Let's see. In HS, he ran 4:00 1600 and 8:34 3200 2.5 hours apart. So considering his much better condition and competition, I say:
3:25 1500 and 12:33 5k
Ok, that's a joke. How about (for real)-
3:38 & 13:35 ? Yeah, I'll go with that. That would be a sweet double for a frosh.
oh yeah, here's your link you bastards! (since you probably think I made the whole thing up)
http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-track/spec-rel/051309aac.html
3:42 and 13:54
oh yeah, maybe we should predict places too.
I say he wins 'em both.
1500: 3:38 1st
5000: 13:35 1st
Don't forget that Lubbock is considered to be at altitude.
Mr. M. Johnson wrote:
Don't forget that Lubbock is considered to be at altitude.
You're right. Dammit Muenster, do your research! And it will probably he hot as hell too, huh? Ok, I got caught up in Germanmania. I will dial back my predictions a tad.
3:39
13:41
3:43 and 13:50
As long as he takes his shirt off after the race, it doesn't matter what he runs :)
From what his coach said he's running just the 1500 at NCAA, unless he's changed his mind. So I think he'll run the 1500 hard, 3:38 or better, and just whatever it takes to win the 5000, probably 13:42-50.
fangirl wrote:
As long as he takes his shirt off after the race, it doesn't matter what he runs :)
[fanning face] Oh My!!! YES!
Question about that link...it's "men's track" but it only talks about distance... does OK State have a distance-only squad or something? I always used to to say my old team oughta just cut everything below 800 and just have a distance track team too....
i predict he does the double again and gets sick again.
then he runs the 1500 at ncaa's because he still doesn't have the strength to run 5k.
leave that for the big kids like chelenga, rupp, mead and derrick.
3:41 FTW
14:03 FTW (55.2 last 400)
What is Dave thinking? How did it go after German did the mile/3k double at indoor conference? Stress reaction. So, now he should do another double at outdoor conferences, at 1500 and 5 no less?
Concerned Father wrote:
What is Dave thinking? How did it go after German did the mile/3k double at indoor conference? Stress reaction. So, now he should do another double at outdoor conferences, at 1500 and 5 no less?
true, but remember German's double at Ca HS state track? 4:00/8:34 ring a bell?? German is all about the double. In fact, if he pulls this off, his new nickname will be German "Double Trouble" Fernandez. (actually, now that I think of it, if he gets hurt again, we can call that too. So either way, it works)
Does he have to do this for points? I mean, is OSU in the running for the Big 12 title? Not being a smarty-pants, I seriously don't know -- but I figure it would be the only reason German would double.
Huge mistake on coach Smith's part. German will then get beat in his only race by Matt Centrowitz and Andrew Wheating (both of whom will double by the way). Smith is a wuss, giving up team points and not letting German find out what it is like to race the big boys in a double.
Big 12.
Concerned Father wrote:
What is Dave thinking? How did it go after German did the mile/3k double at indoor conference? Stress reaction. So, now he should do another double at outdoor conferences, at 1500 and 5 no less?
do you really think that that one double on that one day during a 3 month season is what caused the stress reaction (not the word "stress"...meaning caused through overuse over a period of time)
Lake Thomas wrote:
Huge mistake on coach Smith's part. German will then get beat in his only race by Matt Centrowitz and Andrew Wheating (both of whom will double by the way). Smith is a wuss, giving up team points and not letting German find out what it is like to race the big boys in a double.
are you being serious?