28:38? Please kid, 28:38 guys are a dime a dozen in D1, your baby nationals bias is showing. Who cares that that time would place him top 5 most years in the standings for D1, and top 10 every single year. D1 runners--REAL runners--don't run that fast because we're too busy WINNING and COMPETING or something...
...in all seriousness, I expect Ian LaMere will be running NCAA XC nationals for D1 next fall. There's nothing more for him in D3.
I agree he has nothing left to prove in D3 but not so sure that he will transfer to a D1 school when he has just a year of eligibility left, close friends at Platteville and a coach who can get him to the 2020 Olympic marathon trials. He'd fit in well at Wisco though. Time will tell. Bottom line for the purposes of this thread is that he has proven he could definitely compete well at the D1 level. AA at the very least.
If he is graduating from Platteville, he wouldn't lose much by going somewhere for a year or two of graduate school while he uses his last year at a D1 school. He would have the advantage of actually having training partners, whereas he is sort of on his own at Platteville. Of course, that would also mean switching away from a coach who clearly has the right idea with Ian right now.
He has been on a school/work co-op in Madison (thus training mostly solo) so I'm not sure if he's graduating this spring or not but you're right about grad school. He definitely should have a few options to consider. I believe the target is the 2020 Olympic marathon trials.
Arnie Shraeder the DIII Champ took 11th in DI cross country in '86
He ran for UW Stevens Point
thinkerer wrote:
If he is graduating from Platteville, he wouldn't lose much by going somewhere for a year or two of graduate school while he uses his last year at a D1 school. He would have the advantage of actually having training partners, whereas he is sort of on his own at Platteville. Of course, that would also mean switching away from a coach who clearly has the right idea with Ian right now.
Having training partners is not necessarily an advantage.
Back in the day Dan Henderson and Dale Kramer placed top 5 or 6 at the Drake 5000, running low 13:50s against good fields. Nick Rose, Placencia, et al.
Lamere ran a 28:38 10k last year, national dIII xc champ by a large margin, and 11th at nationals in th 10k! I would rank him in the top 3 best DIII distance runners for sure.
Why 14 months later?
Just need to know wrote:
Why 14 months later?
did you not look at the results for USAs lol
anyone wrote:
His track times are pretty unimpressive for D1:
https://xc.tfrrs.org/athletes/4118771.htmlHis 29:45 is an outlier, actually. He's got a lot of mediocre 5Ks in there. And, two other 10Ks around 31.
A 14:30s 5K guy isn't typically a D1 XC AA. Most of those guys are sub 14:00.
Again, maybe he's better at XC and could have been an AA. Who knows. I would NOT bet large sums of $ on him, that's for sure.
I think it is you that's giving him too much credit. I'm calling it like I see it.
OK, I'm eating my hat now. He ran well after this post and very well at USA's this weekend. Good for him!
Anyone know for sure what Ian is doing next? I so very much agree with an earlier post that he should make his long term focus the marathon. He eats pain and lactic like none other. And for a guy who would appear to have no foot speed, he really came on the last year to prove that this was not entirely true.