MIAC XC 2023

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Still cannot fathom what makes you think you know what you’re talking about NotKevBot. Either you’ve never ran cross country, stepped foot in the state of Minnesota, or both. I’ve met St. Mary’s runners that say they’ll win the MIAC this year that are less delusional than you. Take a seat and stop keyboard warrioring, just let the conference play out exactly how everyone else says it will but you. You’ve provided nothing of value to this conversation since August, overstate your knowledge, and continue trucking on with unfathomable claims with evidence as thin as the chances for any school not named St. Olaf to win this year (especially Augsburg, Bethel, Carleton, Concordia, Gustavus, Hamline, Macalaster, your precious St. John’s, St. Mary’s, and St. Scholastica). Give it up, unless your sorry profile shows up on TFRRS with times that might contend with the 75th percentile in the UMAC, I’d suggest you take a break from this forum until you can run an 8k faster than your grandma can walk it.

Looks like the johnnies have successfully gotten under the skin of the oles!

Fair enough, but we still own you.
-Sincerely, St. Olaf

Looking at Strava only and ignoring recent races, one might expect the conference to be a lot closer. From workouts run all across the board, not only by Oles, but Knights, Saints, Scots, Gusties, Royals, Auggies, Johnnies, etc. the lead pack seems like it should be a pack instead of a string. Perhaps mental blocks on race day, or a number of other issues. Either way, NotKelly seems to be right on his analysis of the Ole domination of the conference this year. Regardless, it'll be interesting to see who's able to transition the most to championship racing over the next month.

Recently, I have learned that the Five Nights at Freddy's movie is releasing the day before the MIAC championship. I'm predicting this will severely hinder the performance of the entire St. Olaf roster. It would be a miracle if they could manage a podium placement.

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disgusting 3-6 by the Johnies you were right why would we ever doubt you

will you give up now?

Has Mac done a single run without doing a group photo for Instagram? They may have surpassed the Oles.

No Grove for SJU. Hope he’s back for conference. Thought he’d be a favorite for conference title.

As an Ole alum, I've learned you never count out a Ricks team at MIACs. Should be a humdinger in two weeks.

Props to the original Kevbot on getting so many copycat posters. His rise from lowly freshman whose name Phil mispronounced to a MIAC folkhero is quite impressive.

Looks like several teams are traveling out of region this weekend. Good luck to all!

Got some intel from former high school teammates at Gustavus that they just came off an incredibly heavy training cycle with some runners who had lingering injuries only just now healing up over the weekend. Coming up this weekend, they should have no problem beating teams at La Crosse that until now seemed they had been even with (Augsburg, Bethel, Concordia).

craaazy secret important intel, most other teams probably have something similar to this going on

Interesting topic of discussion from our run - could the top 7 runners from the MIAC beat the Gophers in a head to head cross country race? St. Thomas?

I feel like the MIAC is at a high level, but the truly big names like Wilkie, Mueller, even Bocovich have left the league somewhat down.

What you say?

Are you trying to pull the Tommies back into the conversation? What a dumb question. I'd certainly think a team of Kelly, Boone, Bati, Lloyd, Bowman, Lars, and Grove would be a formidable group. None of those teams will ever match up, so it doesn't matter.

Let's focus on whether Reece McKee will bring a sword home from Rowan or if being in his home state will allow Roy to run sub 25 for the first time. Will the Ole bub squad again beat all the other MIAC schools at La Crosse or will they struggle to perform without the vigorous hand holding of their all powerful leader. For the Cobbers and Johnnies in the chat that's a play on his name. Ask a Carl to explain it to you.Are you trying to pull the Tommies back into the conversation? What a dumb question. I'd certainly think a team of Kelly, Boone, Bati, Lloyd, Bowman, Lars, and Grove would be a formidable group. None of those teams will ever match up, so it doesn't matter. Let's focus on whether Reece McKee will bring a sword home from Rowan or if being in his home state will allow Roy to run sub 25 for the first time. Will the Ole bub squad again beat all the other MIAC schools at La Crosse or will they struggle to perform without the vigorous hand holding of their all powerful leader. For the Cobbers and Johnnies in the chat that's a play on his name. Ask a Carl to explain it to you.

McKee should never be allowed to have a sword. That is all. That’s the post.

The MIAC showed up today!

Ole men and Carleton women win out East. Carleton shows they will really push the Oles for the MIAC championship with a great day on a wet Augustana course. Mac ran really fast too.

I love seeing MIAC teams have strong national performances! Makes the league more exciting!

Always such a hoot seeing how the Johnnies race. You look down the list at their 2-7 guys, and they were picking up 30, 40, 50 places in the last 3km. (Granted, you have to be in some pretty high numbers (they all finished in the mid-100s) to pick up that many places, but it's so much more fun to run that way than to be on death's door going backwards.)

Some strong performances at La Crosse today as well. The Oles B squad taking 5th and seeing the Johnnies back at 15th with their B squad gave some hope to other MIAC teams who beat them today. Bethel especially had a better performance than expected, beating Gustavus (by 2 points) as well as Augsburg, Concordia, and the Mac B squad, and seemingly silencing some critics from the last few weeks. Graber ran a PR and nearly broke 26 minutes, and had several other varsity runners PR as well. Excited to see how the field turns out at MIAC in 2 weeks.