Come on Will, Craig, Miles, Andy, John, Jordan! Be men, take it out hard to try to get the A standard. When you die and end of making fools of yourselves, what do we care?
Signed, A Standard #'s 1 and 2
It is KNOWN that the non-A 6 don't have a chance in hell to run 3:35.50 in this race. None, zero, zip, nada. No need to make a fool of yourself by taking it out hard and dying. None at all. Let's take this race through 800 in 2:05, hopefully 2:10 or slower, or if it's even way slower, all the better! Just get the frick out of the way over the last 400.
Signed, A Standard #'s 3 and 4
Whatever, we'll qualify no matter the pace.
Signed, A Standard #'s 5 and 6
So what's the ordering of A Standard #'s 1-6? I've got Centro as a 1 or 2, Andrews as a 3 or 4 and Wheating as a 5 or 6.
Obviously, all six guys think they're a 5 or 6. All we know for sure is that three will end up happy and three will end up very unhappy, with laments about how the pace didn't go out how they wanted or expected.
Whatever, I can't remember a Men's 1500 final with so many sub-plots, including the potential for A's getting pissed with non-A's for getting in the way, guys getting boxed, guys going down. It could be won in 3:37, it could be won in 3:47.
Meanwhile, every day care in America should DVR the Women's 1500 final to be able to show it, in perpetuity, to the 3 and 4 year olds to try to get them to go to sleep.