2019 USATF Distance Classic Tonight - Official Discussion Thread

Hiltz has been running really well this year. She was 2nd at NCAAs last year after missing basically the entire spring after knee surgery. Serious threat to make the Worlds team in Des Moines.

Random thoughts.

Anyone think it's weird Violah Lagat runs for Kenya. I mean her bro ran for America. She lives here right?

Note: Post has been edited. He had another thought that was incorrect.

I must be drinking too much. I got her confused with Efraimson. Thankfully I've edited out my mistake.

I doubt weldon is watching but he'd be smiling if he was. as a Yale alum won heat #2.

https://twitter.com/letsrundotcom/status/1129232703709208576

rojo wrote:

I must be drinking too much. I got her confused with Efraimson. Thankfully I've edited out my mistake.

Actually, regardless of your drinking or your confusion, you're sort-of more right than Gault is on this one.

She equaled that 1500 PR 3 years ago. And her 8:58 3K PR --which might be her best mark-- is from 4 and a half freaking years ago, freshman year indoors.

She's been a very good college runner, for sure, but she hasn't improved much in a very long time.

Well Lopez manages to still be going strong at likely older than his registered age...and on the same training cycle Mo Ahmed. He beat Mo Ahmed by close to 1.5 seconds, and is definitely a decent bit older. I hope Lopez has a solid year at 5,000.

Larry Sanders wrote:

Coach Joan Hunter wrote:

I can watch it on my phone but not my laptop. Which is annoying.

Same for me. Phone works but not laptop. WTF.

works on my laptop. using a superior mac pro.

Lopez fan wrote:

Well Lopez manages to still be going strong at likely older than his registered age...and on the same training cycle Mo Ahmed. He beat Mo Ahmed by close to 1.5 seconds, and is definitely a decent bit older. I hope Lopez has a solid year at 5,000.

I think this just tells us more about Ahmed's lack of speed at 1500m/800m.

Also, the Bowerman athlete to watch out for will be Woody Kincaid from heat 2. closed his heat in 56, faster than anybody else. dude's been banged up for a couple years it seems like after running 13:10s right out of college in 2015 or 2016

I was just thinking how amazing it is how Lomong just keeps chugging along.

To be as consistently competitive as he has, for so long, over such gigantic range, from 800 to 10,000, is really something else.

It would be one thing if he'd steadily moved up over the years, like lots of other guys, but here is in his mid-30's dropping *down* from 10000 to 15, and still being pretty damn solid and competitive.

Wild stuff.

Very excited to see Stephanie Bruce in this 5k heat running 73s. She said recently that she's in 15:20 shape, and 73s will get her there. Cool to see a late-career marathoner attacking a 5000m.

Bruce in 4th at the back of the lead pack. 9:08 at 3000m. anybody know her 3k PB? Can't be much faster than that

Bruce in 15:17

Wow, if Rachel Schneider makes the Olympic team next year, she should buy Emma Coburn a beer. Big 15:06 PR for her to hit the Olympic standard of 15:10 (not saying that Schneider couldn't have gotten it without Coburn's rabbit job, but there aren't many races in the US won in sub-15:10).

Jamaican record of 15:07 for Aisha Praught-Leer, and a healthy 15:17 pb for Stephanie Bruce at age 35 (previous best 15:44).

Stephanie Bruce runs 15:17.76. that's gotta be the race of the meet.

Rachel Schneider sat on Praught-Leer and then outkicked her for 15:06 to 15:07, also very good results.

What do people think Bruce can run in the marathon with recent 15:17 speed? Gotta be 2:26-2:27

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Wow, if Rachel Schneider makes the Olympic team next year, she should buy Emma Coburn a beer. Big 15:06 PR for her to hit the Olympic standard of 15:10 (not saying that Schneider couldn't have gotten it without Coburn's rabbit job, but there aren't many races in the US won in sub-15:10).

Jamaican record of 15:07 for Aisha Praught-Leer, and a healthy 15:17 pb for Stephanie Bruce at age 35 (previous best 15:44).

Coburn rabbited? I'm not watching the race but checking the live results/splits. She wasn't listed. How long was she in the race?

I mean to put in my men's 5000 preview I'm interested to see what the American Lawi Lalang does.

Remember he has a 13:00 pb. Onl 7 or 8 Americans have run faster.

Obviously anyone could win this but I gotta think this is Willis' race to lose.

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

Jonathan Gault wrote:

Wow, if Rachel Schneider makes the Olympic team next year, she should buy Emma Coburn a beer. Big 15:06 PR for her to hit the Olympic standard of 15:10 (not saying that Schneider couldn't have gotten it without Coburn's rabbit job, but there aren't many races in the US won in sub-15:10).

Jamaican record of 15:07 for Aisha Praught-Leer, and a healthy 15:17 pb for Stephanie Bruce at age 35 (previous best 15:44).

Coburn rabbited? I'm not watching the race but checking the live results/splits. She wasn't listed. How long was she in the race?

Yeah, she went 4k, which helped a lot