ridiculous fanboys I've ever heard. Hacker top 3 at FLN? Anderson didn't go all out? Such rationalizing.Let's cut through all the dellusional, biased BS and look at the facts-Anderson was supposed to blow the field out at mini nationals. I'm talking 30 seconds. Well, he couldn't come close. Hacker, who got 10th at FLMW, was 2 seconds behind him. Anderson hammered it home over the final hills and couldn't put any distance on Hacker over the final 400-600m. He immediately had his hands on his knees after he crossed the finish line.At the WA state meet, the person that killed Dressel was John Dressel. He tried making some wild move sprinting up a hill around 2 miles and killed himself.Reiser was sick the week of FLMW and still ran tough (beat Hacker by 10 seconds). He may not be feeling 100% yet- give the kid a break.
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Shamrockwiz wrote:Remember when everyone was saying that Anderson was going to win NXN by 45 seconds? Had he not mis-timed his finishing kick, Olin Hacker would have beaten him. Hacker ran a 4:08y last year and his two mile PR was from a very tactical state meet. He will be in the mix for the win in San Diego. No one drops him in cross. 5 seconds off Solinsky's Wisconsin state record and solinsky ran 14:40 at balboa. Reiser over Hacker? Really? He will be top 3 and is not on anyone's radar.
Let's be real here, Hacker was not touching Anderson. I don't even think Anderson went all-out yesterday, and if Hacker had tried to stay close to him, he would have been destroyed. Dressel tried to beat him and could barely keep his legs moving at WA state. Barnard tried to stick with him and had to crawl across the line. Anderson is merciless on the cross country course and Hacker was smart to not try to stay with him. That said, Hacker is clearly better than Reiser, and I wouldn't be shocked to see him knock off some big names and get top 5.