Full fields announced for The TEN (3/16): Grant Fisher, Alicia Monson, Nico Young among headliners

I hope conditions are perfect and we see a bunch of Americans under the standard.

This is what I want to see more of- bringing the best together to run fast.

Somebody already posted this last nght.

So Nico won't be running at NCAA indoor I assume? It's only a week before

What?? Obviously he is running NCAA indoors. You think you can't run races in back to back weeks?

Couple of notes on men's field:
-No Grijalva (be awesome if he paces)
-Not sure why Jon is snubbing BU 5K heat winners (and more legit sub-27 threats) Wildschuut and Edwin Kurgat or new 59:2x man Almgren to mention Jack Rayner or Charlie Hicks
-I think the legit sub-27 candidates are: Fisher, Wildschuut, Kurgat, Almgren, Klecker, Kincaid, Nur, Nico — don't know much about the Japanese men and a I'd put Flanagan, Fay, Rayner, McDonald, Kioko a bit short

Will be interesting to see how Megan Keith goes. It's her 10k track debut, though she's already run 31:22 on the roads, which is pretty good for a 21 year-old by European standards. A jump to 30:40 may be asking too much, but it might be enough if she just gets posts around 31:00 as she has already qualified for Paris via the XC rankings.

Am I missing something? I don’t see Nico Young listed. Graham Blanks was supposed to be there but I don’t think he’s running indoor at all this year in order to heal and get ready for outdoor and trials. Would be a quick turn around after most likely doubling in NCAA indoors. I guess that’s why no college guys are running this

And Nico is running DMR the week before NCAAs at Notre Dame? that’s too much.

For the Japanese guys:

Shiojiri is their new national record holder from 2 months ago so he is super fit and likely in shape to run a sub 27. His PB was from a "championship" race that was mainly aiming for the Olympic Qualifier, but maybe now without any pressure to win and better pacing, he'll be able to go under 27.

Ota has a 1 hour HM (Shiojiri has a 1:01) and he set his 27:12 in the same race as Shiojiri. They also have similar 5K times.

Those two guys are the only ones with a shot.

The others are basically impossible and just chasing a marginal PB or a miracle. Some of them have random medals in Asian championship events, but those are like 28-29 minute winning times.

He probably will run NCAA indoors, he’s shown he can recover fairly quickly from hard efforts, case in point his 7:37.73 3K at BU in December and then he came back three hours later and ran 13:22 in the 5K. I’m really excited to see what he can throw down in the 10K, this is probably the best chance Nico will have this year to run something really fast.

Weird, Nico Young was on the press release Sound Running sent out today but he's not listed on their website. Gonna be interesting to see if shows up give the turnaround from NCAAs.

Maybe its tentative but. I don’t see him flying to South Bend, back to Flagstaff, back to Boston, back to flagstaff and then orange county. Nico should do the DMR and then run 3k and then DMR in NCAAs. I guess he’s the favorite in all the distance races and especially now that Blanks is not running the 5k.

I saw Nico Young on the Sound Running site earlier this morning, but he's not listed there now.

The DMR is two weeks before NCAA’s

Didn’t see Natosha Rogers name in the entry list. Wonder if she already has the qualification time from making Worlds last year?

I am most interested to see how Abdi Nur does. He should be a factor in this race, and we shall see if he can hang.

Besides Monson, the only American woman that I think has a shot at getting the Olympic standard at the TEN is Weini Kelati.

I wouldn't have Klecker in the sub-27 category, he looks like he's in a bit of a hole right now compared to last year, and he missed the sub-27 back then. I know Kincaid ran slower in the recent 5k, but with Klecker it's now a series of underwhelming races

Yeah he's definitely looked off this year. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that his health issues get resolved, he's been training through more than last year, and everything may go right in the race. Last year, I think him and Woody were really sharp but perhaps had lost a little fitness by the time the race came around to chase sub-27.