A.J.Acosta in the Pre Mile?

[G.Ahearn]

Any chance Tom Jordan will extend an invitation? My guess is the odds are pretty good.

[dl]

Tom's been very good in the past about bringing in top prep milers to PRE (Jennings, Stember, Webb, Magness), but it should be noted that AJ Acosta has to run in the San Diego Section meet (state qualifier) on the 27th, the day before PRE.

[Zat0pek]

Tom's been very good in the past about bringing in top prep milers to PRE (Jennings, Stember, Webb, Magness), but it should be noted that AJ Acosta has to run in the San Diego Section meet (state qualifier) on the 27th, the day before PRE.

Jennings, Stember, Webb and Magness were all flirting with 4:00. Not to speak for Tom, but I see no way Acosta gets an invite unless he's popped some 4:03 recently that I'm unaware of. He hasn't even broken 4:10.

[gh]

Acosta ran 3:45.73 (aka 4:03.79) in Eugene this weekend. (story currently available on front page)

[sb]

Yes, in fact a 3:45.73 in the 1500m at the Oregon Twilight.

By the way, there's an in depth interview with AJ in the TFN HS Runner section of this web site. :wink:

[Zat0pek]

Acosta ran 3:45.73 (aka 4:03.79) in Eugene this weekend. (story currently available on front page)

Well, there you go! I wasn't aware.

*Zat slinks off in shame, humilated he had committed the sin of not reading the front page and being unaware of such a stellar performance.*

[gh]

Allow me to throw in shameless plug at this point: our Headlines section is getting--we humbly think--to be a pretty good place to stay hip to a lot of things. You don't have to take the time to read all of the postings (there are a couple of dozen every day), but even just a scan of the headlines themselves is a pretty good way to graze across the top of the landscape.

[mike renfro]

Re dj's comment, yeah, Acosta has his section meet on Sat, 27 May. He will probably double, and the 32 will probably be late. A plane connection is probalby possible, but I'm not sure how much traffic San Diego-Eugene there is, so problimatic. Also, CA state is the next Fri/Sat, so in all, I doubt he will be there.

[EPelle]

Was Stember (4.09,00) the last CA prep to compete in the Pre Mile (96.05.26)? He ran 4.13,42 at Sac-Joaquin Section Champs on 96.05.23 - three days rest before Pre, and one week before CA State Meet qualifying/finals.

Acosta doesn:t need to win Sections, just qualify through to State final. However, a 1.600m and 3.200m, plus a plane flight can be taxing on what he may attempt to accomplish within 24 hours of each other. There was a story a couple years back about some high school girl attempting to compete at both indoor high school nationals on the same weekend and had some insane distance to travel between both. Don:t recall how she did, but this can be done.

[tandfman]

There was a story a couple years back about some high school girl attempting to compete at both indoor high school nationals on the same weekend and had some insane distance to travel between both. Don:t recall how she did, but this can be done.

Yes, it can be done. But the key word in what you said is "insane." Insane things can be done. But they're still insane.

Well, maybe insane is a strong word here, but it doesn't really make a lot of sense for a young runner to try a double like that and I suspect he's not going to do it.

[gh]

High school runners are rarely in charge of such decisions. Can't imagine his coach saying it was OK, and looking at the next step in the equation, I suspect that his college-coach-to-be, one Mr. Lannana would strongly discourage such a regimen. Not only for hard-racing reasons, but also so as not to set up a prize recruit with too much in the way of Hayward Field expectations. He's already had his small taste of glory there.

[bekeselassie]

Allow me to throw in shameless plug at this point: our Headlines section is getting--we humbly think--to be a pretty good place to stay hip to a lot of things. You don't have to take the time to read all of the postings (there are a couple of dozen every day), but even just a scan of the headlines themselves is a pretty good way to graze across the top of the landscape.

I'll grant ya that. That's exactly what I often do - just read the headlines and pretty much have a handle as to what's going on. Then I log in here to learn more from the very informed and intelligent posters.

Then I troll for inanity.

[tafnut]

That's exactly what I often do - just read the headlines and pretty much have a handle as to what's going on. Then I log in here to learn more from the very informed and intelligent posters.
Then I troll for inanity.

Wow - that's exactly what I do too!
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