2010 Wisconsin Badger X/C Thread

I generally do not have inside information. At the meets people say things; I have tended to related some when I have heard/seen comments made from staff (i.e., it is not anything 'inside'; one example is runners that were held out of the addidas Invite where I made a comment after Bryne had said something, plus anyone help out of that race that could have run unattached would presumably be for a reason). I think that I have followed more links than others and hence put 1 and 1 and 1 and 1 and 1 together and get something around 5, because each of the 1s might be a little more or less. Still, you have a point and I will think even more than I do before I post things.

You are dedicated wrote:

Hey 26mi235,

Thanks for sharing your perspective. Seems like you are a dedicated soul for the distance running cause.

As I look at your postings, you clearly have a lot of insider info which you openly share on these boards. In some cases that's cool, but in others such as reporting on health status, that's not cool at all for several reasons. If you are a friend of Bucky, please use more discretion than you have demonstrated about team members health status as well as items that could be deemed competitive advantage.

Stinzi's comments on the Regional race do not include Grinaker's name, and he lists seven other runners.

"“The issue is not worrying too much about [Comfort and Sisson], but believing in themselves as the No. 3-7 runners.”

Among those in the lineup for the Badgers besides Sisson and Comfort are freshmen Lavinia Jurkiewicz and Liga Blyholder. Additionally, sophomore Ashley Beutler and seniors Karlye Wolff and Karen Greuel will hopefully make veteran contributions. "

On the Men's side, Byrne does not detail all of the planned runners but has this:

"Since the Badgers' strategy has been working so well year after year, you can expect these guys to be playing similar roles at NCAA Great Lakes Regional on Nov. 13th.

"Elliot Krause will be called upon again to play his role again this weekend," Byrne said, looking ahead to the meet at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich.

Aside from athlete roles, the main objective of the Wisconsin men's cross country team is to undoubtedly qualify for the NCAA Championships. In doing so, the Badgers will have to address the change in distance from 8-kilometers to 10-kilometers.

"We are moving up from 8-k to 10-k, and all you can hope for is that the 10k race doesn't beat them up too much." Byrne said. "The guys that would be going to the line the following week at the NCAA Championships will only have a certain number of days to recover from it, so they can't put too much strain on themselves."

Just because the Badgers' main objective is to get to Terre Haute, that doesn't mean Byrne is about take away from the importance of Regionals.

"Not to downplay any other team in the meet, it's just a different ball game for us now." Byrne said. "There was a ton of pressure on our kids going into the Big Tens because it was at home and they were trying to keep the streak alive."

Are the Badgers feeling the same pressure to win their eighth-straight NCAA Great Lakes Regional?

"There is definitely less pressure," Byrne said. "We are going to have other teams watching what we are doing, but we just have to remember our objective."

"Our focus for this weekend is to get out there and run together as a team, feed off of each other, and know that we have to keep a little bit in the tank for the following week," Byrne stressed."

I do not think that Indiana can afford to either take it easy for Regionals or push too hard and leave too little for NCAAs. I suspect that Wisconsin will be watching the Indiana guys and pushing as hard as they need to in order to accomplish their mission (qualifying, plus winning, plus not racing too hard). Since Wisconsin has more 10k guys and Indiana has more miler types, I suspect that the move to 10km will make it easier to monitor the race and titrate their effort.

Flotrck interview with Peacock

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3693892&page=6

Sisson and Comfort are in.

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/w-xc/recaps/111310aaa.html

Reed Connor = Balls

http://www.uwbadgers.com/sports/m-xc/recaps/111310aab.html

Anyone know what happened to Krause and Conner over the last 2k? At the 8k split, they were only 20 points behind OSU.

If anyone on the tem reads this congrats, I enjoy following you every year.

Congrats Emily and Caitlin as well.

I thought Krause was a junior. It sucks to run out of gas with a 400 to go.

Krause is a junior / third year of CC. Go to Madison.com to see Mick Byrne and Krause's interview.

There are also some interviews on flotrack.

I'm impressed with Krause. He has a dgreat head on his shoulders. Paraphrasing, I can't be mad at myself, I gave it everything I had.

I see that the Letrun front page was finally ammended to straighten out the facts about the Krause headline, and posted the link to his interview describing what happened (nice job Letsrun).

There is a great unselfish team attitude and they have put their own finger prints on the team make up. These guys will be fun to watch in the future and see how things progress under Mick.

Go Badgers!

thats a fact jack wrote:

I see that the Letrun front page was finally ammended to straighten out the facts about the Krause headline, and posted the link to his interview describing what happened (nice job Letsrun).

There is a great unselfish team attitude and they have put their own finger prints on the team make up. These guys will be fun to watch in the future and see how things progress under Mick.

Go Badgers!

Thanks for the compliment.

It's great to see Mick having the great success at UW. I know he prides himself on having the guys run tough and producing "Badger XC" and they certainly did that on Monday.

One thing I wanted to point out is a few xenophobes ripped him at Iona for having so many foreigners. He is proving what I always say - a great coach is a great coach and should be successful with HSers, collegians, foreigners, Americans, etc.

Yet, unsurprisingly, I don't see anyone on her apologizing.

I've never understood why people rip on coaches for having foreign talent. Some schools can easily attract Americans while others quite simply can't. At a school like Iona, by putting all the money into distance, one could probably have a top 25 team with Americans but almost never be a top 5 team as quite simply the top Americans are going to end up going to schools that are better schools academically and socially and with even more tradition - schools like UW, Stanford, etc.

Maybe that's a topic for another column.

With that kind of finish for the top Badgers guys, do you think that there is a good chance for three Badgers to be in the top 10 at the big dance next year? I think there is.

these guys are so good. looking good throughout track as well. i am a high school runner from wisconsin. anyone know what their typical training week looks like? it says krause runs 110-120 a week! that is like 16-17 a day! makes sense considering he just ran sub 29 in the 10k!