Luke MF Houser repeats as mile champ - where's the love?

I didn't fine a thread either.

The grip that UW has on the 1500/mile since 2022 is pretty crazy. Wonder if it'll continue when its just Green next year

Lmk when houser runs a 353 mile at 7,000 ft like salmon did. Until that day comes, he's not more talented.

Is that the Alaskan salmon?

I got to see the mile heats only earlier today and it looked very easy for him in comparison to Sahlman, Wascom, and the other contenders, so at that point I saw him as the definite favorite, though there are so many uncertainties in a crowded indoor field with others who have run nearly as fast as him.

*the grip that Andy Powell has on NCAA distance since 2005 is pretty crazy

Houser seems to be the best tactician of the 3 UW guys. I feel Nathan Green could have won today, but Houser would have raced differently and may have countered Greens speed with a longer surge

Personally I am disappointed that Houser didn't run the DMR. He took the easy route, to impress me now as a defending champ you have to step up. If you chose to run the 3k over the DMR, you better at least score in the 3k. He got 2nd to last.

UW is the best mile school but they get destroyed in the DMR, 4x8, 4xmile over and over and over. Why?

Green didn't make the 800m, final, why can't he run on the DMR? How much did the mile prelim really take out of Houser? Waskom did it last year, but not this year?

Sophomore Nick Plant of VT ran the 800m prelim and an hour later WON the 1200 leg of the DMR. Sahlman (sophomore) ran the mile prelim and 1600 leg of the DMR. They both ran well in their finals the next day.

Maybe because he was planning on running the 3k after too? I feel like this is more valid critiscm for Waskom who just ran the mile

I was thinking the same thing. I think the race just wasn't super interesting. The reigning mile champ went to the front, jogged for a while, and outkicked everyone after sitting on the rail the entire race. The entire field just let him have it. For Houser, it was a textbook run, and given the pedigree of the last few guys to win it, and the fact that he beat his teammate that was 2nd at USAs last year, I'd say things are looking great for him. He might be the #4 guy to make the team this year, behind the obvious Nuguse/Hocker/Kessler trio, as long as his outdoor season goes well.

What UW is doing right now is pretty nuts. Definitely worth reminding yourself to enjoy it while it lasts (not that it looks like it'll end particularly soon).

+1000

Last year Waskom ran the mile prelim and immediately days "put me on the DMR"

This year Houser crushed his prelim and says no someone else can run it.

There's no excuse for his 8:08 in the 3k, he had an hour to rest.

UW - 9th place in the DMR. Zero points.

You’re trending toward a metaphorical rat infested apartment in Queens with no window in it where the former blind tenant used to live for your initial experience after death. Effectively, purgatory.

McDowell’s will not be served down the street in this situation though…

Non XC?

and nothing above 1500?

I mean Green didn’t do so hot in the 800. Not sure he should be a hypothetical champion contender in the mile.

Have you ever heard a man by the name of Edward Cheserek?

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