2016 Texas Relays Discussion Thread - Who you got in men's 800 at 8 pm ET - Koech, Leo or Murphy?

The meet is on the Longhorn Network and Watch ESPN. The 800 is on live at 8 pm ET tonight. Streaming details here:

http://www.letsrun.com/news/2016/03/television-streaming-info-schedule-results-2016-nike-clyde-littlefield-texas-relays/

The men's 100 also is loaded with Ronnie Baker, Cameron Burrell, Ryan Bailey and Yoshihide Kiryuis at 3:55 pm ET on Saturday.

The USTFCCCA has a meet preview here:

http://www.ustfccca.org/2016/03/featured/meet-preview-texas-relays

The pole vault is loaded Barber, Payne and maybe Suhr as are the 4 x 400s.

RunBlogRun's preview talks about the sprint action here:

http://www.runblogrun.com/2016/03/barber-oliver-headline-texas-relays-from-eme-news.html

As far as distance goes the meet is not great. 800 has Leo and Murphy and Koech, 1500 is weak. I don't even know if there is a 5k or 10k.

Sprints will always be good

Here is the men's 800 field.

Position Athlete Year Affiliation

Section 1

1 Jake McConnell Unattached

2 Brian Bell FR Houston

3 Josh Hernandez Unattached

4 Jonah Koech FR UTEP

5 Leo Manzano Hoka One One

6 Clayton Murphy JR Akron

7 Luis Romero SR TAMU-Commerce

8 Brady Turnbull SR Texas

9 James Gilreath Team Green

5k's Thursday night (tonight), not Friday.

Brian Bell had an impressive run

Here are the 800 results. Clayton Murphy won by a lot as the sensational freshman year of the Steve Magness coached Brian Bell continued to get better as he ran 1:47.94. Didn't he only run like 151 in HS?

1500 Olympic silver medallist Leo Manzano, who has moved on from John Hayes as his coach, and gone back to Ryan Ponsoby struggled in his 2016 outdoor opener.

Section 1

Place Athlete Time

Section 1

1 Clayton Murphy 01:47.38

JR - Akron

2 Brian Bell 01:47.94

FR - Houston

3 Jonah Koech 01:48.32

FR - UTEP

4 Abraham Alvarado 01:48.65

JR - Stanislaus State

5 Leo Manzano 01:49.92

Hoka One One

6 Brady Turnbull 01:51.14

SR - Texas

7 Josh Hernandez 01:52.00

Unattached

DNF Jake McConnell

Unattached

Section 2

1 Duncan Phillips 01:49.72

Brooks

2 Michael Batson 01:50.81

JR - New Orleans

3 Robert Uhr 01:50.89

JR - Texas

4 Alex Rogers 01:50.90

FR - Texas

5 Adam Godwin 01:52.48

Team Green

6 Derrell Manhertz 01:56.86

JR - Texas

Pic of Leo and Murphy.

https://twitter.com/milesplit/status/715703147386175490

He anchored Dunbar's then National Record SMR in 1:49 and came back the next day to win the 800 at NBi. Kid is legit.

Leo is such a squirrel. How many coaches is that in the last 8 years? Yet somehow, he'll be in the hunt for an Olympic berth.

Something in the water in Ohio...Murphy, Kidder, Bell, Prakel...

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OH-IO wrote:

Something in the water in Ohio...Murphy, Kidder, Bell, Prakel...

Drew Windle, Tom Scott, Jared Fleming.. all guys who've ran sub 1:50 in the 800 and are within 3 years of each other?

11.5 million people live there. it's the 7th largest state in the country by population. not a big surprisehttp://www.ipl.org/div/stateknow/popchart.html

OH-IO wrote:

Something in the water in Ohio...Murphy, Kidder, Bell, Prakel...

The phrase "state-sponsored doping" comes to mind.

Women's 1500: Dana Mecke in 4:15.93 over Laura Roesler (4:18.17). UTEP's Jonah Koech wins the mile (4:00.82).

1500 results:

http://live.milesplit.com/2016/03-30-TexasRelays/Web/Track.php?EN=30&RN=1&D=4

mile:

http://live.milesplit.com/2016/03-30-TexasRelays/Web/Track.php?EN=33&RN=1&D=4