I can see where my remarks might have been misunderstood. That I said "this" rather than "these" to me indicated I was talking about Worlds. So thanks for the benefit of the doubt. But I would say that a January meet at UW is a far cry from any National Senior track meet and certainly Worlds. And that Cain competed at 5000 as a backup so if she didn't advance in the rounds of the 1500 at Nationals is true, but that scarcely means that all of a sudden she's a 5000 meter runner. About beating Shannon Rowbury--well, I suppose one could say she was out of form, but this was Nationals, this was qualifying for Worlds, Cain did beat her, and Rowbury then qualified in the 5000. Finally, here are three of the early comments on this thread: “In other news, Mary Cain switches out of the mile race in two weeks (to duck Alexa) after having already switched out of the 800m (to duck others).” “Down goes Cain! Down goes Cain! Kind of reminds you that while Cain is running these meaningless race all for publicity that all AlSal really is nothing more than a high school coach.” “Maybe she's [Cain’s] afraid to race her own peers... and possibly get beat.” These suggest a slightly different take on the direction of the thread.