Apparently the person who posted most of the good info here and ran the instagram page is no longer doing that because of the bullying and harassment he was receiving on instagram, so i’ll do my best to take over and try to include everyone, put forgive me if I leave someone’s performance out.
I would say the most notable performances of the weekend came from GVSU, where Eli Fullerton (IWU) and Luca Madeo (Cumberlands) went 14:14 and 14:15 and each hit A standard in the 5k. So far there is 3 A standards and then 11 B standards in the 5k, which is much more than I expected at this point with the standards being raised. There are much less standards hit in the other distance events, however I don’t think that means much since it’s so early. For those who don’t know, the fields at nationals will will be filled to 20 if there is less than 20 A standards, which I can see happening for a few of the distance events.
Other notable performances would be Nate Hamoud Mehdi (Madonna) running an A standard of 8:17 in the 3k, Cole Bennett (Cumberlands) with a 12:47 in the 3k Racewalk, and Dylan Grandon (St. Ambrose) with a converted 1:52.44 800.