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Unless bauhs will run a 28 mins for that course, i bet he is going to face tough competitor cheseto,recently recruited in alaska from kenya and for the races he has ran 23.45 sundoger, 23.24 UAA invite, 24.30 conference.Bauhs will win but after a tough battle

haha. Bauhs will win easy. You are to funny there "recent"...

Lets not forget Bauhs was the top Collegiate runner in the 10K last year out of all divisions with a 27:40ish.

true, Bauhs could easily win this race if he wanted, that being said, who is to say he puts his effort into this race. Chico will make it to nationals, no doubt about it. In 2006 Bauhs raced the regional course in trainers after one of his toughest training weeks of the year. Bauhs is looking at nationals, not regionals. He is probably in his hardest weeks of training right now. He could do the same here and just let cheseto go so he can focus on Kirwa at nationals and rest up for the race the truely counts. All that being said, if Bauhs want it he will take it, and, though cheseto has proven to be tough, he can not hang with a guy like that.

i heard 6 teams from the north central region this year make it, anyone know?

Okay. Let Bauhs use training shoes this time round and he will know. Why use training shoe in a championship race.

This is cross country, not track. 27.30 isnt easy for a cross country,let even wait and see if he can even run a 29.00. There are new guys out there who will prove him that his 27.30 can still be beaten by 30min guys.Nationals Kirwa, bauhs will be 3rd or 4th.

okay RECENT..you are obviously one of the AA Kenyans. 2 obvious reasons - you have the most obvously Kenyan grammar I have ever seen, and you think that Bauhs can be beaten by Cheseto. I feel for you, my friend. You too will soon be a believer.

Recent wrote:

This is cross country, not track. 27.30 isnt easy for a cross country,let even wait and see if he can even run a 29.00. There are new guys out there who will prove him that his 27.30 can still be beaten by 30min guys.Nationals Kirwa, bauhs will be 3rd or 4th.

Dear Mr Recent, You might want to check this year's IAAF World XC Championship results where Bauhs took 52nd in the senior race. He can run XC as well.

"There are new guys out there who will prove him that his 27.30 can still be beaten by 30min guys."

Seriously?

Ok lets not argue. lets wait for the gun.I bet at Nationals he wont win, you prove me wrong

Recent- Texaz wrote:

Ok lets not argue. lets wait for the gun.I bet at Nationals he wont win, you prove me wrong

Why don't you go out on a limb and say who will win then. It is easy to say that someone won't win but it means more when you say who will win.

spaced cowboy wrote:

i heard 6 teams from the north central region this year make it, anyone know?

Yes that is correct.

Here is the breakdown per region:

Central: 6

Midwest: 4

South Central: 3

West: 3

East: 2

Atlantic: 2

South: 2

Southeast: 2

Here is the PDF file I got it from:

I don't mean to upset anyone here from the south or especially from the southeast region but Harding and Queens have very good chances at making top 8 this year. This means that next year those regions will get 3 bids taking away spots from ranked teams that are in tougher regions with granted more spots but much better competition. Besides Queens I can't even think of who would be 2nd or 3rd in the southeast, at least in the south region FL Southern has been ranked before.

*My argument is directed towards the mens race

Based on the regional breakdowns, Which team will be the highest ranked/best team to not qualify for nationals.

Kirwa has a shot to beat him. That's it. I don't think that other poster will be able to prove you wrong unless he himself is Bauhs, Kirwa, or maybe Braun.

Left out of Nats wrote:

Based on the regional breakdowns, Which team will be the highest ranked/best team to not qualify for nationals.

Well seeing that the Midwest had 6 teams in the top 25 this past week and probably should have 7 ranked teams in the top 25, I would guess NKU, Ashland, Drury or Hillsdale.

Only 4 get out. Ouch!

Ah, didn't see that UC San Diego jumped in front of NKU and Ashland in the last rankings. Not sure why NKU and Ashland dropped 4 places without racing but that would make UC San Diego the highest ranked team that may not make it out, as far as I can tell.

NKU and Ashland both raced last weekend. Ashland probably fell in the rankings because they finished 21 points behind Wayne St. (Mich) and 59 points behind GVSU at GLIACs. NKU was beaten soundly at their conference meet as well. Had either team finished closer to the front in their conference they probably wouldn\'t have dropped. (I realize neither NKU nor Ashland were favored in their conference but USI and GVSU were freshman loaded teams that walked away with huge and decisive victories).

Unless UCSD beats Western Washington, then Western Washington would be the first team to not make it