Jerry S is right? Teare is a 5k guy? Cooper Teare goes home devastated!! Drew Hunter outleans Teare for final spot!!

Or the 800 in Portland vs Cole. Classic Jerry. Teare opens in 3:32 then goes AWOL. No honing of racing chops. Costs him in a tactical prelim. Hope Coop comes back with a vengeance in the 5k.

I thought Teare didn’t race very intelligently either. He clearly had space to move up on the leaders shoulders earlier in the race but kept waiting. If he had Hockers kick it wouldn’t have mattered (Hocker was behind him the whole time), but it seemed odd to me that he didn’t get himself in qualifying position earlier.

I think the 5k is too competitive for him to have that good of a shot at making it. I know he wasn’t far off in 2021, but the field is better this year and his best 5k this year is a 13:12. Maybe if it’s super slow, but lots of guys in that race are capable of closing a slow race in 52-53.

Technically Cooper Teare isn’t going home devastated. He hasn’t run the 5000m yet.

Are there videos of the prelims anywhere?

again the let's run posters know their track.

i'd like to compare the poll results predictions with actual results. which are probably very good.

the pity is that on the boards, you have most of the wise people staying away and just voting.

while a few haters, guys who insult the best of performances, i,e. after running a 2 mile in 724, the reply is, his ceiling is 327, not improving.

maybe haters can be flagged with a label, basement dwelling ftard, village idot.

that way people that come on the boards will leave with a better and more accurate perception.

Thanks. I guess there have been several! I was thinking of one two or three weeks ago.

I can tell you don't listen to the LRC podcast or else you'd have gotten the sarcasm. Check the pod out sometime!

He didn't open up in 3:32. He ran a 1500m in 3:34 at Bryan Clay, then an 800m then a 5k at Sound Running then the 3:32 in LA. Also 2 indoor races. I get the narative that Jerry doesn't race his athletes much, but Teare has done the most racing of anyone on Bowerman this year.

Yeah, don't anybody's losing sleep over Centro's close.

Seen through objective, unbiased glasses: Teare is sub elite on the international level.

He ran 3:50 in the indoor mile more than 2 years ago and have hardly improved on that time. The top runners run 4-5 seconds faster.

It isn´t different in the 3000m and the 5000m:

In the 3000m he ran just under 7:35 indoors this year. The " big 5" (2 Ugandans, 2 Ethiopians and a Norwegian) run 10 -15 seconds faster.

Even if Teare should dip under 13 in the 5000m he would still be around 20 seconds away from the big 5.

What is "a really good 2 mile" in your opinion?

who are the 2 ethiopians?

There are a few on a similar level

aregawi and kejelcha most likely, but bekele (not the old one)/gebriwhet and barega are pretty close behind. By far the most stacked country although in the 10000 i think the two ugandans will go 1-2 this year

The 1500 field's arguably tougher. Those guys didn't have to move up to 5000m to find a home. Nuguse is our only world medal contender right now on the men's side between 1500, 5000, and 10000m. Hocker ran 3:31 at 20 and is healthy again. Kessler beat the high school and college records at the same time at 18 and now has more experience, 3:32, and a 1:45 under his belt. Teare, a 5000m contender, couldn't even make the 1500m final. In a slow 5000m, which we often get at US Nationals, who is to say that Hunter doesn't stand a better shot at a decent place with that kind of kick? Just to be clear, I don't think he can make either team. But with another year of this kind of health, I'd see him as more of a 5th-7th place type guy in the 5000m.

Kincaid can medal if WC is a 28:00 race. Last year’s winning time was in the 27s however, not too far from his PB. He is in better shape this year so he might be able to do something.

i doubt Aregawi and Kiplimo let it go slow though. Their best bet to take down Cheptegei is to make it fast and hope he drops. If it comes down to a kick they have never beaten him

Oh please there are tons of American distance runners who are more 'sun-elite' than Cooper Teare. It's not like Alicia Monson, Klecker or Kincaid are close to medaling either.

He’s not nearly as accomplished as Centro was at the same age. Centro had a world silver and bronze medal and an Olympic 4th place. Plus a 3:31 1500m and a 1:45 800m on old shoes

Cooper can call Centro “cilantro” all he wants, it doesn’t mean he’s a better runner

Aregawi and Kejelcha following their low 12:40 recently.

When was the last time world or Olympics was a 28:00 race? I don’t see it going that slow, not with guys like Aregawi and Kiplimo.

I would say that best kick is always based off best 400 times not mile