Official Grand Slam Track Miami Day 2 Discussion Thread

I'm being facetious

Wow. Melissa Jefferson has made $200,000 in a very short space of time. More athletes would be foolish not to sign up for this league.

Astute take. This is why it's equally silly to believe Klaudia Kazimierska (3:59.95 pb racing with pros in Paris; 4:06.92 NCAA pb) is straight up 5 sec better than Margot Appleton (4:05.68 NCAA pb).

Agreed. And winning these competitions is going to build her confidence for championships.

Hats off to Gabby Thomas though. She challenged herself and dropped down to 100/200 group from 200/400 group. She could have won the long sprints again but dropped down and finished 2nd

Moraa looked terrible in the 1500

And Nuguse looked good in the 800. Form is deceiving though - he looked like he was at mile pace while kicking in the 800. Kerr progressing scarily well as well though

More top runners entering the league will make it harder for any participant to win big prize money like that, thereby reducing the incentive again. But I agree that right now, the dynamics favor more signing up.

A much better meet so far but this feels mostly because they picked a better venue by having one with a fast track and have then had some truly world class performances like Kung Fu Kenny and Gabby Thomas.

Yes, but as a 200m specialist, Gabby is challenged either way. Paulino and Naser are tough competition in the long sprint group.

I'd like to see 3,000 / 1,500 and 800 / 400 doubles. Maybe they mix it up for two of four events.

Having met the man a few times, I 💯% concur.

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Yep, and further, run a few non Olympic distances for one of the races in a double, - 60m, 150m, 200m hurdles 300m, 300m hurdles, 600m, 1000m, mile, 2000m, 2 mile.

Also, some of the events should just be singles - the short hurdles and distance. For distance, run a different race in each meet - 5000m, 2 mile, 10000m, 3000m.

Now that the 300 hurdles are a world record event, alternate the 400H/300H, 400H/400, or even 300H/400 or 200. Just throwing it out there.

Doubling is something the best runners do in high school, in college, and at championships at the pro level.

This is new for the “regular season” but most of these guys did it every year in college and at trials (except for 800 guys they seem like one event runners at this point)

The blocks aren’t wired. Unless there’s some new remote technology, I don’t know how sprint marks can be recognized.

Reading this thread it's pretty clear GST has invested in some Letsrun bots. LIV Golf did the same, and it made a difference. It really seemed like they had some online support for a while because the LIV bots were so damn persistent on Twitter/X.

You are right - my mistake. I looked up Weltejis WA profile and thought I only saw 3.55 but it is as you said. No problem owning that.

I still think two 4th place finishes for a 3.50 runner is not really in line with a fair expectation - especially given the relatively weak depth in the fields. Just my opinion.