music is happiness wrote:
jkjoregon wrote:Bowerman mile:
Asbel Kiprop (Kenya)
Youssef Kamel (Bahrain)
Haron Keitany (Kenya)
Bernard Lagat
Mohammed Moustaoui (Morocco)
Nicholas Kemboi (Kenya)
Leonel Manzano
Amine Laalou (Morocco)
Daniel Komen (Kenya)
Gebremedhin Mekonnen (Ethiopia)
Lopez Lomong
Andrew Wheating
Lachlan Renshaw (Australia)--pace
Gideon Gathimba (Kenya)--pace
Will he win or get his butt kicked?
This going to be epic!
Don't really see him beating any of these guys unless they really struggle. He belongs in the other mile where he was listed before. But maybe he'll have a breakthrough!
The thing is, guys like Wheating run to the level of the competition. Obviously he has a limit and we don't know what that is yet, but is safe to say it's a good deal faster than 3:37 for 1500.
About the time Leo was redlining for 3:36 to narrowly win over Brown (who lost to Wheatings training partner over a mile weeks earlier) Wheating was cruising in at Regionals in 3:37.
Thats right, Leo is in a flat out race with a great field and redlines to 3:36, while that same week Wheating is shutting it down to wrap up his weekend of 4 races in 3 days with the only objective to stretch it out a bit and secure spots in 2 events at NCAA's and he runs 3:37.
Leo then goes up against a stacked field with rabbits a couple weeks later and runs 3:33 in NY. The point here is that guys like Leo, Wheating, Lagat etc. won't run 3:33 in a race that requires 3:36 to win but when you put them in a race that goes 3:33 or faster they will show you their true fitness level.
There are plenty of indicators that Wheating can roll 1500.
The only thing that may be against him now is his double at NCAA's and the double at regionals to get there. But considering the talent in the B heat, I don't think they'd bid to put him in the A heat if he hasn't had some pretty good workouts since NCAAs.
This was Wheatings 2nd race of the season:
http://www.runnerspace.com/video.php?do=view&video_id=253931 Wheating, Andrew 12 Oregon 3:37.83a
2 Leer, Will OTC Elite 3:38.68a
3 Emanuel, Lee New Mexico 3:38.79a
4 Acosta, A.J. 11 Oregon 3:39.44a
5 Mickowski, John US Military Acad 3:39.90a
6 Pifer, Stephen OTC Elite 3:40.63a
7 Smith, Christian 12 OTC Elite 3:42.64a
8 Dobson, Ian OTC Elite 3:43.39a
9 Mays, Jermaine Great Britain 3:43.57a
10 True, Ben OTC Elite 3:43.61a 1
11 Miller, Kyle TeamROGUE El 3:45.54a 1
Leer and Emanuel are both 3:37 guys, Pifer 3:38.0.
I think this is a very Leoesque type performance. 3 of these guys made the US champs final for 1500 and only Leer was able to test Wheating at all here, but it wasn't much of a test.
Men 1500 Meter Run Senior/Open
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World: W 3:26.00 7/7/1998 Hicham El Guerrouj, MAR
American: A 3:29.30 8/28/2005 Bernard Lagat, Nike
Name Year Team Finals
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Finals
1 Lopez Lomong Nike 3:50.83
2 Leonel Manzano Nike 3:50.91
3 Will Leer Oregon TC-Nike 3:51.63
4 David Torrence Nike 3:51.80
5 Matthew Centrowitz Oregon 3:51.81
6 Russell Brown Oregon TC Elite 3:52.20
7 John Bolas Wisconsin-Madison 3:52.40
8 Matt Tegenkamp Oregon TC-Nike 3:52.54
9 Ryan Hill NC State 3:52.73
10 Garrett Heath Saucony 3:52.80
11 John Mickowski US Army 3:52.89
12 Stephen Pifer Oregon TC-Nike 3:53.07
It's a shame there is no video of Regionals because Wheating made that 3:37 look like a 3:43.