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Micah Ward · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 1:36 pm Post subject:

Can't argue with anything on the 400.

For the 800 did Teeter do enough early to put her in 1st? Mutola?

No particular guy comes to mind.

BTW Dan, I like all that wood and book shelves.
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Dan · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 2:58 pm Post subject:

Conway · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:16 pm Post subject:

Yeah ... The 800 sounds good ... I think I might be inclined to go for Kimuthai for that 3rd spot for the men ...

And trinkets can be a good thing ... Personally I have a collection of porcelain clowns ... Started after Ben beat Carl in Rome !!! Gave me such a grin I decided to keep it around permanent !!! Wink

So started collecting the clowns !!!!

So I think the distance folk should start the conversation about the distance events ... Thumbs Up

Conway

Dan · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:24 pm Post subject:

Are you saying one of them (Ben or Carl) is a clown, or that you found a porcelain clown of one of them? :question: My mortgage agent has a huge Pez dispenser collection on his office mantle...

DG, coachd, Micah, Paul, ellen, Hammer, et al, you're up! Smile

Dan

Conway · Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 9:35 pm Post subject:

Micah Ward · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 3:16 am Post subject:

I've been pretty busy lately so the only "research" I've done is to look at the Fantasy League standings.

The men's 1500 is a no brainer:

1. El G
2. El G
3. El G
Honorable Mention and thanks for participating, Bernard Lagat

Women's 1500 and 3000:

No one really stood out in my mind. Turova led the standings in the 1500 and Andere in the 3000. But no one really stood out and some of the usual names had off years. Sekely was the biggest dissapointment and Szabo had some good races but nothing dominating.

Correct me if I am wrong guys.
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Justin · Varsity Joined: 08 Oct 2001 Posts: 312 Location: London

Sureyya Ayhan was the dominant 1500m runner of the year, despite her sparse schedule. Front-running wins in the EC (from Szabo), Berlin (from Hamilton), Brussels (from Turova) and the World Cup gave her 3 of the 4 fastest times of the year and a 100% record.

At 3000m Szabo ran a European record in the best race of the year (in Monaco) and was just pipped by Adere by 0.01 in the second best (in Brussels). Adere was 4th in Monaco but won in Zurich and at the World Cup; Szabo in the European Cup and St Denis (Adere 2nd). Hard to call but I'd probably give it to Szabo.

Justin

Conway · Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2002 5:39 am Post subject:

Yeah ... I'd have to go with Ayhan and Szabo in hte 1500 and 3000 respectively ... Best of the lot ...

Lagat would lbe runner up in the men's 1500 .. Not sure if there was enough action on the men's side in the 3000 ... Will have ot wait to discuss the steeple ...

Conway

Distance_Guru · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 3:06 pm Post subject:

Shame on me, I hardly paid any attention to the distance races this year Embarassed

. I was focusing on watching Krummenacker in the 800 and El G in the mile. But that 10,000 in Brussels was really something. Unfortunatly the 10k was really only ran once all year so I can only rank them by the results of that race, even though there were several runners that were so close had they run the race again the results could have flip floped a good bit.

10k
1) Sammy Kipketer
2) Assefa Mezgebu
3) Richard Limo
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Micah Ward · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject:

We can probably go ahead and rank marathoners even though we still have New York to go. It is hard to imagine anyone topping KK or Radcliffe.

Catherine Ndereba would be a good second choice for the women and I want to wait and see what Marla Runyan does at NY before picking a third.

For the guys Gebraseliese (sp) and Tergat.
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Dan · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:37 pm Post subject:

I would think Tergat ahead of Geb. Didn't Tergat beat him in London? That and the additional Chicago race gives him a better looking year.

Dan

Micah Ward · Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject:

I was going off the top of my head on Geb and Tergat. You are probably right Dan.
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Distance_Guru · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 6:32 am Post subject:

Well Track and Field's governing body anounced their athletes of the year. And to the surprise of nobody around here Paula Radcliffe and El G won.

Go distance runners! Wink

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Conway · Posted: Mon Nov 18, 2002 11:44 am Post subject:

That's becasue we have a rather elite group here !!!! I was rather shocked however that Montgomery was an overwelming second and had much for the top spot ... This off of one race basically ...
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Dan · Posted: Fri Nov 22, 2002 9:43 am Post subject:

The "Greatness" portion of this topic has been split off to a new thread, per Micah and Conway's request:

http://run-down.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1014

Dan

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