Centro 800m tomorrow

Where?

1:47.5

1:46 low. Book it.

Centroknows wrote:

I Feel like it is a litmus test to see if he has the wheels left to compete in 1500m trials. I doubt he breaks 1:48.5 tho.

well its deff his "move" now

No chance but I am still curious how he will do. I don’t see any scenario where Hocker doesn’t burn out by the trials so it should be Engels and Centro.

I doubt he runs sub 3. I think he’ll run 3:01, faster then his 2 800s at Bowerman meets last year, but he will still run a time that would be slow for a high school girl.

1500-3000-5000 wrote:

I doubt he runs sub 3. I think he’ll run 3:01, faster then his 2 800s at Bowerman meets last year, but he will still run a time that would be slow for a high school girl.

+1

It's hard to say. I think anything over 1:50 would be no good.

Hard to run a good 800 when you are past 30.

If he runs 1:48 he is looking great and anything faster is even better.

Good for him though for still competing and aiming to be world class at an event that generally favours younger athletes.

Greg wrote:

It's hard to say. I think anything over 1:50 would be no good.

Hard to run a good 800 when you are past 30.

If he runs 1:48 he is looking great and anything faster is even better.

Good for him though for still competing and aiming to be world class at an event that generally favours younger athletes.

A season opening 1:50ish is respectable. He hasn’t raced in a while. It might take a 2 or 3 800m races to find his racing gears of 1:48-1:46.

A more telling thing is where he places. If he wins or almost wins the time is irrelevant.

*If he wins by a large margin the time is irrelevant. If he loses at all no matter the margin time is all that is relevant and if he barely wins than the time is relevant as well

Centroknows wrote:

No chance but I am still curious how he will do. I don’t see any scenario where Hocker doesn’t burn out by the trials so it should be Engels and Centro.

He's going to prove the haters wrong. You can easily run an 800 on pure hate.

I think he should be able to run at least a 148. He could run 145 here. It don't matter. There's still a lot of time until the trials, this race is still irrelevant. He has nothing to prove before the trials despite what the haters on this board will say. As long as he qualifies for Tokyo, that is all that matters first and foremost.

1:51.

Good Luck Centro! wrote:

Greg wrote:

It's hard to say. I think anything over 1:50 would be no good.

Hard to run a good 800 when you are past 30.

If he runs 1:48 he is looking great and anything faster is even better.

Good for him though for still competing and aiming to be world class at an event that generally favours younger athletes.

A season opening 1:50ish is respectable. He hasn’t raced in a while. It might take a 2 or 3 800m races to find his racing gears of 1:48-1:46.

A more telling thing is where he places. If he wins or almost wins the time is irrelevant.

I wouldn’t be so sure.

Before I make this comment, I just wanna make it known I love TAS and I love centro, but if centro can’t crack 1:50 he’s absolutely screwed for these olympics.

Spencer Brown (Aka The athlete special) ran sub 1:50 as a debut, a week off of injury and off of months of mostly just base and strength work. Spencer although I love him and hope for the best is not even in the conversation for any Olympic event, and that isn’t a shocker to anyone.

I’d imagine any athlete gunning for top 3 in a surprisingly deep US 1500m field is going to want AT LEAST sub 1:48 800m fitness now, and probably more like sub 1:47. The 800 is a fairly consistent event at the pro level, and if Centro runs say 1:50-1:51, that’s gonna look like someone running a 10.3-10.4 100m this week and say they are shooting to make the Olympic 200m team this year. It just ain’t gonna happen

Centroknows wrote:

I don’t see any scenario where Hocker doesn’t burn out by the trials so it should be Engels and Centro.

“Burn out” from NCAA racing is overhyped. Plenty of runners have made it through two successful NCAA seasons and performed well at USAs.

John Wesley Harding wrote:

Centroknows wrote:

I don’t see any scenario where Hocker doesn’t burn out by the trials so it should be Engels and Centro.

“Burn out” from NCAA racing is overhyped. Plenty of runners have made it through two successful NCAA seasons and performed well at USAs.

All of your takes are stupid.

artiro o wrote:

John Wesley Harding wrote:

“Burn out” from NCAA racing is overhyped. Plenty of runners have made it through two successful NCAA seasons and performed well at USAs.

All of your takes are stupid.

Nah

surely in the grand scheme of things, the time he runs here doesn't matter so much as he'd never compete in the 800 at Tokyo anyway? This is just to get him rolling for his 1500 prep

zxcvzcxv wrote:

1:51.

and hs kids on twit and insta will have a field day....your move centro