NCAA Men's 1500m - Who wins?

Lomong is rediculous. I watched him run away from Max Smith at the Stanford Invite, and I just watched him run away from Brown at Regionals when Brown went all out to get next to Lomong with 80m to go. I really can't see anyone beating Lomong, except for maye Monzano. This race can go out slow, fast, or whatever...they all work to the advantage of Lopez.

26mi235 wrote:

Lomong finished in 38.9; who else can run that fast for a flat 300m. I thought that Manzano was fast but he better hope that someone else tries desparately to burn Lomong out or else he and everyone else is in a race for second. 38.9 is 51.96 pace, and apparently he was moving pretty hard from 500m out, so it was not quite a 300-only party. I would put Lancashire's chances of moving from #5 at Regionals to #1 at NCAA at well below 1%, but that might be an overestimate.

Agreed.

I was at the Regionals and Lomong is absolutely amazing!

At one point, he was boxed in pretty good but was able to jump out of the "box" pretty aggressively and free himself up. Love watching this guy race! Props to Russell Brown too though. He drag-raced Lomong with 150m to go. Brown has been consistently strong ALL season long.

sorry but people who look invincible indoors seldom prevail outdoors. Sure Lomong is good, but the outdoor boys will come to play.

Still no John Richardson talk? He has a pb of 3:43 low and ran 3:44 to win his region closing in 1:53.4 for his last 800, so I'd have to imagine he is 3:40-41 fit... the guy can kick with about anyone, as he did run the wheels off everyone's co-co-co-favorite Rono in the last 400 to win... Lets go JR...

1. Lomong 3:37.33

2. Manzano 3:37.55

3. Richardson 3:37.59

4. Brown 3:37.88

5. Pifer 3:39.01

6. Smith 3:40.11

7. Rono 3:41.69

8. Miller 3:41.88

9. Kerrigan 3:42.67

10. Woods 3:44.36

11. Torrence 3:45.12

12. Beninger 3:45.99

Smith takes it out in 57, and pifer takes over just before the 700 meter mark and leads through 800 in 1:56. Pifer continues to lead until just after the 1200 passing through in 2:55. THe top 4 are the only ones who can stay on the hot pace and the rest come on hurting. Its a dog fight the last 100 meters but Lomong is the strongest and Manzano holds off a hard closing Richardson. This race will be just like 2005 only faster up front.

THat's awesome...how did you get the times to the hundredth of a second?

a 900 number. best psychic in the yellow pages.

if you think that many are going, your a little nuts. lomong takes it in 340, 53 second last lap

gotta go with miller. (that's craig, not his twin brother brad, who also runs a good 1500, but for a different school)

if i'm wrong, well, everyone knew that already. if i'm right, then i win all the marbles!

right, mark?

It snows and Ben True 4th and ncaa xc ski nationals and 2nd in the east glides to victory

lomong

lomong eats small children for breakfast. if you have ever raced him you know this and you also know that he will win ncaa's.

favourites in order:

Mazano

Lomong

Smith

Rono

its a long season wrote:

Will Leer.

thats what she said?

Manzano, Russell Brown, Philip Reid (surprise for 3rd place)

Are you serious? Reid in 3rd? You must not have watched the West Regional.

Absolutely, I agree, father of the 3 c's (just so you'd know it's me) Miller has never had a bad final - he will surprise and go top 6. Not likely to win, but nothing he ever does is a surprise (as you well know !) He's so mentally tough and I suspect he is about to surprise a lot of people.

SPAM !

pf

im calling ulrey for the upset.

Dyenimator wrote:

Switzer

Anyone know what the protest was that got him to the Finals at regionals?