OKAY FINE I'LL START, jeez...
Predictions for indoor!
400m
1. Carleton Freshman (Jerry's brother)
2. Saint John's Freshman
3. Bethel Freshman
This will be my favorite event (other than Jovan's 5k) for the indoor meet. This isn't a joke. All three have freshman coming in who have run sub-49.xx their JUNIOR year of high school. That's nuts.
600m
1. Carl Klamm
2. Isaac Krause
3. David Supinski
This event is very determinant upon whether Dongson (sorry, Jerry) decides to focus more on the 1500m for outdoor as he indicated after nationals. If he does, he will more than likely run events 800m and up indoors.
*also, yes, I literally just put the next top 3 on Raceberry as the 3 favorites..THIS IS A STRESSFUL JOB
800m
1. Evan Hatton
2. Little Jerry
3. Nolan Ebner
Evan Hatton will benefit from another strong base from cross, add it to his already impressive footspeed, and develop a concoction that will have me trying to get him to hang out with me after meet. Answer your phone Evan. pls.
1000m
1. Sean Bjork
2. Matthew Lillehaugen
3. Allen-Michael Burback
Upset city!! Sean Bjork will bounce back from a cross season to forget (literally, did he even run?) and win the coveted indoor MIAC 1000m title! *NOTE* Will be weakest event indoors
Mile
1. Joe Coffey
2. Donson Cook-Gallardo
3. Jacob Eggers
Jerry will try and win what will be set up as a dress rehearsal before nationals, but he will throw up the Carleton "C" at the line and get beat by .0001 of a second. Jacob Eggers continues his impressive feat of being rather bad at racing. Great at running fast times! Not great at racing.
3k
1. Ryan Bugler
2. Thomas Knobbe
3. James Logan
Saint John's is notorious for training through indoor, so I wanted to have someone beating Bugler here...but WTF! Who am I supposed to pick?? Knobbe is the closest, but he'll be tired from winning the 5k (see next event) and Bugler has never lost to him at MIAC (pronounced MEE-acks). James Logan is somehow both the favorite and the dark horse for 3rd place here. He has been improving in the 3k by a lot every year..
5k
1. Thomas Knobbe
2. Jovan Newsum
3. Paul Timm
Paul Timm is back!..kind of.. hampered by injury from what I can only assume is due to running sub 5 min. miles all summer, he will be back to run a PR in the 5k at MIAC. Unfortunately, too much ground to make up on both Knobbe and Newsum who have had stellar-ish cross seasons.
10k
..just kidding...
DMR
1. Carleton stacks it
2. Bethel stacks it
3. Saint Olaf semi stacks it (still better than anyone else's team)
This will be THE event to watch this indoor season. Carleton, Bethel, and Olaf will be national qualifiers in this event. Carleton is loaded, Bethel's achilles heel is a lack of an elite miler (Connor Haugen is a 4:23 miler, still good), and Olaf's achilles heel is lack of a 400m leg...if that is even a real problem...