The organizers of the 2021 Gate River 15K Prediction contest have met and agreed to not award a winner for this year’s contest because of too many last minute dropouts and not enough bold picks by the LRC community. They do wish to recognize myself for having picked the women’s winner, Emily Sisson within 7 seconds.
My picks / Actual
Emily Sisson 48:15 / 1st 48:09
Sally Kipyego 48:35/ 13th 51:06 (Should we be concerned about her Oly ’Thon chances?)
Emma Bates 49:10./ 12th 50:52 (Divorce stress?)
Shadrack Kipchichir 44:30/ 3rd 43:55
Kirubel Erassa 44:35/ 5th 43:57
Frank Lara 44: 40 / 7th 44:02
Bonus pick - Cicirunner's place will be 47th, time = 51:30
Actual = (49th male) 9th age group 30-34 gun 55:19 chip 53:13 5:42 oa 74th
It will be interesting to get his take on the race in a post race video.
Top 3 women Results
Name Age Town Time
1 Emily Sisson* 29 48:09
2 Lindsay Flanagan* 29 49:14
3 Emily Durgin* 49:29
Top 10 men Results
1. 51 Clayton Young 27 Provo UT 43:52 (Can he make 10K team?)
2. 15 Abbabiya Simbassa 27 Flagstaff AZ 43:54
3. 11 Shadrack Kipchirchir 32 Colorado Springs CO 43:55
4. 55 Nicolas Montanez 27 Mammoth Lakes CA 43:55
5. 39 Kirubel Erassa 27 Fishers IN 43:57 43:57
6. 41 Colin Bennie 25 charlottesville VA 43:57
7. 1 Frank Lara 25 Westminster CO 44:02
8. 19 Reed Fischer 25 Boulder CO 44:02
9. 23 Chris Derrick 30 Portland OR 44:04 (Can he find more speed before Trials?)
10. 57 John Raneri 29 Flagstaff AZ 44:15. (Went out too fast)
Also, I’m back from a one day ban. In celebration of this I’m not wearing a mask while typing this and thinking of more freedom-loving topics to contort the minds of the mods.