Lukas/BAA Mile

[knife]

http://www.flotrack.org/article/5935...-tap-in-Boston

[Leftfielder]

I don't see a great upside in this one for LV. It is on a very slow street 3-lap to the mile course and he can't accept any prize money if he wins or places. The experience he gets is not directly transferable to running on a track. It would be different if it was a straight line course and he could break 4 again and get the track sub-4 hype going, but it was won in 4:09 high and 4:11 the last two years.

But on the other hand it is a free trip and he gets to see the Boston Marathon.

http://www.baa.org/~/media/Files/BAA...urse%20Map.pdf

[Donkeykongrunner]

Originally Posted by Leftfielder

I don't see a great upside in this one for LV. It is on a very slow street 3-lap to the mile course and he can't accept any prize money if he wins or places. The experience he gets is not directly transferable to running on a track. It would be different if it was a straight line course and he could break 4 again and get the track sub-4 hype going, but it was won in 4:09 high and 4:11 the last two years.

But on the other hand it is a free trip and he gets to see the Boston Marathon.

http://www.baa.org/~/media/Files/BAA...urse%20Map.pdf

Competition is the upside.

[Leftfielder]

Originally Posted by Donkeykongrunner

Competition is the upside.

It is, but the Drake Mile would in my opinion be a better option just a week later. Probably the 5K at Drake or Penn would be his best current opportunity given his 8K fitness. Ritz ran the 5K at Penn his senior year.

[TrackCoach]

Originally Posted by Leftfielder

I don't see a great upside in this one for LV. It is on a very slow street 3-lap to the mile course and he can't accept any prize money if he wins or places. The experience he gets is not directly transferable to running on a track. It would be different if it was a straight line course and he could break 4 again and get the track sub-4 hype going, but it was won in 4:09 high and 4:11 the last two years.

But on the other hand it is a free trip and he gets to see the Boston Marathon.

http://www.baa.org/~/media/Files/BAA...urse%20Map.pdf

Good competition

[Leftfielder]

Given his PR coming in you wouldn't have thought he would be close to a 3:49 miler in a race that would be won in 4:16.7, but he was. His kick is a bit better than I thought. I have to say that he really does have a shot at sub-4 and I didn't believe he did until now. He beat two sub-4 guys and gave the 3:49 guy a scare.

LV defies expectations. One week he beats everybody but the 27:20 10K guy and the next he beats everybody but the 3:49 miler.

By the way here is Lukas' quote on his Twitter:

LukasVerzbicas Lukas Verzbicas

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. -Arthur C. Clarke