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Our RBR Five Events to Watch at NYRR Millrose Games! by Cathal Dennehy (Jumping the Gun), for RunBlogRun

Larry EderbyLarry Eder
February 12, 2015
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The 108th NYRR Millrose Games will be held on February 14, 2015 at the Armory. Now in its fourth year at the Armory, the Millrose Games has been revitalized, and the fields this year are better than ever! Special emphasis has been put on the Wanamaker Miles, and it shows.


We asked Cathal Dennehy, of JumpingtheGun.com , is one of our more prolific commentators. This week, he picked the five events to watch on Saturday. 

We think you will see this is a starting point on watching a crazy fun Millrose Games this year! 

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Matt Centrowtiz, photo by PhotoRun.net

One final comment: And the tweet of the week, drum roll please, goes to Matthew Centrowitz, who was quoted as follows by me at the NYRR Millrose Conference: ” If a girlfriend says do not worry about Valentines’ Day, then you need to worry about it.” 

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Men’s Wanamaker Mile, 7:53pm

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Will Nick Willis win the Wanamaker Mile? photo by PhotoRun.net

Just like any good show, they’re saving the best for last at the Millrose Games, but we’re getting straight into it and discussing the event that unquestionably merits top billing. This race – this battle of speed, wits and tactical prowess – is by far the most mouth-watering clash not just of these Millrose Games, but of the entire indoor season. It is fitting, then, that it occurs in a race steeped in history: the Wanamaker mile. So many contenders, but who will be victorious in this one-mile, royal rumble in the Armory?

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Or, will Matthew Centrowitz win the Wanamaker Mile? photo by PhotoRun.net

In one corner stands Nick Willis, the mercurial miler from New Zealand who set a national record of 3:51.61 when dispatching a decent field with east in Boston last week. In another is Matt Centrowitz, the home nation’s leading hope. He comes to the Armory off the back of a win over 1,000m in Boston last week, where he sharpened the blades nicely for this battle with a 2:17.00 performance to become the second fastest American of all time. It’s not simply a head-to-head, though, as in another corner stands Bernard Lagat, the 40-year-old, eight-time winner of the Wanamaker Mile. Lagat looked as fast as ever when closing with a 26.22-second last lap during a narrow defeat to Dejen Gebremeskel over 3,000m last weekend. Lagat is still great, even now, at 40, but surely even he doesn’t have a ninth life, a ninth Wanamaker title, in him? Another contender is the fast-finishing Will Leer, who trains with Nick Willis, and could pose a threat if he’s positioned close enough to the front as they take the bell. That, though, will be a place everyone will want to be.

Who will win? We’ll have to go with the man who appears to have the perfect combination of speed, endurance, tactical wisdom and experience for this fight – the man with an armoury so strong it’s difficult to see him defeated. He’s the man who told me last week he set a 100m personal best in training just a fortnight ago, at the age of 31. He’s Nick Willis.

Women’s Wanamaker Mile, 7:20pm

It’s not quite going out on a limb to say that an athlete from the Nike Oregon Project will probably win this race, given that they have four formidable athletes in action, but the question is: which one?

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Mary Cain: can she defend the Wanamaker Mile? photo by PhotoRun.net

Will it be Mary Cain, the world junior champion over 3,000m last year, who showed when finishing second to teammate Treniere Moser over 1,000m in Boston last week that she is looking more and more likely to translate her vast ability to senior level? Possibly. Will it be Jordan Hasay, who looked supreme when winning in the Armory two weeks ago? Unlikely, given that this is well below her usual race distance. Could it be Treniere Moser, who tuned up for this with a good run behind Ajee Wilson in New York two weeks ago before taking victory over Cain with a 2:37.86 1,000m in Boston last week. Maybe. My money, though, is on Shannon Rowbury, the 30-year-old who ran a swift 4:22.66 mile on a flat track last week. That piece of form is superior to anything her rivals have accomplished this season, and makes her a worthy favourite. If anyone can upset the Oregon Project stranglehold here, it is Nicole Tully, who very nearly usurped Brenda Martinez on the anchor leg of the distance medley relay in Boston last week. 

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Shannon Rowbury: can she break the AR, heck the WR indoors? 

photo by PhotoRun.net

Women’s 800m, 7:35pm

It’s difficult to see any other result here than another win for Ajee Wilson, the former world junior champion who has shown in recent years that she is most at home when controlling 800m races such as this and this, on all known form, should be no different. Wilson ran with differing tactics in the Armory a fortnight ago, playing a waiting game and taking the lead on the last lap, but her superiority over this field is so pronounced that it’s likely she’ll make a much earlier run for home in this race. If anyone can give her a run, then it will be Latavia Thomas or Charlene Lipsey, but this race looks set to be an exhibition of Wilson’s supremacy. 

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Ajee Wilson, simply, the best in the field, photo by PhotoRun.net

Men’s 5,000m, 6:45pm

This race revolves around the man who stole the show here at the Armory two weeks ago: Cam Levins. The Canadian, who is a member of the Nike Oregon Project, took a remarkable double on his last visit to the Armory, and assuming he brings that same form here for the Millrose Games, he looks the likely winner of what is a loaded men’s 5,000m. 

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Cam Levins: can you say Canadian record (already his at 13:19)? 

photo by PhotoRun.net

There are others, though, who will make his task an arduous one, not least Japanese training partner Suguru Osako, who stormed to a national record over two miles when losing to Levins two weeks ago. The Nike Bowerman Track Club will bring a six-strong legion of troops to this race, and the most dangerous of those look to be Lopez Lomong, Ryan Hill and Andrew Bumbalough. The race, though, looks like it will be Levins’ to lose. Given the shape he’s in, it’s almost impossible to see him being dropped before the final lap, and given how much his speed has improved under the tutelage of Alberto Salazar, he should be able to unleash that most deadly weapon on that final lap on Saturday night. 

Men’s 500m, 7:03pm 

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Bershawn Jackson, is the 500m his perfect distance? photo by PhotoRun.net

Though the success of the Millrose Games has always been centred on the middle distance events, there are a number of top-notch races to get the speedsters’ juices flowing on Saturday night. The pick of them is the men’s 500m, which sees Belgium’s Jonathan Borlee face off against 400m hurdle specialist Bershawn Jackson and a duo of leading Americans. Jackson, a former world champion at the 400m hurdles, has a personal best of 45.06 seconds in the flat event, though that dates back almost eight years now. The favourite, it’s fair to say, will instead be Borlee, a 44.43-second 400m performer. The Florida State graduate will be looking for a good performance en route to the European Indoor Championships in Prague next month, but he will face some stiff opposition at Millrose, mainly from the duo who went 1-2 at last year’s US Indoor Championships. Michael Berry was second there, running 45.64 behind Kyle Clemons 45.60, and if either of them can reproduce that form over the longer event on Saturday night, Borlee will have his hands full. It should be a cracker. 

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    Larry Eder has had a 50-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."

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