Unofficial 2019 D3 XC Thread (Official)

3 mile race not 4 mile

Mr. Morgan wrote:

Well, looks like my son, Greg, is back to his winning ways. After meditating for 3 months on a mountain top after his 5000, he has established himself as one of the greatest runners of all time. And for that matter, Haverford is about to tempo their way to a 15 point performance at nationals, even without my darling Greg. Quite a 4 mile race, go Goats!

https://www.tfrrs.org/results/xc/15980/2019_Haverford_Alumnae_Alumni_Open_Race#107947

if only we can get your son behind the pacers at the ineos challenge to see what the kid could do in a marathon, i suspect 2:0x.xx

Greg Morgan will get 15th at nationals this year you heard it here first.

Thank you, next.

PlankandSimple wrote:

Greg Morgan will get 15th at nationals this year you heard it here first.

Thank you, next.

he graduated

ok colby wrote:

PlankandSimple wrote:

Greg Morgan will get 15th at nationals this year you heard it here first.

Thank you, next.

he graduated

r/whoosh

ok colby wrote:

PlankandSimple wrote:

Greg Morgan will get 15th at nationals this year you heard it here first.

Thank you, next.

he graduated

Exactly.

NCC looking meh?

Ehhh, don't know what you really expected after graduating all those seniors from last year. Carius somehow always seems to have guys pop up from nowhere. BUT let's get to the real action here and talk about Flotrack's individual rankings????? They seriously need to do more research.

#01 SR Josh Schraeder (UW-La Crosse)

#02 SR Ryan Cox (Williams)

#03 SR Nick Matteucci (Washington U.)

#04 SR Matt Osmulski (North Central)

#05 JR Lucas Mueller (Carleton)

FIRST OF ALL, L M F A O!!! Schraeder as #1???? HAA. This dude was literally the biggest choker on the planet last track season! Comes in ranked #2 in the 3k, #9 in the mile, #8 in the 5k, and a part of LAX's DMR which was ranked #1. WELL he didn't make it out of the 3k prelims which cost the team BIG time and then he didn't run the mile leg of the DMR which cost them even more points! Outdoors was a wash for him too. No chance he should be ranked first. He singlehandedly cost LAX and indoor team title.

SECOND OF ALL, Ryan Cox?????? Did this man even run track? GTFO!

The rankings should be 1)Matteucci 2)Mueller 3)Osmulski

Matteucci is the clear favorite here. The kid had a great XC season with massive improvement(10th!!). He followed that up with a great indoor campaign and then capped off the year with AA's in both the 1500m and 5k, a very tough double. You leave him in the race with 800 to go, GOOD LUCK!

Mueller has been getting hyped up after his 10k performance at nationals. Patel had a much faster time than any of those guys and should have put away the race much earlier, but IDK what goes on in his mind. But seriously, Mueller's PR in the 10k is 29:45 and he ran 30:14 at nationals. You shouldn't be surprised he closed fast! It was a slow race!! If he wants to win it, he'll need to make it fast from the gun.

Osmulski is interesting. He definitely had a good XC season and qualified for both indoors and outdoors, but really didn't do anything at either(just like majority of NCC's distance squad). If you'e ever watched him run he's a natural heel striker so that hurts him for style points too. He has a decent 10k PR, but if he wants any chance to win this thing he'll need to make the race fast and hope that people fall about with 2k to go.

aidan ryan is just a better nick matteucci

D3 is boring wrote:

FIRST OF ALL, L M F A O!!! Schraeder as #1???? HAA. This dude was literally the biggest choker on the planet last track season! Comes in ranked #2 in the 3k, #9 in the mile, #8 in the 5k, and a part of LAX's DMR which was ranked #1. WELL he didn't make it out of the 3k prelims which cost the team BIG time and then he didn't run the mile leg of the DMR which cost them even more points! Outdoors was a wash for him too. No chance he should be ranked first. He singlehandedly cost LAX and indoor team title.

That's because he was racing on an injury, dumb dumb. He didn't race again for 6 weeks afterwards.

I went to Berea's home invite and as a team they looked average but remember the name Tanner Carson. He ran 25:30 on an extremely hard course and definitely wasn't all out.

#1 NCC looking like they just came off their 6th straight 100mi week (they did). #2 Williams looking dominant over #17 Amherst on a short course. #7 Carnegie Mellon doing the same to #19 Case Western on a slightly longer short course. #5 Pomona-Pitzer getting taken down by #18 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on a clearly short "8K". #11 Calvin running very strongly in an actual 8,000 meter race! #11 Geneseo getting dusted by Division 4 Cornell (yikes). #20 Bates doing boring #20 Bates things in Maine. This has been your weekend top 20 update.

This all begs the question, who will be the first D3 team to actually run a full 10K to prepare for regionals/nationals?

I don’t know if you noticed but Berea was missing 2 of their top runners. The team ran a faster TT on this course this year than the team that finished 24th at Nats last year without 2 key runners, very solid showing today.

NCC Athelite wrote:

#1 NCC looking like they just came off their 6th straight 100mi week (they did). #2 Williams looking dominant over #17 Amherst on a short course. #7 Carnegie Mellon doing the same to #19 Case Western on a slightly longer short course. #5 Pomona-Pitzer getting taken down by #18 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on a clearly short "8K". #11 Calvin running very strongly in an actual 8,000 meter race! #11 Geneseo getting dusted by Division 4 Cornell (yikes). #20 Bates doing boring #20 Bates things in Maine. This has been your weekend top 20 update.

This all begs the question, who will be the first D3 team to actually run a full 10K to prepare for regionals/nationals?

Wow. CMU screwed Case up. CMU's C team would have 15-50ed Case's A team. Yikes.

But enough about them! Can we get some bread jokes, or vague innuendo about Stiles trying to convert people to Christianity in the team hotel weight room?

CMS xc did really well this morning

Course was the same as historically, no reason to believe it's short

Even if it is, they beat pomona and showed a very high fitness level

cms xc wow wrote:

CMS xc did really well this morning

Course was the same as historically, no reason to believe it's short

Even if it is, they beat pomona and showed a very high fitness level

Bro how are we supposed to believe that course is actually an 8k when teams that finish bottom of the barrel at nattys *cough CMS last year cough* average 25:30 in a season opener??

Anecdote is from last year :)

NCC Athelite wrote:

#1 NCC looking like they just came off their 6th straight 100mi week (they did). #2 Williams looking dominant over #17 Amherst on a short course. #7 Carnegie Mellon doing the same to #19 Case Western on a slightly longer short course. #5 Pomona-Pitzer getting taken down by #18 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on a clearly short "8K". #11 Calvin running very strongly in an actual 8,000 meter race! #11 Geneseo getting dusted by Division 4 Cornell (yikes). #20 Bates doing boring #20 Bates things in Maine. This has been your weekend top 20 update.

This all begs the question, who will be the first D3 team to actually run a full 10K to prepare for regionals/nationals?

PP is bad and they should feel bad.

dispenso wrote:

cms xc wow wrote:

CMS xc did really well this morning

Course was the same as historically, no reason to believe it's short

Even if it is, they beat pomona and showed a very high fitness level

Bro how are we supposed to believe that course is actually an 8k when teams that finish bottom of the barrel at nattys *cough CMS last year cough* average 25:30 in a season opener??

Anecdote is from last year :)

1.) Thomas D'Anieri, their #1, is back for them this year.

2.) The guys who did race last year got caught in the pileup.