Bower Man wrote:
There will be a BTC logjam in the 5k next year as Lomong, McGorty, Fisher, Kincaid, and Hill will all be entered.
Half of them will be injured so problem solved.
Bower Man wrote:
There will be a BTC logjam in the 5k next year as Lomong, McGorty, Fisher, Kincaid, and Hill will all be entered.
Half of them will be injured so problem solved.
Bower Man wrote:
Given all this, Sean would also be a candidate for the 1500 at the Trials.
There will be a BTC logjam in the 5k next year as Lomong, McGorty, Fisher, Kincaid, and Hill will all be entered. So, it's possible that either Sean or Grant will focus on the 1500 while either Kincaid or Hill could move up to the 10k (joining Lomong & CD, although this is pure speculation).
By the way, doesn't Sean remind you a little bit of Chris Solinsky? Not quite as heavy but just as tall and broad-shouldered. When he's in a 5k everyone around him looks like a midget.
A sub 50 relay isn't an amazingly fast time that suggests you are better off in the 1500m than the 5000m. If your a 3:36/13:10 type guy, in general I think your odds are better in the 5000m. but it is pretty darn close.
And yes as soon as you stick a 6'1 guy into the 5000m he looks like a. monster unless he is a total twig.:)
The Unkle wrote:
Bower Man wrote:
What do you think Grant should run next year at the Trials?
1500? 5k?
5k comes first, then rest days, then 1500 heats start.
Likely he will be entered in both.
Up until last week the 5k appeared to be his best event . . . but hard to tell now.
Kind of think they will still be running this Covid fear campaign at that time
+1. The democrats will protest anything and everything until their daddy Fauci gives them a vaccine so let’s all pray we get one soon for the case of the sport
If I had to pick how to deploy the Bowerman guys, I would go conventional and do this:
1500: Thompson, Centrowitz
5,000: Fisher, McGorty, Hill, Kincaid, Lomong
If I had to move anyone around it would be McGorty to the 1500. I like his finishing kick and speed over the rest. Tempting as it would be to put Centro in the 5, I don't think he's strong enough to have his kick in a race that winds up early. I can't see Fisher outkicking Engels, Centro, Nuguse, Thompson et al.
I'd assume at least one or two of them take a shot at the 10k, Lomong seems like he will at least race the 10k first and possibly double back
Considering that he ran 3:53 in college in that race with Washington's Izaic Yorks before injury problems, and Joe Falcon only ran 3:52 in college, turning to the 1500m isn't that far-fetched for McGorty.
Bower Man wrote:
What do you think Grant should run next year at the Trials?
1500? 5k?
5k comes first, then rest days, then 1500 heats start.
Likely he will be entered in both.
Up until last week the 5k appeared to be his best event . . . but hard to tell now.
Are you guys insane? He's not a 1500 guy. It's like asking if rupp should enter the 1500 because he ran a 3:50 indoor mile. Rupp would get his doors blown off - same thing with Fisher. You're impressed because a 13 low 5k guy went out in 56 and then hung on and ran a 336 with a running start and a 58-59 last lap?
You have to be able to change gears and slam it home to be competitive in a 1500.
Now the 1500 team may end up being the easier one to make. THere is no harm in doing it after the 5k and hoping you somehow get in as one of the few guys with the standard of something but can we stop acting like he's a 1500 guy. He recently was smoked by the NCAA 10k champ in a 1500.