CENTRO's NOT DONE YET!!! - Nico 3:34, Centro 3:35 at Oxy

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So you think Colin Sahlman has no interest in the 1500 at the trials? What do you think will be capturing his attention instead?

The LRC crowd is no different than sports fans everywhere. We love it when our old heroes show signs of life. Centro’s run tonight was like a little mini USA version of Bekele’s run in London last month. A momentary feel good story that has no relevance to who will make the US 1500 team in the case of the former or who will win an Olympic marathon medal in the case of the latter.

Awesome run from Centro but he’s definitely done in terms of going to the Olympics. He would have to beat all of these guys for the 3rd spot: Kessler, Teare, Waskom, Green, Houser, and Sahlman. That’s not even counting Holt, Wynne, Prakel, etc.

Bekele is a serious medal threat and it’s hard to figure how he wouldn’t be

Yeah. Bekele just finished 2nd in a major which had a field that had maybe 8(?) top guys coming in. Olympics will have more like 15, but it’s not out of the realm he’s there. You’re being pretty dismissive. 2:04 on a windy day is really good. It seems like maybe Lemma, Kipchoge, Tola and Kipruto have too high ceilings if they are having their top days. Nobody else really to me. Guys like Abdi, Mutiso et al. could be marginally better, but not enough to count him out.

Craig Engels enters the chat.

lmao centrophants is funny, but Centro has previously gone from worse shape than he's in now to the Olympic team. Engels hasn't. Centro made the last 3 Olympic teams and won one of them. Removing convicted dopers, he also has an Olympic bronze and WC gold. Centro is in 3:35 shape right now, and at his 2021 best he was in ~3:31 shape. I think there's a good chance he can shave 4s off by the Trials given his track record. Engels has never demonstrated 3:31 fitness. I'd love to see him make the leap, but it's a leap he's never made before.

Great race by the five Americans Young, Sahlman, Centro, Nur, and Engels ... they came fairly close to Kessler's HSR of 3:34.36 that he ran just before the last Trials.

And looked to me like Centro was not all out, not even close. And should not be. Small time meet. Knew he had more. Risk of injury too great, but got to there he needed to be at the end if workouts to finish hard are still to come. Months to the Olympics, looked smooth and solid to me. And I had not expected that, not a super fan. Just respect and watching.

Centro ran really well today and look very fit.

Young is going to give Fisher a serious run for his money at the trials, if Fisher has a bad day like in '22 I think Young will get him. He is a stronger contender than Klecker for sure.

happy for all the lads. as most letsrun watchers probably. haters have to hate in print. with their trowsers around their ankles from their parents basement.

I thought that Centro was crazy for not moving up to the 5000 to exploit slow, tactical races like Lagat. But wow, he finally had a good race! It almost looked like he was playing possum at the end to surprise his competitors at the trials. If he can find his absolutely lethal kick again, he is as dangerous as they come.

Nico Young is ridiculous. Grant Fisher and the East Africans are taking notice as we speak.

Luis isn't a true 1500 meter runner.

I am not a Centro fan but he has to get around 2 athletes with 250 to go and in the last 100m neither Nico or Colin gained any additional daylight on him. 😳 Watch the video he closed just as fast as the first two finishers.

Like Centro or not, few thought he'd run 3:35 in May, 2024. Impressive.

But toss Nuguse, Kessler, Hocker, Teare, UW guys into this race and Centro is 8th. At best.

Centro will make the team. I can’t believe people think he’d be out there wasting his time if he didn’t expect to be in 3:31 shape at the trials. Barring injury or a fall he’s on the team.

Kessler won’t have it at the end. Teare still has Jerry in his legs. The Washington guys will be completely done by the trials and fizzle out. Engels treats everything like a joke and gets the appropriate results. Sahlman is too inexperienced and the long season and rounds will trash his legs.

To be fair, this thread wasn’t about Centro until Rojo did his patented thread-title-change maneuver and made people shift the convo.