10:30 pm ET tonight. BTC at Sound Running Invite- Official Discussion Thread

let me guess it will be at some random HS and will be 100% BTC time trials with no real racing happening

Pretty diverse fields thus far.

5K with Klecker, Hoare, and I assume McDonald in addition to the few names listed.

per this IG post, add Marc Scott, Sean McGorty, Grant Fisher, Woody Kincaid, Evan Jager, Kieren Tuntivate:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CLxb3iTnxCv/

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Pretty diverse fields thus far.

5K with Klecker, Hoare, and I assume McDonald in addition to the few names listed.

No way ?

It’s not just the BTC time trial extravaganza?

Set up as a sub 13 attempt.

No Gwen yet

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Pretty diverse fields thus far.

5K with Klecker, Hoare, and I assume McDonald in addition to the few names listed.

Thought these guys were supposed to race in Austin?

Now they are racing next week?

Ritz and his guys kind of stiffed the Austin meet organizers and athletes.

McDonald said he had a sore ankle... but is ready to go next week?

Was going to Austin just a way for McDonald to see his girlfriend?

Fields now filling out --- add Cranny & Johnson to 1500 (GDS likely rabbit), remove Josh Thompson from 1500 (likely injured from TX Qualifier race), add Jorgensen to the 5k along with Sission (GDS again likely rabbit), and, especially, the men's 5k now including Scott, Fisher, McGorty, Tuntivate (Jager & Kincaid likely rabbits).

Sound Running Invite now feels like a real competition -- albeit a time trial competition -- rather than a BTC intrasquad meet.

Bowerman VI wrote:

Fields now filling out --- add Cranny & Johnson to 1500 (GDS likely rabbit), remove Josh Thompson from 1500 (likely injured from TX Qualifier race), add Jorgensen to the 5k along with Sission (GDS again likely rabbit), and, especially, the men's 5k now including Scott, Fisher, McGorty, Tuntivate (Jager & Kincaid likely rabbits).

Sound Running Invite now feels like a real competition -- albeit a time trial competition -- rather than a BTC intrasquad meet.

Just saw the lists, this could be a wicked fast race!! Excited to see what McDonald can do if he's getting pulled along by the BTC guys, I really hope that ankle is doing okay.

Men's 1500 looks really good too, hopefully Gregorek and Centro are in real racing shape, Josh Kerr could throw down a fast time, and we'll see if Drew Hunter's 3:40 from a few weeks ago was just a one off thing. Also cool to see Nick Willis in another race, he's been racing a ton it seems.

And on a more personal note, I'm excited to see how Spencer Brown runs, I really was hoping he'd run a big PR but he did mess up something last week. Looked to be doing okay in his most recent video though, so hopefully he throws down a big PR!

So when will we see Centro pull out of this meet? He has cancelled out of his last 3 scheduled meets so when do we hear he had dropped out of this one?

You can quote me now saying he won't drop out

Looks like Schweizer, Hall, Infeld, Fraser --- along w/GDS -- all sitting this one out as racers, so all are candidates for rabbit duties.

Observation: Ahmed, Lomong & Houlihan are not racing this winter. Mo has not run an indoor race since February 2017 (per worldathletics.org profile). Lopez ran last winter but you have to go back to 2017 for his prior indoor race. Shelby, on the other hand, has raced extensively indoors since joining BTC several years ago.

No insights here, but it does appear these three are the elite trio within BTC who are already super fit, don't need winter races to validate their fitness, and --- have something really big planned for the spring prior to the Olympic Trials.

Shelby has already admitted in her "Extra Year" BTC Youtube video that Jerry thinks she can break the 5k world record, while Mo looked like he could have run much faster than 12:47 last summer given faster pacing & cooler weather . . . makes one wonder what's in the works.

I predict Gwen will do a lot better this race. She's been down from altitude for a while and is probably in a better place mentally. I'd say she might go 15:10.

Can we take bets on when Matt Centrowitz will pull out?

Hope moderators will change the name of this thread to "Sound Running Invite - Official Discussion Thread" (since "next week" is now this week).

Little bit of Gwen projection here, I like it.

Lopez was only just coming back from injury at the start of 2021 - I imagine him not racing is more getting him back into shape than keeping powder dry a la Ahmed/Houlihan. I'd also say that with those two Ws under her belt I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see GDS out on the track again until the Diamond Leagues. Established she's back in 2019 form as opposed to indoors 2020 form so now time to get a proper race.

Working backwards - Canada isn't making foreign based athletes come back for Olympic trials due to hotel quarantine rules. So I wouldn't be surprised if Schumacher sends Ahmed/GDS across to Europe in June to get some Diamond Leagues under their belt. However if they're doing that in June, and he likes 6 weeks of altitude before racing, I'd say camp all of May and part of April. So if you're gonna see a fast sea level time trial from Ahmed/Houlihan in either 5000m or 10000m then it's likely to happen in the next 6 weeks or so.

Anyway, US trials are going to be awesome this year. Very excited.

Rocket Mann wrote:

You can quote me now saying he won't drop out

So what college kids will he take his rage out on when he loses?

I’ll be rooting for Molly Huddle to run well in the 5k. I’ve always been a fan for whatever reason and would like to see her make a 3rd Olympic team at 36. I’m also interested to see how Hanna Green does in this 1500.