2023 Arcadia Invitational (*Official Thread)

You missed Simmons. 1) Burns, 2) Simmons, 3) maybe Hansen.

Burns will pull the top end of the field to some very fast times. It’s too bad the Youngs aren’t there to share the work with him.

I am pleased that the Youngs have decided to pursue their aspirations elsewhere with professional racing, allowing someone else who is not from Newbury Park to have a chance to shine.

Edit: Seymour will want a piece of that action.

You seem to know Seymour. Is he ready to go low 8:40s to make a run at top 3?

I don’t think they need to DNS a race to let someone else at NP shine. They did that just fine at NXN.

Well look at me, I'm just a Yahoo on the internet, I don't know Seymore from a can of beans. But you know what I do know? He's got a hell of a 65-second lap pursuit coming up tomorrow night, and I hope he crushes it! Will it be enough to win? Probably not, but hey, it's not about the destination, it's about the sick performance we'll all get to witness.

Bro tried to sneak Evan Noonan in there 💀

Fellow Mustang, indeed, I did. I wouldn't sleep on this kid this year. He was a 4:33/9:52 guy last year as a frosh. His soph cross country season saw him at 14:21 for 3 miles. He's already at 4:15/9:08 this season. Look for continued improvement from the kid.

Irene Riggs . . . if she takes down Tuohy's 9:47.88 outdoor 3200 national record . . .

On the runningeffect podcast (just saw a snippet) Burns and Birnbaum said they will be clicking off 64s gunning for the record and won’t tolerate a slow pace. Among other things, it’ll be interesting to see how many guys besides them try to stay on that pace.

Last June, she ran a 9:51 2-mile.

Jack Daniels equates that to a 9:47.

Burns will definitely be up there. There should be enough talent for no one to be forced into doing all the work, even without the Youngs running. Birnbaum and Burns are going for a national record and I bet most of those guys are going to do everything they can to stay up there. You gotta take advantage of races like this to run fast times.

American Fork wins 4xmile with only one senior

Jesuit second. They were really strong at 1 through 4 in cross, so it was a great idea that they chose this 4xmile.

Bishop Blanchet 3rd. This was the team that was going to try to go to NXN, and then the coach ran those guys onto the ground at the beginning of the fall.

I assume he ran all 4 legs, quite an achievement.

Smith running all 4 legs? They can’t win like that. Even with Simmons running all 4 legs, it would be hard to win because he would be more tired at the beginning than the last few legs on other teams

I wonder how Newbury Park would have done minus the Youngs in the 4xmile relay. (Sahlman/Cantu/Seymour/Doshi)

Why did they do 4xmile? That was such a mess. No one knows what’s going on including announcer. Just stick with the 4x1600.

Don’t sleep on my boy DANNY SIMMONS in the 3200m… He destroyed all these kids at NXN.

This boys’ 3200 could be a landmark race for U.S. high school running, given the number of kids I can realistically imagine running under 8:40: Burns, Hansen, Kipyego, Birnbaum, Simmons.

Plus an outside chance of Irene Riggs going sub-9:40 - I’m here for it.