Mike Brannigan Paralympics 1500m

Anyone know when the 1500m is. Mikey will most certainly better, by a lot, the 3:50.00 run at the Olympics. Shouldn't Centro give Mikey his Gold medal?

Go, Mikey! Looking forward to watching your race at these games.

Go Mikey!

When is the 1500? wrote:

Anyone know when the 1500m is. Mikey will most certainly better, by a lot, the 3:50.00 run at the Olympics. Shouldn't Centro give Mikey his Gold medal?

Come on LRC knowledge base. Mike Brannigan's 1500 race time should be somewhere on the main page but isn't. Any of you smarties know?

Sept. 13th.

Time?

M1500 (class 20)

Tuesday

13-September

10:58 local time

Really pulling for this kid. He runs because he loves it. The very act compels him. Go Mikey!

Pure track wrote:

He runs because he loves it.

Big whup, so does everyone else.

With all due respect to Mr. Brannigan, maybe he couldn't close out a 3:50 1500 in 50 point?

don't know don't care wrote:

Pure track wrote:

He runs because he loves it.

Big whup, so does everyone else.

You sound like you don't love much of anything with a comment like that. Just a miserable guy, huh?

tough to run a sub 3:40 without any pacers or close competition, right?

With about a 3:57-58 pr, Brannigan can definitely break 3:40 in a race with equal competition and pacers this year. Maybe next year, he'll get a chance to get close to the World standard.

Big Red wrote:

With all due respect to Mr. Brannigan, maybe he couldn't close out a 3:50 1500 in 50 point?

Ummm, you don't seem to realize Mike is U20. What is Centro's U20 PR? How fast could he close as a teen?

jjjjjj wrote:

tough to run a sub 3:40 without any pacers or close competition, right?

With about a 3:57-58 pr, Brannigan can definitely break 3:40 in a race with equal competition and pacers this year. Maybe next year, he'll get a chance to get close to the World standard.

I wouldn't put sub 3:40 without pacers out of the reach of a 3:57 miler, which Brannigan already is. He doesn't sit and kick.

I had the privilege of running with Mikey a few times a few years back and oddly enough I now have an autistic son. Mikey's races put a smile on my face, win or lose and I'm praying that he can knock one out of the park in the 1500! What an amazing kid and family!

don't know don't care wrote:

Pure track wrote:

He runs because he loves it.

Big whup, so does everyone else.

Not true at all. Some people run because they're good at it and feel like they have to. I bet that Mikey would still run even if he had been the worst runner on his high school team. The kid clearly has a passion that goes further than the average runner.

don't know don't care wrote:

Pure track wrote:

He runs because he loves it.

Big whup, so does everyone else.

Sarcasm I assume? Because virtually "EVERYONE" I see running (in my neighborhood, Planet Fitness, at my local track...) looks miserable. Whether they are fighting obesity, stress, cancer, yadda,yadda, yadda....they most certainly don't in any way look like they "love it". Mikey has been running for over 10 years now & even without all the success he's had, he would still be running regardless. He's 'one of us' - He loves it!

kmaclam wrote:

Mikey has been running for over 10 years now & even without all the success he's had, he would still be running regardless. He's 'one of us' - He loves it!

Exactly. +1

Explain to me how his condition warrants a para-Olympics entry. Glad the young man found running, but doesn't seem like he needs the PAs.