Bold Predictions for 2015

You asked for it (without technically asking for it, I just felt it was something you secretly wanted) and now it's here! Bold Predictions for 2015!

In honor of the L in LXV, I figured I'd drop 50 of em.

1. Kevin James gets his well deserved state title indoors in the mile with a winning time of 4:14.42.

2. Chanelle Price will represent PA on the 2015 World Championship Team at 800m.

3. After winning the 2014 NCAA title while red shorting one of their All-Americans, Colorado will redshirt everyone on their team in 2015.

4. A team ending in "West" will won the District One Championships in XC.

5. I will meet Ben Saarel. Not sure how, not sure where exactly, but it happens.

6. etrain will be offered $1,000 by Penntrack for exclusive rights to etrainLXV, but he will politely turn them down.

7. Colorado will still win the NCAA title in 2015.

8. A different team named "West" will win the XC State Championships.

9. Drake's new album, views from the six, will be awesome. Not even a prediction, more of a fact.

10. The State XC Meet will be moved from Hershey.

11. We will take our first steps towards a meet of champions for Outdoor Track this June.

12. Ritz, James, Brehm, Hoey and Brophy highlight the entries for the Meet of Champs mile. But someone other than those 5 will win.

13. Harry Potter will continue to be a big deal. I'll read all the books again for fun and my friends won't sit with me at lunch anymore.

Wait sorry that was from my predictions for 2009 ... Well I mean it still applies ... 

14. etrain will turn down an $1,000 offer from Flotrack for exclusive rights to LXV. He really believes in himself ....

15. With the future of the 10k in doubt, Galen Rupp will win the 10k at the 2015 World Championships.

16. The seven people watching the race from the US will be super amped.

17. Either West Chester Henderson or CRNorth will miss the state championships in cross county for the first time in nearly a decade.

18. In an unrelated prediction, Forrest will punch me in the face.

19. The LXV hype combined with two contract offers goes straight to etrain's head. He will demand that everyone calls him Trizzy Train (like Drizzy Drake) and begins plans to drop a rap album called Views from the 65.

20. I will confuse the crud out of people by alternating between referring to myself in 1st and 3rd person. That's not even for 2015, that's just the 5 minutes your reading this post.

21. "What is Lukas Verzbicas's middle name?" will be the top searched item on google for a brief period of time.

22. The new State Farm commercials will feature Steph and Jeff Curry alongside Cliff and Chris Paul. You heard it here first. 

If they do Stephen and Steven I'm gonna be upset.

23. Dom Perretta will go for the triple of 3200m-1600m-800m at states in AA. And he will win all three.

24. etrainLXV will finally be released after lots of absurdly ridiculous attempts to create excitement.

For those of you who follow me on twitter you probably realized the numbering here is significant.

25. Ben Furcht and I will go to Rita's Water Ice. My treat. The night will end with an awkward half hug, half handshake.

26. The Kardashians will continue to be a thing for some reason.

27. Indoor states will be on a Sunday this year. Just kidding why the heck would they do that ...

28. It turns out etrainLXV is just a series of 65 pictures of animals wearing running singlets doing running poses. Needless to say it is a colossal failure.

29. The Incredibles 2 will be made.

30. Somewhere at some point someone cool will describe something awesome as being "so Mac and Cheese". And that will become a thing.

31. Race Walking will end up cut from the Olympics. 

32. Surprisingly no one is really that upset. Not even the race walkers.

33. I will sign up for my first marathon.

34. No track and field related events will make Sportscenter's Top 10. 

35. But don't worry there should be plenty of water skiing squirrels. 

36. In massive amounts of debt from the funds it took to produce LXV and to start his own rap label, 050, etrain tries desperately to gain sponsors for the blog.

37. Nothing beats the refreshing taste of Pepsi. It's available in stores nationwide at a great value!

38. Will Kachman has a breakthrough track season. As a result sales of "It's a Wondeful Life" hit the highest marks since the 50s so people can catch up on etrain's references.

39. I will realize signing up for that marathon was a horrible idea.

40. World Junior Record Holder Hagos Gebrewhit (12:47 5k PR) will continue to be younger than me. And have a better mustache.

Sometimes life's not fair kids.

41. Dominic Hockenbury's gloves and Griffin Molino's arm bands will be joined together to create some kind of mega person.

42. German Fernandez. Enough said.

43. I will run the PA Distance Festival at Henderson for the first time and will only lose to three girls.

44. Bernard Lagat will win the US Championship at 5k at the tender age of 40. 

45.Yes, 40. 

46. Amazingly no one will seem that concerned that a masters aged man can out duel the future 10k world champ. They would just be caught up in that beautiful smile ...

47. After the debacle of LXV, etrain turns to a new strategy for viewership: Long Island Distance running. Business is booming.

48. Robby Andrews and I will have a long run on the beach discussing sitting and kicking and sharing a few laughs. 

49. My girlfriend will be perfectly cool with it. It will be pretty Mac and Cheese.

50. PA will never start playing.