Dude runs 1:46 in the 800 and then comes back to take 2nd in the 5,000 at the SEC champs. How's that for double
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Parvej Khan won the SEC 1500 with ease and then came back an hour and 20 minutes later to finish 3rd in the 800 1:46.8. He ran has last lap in the 1500 in 55 and 52 in the 800.
Yeah he's underrated. Doesn't get enough attention honestly. Crazy good double. Not sure if he's running the Olympics for Morroco in the 800m or what.
I would think the 800/5k double was considered good prep for a 1500 focus going into the summer, Olympics included. Last July he ran 3:32.87 and then went out in the first round in Budapest.
The 1500 at NCAA Nats should be awesome: Spencer, Essayi, Sahlman, Houser, Green, Waskom, Strand, Khan, Murphy, Cook, Messaoudi, Martin…there will likely be guys ready to run 3:35 who don’t even make the final.
Dude runs 1:46 in the 800 and then comes back to take 2nd in the 5,000 at the SEC champs. How's that for double
Didn't he run 3:50i last year? In 2021, Cole Hocker (coming off 3:50i) ran 1:46.39/13:32.68 for 3rd/1st at Pac-12s. Essayi was 2nd/2nd. Both scored 16 pts, and both ran almost identical times.
FWIW, the only race Essayi has won this year was the SEC indoor DMR, while Hocker had won an the mile/3k NCAA titles indoors, 800/1500 season opener, and a 13:19 5k over Teare. Hocker raced a lot more though. I'd love to see Essayi finally put it together for an NCAA title this year. Seems like he's been on the cusp for a while.
Side note but I forgot how much Hocker raced that year. 7 races indoors 17 races outdoors before the Olympics. Contracts should start putting like 20 race minimums in for their athletes. It'd be fun to see a bunch of pros racing kids at college meets in April/May, running like 1:47/3:38 because they're not in shape yet. I know Grijalva and Nur do that to some extent and I always like to see it. I became a Connor Mantz fan because I saw his name pop up so much, seemingly everywhere, that I just started rooting for him. One of my highlights of last year was when he ran 3:37 to beat Birnbaum by .01 just a couple months after running Boston.
I would think the 800/5k double was considered good prep for a 1500 focus going into the summer, Olympics included. Last July he ran 3:32.87 and then went out in the first round in Budapest.
The 1500 at NCAA Nats should be awesome: Spencer, Essayi, Sahlman, Houser, Green, Waskom, Strand, Khan, Murphy, Cook, Messaoudi, Martin…there will likely be guys ready to run 3:35 who don’t even make the final.
I only started following NCAA running in 2021. Is it common to have a combined 4 NCAA mile/1500 champs in the NCAA 1500? Hocker and Garcia Romo both went pro after their seasons, so I was getting used to that, but the UW guys have all stuck around. Messaoudi has a 3k title from a coupe years ago iirc. The PRs of the guys you mentioned are crazy too. Something like 3:31/3:32/3:33/idk Houser's but he's a 2x mile champ/3:34/3:34/3:35/1:46 with a big negative split/idk the rest off the top of my head.
The depth is nuts. I wonder if pro contracts are a bit harder to come by since Hocker and Garcia Romo set the bar so high. Do you have to make the final if you want a good contract? I know Waskom said he hadn't even considering going pro right after he made the team last year. Do they have NIL deals now instead? I like that they're staying in college now though. It makes NCAA racing that much more exciting, and raises the bar for everyone.
I would think the 800/5k double was considered good prep for a 1500 focus going into the summer, Olympics included. Last July he ran 3:32.87 and then went out in the first round in Budapest.
The 1500 at NCAA Nats should be awesome: Spencer, Essayi, Sahlman, Houser, Green, Waskom, Strand, Khan, Murphy, Cook, Messaoudi, Martin…there will likely be guys ready to run 3:35 who don’t even make the final.
I only started following NCAA running in 2021. Is it common to have a combined 4 NCAA mile/1500 champs in the NCAA 1500? Hocker and Garcia Romo both went pro after their seasons, so I was getting used to that, but the UW guys have all stuck around. Messaoudi has a 3k title from a coupe years ago iirc. The PRs of the guys you mentioned are crazy too. Something like 3:31/3:32/3:33/idk Houser's but he's a 2x mile champ/3:34/3:34/3:35/1:46 with a big negative split/idk the rest off the top of my head.
The depth is nuts. I wonder if pro contracts are a bit harder to come by since Hocker and Garcia Romo set the bar so high. Do you have to make the final if you want a good contract? I know Waskom said he hadn't even considering going pro right after he made the team last year. Do they have NIL deals now instead? I like that they're staying in college now though. It makes NCAA racing that much more exciting, and raises the bar for everyone.
Not common, but similar has happened before. Fairly common to see 2-3. I think the extra eligibility from COVID is the main factor here. More athletes winning the title with soph/jr eligibility and coming back for 2 more years. Previous winners like Fleet and Noelle won it as seniors and then left regardless. Pro contracts were always very difficult to come by for underclassmen: Fernandez got one for setting the U20 record for 5000 and dominating NCAAs as a true freshman, Wheating got one for running 1:44/3:30 (among other accomplishments), Centrowitz got one for a world bronze, Murphy got one for an Olympic bronze. In fact Hocker running 3:31 and getting 6th at the Olympics is on the lower end for underclassman pro contracts. There were also quite a few defending champs that lost titles: Bayer, Kerr, Hoare, Nuguse, Manzano, etc. but because of the aforementioned eligibility difference, there was less time for defending champions to stack up without just graduating and moving on.
Dude runs 1:46 in the 800 and then comes back to take 2nd in the 5,000 at the SEC champs. How's that for double
Didn't he run 3:50i last year? In 2021, Cole Hocker (coming off 3:50i) ran 1:46.39/13:32.68 for 3rd/1st at Pac-12s. Essayi was 2nd/2nd. Both scored 16 pts, and both ran almost identical times.
FWIW, the only race Essayi has won this year was the SEC indoor DMR, while Hocker had won an the mile/3k NCAA titles indoors, 800/1500 season opener, and a 13:19 5k over Teare. Hocker raced a lot more though. I'd love to see Essayi finally put it together for an NCAA title this year. Seems like he's been on the cusp for a while.
Side note but I forgot how much Hocker raced that year. 7 races indoors 17 races outdoors before the Olympics. Contracts should start putting like 20 race minimums in for their athletes. It'd be fun to see a bunch of pros racing kids at college meets in April/May, running like 1:47/3:38 because they're not in shape yet. I know Grijalva and Nur do that to some extent and I always like to see it. I became a Connor Mantz fan because I saw his name pop up so much, seemingly everywhere, that I just started rooting for him. One of my highlights of last year was when he ran 3:37 to beat Birnbaum by .01 just a couple months after running Boston.
In 2021 Anass was superior to Cole Hocker before the Olympics. He run fewer 1500m than Cole and got better results
3:34.58 3:35.20 3:35.59 3:34.64 (1st place solo)
Even last year 2023 he was better 08 JUL 2023 3:32.87 (1st place solo)
Essayi had a problem of adaptation when changed from Ifran to USA in 2021.
* Don't count the Olympic or WC times because those one are paced times in fast track as it was the case in Tokyo.