2025 MIAC Track & Field Thread

For the Chicken
8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs
1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons Super Bird
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For the White Sauce
2 cups mayonnaise, preferably Duke’s
1 cup distilled white vinegar or cider vinegar
2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
1 tablespoon finely chopped pickled peppers (banana or jalapeno)
2 tablespoons honey
2 teaspoons Holy Garlic
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
Dash or two hot sauce
Pinch cayenne

Make the White Sauce
Combine the ingredients in a mixing bowl and whisk until evenly combined. Taste and adjust seasonings, adding more heat, acid, salt or pepper as desired.
For the best results, refrigerate the sauce for a couple hours before serving, to allow the flavors to meld. You’ll only need half the sauce for 8 thighs, but it lasts in the fridge for two weeks. And trust me, you’ll be ready for round two (with chicken, pork chops, even spare ribs) in no time.

Place the thighs in a large mixing bowl, top with Super Bird seasoning and use your hands to toss the chicken until it’s even coated. Set the chicken aside to marinate at room temperature while you prepare the grill.
Prepare the grill for two-zone cooking and build a medium-high fire. Clean and oil the cooking grate. When the coals are glowing red and covered with a fine gray ash, place the thighs over direct heat, skin-side down, close the grill and vent the grill for smoking. Allow the chicken to cook until the skin is golden and nicely charred (the skin should pull away from the grates easily, without sticking), about 4 to 5 minutes. Flip the thighs and rotate them around the heat, if needed for even cooking; close the grill and cook for another 4 to 5 minutes. Move the chicken to the cool side of the grill, close the grill and cook until the thighs reach an internal temperature of 165℉.
Remove the chicken from heat and allow it to rest 5 minutes. Place your favorite salad greens on a serving platter. Pour half of the white sauce into a mixing bowl. Use tongs to dunk each thigh into the sauce, and then place the thigh on the greens. Repeat with remaining thighs, give the platter and additional drizzle of dressing, if desired. Top with any additional grilled vegetables and serve.

hope you guys find this helpful and tasty!!!

Looks like St. John's used splits from Drake Relays and the Oles just added half a second from Drake Relays. Not how I would enter my athletes, but to each their own. Looks like a loaded 800 Wednesday.

Is Mo ok? No Strava updates and no race entries since Indoor Nats. Hoping for the best for him.

Hamline Elite Part II?

Looking forward to an exciting meet tomorrow. Adding the local D1’s to this MIAC preview makes for an exciting night. I bet Gabe and the Gustie duo wish they were racing too!

Some highlights/intriguing matchups -

200 - Kevin Arthur doing Kevin Arthur things. Wonder if the U wishes they’d recruited him? You gotta feel for Max Reid with a 21.71 seed in lane one. It almost makes you wish for the Ole indoor seeding rules!

100m - McConnell vs. Yawson vs. the field. A good tailwind will see a sub 10.5. Will that be enough to qualify for Nats?

800 - Ihrke’s youth versus the simmering kick of the 2009 MIAC champ Tommy Allen. Also curious to see if the Oles can only run fast on blue tracks. Is Lelinga back? He ran monster relay legs at Drake!

1500- If Calvin wants to qualify, this is a great chance. Bummed Stencel didn’t make the fast heat, but at least he has Lars to play with. And we know Lars will set the pace.

5000m - Stencel also entered here. I’d love to see him team up with Kaluza to top some of the lesser Oles. Turlington/Skemp will need to run faster to qualify for Nats. Will they run hard one week before the MIAC meet?

Reece reruns to steeple? With the MIAC field wide open after the top two, Reece is surely thinking about being all conference in his last meet on his home track. I wouldn’t be surprised to see Malecha run sub 9:30 in his second timing racing the event. The Johnnies have tremendous depth in their young steeple group.

TFFRS must not fear the polite wrath of the Future and his more unpleasant Corn Cob people. Listing his historic run as for Concordia Chicago is absurd.

Surprised nobody is talking about the most important event of the week - the battle between former distance runners for 5th place in the MIC Decathlon. Only in the bizzaroland that is Northfield would they take a sub 10 3200m runner and a 4:35 miler and decide to make mid decathletes.

Johnnies has a great chance to get ahead of Bethel by 24 points before the meet even starts.

I heard from a reliable source that former MIAC legend Munir Isahak will be pacing all heats of the 1500m at tomorrow’s race. It will be really interesting to see if he’s still able to keep it moving by the final heat. I predict some furious coaches when he comes through 300m well north of 60 seconds

I’ve heard rumors the two are planning to complete the 1500 40 seconds ahead of everyone else and immediately start making out on the finish line in protest to the feud between Carleton and St. Olaf.

Who’s going to win the Rolex? Oh wait, Chunko killed it. Now both teams have to drive an hour to compete when they could have a perfectly fine meet in town and preserve decades of tradition.

Maybe chunko killed the rolex just like he did to Mo

You are so right - 1:52.1 is such a silly seed time. How about 1:51.7? That seems more accurate. Baby Ihrke is him.

Always love to see the Ole Open entries. It’s a good window into the minds of coaches. St. John’s is trying to sneak a few more guys into the meet and gain confidence in steeple for a few guys that could score. Mac is going to get Ty Ty a mark so he can convert to 10K and drop some of the lesser Oles. Chunko is too lazy to write workouts, so his guys will run an 800 and call it a day. Or stupidly run a 3K that has no bearing on conference qualifying. And for Ricks. Nobody knows what Dave is thinking.

Heard a coach last night tell another coach that if he had just two of Olaf’s top 5 5Kers he’d have a top 10 team in the country and it’s shame they’re not developing them more. I do wonder what a coach with a more science-based background could do with the level of athlete they get there. So many other school do apply science and really work on developing athletes to national level talent. Scholastica, Concordia, and others great examples of this.

I wonder if the 800 at St. Olaf will start at the right line this year

More fails by Coach Chunko. Meets at Olaf are such a shtishow.

That’s a pretty specific thing to overhear... Are you sure that’s actually what was said?

Close to 100 entrants in the 800/1500 at Olaf. The week before the MIAC Championship. What are these coaches thinking?