Friday, May 20, 2011

Yes/No: A New 1500m PR for Gabriele Anderson?

Team USA Minnesota teammates Heather Kampf and Gabriele Anderson are getting set to compete in Saturday night's Occidental High Performance Meet in Los Angeles. The dynamic middle distance duo is coming off a 2-3 finish at the USA 1 Mile Road Championships in Minneapolis last week where Kampf ran 4:36.3 for second and Anderson was third in 4:36.9.

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Kampf, who blasted off to Shanghai, China after the TC 1 Mile to run 800-meters in 2:03.85 last Sunday, plans to race her signature distance again at Oxy. She'll face the likes of Geena Gall, Maggie Vessey, Alice Schmidt, and Minnesota native Laura Januszewski in the event.

Anderson, the focus of this week's Yes/No, will compete at 1500-meters against a strong field of her own, including Angela Bizzari, Shannon Rowbury, Trenierre Moser, and Katie Follet.

The startlists for the meet can be found HERE.

So here's our question ...

Yes/No: Will Gabriele Anderson run faster than her personal best in the Oxy 1500-meters?

Anderson's personal best is currently 4;12.06, set last summer in Europe. The last time Anderson ran 1500-meters, she gave her PR a good scare, running 4:12.35 for third-place in the invitational 1500-meters at the Drake Relays in late April. Earlier this year, Anderson finished 3rd in the USA Indoor Championships. Last year, she was 7th at the USA Outdoor Championships.

To play our game, simply type "yes" or "no" into the subject line of an e-mail and send it to us at DtBFantasy [AT] gmail [DOT] com before 10:00 P.M. CDT, Saturday, May 21st. Please put your answers in the subject line of the e-mail and make sure your full name appears somewhere in the e-mail. We will offer our usual bonus for participants making their 2011 debut in Yes/No - a correct answer will be worth two points for anyone who has not played yet this year.

My answer: Yes.

Last week's question was: Will Ryan Hall run faster than 4:00.0 at the USA 1 Mile Road Championships? Suffice to say, running your first mile race in five years just 24 days after running a sub-2:05 marathon is not a recipe for success. The correct answer, which a whopping 37 players gave, was "no." The results left a three-way tie atop the Yes/No standings for 2011 -- between Rachel Karel, Mike Henderson, and Patrick Eastman, all having amassed 11 points.

We also played Pick Ten last week. Pat Foley won the contest with 48 points, but Bryan Tolscer leads the year-long Pick Ten standings with 103.

For all the results, please visit DtB Fantasy Corner, HERE.

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