(Un)Official Athletics Australia/Running Australia chat

Nationals starts today with both Men's+ women's 1500m heats.

Anyone got any big calls?

Mine is that Stewy won't make it out of the heats. (I'd love to be wrong)

Jye Edwards is back and will be on the podium tomorrow night.

Whisper on IRP was that Stewy might not start.

It is honestly wild that every Vic Milers has a stream, but there is no stream for day 1 of Nationals.

Stewy now removed from the 1500m start lists. Very disappointing, but not surprising.

Vic Miles puts AA to shame every single time.

Not sure where Stewy goes from here if he scratches the 5km too. His track form is not going to get him into any races on the circuit overseas. Time to have a crack at a marathon? Craig doesn't currently have any road runners under him at OAC.

Women's 1500m heat results.
H1
1 Claudia HOLLINGSWORTH 4:21.01 Q
2 Georgia GRIFFITH 4:21.10 Q
3 Zoe MELHUISH 4:21.64 Q
H2
1 Jessica HULL 4:12.64 Q
2 Abbey CALDWELL 4:13.83 Q
3 Izzy THORNTON-BOTT 4:15.33 Q

H3
1 Sarah BILLINGS 4:15.10 Q
2 Lauren RYAN 4:15.28 Q
3 Jaylah HANCOCK-CAMERON 4:16.11 Q

4 Stephanie KELLY 4:18.48 q
5 Maddison CAULFIELD 4:21.54 q

No real surprises - all the big dawgs there. Shame we couldn't fooking watch it.

Klara Dess 3rd small q for the final from the 2nd heat. 4:18:42

Men up next. The 2nd heat is by far the weakest.

As expected heat 2 Ollie wins in 3:39

Men's 1500m heat results.
H1
1 Cameron MYERS 3:39.69 Q
2 Jude THOMAS 3:39.89 Q
3 Luke SHAW 3:40.14 Q
4 William LEWIS 3:40.49 q
H2
1 Oliver HOARE 3:39.68 Q
2 Charles BARRETT 3:41.82 Q
3 Max SHERVINGTON 3:44.45 Q
H3
1 Callum DAVIES 3:38.45 Q
2 Jack ANSTEY 3:38.68 Q
3 Jonathan HARRIS 3:39.12 Q
4 Thomas MOORCROFT 3:39.51 q
5 Connor WHITELEY 3:40.88 q
H4
1 Adam SPENCER 3:40.33 Q
2 Alexander STITT 3:40.49 Q
3 Jye EDWARDS 3:40.53 Q

Again, no real surprises. Jye Edwards is back!!! Jesse Hunt 4th in the last heat - Not sure what's going on with him.

Not sure who came up with those heats but as stated heat 2 was by far the weakest. 4th place was 3:48 in that one. The 4th heat was by far the hardest and not surprised Hunt failed to qualify.

Stewy is scratched from the 5k.

Source: I saw the sign in sheet.

Damn. Wish we wouldn't have to do guess work on what the issue is. Stewy's one of the least active on social media unless he's plugging a sponsor.
Time to hit the roads I reckon.

As someone who actually owns shoes in the current lineup from Puma and Li-Ning I don’t have to read into anything. The Li-Nings are as good or better than any other brands offerings. They (the IRP boys) don’t bother to inform themselves about anything that would threaten their income streams, which is completely understandable.

To keep things on topic, Cam is going to easily win the 5k right? I get people want to drum up some intrigue for the event but he is on a completely different level to anyone else domestically.

Was 1500M final last night or is it tonight??

Both mens and womens tonight

It’s a good watch tonight. We got 100 heats and 1500 finals. Men’s looks like cam by how much, but it sometimes doesn’t pan out that way. Women’s is really interesting, Jess vs Claudia for the first time I can recall - classic up-and-comer vs the reigning champ battle