Time to panic? Centro runs 1:50.97 800!!!

Back in the day, Jim Spivey could drop 1:51 in practice. On demand. In College. Granted, he never won Olympic gold, but still . . . Centro is done. Stop getting excited about what race he's appearing in next. It will be disappointing.

Damn. On the Friday 15 podcast, I put the over/under at 1:48.00 and said I wanted to see 1:47 or better.

I rated it as thisL

1:45 - A+

1:46 - A

1:47 - B

1:48 - C

1:49 - D

So I've got to put this as an F.

Jonathan Gault watched it and texted "he was never in it."

(I'm merged this thread with one started someone else entitled "Centro Runs 1:50.98. Is He DONE?!")

Spencer brown 1:49.76

Given Centros ego he had to be at a place training wise where he thought he could run fast so this is a complete disappointment. There was competition, he just wasn't it. He has 10 weeks to figure it out, but today he's not even a contender to make the Tokyo team.

what were his splits? Has he raced at all this year?

reddit on reddit wrote:

what were his splits? Has he raced at all this year?

There were no splits on the broadcast but they said the leader came through in 53 seconds. So Centro was 54 or 55 in last place. He moved up to pass Brandon Lasater but that was it.

Place Athlete Time Heat Points

1 Abe Alvarado USA 1:47.29

2 Kameron Jones USA 1:47.33

3 Rajay Hamilton JAM 1:48.32

4 Robert Downs USA 1:49.34

5 Andres Arroyo PUR 1:50.21

6 Matthew Centrowitz USA 1:50.97

7 Brandon Lasater USA 1:51.19

Centro might be worse than 2016 Leo Manzano who finished 4th in the last olympic trials.

If he’s been putting in good mileage and training for the 5k, it’s a very solid result.

rojo wrote:

So I've got to put this as an F.

Last I checked it's April 10th. Act like you've been there before.

I'd rather be the hunter than the hunted.

Centro is the hunted at the moment. He is the high profile reigning olympic champion. The young guns will do anything to unseat him.

Kenaneeser Beckelay wrote:

If he’s been putting in good mileage and training for the 5k, it’s a very solid result.

He's definitely not training for the 5k...

Kenaneeser Beckelay wrote:

If he’s been putting in good mileage and training for the 5k, it’s a very solid result.

absolutely not. we are not spinning a 6th place 1:50.9 into a solid result for a man "guaranteed" to make the olympics

I predicted 1:50ish on the prediction thread.

Season opener, first race in a long time. He’s probably currently 3:40ish 1500 fitness.

Might be a good time to hop in the steeple. Around 8:0X for sure. 28 hurdles, 7 water jumps.

Time to panic if you were hoping he'd be an Olympic medal threat this time around, but does anyone really believe that?

half of this board

Ruppforgoldanon wrote:

Given Centros ego he had to be at a place training wise where he thought he could run fast so this is a complete disappointment. There was competition, he just wasn't it. He has 10 weeks to figure it out, but today he's not even a contender to make the Tokyo team.

Or he just wanted to see where he is. This is far from great but depending on where he is in the training cycle, I wouldn't be shocked to see him in 335 shape at the trials. If that will be good enough is a different question

It’s not good, but it’s not something to panic about.

He knows what his fitness is based on his training.

We don’t know how that’s going.

Can’t tell much from an early 800 race.

But he can tell if he put the effort into it.

It’s been a couple years since he really raced and did manage a 3:32 in 2019.

side note, what shoes was centro wearing?

did centro just run a true 1:53? LMAO

This result is ok but not great.

I said yesterday anything above 1:50, meaning 1:50 point would be not good

and this result just barely passes that threshold.

I am rooting for him and hopefully he can knock off a few seconds from this in the coming weeks.

1:50 means he can probably run a 3:57 mile or so, maybe a second faster, maybe a second or so slower.

Is a 3:57 miler going to make the Olympic team? No. But he's been there before and knows what it's like to run a 3:50 mile, so we'll see.

It's all speculation at this point. Some people will say this result is ok, others will say he's done.

If I'm a betting man right now I say no he does not make the Olympic team, but I don't discount him completely and say he surely makes the finals of the Olympic trials. And to discount him from the top 6 at the trials I think would be silly given his pedigree.