MIAC Track 2024

Heard some people say there was a pacer and they were shooting for 14:10 pace. Ok, to be honest it was me and I just said it so I could say I heard it, but I think you’ll need about that to make nationals and with Bati, Kelly and Boone (Munir pacing) all going for time it’ll be interesting.

Heard Gregg just paced the group, but made sure to win so he’d still rank ahead for Nats.

Power is on crack if he thinks those guys will run 14:10. He's hyping this 5K like it's something special. He'll be lucky if he gets 5 guys under 15:00.

Anyone think this thread is about him? Wonder which Ole wrote that?

Where r u seeing Olaf guys claim theyre running 14:10? I heard UM guys are going for BU standards but what I've been hearing is olaf guys going for 14:30ish and pacers at 15 and 15:30

Olafs school record is 14:20 something so theres no chance they run 14:10. Im all for power bashing but lets be realisitic.

Also word around Norphfield is bunch of the olaf guys got caught at a party after the meet last weekend and r going to lose the rest of their indoor season.

How many 8:40 3k guys r not gonna be at confrence because they had one too many hams

Oles back to their old ways

To be clear, never said MIAC guys were going for 14:10, but rumor was they were trying for 8:30 through 3k pacer (Munir). From the entry list it’s unclear if they got one. Looks like a few UM guys are seeded @14:05 so my rumors appear at least partially validated. Probably still need at least a 14:15 possibly faster if any of these guys want to go to nats. UM guys need 14:20 for BU guaranteed entry.

Anyway, heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend you been messing around.

Our shared disdain for Power and his inability to get the best out of his athletes or even run a mile himself aside, it is pretty cool to see 50 men entered in a 5K with pacers and some ambitious seeds. I hope they have a livestream.

Looking at the entries list, this is either going to be one of the best meets all year or one of the worst. Who the heck are all these guys showing up to a 5k at Olaf thinking they’re all the smoke coming in and clogging up the entries with their supposed entry times and those who’s coaches couldn’t even be bothered.

Names to watch: Lars and Cal, both entered 14:30, Bati only 2 seconds behind. Of course Kelly is expected to run away with the first MIAC position, but another handful of Oles in high 14 low 15, then McKee and Thompson. McCullough maybe, and mid to booty from there.

Has Kelly ever beat Bati? He only ran 8:28 two weeks ago. No way he’s under 14:40. And if Jackson Marsh runs under 15:45 I’ll crap my pants in the middle of the Ole track.

A sit behind the pacer race is Bati’s dream. I’ve heard one of his Minnesota Distance Elite teammates is coming specifically to pace him. I think Mo gets a couple Gophers and his national qualifier. Hope to see Power crying on the livestream that his big race didn’t work out for the Oles.

I get entering speculative times but c’mon.
my guess is less than 25% of the top 25 seeds will be within 5 seconds of their seeds.

75% wont be within 10 seconds of their seeds

I kinda feel sorry for Kelly. Do you think he ever thinks to himself, "Jeepers, if Phil hadn't retired I'd be so much faster now?"

Bocovich was criminally under utilized until he started doing his own workouts and ignoring Power's advice. One of the former assistants wrote a lot of his training after moving with his wife and Bocovich had the year of his life despite disappearing during Indoor. If he performed like his Outdoor MIAC the Oles would have won. Another Power failure.

Looks like many coaches just put lifetime PRs. I think TFRRS automatically loads them if the timer doesn’t set restrictions. We all know Fast Finish Results would probably do that.
A few of these schools must have gotten a lot better in the last three weeks.

It looks like 3 of the 20 guys in fast heat had speculative marks. In other words times just made up by the coach. I guess if you lie large enough you can get i to the fast heat.

Maybe this is a hot take, but speculative marks for a January 5000m are absolutely reasonable. You might have a point if coaches have current marks to use and then they still speculate, but I doubt many of these athletes have run a 5 yet this season

I see a few speculative marks from the D1/D2 teams, but after what the Gophers did at the USA XC meet last weekend, they're believable. Duluth has had some coaching changes so I think they'll run much faster than we expect. They only lost to Augustana by four at conference which is serious improvement.

Of course Power is going to throw an Ole alum into the fast heat even though he told coaches he wants to keep heats less than 18. The alumni hate him enough. They would hate him even more if the Brenk flies in to run fast and has to run from the front of the second heat.

The two sub 15 guys left out of the fast heat have nothing to complain about. One was 41st in the Regional and has a PR of 15:11. The other was 57th and has never been under 16:00.

If Power were a better meet director he'd research PR's and kick guys back a heat like they do at BU. But it could be worse, If this was a St. Thomas meet everyone would be in one heat.

Actually it is not my first track meet. Been to plenty.

in the end the right guys probably got i to the right heats. Even though the system for this to happen required fraudulent entry marks by coaches. I stand by my original statement that 75% of the fast heat will not be within 10 seconds of their seed time.

if we keep allowing fraudulent seed times then someone, and likely several, will get screwed. Its the wild west out there when it comes to entries

So I’m told (unofficially) there’s at least a 14:00 and a 14:20 pacer. UofM guys are shooting for 14:00, MIAC crew (Will, Mo, Calvin, Lars) shooting for 14:20 possibly faster last couple k’s depending how they feel.

Have you stopped crying yet? My condolences to your $hitty takes.

Once again the power haters go home devastated. Kelly beats the rest of the MIAC by 15 seconds and possibly punches a nats ticket, while Turlington takes down Bati and DeWall. It’s time that man starts getting some serious respect around the conference, 14:38 as a soph is no joke. Overall an entertaining race, maybe not as fast as some could have hoped, but still quite quick and thoroughly entertaining