Gage Killewald

MSU XC/TF

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

B1G time week for the Spartans as Taylor Pangburn and Jasper Cane both pick of Big Ten Athlete of the Week honors, while Beckett Crooks was named Men's Freshman of the Week!!🟢⚪

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

Thank you, Seniors 💚

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Kipyegon won’t break 4.

4:07.6 to sub 4 is too big of a jump.

Here’s why:

Drafting/Pacing will help the most. But I don’t think it’ll give 8 seconds.

Why? Even when you take college men who haven’t been in paced races to the magic confines of BU or whatever race where they just dragged around and are sitting the entire time, it’s not 4:07 guys making the leap. It’s 4:01-4:03 guys. Just ask BUs meet director how many coaches scream there 407 guy is ready to go sub 4…and where they end up.

I know. I’ve seen the theoretical paper. But I just don’t see it.

Second, she just doesn’t have the speed gap to be comfortable at 59.9 400s that long. Sure, the shoes help. And bicarbonate will help. But presumably she’s got most of the benefits from that already.

Even the most endurance based sub 4 milers have 1:53ish 800m speed. That’s what the doped up womens 800 record is. Even Keely or Athing don’t have that speed. And at peak shape there’s no taking Kipyegon over those two in an 800.

If we assume Kipyegon is at best 1:55 low or maybe 1:54 high…she would have specific endurance that we just have never seen.

They need something more than drafting to get her there.

A new leap in spike tech. A new supplement. Or…drugs…

So my prediction? It depends on pacing. If she was dead even, I could see 4:03 high or 4:04 low. But if they are going at 59.9s, I expect her to fall off a bit more after 1k, so I’d say 4:05 mid.

Which would be phenomenal.

This feels a bit more forced of a marketing gimmick than Kipchoge. Where drafting over an entire marathon adds up a lot more. And we just had a massive breakthrough in shoe tech that has since changed the game.

Maybe I’m wrong. But I don’t see it.

And if I’m honest, I hope that the female who inevitably breaks 4, does it in a normal competition. That way there’s no debates, caveats, or what ifs…they just get immortalized like Bannister.

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

The Spartans swept the podium in not 1, not 2, but 3 races in a row today 😤

#GoGreen

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

🫵 hey you, get up it's race day

let's get this season started 👏

#GoGreen I #NCAAXC23

[Jeff Hollobaugh @michtrack]

History in action! @udodii becomes the first sprinter from our state to break 20-seconds for 200! Wind a legal 0.9

[MSU Chief of Propaganda @OdellBretthamJr]

Mady Sissoko has donated every cent he has made from NIL to his home country of Mali and was the key in securing the Spartans trip to the Sweet 16. One of the most inspirational stories you will ever find

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

MSU’s men’s DMR of John Petruno, Noah Sage, Gage Killewald and Owen Huard finish third in 9:38.29 🥉

[MSU Chief of Propaganda @OdellBretthamJr]

John Hao is an international student from China who was a victim of the shooting at MSU on Monday night. His injuries include being paralyzed from the chest down and as he recovers the financial burden will be substantial. Please donate if you can

https://t.co/Y2DFimfYMk

[Satoshi Flipper @SatoshiFlipper]

Fading the current strong jobs report is an emotional reaction only. You can't possibly be mad at the state of the labor market until we see the next inflation data.

The next CPI reading is going to really set the tone for 2023.

[Michigan State Athletics @MSU_Athletics]

Congratulations to the 132 Spartan student-athletes who earned Academic All-Big Ten honors this fall! 📚

https://t.co/M1DxgBY2Es

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

Aden Smith. W. 🥇

Aden Smith WINS the Roy Griak Invite in 24:13, leading the Spartans to a third-place team finish! Abdi-Fetah Ahmed finishes third (24:16), while Andy Nolan (15th/24:28) and John Petruno (19th/24:40) finish in the top 20.

#GoGreen

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

Ahead of tomorrow's Spartan Invitational, let's take a look back at our annual cross country camp!

#GoGreen | @USTFCCCA

[Adams XC/TF @Adams_XC_TF]

Regional Champions!!!
Rochester Adams Boys Track and Field win their first title since 2008.
We absolutely LOVE those mitten-shaped trophies.

[Clayton Murphy @Clayton_Murph]

Make sure to check my brand new video! This is by far my favorite video ever posted!
I wore a mic during the race in Puerto Rico
https://t.co/zTNnz7gbbn

[Morgan Beadlescomb @morg_bead]

Mileage is arbitrary.

1. Run whatever makes you fast and doesn't get you hurt.

2. Don't take coaching advice from strangers on the internet.

3. I know I am also a stranger on the internet.

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

Men's 800m | Morgan Beadlescomb grabs his second win of the weekend, using a 1:47.85 PR to place first at Indiana.

John Petruno takes fifth at a PR of 1:49.52.

#GoGreen

[FloTrack @FloTrack]

.@StanfordXCTF freshman Udodi Onwuzurike with a wind-legal collegiate No. 3 10.07! 👏
📺: https://t.co/deOygLas08

[MSU Track & Field/Cross Country @MSU_TFXC]

This weekend’s @NCAATrackField Indoor Championships mean just a little extra to @morg_bead…

Hear his interview last night with ESPN’s John Anderson on why he is wearing #93 near his heart…

#GoGreen | #NCAATF

[USTFCCCA @USTFCCCA]

Morgan Beadlescomb of @MSU_TFXC just became the fourth-fastest performer in collegiate history in the mile with his 3:52.03 tonight at the Windy City Invitational.