Fair or foul: Centro kicks for the half-mile prime at 5th Avenue Mile even though he makes north of 500k per year

Why are you surprised? Class and Centro have never gone together

Let’s go Orange 🍊

Styx with Journey wrote:

Why are you surprised? Class and Centro have never gone together

Let’s go Orange 🍊

He is a pro runner. His job is literally to make money. He probably got a modest appearance fee. Beyond that, if he felt he couldn't finish in the money, he might as well try for the $1000 at halfway.

Unclassy would have been throwing unnecessary elbows, drifting all over to keep people from passing, etc. Nothing wrong with surging for a prime.

I don't care if he collected the thousand bucks or whatever it was regardless of his yearly income. I think it is telling however, that he was completely aware and resolved of the fact that he had no chance of winning the race. And the fact that by going for the gimmick money, he is completely fine with all of us knowing it as well.

holterskolter2 wrote:

Styx with Journey wrote:

Why are you surprised? Class and Centro have never gone together

Let’s go Orange 🍊

He is a pro runner. His job is literally to make money. He probably got a modest appearance fee. Beyond that, if he felt he couldn't finish in the money, he might as well try for the $1000 at halfway.

Unclassy would have been throwing unnecessary elbows, drifting all over to keep people from passing, etc. Nothing wrong with surging for a prime.

yeah-I don't see an issue with it...you see that in a lot of cycling races with dudes that make pretty good money to start with...

I was going to make this thread but forgot lol

Yeah isnt it a little odd that Centro went for the 1k bonus, or at least funny? 🤣

That 1k bonus is pretty much equivalent to a 5th place finish. So for him to make that surge for the bonus means he didnt think he could finish in the top 5.

Sure enough, he ended up outside of the top 10 just like Chelimo. Financially, it makes perfect sense. But it's just funny to think that an olympic champion would do something like this.

Speaking of Chelimo, looks like he didnt know which way to drift with the road being so wide. Maybe that cost him the win.

With Centro's recent form he had to know he was not going to finish in the top half of the race so why not get some TV time, have a bit of fun and pick up a few bucks.

My question is why did Monti need to include a mention of the color of his shoes in the article? What does that fact have to do with anything

There was $1000 waiting on the road, why wouldn't he try and pick it up?

They should actually leave it literally on the road, a loaf of singles.. That would tell us who really wants it. And you still have to run under 4:05 to keep it.

Ratings would be 10X

The prime is intended to spice up race. It's not intended to be charity for the poors. There's nothing wrong with anyone going for it.

runner420 wrote:

The prime is intended to spice up race. It's not intended to be charity for the poors. There's nothing wrong with anyone going for it.

This. What could possibly be wrong with pursuing an award by doing the exact thing that the award was intended to incentivize?

Lack of class is running two guys out in to lane 6 at the trials. Winning money at a professional road race is in the job description. The idea that winning the prime is low class is ridiculous. If the organizers wanted a different dynamic they would pay pacers.

OozmaKappa wrote:

I was going to make this thread but forgot lol

Yeah isnt it a little odd that Centro went for the 1k bonus, or at least funny? 🤣

That 1k bonus is pretty much equivalent to a 5th place finish. So for him to make that surge for the bonus means he didnt think he could finish in the top 5.

Sure enough, he ended up outside of the top 10 just like Chelimo. Financially, it makes perfect sense. But it's just funny to think that an olympic champion would do something like this.

Speaking of Chelimo, looks like he didnt know which way to drift with the road being so wide. Maybe that cost him the win.

Chelimo was lost on the road. Wasn’t able to bully with his dirty tactics of elbows and drifting runners into lane 5

that's what it's for wrote:

runner420 wrote:

The prime is intended to spice up race. It's not intended to be charity for the poors. There's nothing wrong with anyone going for it.

This. What could possibly be wrong with pursuing an award by doing the exact thing that the award was intended to incentivize?

Basically because the only guys who typically go for that bonus are the ones who know they have zero chance at even a top 3 finish.

So, here you have a former Olympic gold medal winner running the biggest road mile race in his country, only a few months removed from very publicly attempting to set the American Record in the one mile, doing a gimmicky surge to make one thousand dollars which is a move typically reserved for guys who expect to finish about 10th overall.

And this wasn't exactly a Diamond League 1500 caliber field.

Runner10287 wrote:

OozmaKappa wrote:Speaking of Chelimo, looks like he didnt know which way to drift with the road being so wide. Maybe that cost him the win.

Chelimo was lost on the road. Wasn’t able to bully with his dirty tactics of elbows and drifting runners into lane 5

You guys Chelimo complex is getting far "dirtier" than any elbow or drift in a race. He's an inspirational runner, and his tactics are entertaining and often heroically effective, as in the Olympic final.

GG

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paul72 wrote:

holterskolter2 wrote:

He is a pro runner. His job is literally to make money. He probably got a modest appearance fee. Beyond that, if he felt he couldn't finish in the money, he might as well try for the $1000 at halfway.

Unclassy would have been throwing unnecessary elbows, drifting all over to keep people from passing, etc. Nothing wrong with surging for a prime.

yeah-I don't see an issue with it...you see that in a lot of cycling races with dudes that make pretty good money to start with...

But 2 wrongs don't make ............

I'm not fast enough to drop a 1:58 at the half of a mile race. I'm lucky if I win a 2nd place mini-pumpkin pie at a local turkey trot. But if I had the talent for a shameless money grab like this, I sure as hell would do it. I say, "Good for you, Centro." A day will come where Centro is lucky to run a 1:58 quarter, let alone a 14th at the 5th Avenue Mile. Time moves quicker than any of us think it will. So he should enjoy the hell out of any little nugget he can, while it lasts.

Why didn't Sam Parsons run? He took the halfway prize the past few years, I recall.

Not unclassy at all lmao what is wrong with these posters lol