2012 Olympic Trials Marathon: Men to watch
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Hide captionAbdi Abdirahman, a three-time Olympian in the 10,000m, will look to make his first team in the marathon. He owns a personal-best of 2:08:56, but that was run almost six years ago.
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Hide captionBrent Vaughn will be making his marathon debut in Houston, which might seem like a tall task. But he's won a national title in cross-country and trains with the Oregon Track Club. In a tactical race, anything can happen.
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Hide captionWhich Brett Gotcher will we see at the Trials, the one who ran a smashing 2:10:36 in Houston in 2010, or the one who ran a not-so-special 2:19:30 on the same course last January?
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Hide captionSince running 2:12:33 in the New York City Marathon in 2010, injuries have kept Dathan Ritzenhein mostly on the sidelines. His two races since then have both been 5-Ks. If he's fit, his experience as an Olympian should carry him.
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Hide captionJason Hartmann qualified for the Trials fifth-fastest based on his 2:11:06 at the 2010 Chicago Marathon. He tuned up with a runner-up finish at the Rock 'N' Roll Las Vegan Half-Marathon in 1:03:34.
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Hide captionJason Lehmkuhle finished fifth at the 2007 Olympic Trials and has been nothing short of solid ever since. But solid won't make the squad. He'ss have to run considerably faster then his 2:12:34 PR from Boston in 2010 to do so.
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Hide caption2004 Olympic silver medalist Meb Keflezighi is coming off a PR 2:09:13 in New York in November, but a foot infection kept him sidelined longer than he would have liked. Can he make the team on just 41 days of preparation?
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Hide captionMike Morgan was the top American finisher at the World Championships in Daegu, finishing 31st in 2:18:30. His PR is 2:14:55 and he would likely need to run four minutes faster to contend for the team.
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Hide captionMo Trafeh is the biggest wild card in the field. He has great speed, as evidenced by his 1:00:39 half-marathon PR and national titles at 15-K and 10 miles. But does he have 26.2-mile tactics? He didn't look to in London last April?
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Hide captionNick Arciniaga would seem to be a contender based upon his 2:11:30 in Hoston last January and his 2:11:48 in San Diego in 2010. But those two races are a far cry from the pressure of an Olympic Trials. At Worlds in August, he finished 41st in 2:24:06.
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Hide captionPatrick Smyth will be running in his second career marathon at the Trials. The bad news is that he had to drop out of his first, in London in April. The good news is his coach, Terrence Mahon, has a record of getting his runners on the team.
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Hide captionRyan Hall is the overwhelming favorite to win his second straight Olympic Trials race coming off his 2:04:58 performance at the Boston Marathon and his 2:08:04 run in the Chicago Marathon.
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