Prefontaine Classic 2 Mile

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15 years ago 05/22/2008 1:57am EDT

2-MILE (MEN)

*Bernard Lagat

*Craig Mottram (Australia)

*Paul Koech (Kenya)

*Dathan Ritzenhein

*Chris Solinksy

*Adam Goucher

*Jonathan Riley

*Ed Moran

*Collis Birmingham (Australia)

Looks like this will be a good race, well, hopefully. I think it has to be with such great competitors in Lagat and Mottram. I'm almost more interested to see what Solinsky and Ritzenhein can do. Last year Ritzenhein ran 8:11 which I thought was pretty impressive for him, and I'm hoping Solinsky will be able to run under 8:10, but that's probably asking a lot. I think Tegenkamp's first year after leaving college he ran 8:16. It will also be interesting to see what Goucher will be able to run. Goucher is also entered in the Hengelo 5000m if I remember correctly. Hengelo and Prefontaine should definitely showcase some great opening times for the season as Bekele attempts to go for the 10000m wr and then is also entered in the Hengelo 5000m, which Tegenkamp is also entered in. Good times ahead.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 6:52am EDT

re: irun

Very surprised to see Ritz in there after he is just getting back into training. I can't imagine that he has done a lot of quality w/o's to be fit for what should be a fast 2 mile. It's going to be a good race to watch.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 6:54am EDT

re: irun

Why no Matt Teg in the race?

15 years ago 05/22/2008 6:57am EDT

re: irun

How can Goucher be running the Hengelo 5000m if he is running a 5000 the same weekend in Oregon?

15 years ago 05/22/2008 7:05am EDT

re: irun

I'm not quite sure the race will be all that fast. The rabbit will drop probably after 2k and then it will be up to Lagat, Mottram, and Koech to take over leadership duties. Unless one of them pushes hard that last 1200 the pace will lag. Being an Olympic year neither one of those guys wants to lose to the other even if they run 8:00. But if they slow the race and turn it into one long 500 kick then the losers can say they just haven't done enough speed work/it's still early/I'm peaking for the Olympics. Although I'm not sure Koech and Mottram would travel all this way in order to run 8:20. They might go after it and with Lagat sitting right behind them they know they need to haul ass in the middle part to maybe take away Lagat's kick. With that said I think the winner could dip under 8:10 but not by much. Realistically I think the winner will run 8:12 with a huge last lap like 53.xx. Hope I'm wrong though and we see a nasty two mile.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 9:11am EDT

re: Sully

In case you haven't read it, here's a quick story about the 2-mile (and the mile):

http://iaaf.org/GP08/news/kind=100/newsid=44983.html

15 years ago 05/22/2008 10:25am EDT

re: Track Fan

Tegenkamp is running in the mile.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 10:38am EDT

re: Sully

Sully wrote:
I'm not quite sure the race will be all that fast. The rabbit will drop probably after 2k and then it will be up to Lagat, Mottram, and Koech to take over leadership duties. Unless one of them pushes hard that last 1200 the pace will lag. Being an Olympic year neither one of those guys wants to lose to the other even if they run 8:00. But if they slow the race and turn it into one long 500 kick then the losers can say they just haven't done enough speed work/it's still early/I'm peaking for the Olympics. Although I'm not sure Koech and Mottram would travel all this way in order to run 8:20. They might go after it and with Lagat sitting right behind them they know they need to haul ass in the middle part to maybe take away Lagat's kick. With that said I think the winner could dip under 8:10 but not by much. Realistically I think the winner will run 8:12 with a huge last lap like 53.xx. Hope I'm wrong though and we see a nasty two mile.

Mottram ran 8:03 last year & Tegenkamp ran 8:07 & you think this race which will include Lagat will only be won around 8:10? Not to mention you have the #1 steepler in the world in the race also. I think they'll be very close to 8 flat. Lagat will at the very least take down the AR.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 11:01am EDT

re: Track Fan

Track Fan wrote:
How can Goucher be running the Hengelo 5000m if he is running a 5000 the same weekend in Oregon?

Because he is not. The 5000 in Oregon is a week later.

15 years ago 05/22/2008 11:05am EDT

re: Ol Grumpus

And he now appears to have dropped out of the Hengelo race--he is no longer in the start list.

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