Alex Cyr and Michael Doyle each offer five guesses of what might happen in the running world in these next 12 months.

Pretty much none of Alex Cyr and Michael Doyle's running and non-running predictions for 2020 came true, but that has done little to deter them from peering into their cloudy crystal balls once again, and try their best to provide foreshadowing for next year's biggest stories.

Here, they predict a breakthrough in North American distance running, a summer and fall at once riddled with modified races and peppered with world-beating performances, a possible uprising of a new marathon king, and more.

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