Drew Hunter 7:39 solo 3k in Kansas

In good enough to be dead last at Millrose.

Solid result. Ultimately this 2-mile might be his best ever chance to hit a fast 3K-5K

3K/Two Mile is probably his best distance in a time trial setting, I could see him getting close to 8:05 at Milrose

I'd rather be the Hunter than the hunted.

Bro c'mon 7:39 is fast, even if people are running faster. It's mid-January & there wasn't competition. Quit hating

Agreed 7:39 isn't notable these days, but per his Strava it sounds like he was pretty pleased with it (mentioned it was solo and didn't drop mileage for it).

Also looks like he did a post race workout too.

The top BU times would be like 739 if they ran elsewhere.

And it goes without saying, “…and he’s still young.” LOL

This the last year of his contract?

2 seconds off the AR, that fast?! Not necessarily disagreeing with you but that sounds a bit bold for someone who just broke 7:40.

I know he’s older than most of the top D1 guys - but over/under on this mark being faster than the 10th fastest performance in D1 this season?

I’m guessing the AR in that race drops between 3 and 7 seconds in fairness. I expect he’d be middle/back of the Milrose pack

Stop. He beat his 2019 PB by .08 seconds after 7 years and the addition of super shoes. I am not going to pretend that's good progress.

For the record, Cooper Teare has a PR of 7:30.

I'm sure he can run faster by the end of the indoor season, but he's irrelevant if he can't break 7:30.

Further, Nico and Blanks likely split very close to that or even faster in their 5k PRs.

30.6 per 200 is 7:39, which is also 12:45. That's Nico's PR and Blanks is at 12:48.

So congrats Drew, you can keep up with those guys for 60% of their 5k PR!

He is USATF champion over 2 miles! Everyone forgets about that one.

I wish so badly that he ran in the NCAA. He would not get nearly the hate and would have developed better there. Not to mention he would have won some hardware. It’s like if Tuohy went straight to the pros.

Mid pack would be an accomplishment.

Beamish: 8:05 2 mile
Graham: 7:29i
Fisher: 7:22i
Hocker: 7:23i
Hunter: 3:33
Kerr: 8:00i 2 mile
Kurgat: 7:28
Ky Robinson: 7:30i
Strand: 7:30i
Wightman: 3:29 / 7:37i
Wolfe: 7:30i

7:39 is ~8s slower than everyone else’s PR except Wightman. And Wightman’s PR is 3-4 years old.

Its a world class time! However over 7 years it's a not actually very impressive.
Hunter is well known athlete who doing also double threshold. It build fast
fitness to handle hard training. But I think he is doing very few hard v02 max training.
Those vo2 max training makes the athlete actually faster for middle distance races,
mainly to learn the body to adapt on those hard paces, to adapt on the specific hard rythmn. Jakob is also known for double threshold but his time are much faster, Because he said that he is doing in his race reason every two days a very hard v02 training, he is capable of this because during winter he build a huge fitness so that his body can afford multiple hard training per week. So I imagined that Hunter and his team mainly focus on building fitness but do not maximise the hard vo2 max training, sorry for my english, I am not native english speaker

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Your English is better than many of the chuckleheads that post here and that are natives of the States.