CENTRO IS DONE

Who are these people throwing juvenile insults at a guy who has won two outdoor World Championships medals and is a World Indoor champion? What kind of jejune cretins are you? How proud of your behavior you must be.

God damn you people are terrible

From being at the meet I can say he was definitely just doing a workout. He just went to the back of the back and barely kicked at all. He did not look at all like he was racing. He's not done.

Without that 800 in his legs he probably runs 3:37-3:38... that is a just fine opener for someone coming off an injury. In 3 weeks he will probably be in 3:33 shape again, I fully expect him to win the trials (unless Clayton Murphy is just the Truth)

The morons are out again.

by LetsRun.com wrote:

June 11, 2016

PORTLAND, Ore. — Clayton Murphy made the biggest news at the Portland Track Festival winning the 1500 in 3:26.23, missing the Olympic standard by .03, and announcing he had turned professional

The should let him into the trials, and he should win them easily.

Centro will easily make the team, and then have two months to prepare for Rio. Doesn't matter if he's slightly out of shape, our 1500 pool is looking weak right now. Sure, Murphy looks like a stud, but he's only running 3:36. You guys don't think the World Indoor Champion can run 3:36 at 90 % shape?

Correct me if I'm wrong but Murphy has the standard for trials, but still needs to run the sub 3:26.2 in order to go to Rio if he's top 3 at trials...

dumbanddummer wrote:

The morons are out again.

First, it is "morans."

Second, perhaps it is these reduction clauses that has pros too scared to race. That races are now "workouts" three weeks before the trials.

Just f-ing race.

Murphy does not have the standard yet, and even still, it's tricky to put your eggs in the 1500 basket with his times.

At 21, Centro ran 51.x to finish off his 3:36.

Murphy has finished two 3:36s in 55/56. Great stuff but he'd probably need to be finishing those at 53.5-54.0 to beat / compete with Andrews, +whoever is 3rd.

That's what happens when you eat all that candy and other junk food.

Who ever said look for gold is an idiot. Asbel Kiprop!!!

YungFartlek wrote:

Correct me if I'm wrong but Murphy has the standard for trials, but still needs to run the sub 3:26.2 in order to go to Rio if he's top 3 at trials...

That explains it then.

#fs wrote:

From being at the meet I can say he was definitely just doing a workout. He just went to the back of the back and barely kicked at all. He did not look at all like he was racing. He's not done.

Matt Centrowitz has also done workouts at 7,000 ft. altitude in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Sometimes he does workouts in Flagstaff, Az. with Mo Farah (a runner from Britain). Yea. Matt Centrowitz and Mo Farah are pretty fast.

That is just a coincidence.

Go Matt Centrowitz!!!

NIce workout, this double.

Good way to put pace and speed back in legs after a rest.

This guy may be on the podium in Rio yet. The rest period will likely help.

I don't count this talented competitor out at all.

Wejo/Rojo, this is another example of why you should make this forum subscription-only. This guy/girl might be the same one who said that Bolt was done in 2015, or that Cheserek was done this outdoor season, or that the same Centrowitz was not going to do squat at World Indoors.

So, when Centrowitz makes it to the Olympics in weeks' time, he/she can be revealed as the ultimate troll/a$$hole in all of Letsrun.com.

Am I the only one who still thinks of Murphy as primarily an 800-meter guy?

Injuries can be a blessing in disguise.

As someone who has experience coming back from a stress fracture, you'd be surprised at how quickly things can come together in three weeks.

His competitors have nowhere else to go, They are the ones who'll be looking over their shoulders.

I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be the hunter than the hunted.

This kind of thread title is one of the two major things wrong with this site, that and the racism rife on the boards. Centro ran a very good double after injury and he actually has not run that many 800s under 1:47. He's actually starting to look very good for the Trials. I wouldn't worry at all, which is about the opposite of the absurd claim "Centro is done," about as bad as the claim that Brazier was done.

Also, how about this performance from Matthew Maton after not qualifying for NCAA finals?

7 Maton, Matthew Unattached 3:38.62

That is a 1.3 second drop and a 4 second drop from last year. He just turned twenty in March, though, so it is not a junior time, but I would guess that it ranks pretty well on the all-time US list for 20 and under (Jager was #1 for the 5000m list with his 13:20, I think). Does anyone have a link to a deep list for Americans by age?

I couldn't find that list but the un-updated track and field news list of American juniors may not be hugely different.

It lists Ryun at 3:36.1, then Byers at 3:37.5/3:37.9, Webb at 3:38.26 and 3:38.50, German at 3:39.00, then Ryun at 3:39.3, Byers at 3:39.8, and Trautmann at 3:40.49. Jennings, Earl Jones(! the 1:43 collegian), Haney, Mudd, and Andrews (3:41.09) round it out.

Maton would have had to run this time last year to make the list (so, he was about 1.5 seconds off), but if he were 19 all this year, he'd slot in now with the sixth best performance and fourth fastest person. For 20 and under, he might still be top ten. For someone who was supposed to be fully developed in graduating hs at 19, he has improved nicely. 2.5 more seconds and he'll have an Olympic or World qualifier--I'd expect that next year.