Drew Hunter does it! Takes down O'Hare + Willis + a 3:33 guy to get biggest win of career at adidas Boost

We have no wind info on this meet. Anybody aware of the situation? When a kickers race goes to a 55 last 400, my radar goes up for conditions.

Rojo,

Or look at where it is in the season. Kerr’s race was run when his coaches wanted him at peak form or at least close to it. This is Drews third meet back after a huge layoff from an injury. It’s obvious he, his coach, and his family have a long term view for his career/training, which makes this an even more exciting result.

Go Drew!

I have loved your incredibly consistent progression since freshman year of high school. I cant wait to see where it leads!

Kid just plain loves to compete which is really what matters

Exactly as rojo points out. But kudo's to Hunter for not being intimidated by big names and winning a winnable race but what rojo says is 100% spot-on.

rojo wrote:

NO. That's not how it works.

Look at their splits and how they ran tonight...

I really shouldn't have to say this to someone with an Ivy League degree and Ivy League coaching experience, but "how they ran" is typically considered an important aspect of this thing called "racing."

Is he still driving a Lambrogini to practice?

Wow is this thread stupid, ig Kilchoge’s London win shouldn’t count since Bekele was off his game now?

Hunter continues to improve: form, strength, speed, tactics and confidence. Nice to see and props to him and his coach.

Igy

3:52-3:54 next week to win the international mile at Pre. Easy.

You think he is peaking? You think 55.26 is the fastest he can go? He still has a month until USAs and I'm sure tinman has him building on that.

The kid had a broken foot all winter let's not forget.... so enough with the Willis and O'Hare being off there game talk.

Hunter is the only kid that would have the strength to close with Kerr starting from.. lets say 600m out or a fast race from the gun.

We will find out how fit he is with a fast pace at PRE next week but he trains with a kid that just ran 13:34 at Oxy so I'd think he could run 13:25 in the right race.

Hunter has run the 5km so his debut is over.

He did so last year and ran in the 13:50’s at Payton.

This year I am sure he will run faster.

I don’t understand the problem with being excited for Hunter’s potential at 5000m.

He won footlocker, set the course record at FL South, ran 8:42 for 2miles as a JR, broke the indoor 3000m HS record...

Both he and his coach have noted that his future is at 5000m, and that will be his best event.

He has great speed at 1500m, and will only get better. Nobody is saying it’s a done deal; it’s just that the tools are there for him if he continues to stay healthy and make steady improvements - which he has done for 3-4 years now.

it feels like just cause DH has run fast for the mile that people assume he is a pure miler. Ryan Hall was a miler when he was younger... until he wasn't anymore. Rupp and Farah have run fast for the 1500/mile, but they aren't milers.

I personally don't think Drew has the explosiveness necessary to ever be a global force at 1500. I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like the 1500 will ever be his best event.

ShipYard wrote:

Rojo, you don’t get to play both sides! You can’t start a thread hyping Hunter and then spend all your posts denigrating his performance.

The Brojos do this ALL of the time.

For all he looks like while running, Hunter has outkicked some awfully good runners, not only here but Fisher and Knight in high school as well. Now he is at altitude and will have a lot more in the tank at the end of races. I would not be surprised to see him running 3:33 this year, and maybe something like 7:39/13:14.

Moby wrote:

He won footlocker, set the course record at FL South, ran 8:42 for 2miles as a JR, broke the indoor 3000m HS record...

Both he and his coach have noted that his future is at 5000m, and that will be his best event.

Hunter's been out of high school for a couple of years already, and his fastest 5000 is only 13:50.

By the way that's much faster than he ran in high school, so his 5000m potential doesn't seem very high.

Of course you like Kerr over Hunter, but do you like Hunter over Cheserek?

Andy Bayer sure looked rough in that mile. Wish he'd have stayed with BTC. Hopefully just a rustbuster.

FS1 wrote:

Hunter has run the 5km so his debut is over.

He did so last year and ran in the 13:50’s at Payton.

This year I am sure he will run faster.

He ran 13:49 at Payton that was only won in 13:47, and he won’t be running any 5ks this year.

milerman wrote:

it feels like just cause DH has run fast for the mile that people assume he is a pure miler. Ryan Hall was a miler when he was younger... until he wasn't anymore. Rupp and Farah have run fast for the 1500/mile, but they aren't milers.

Ryan Hall was never a miler. He was just deluded and lost for years at Stanford. Never broke 4:00 for god's sake (and it would have been).

I personally don't think Drew has the explosiveness necessary to ever be a global force at 1500. I could be wrong, but it doesn't look like the 1500 will ever be his best event.

Same could be said of Nick Willis, arguably the best clean miler of this era. Hunter is very much in the Willis mold.