Predictions for this weekends mens Millrose Wanamaker Mile

Well…Alexander seems to have latched on to a tactic that is working to his advantage recently. Last season he became more of a “go from the gun” kind of racer. Kind of a throw back to the Ryun- Prefontaine era. He ran a 3:33 that way. Basically a solo effort. Second fastest American in an Olympic year. Then he threw down a 3:50 at the Guardian Road Mile with those tactics late last summer. He picked up right where he left off by being one of only two Americans to go out hard and try and hang with the clear favorites, Kerr and Hoare. It worked. He competed very well and smoked his indoor and outdoor mile PR’s.

Let’s hope he continues with this new found racing strategy. It’s exciting and it sure beats slow, tactical jog fests.

At 3:33 last year, and 3:52 today indoors at Wanamaker, is Colby Alexander the fastest non-sponsored American miler in history?

That’s ok tho. Since being dropped by HOKA, he seems to be thriving, being able to train where he wants, wear what he wants, pick his own club/coaches, and not having to be concerned about what the fat cats controlling the purse strings are thinking about his performances at any given moment.

Great PR effort today for Colby. The only American that made an effort to run with the big boys.

Gucci wrote:

uhh wrote:

I think Colby Alexander is going to take it

Seeing him on the start list surprised me. I'm a fan of him as a person, but I wouldn't think he has the recent race results to warrant a place on the Wannamaker Mile start line

This aged well.

And as someone else pointed out, he ran 3:33 last July. Good to see you did your research on the athlete that you're a fan of.

sorrynotsorry wrote:

Gucci wrote:

Seeing him on the start list surprised me. I'm a fan of him as a person, but I wouldn't think he has the recent race results to warrant a place on the Wannamaker Mile start line

This aged well.

And as someone else pointed out, he ran 3:33 last July. Good to see you did your research on the athlete that you're a fan of.

Hehe

I think Alexander will be a big problem in 2022 for everyone else the dude is on a tear!!! (Hoka) “and the little piggy cried WEE WEE WEE ALL THE WAY HOME!!!!!”

uhh wrote:

I think Alexander will be a big problem in 2022 for everyone else the dude is on a tear!!! (Hoka) “and the little piggy cried WEE WEE WEE ALL THE WAY HOME!!!!!”

Yes. Alexander will be a problem for the status quo of American miling. If his 3:33 and yesterday are any indication of his tactics moving forward, he’s not afraid of going out fast as sh*t. The only Americans lately I can think of who were comfortable doing that are the old Blankenship, maybe Hocker and Teare now. Most of our best Americans CAN go out hard and run fast, but they’d rather NOT go out hard, as we saw yesterday when they let the lead pack gap them by 2 seconds already by 400.

Going out hard in the mile…throwback to a former era…at least in America…the Africans still do it…