Oly Trials Marathon Top 5--Pick em'

Fair enough & just for the record, I say that Nick will finish in front of Mike. Too much prize money to bow out if you aren't in the top 3.

If they both run to their potentials, Mike, sorry Mike, has no chance of beating Nick. He can't run a 2:11 and has shown nothing to indicate that he can. Doubling his 1/2 pr and adding 3 minutes doesn't work for Mike. I give him one more year with Hanson's and a 24 year old will come in to replace him.

Sorry Kyle....or is it Joe? Just because you couldn't do it in 10 weeks doesn't mean others can't. Curtis is a tough cookie and has ran faster than most of you guys. Ciao!

usatf wannabe wrote:

ok, lets hear it...who will be fit, who won't....going to be here soon. A few unanswered questions of who and won't run, but lets hear your guesses....and if you're going to watch

Men

1 Hall

2 Ritz

3 Meb

4 Lehm

5 Goucher

Women

1 Kara

2 Shalane

3 Deena

4 Desi

5 Nelson (Pirtea)

Attending?

Yes

No way Deena beats Desi. No way. Unless Desi is injured.

Agreed

This site has too many boneheads.

1.Hall (2:10 are his bad days)

2.Ritz (he will be ready that day, he proved it before)

3. Meb ( i wanna believe he will recover and not be injured, but he could be 10th)

4. Cabada (people don't realize he won the 25k this year, just got 3rd at the 20k and has won a marathon championship in 2008)

5. Hartmann (he doesn't mess up in a marathon, not lately anyways)

1. Hall

2. Ritz

3. Fecht

ues, CURTIS, CURTIS, CURTIShe is a special talent that has been snake bitten. seems ok now though. look for Curtis to go 60 flat in the half and 208 debut.that should work out to 3rd at the trials.others are hall and cant predict any other. ritz should be with hall but has had nothing but bad luck

oh please wrote:

yellow shoe wrote:

Bobby Curtis has a much better chance to be in the top 3 than goucher....to everyone who put goucher third.

Guy is no joke and is only going to get better. Sure he isn't all that experienced at the longer distances but his Philly time is impressive for a debut, he already ran 27:24, and he is one of the most talented guys around.

Curtis over Goucher for sure, but not necessarily Gotcher. At least BG has a legit 2:10 and he isn't over the hill. Ritz in a boot, can't see how he makes it in time (does he even have a qualifier?) Rupp's not going to the marathon yet.

Hall

B. Gotcher

J. Hartmann

1. Meb 2:07:55

2. Hall 2:08:00

3. Ritz 2:08:03

4. Saykenko 2:09:33

5. Brian Ball 2:10:02

Hall

Hartmann

Smyth

Lehm

Trafeh

Ritz won't start and Meb won't finish

1.Hall

2.Meb

3.Hartmann

4.Lehmkuhle

5.King

Trafeh won't finish, Ritz won't start. Goucher will be around 10th.

1.Flanagan

2.Davila

3.Kastor

4.Goucher

5.Lewy-Boulet

That's right, Kara won't make it.

Upset city

1. Hastings

2. Pritz

3. Moody

1. Abdi

2. Gotcher

3. Goucher

What am I missing here? Isn't Trafeh a Brittish citizen?

Men:

1 Hall

2 Meb

3 Lehm

4 Abdi

5 Vega

Women:

1 Davila

2 Goucher

3 Flanagan

4 Mcgregor

5 Friedman

Hmm...

1) Hall

2) Torres

3) Nelson

Let's see...

1) Flanagan

2) Goucher

3) Davila

4) Lewy-Boulet

5) Hastings

Up until the WCs I would have said there's still a good chance Flanagan does the 10k instead of the marathon, but she may not be so hot about the 10k now. Quite the opposite on the men's side, as Rupp is probably all-in for the 10k now and doesn't care about the marathon.

Ritz

Hall

Curtis

Arciniaga

Gotcher

Flanagan

Davila

Goucher

Moody

Lewy Boulet

nikeman wrote:

Ritz

Hall

Curtis

Arciniaga

Gotcher

Flanagan

Davila

Goucher

Moody

Lewy Boulet

If Greg gets 2 guys in the top 5, I will never bash (speak the truth) his lack of knowledge in the marathon again.

1. Rupp

2. Hall

3. Curtis

1. Flanagan

2. Davila

3. Goucher

From Runnersworld.com

Do you have any specific aspirations for the Olympic Trials in January?

Bobby Curtis: It would be kind of funny if Lauren (Fleshman, whose marathon debut will also be on November 6) or I were to go out and shock the world and run a great race in New York, and then you would think to yourself, "It's 70-something days to the Olympic Trials for the marathon and I've just discovered I'm a great marathoner. Do I have enough time to rest? Could I possibly do it?" I think you might be getting a little ahead of yourself if you start having thoughts like that. I do think I have a future in the marathon, but for this Olympic season coming up, 2012, I think I've got to put all my eggs in one basket for the 10k because I think something can be lost along the way if you say to yourself, "Okay, well, I'll do the Marathon Trials and if that doesn't work out, I'll regroup and try on the track." I think you've really got to say to yourself, "What's my best shot?" and let's do everything we can to make the team in that event. And so that's what I'll be doing, no regrets.

1) Jason Rahm

2) Galen Rupp

3) Dathan Ritz

4) Dean K.

5) Lukas V.