If you can't hang in the tri, you spend your day at the doctor's office.
If you can't hang in the tri, you spend your day at the doctor's office.
Right. Everyone knows how much easier it is to run a marathon after swimming over 2 miles and cycling over 100.
obvious guys wrote:
It's a process of elimination: If you can't hang in the 1500, move up to the 5000; if you can't hang in the 15 or 5, and you ain't a distance guy, try the steeple; if you are too mentally weak to hang in running, try the tri.
obvious guys wrote:
It's a process of elimination: If you can't hang in the 1500, move up to the 5000; if you can't hang in the 15 or 5, and you ain't a distance guy, try the steeple; if you are too mentally weak to hang in running, try the tri.
And if you can't handle any of the above, just log onto Letsrun and bash athletes instead.
another option wrote:
obvious guys wrote:It's a process of elimination: If you can't hang in the 1500, move up to the 5000; if you can't hang in the 15 or 5, and you ain't a distance guy, try the steeple; if you are too mentally weak to hang in running, try the tri.
And if you can't handle any of the above, just log onto Letsrun and bash athletes instead.
Actually I have been more successful as a triathlete than a runner, so I am speaking from a wealth of experience!
Running Man: "You really have to WANT to be a pro cyclist, or you'll never withstand the schedule and severity of it."
Right but who knows? I'm curious if Colorado or ?lab have done an extensive physiology (ie, lactate, VO2Max, muscle biopsy) on LV? I'm sure it's been done but perhaps that's the reason why he chose the Tri. He needs to know his fate physically. Once he knows that he can shoot the apples off the branch.
Running Man: "I don't think LV has displayed any unique skills on a bike."
Go look at his facebook comments intuitively he likes the bike.
BMX: "He would have been promoted as the savior of distance runnning in America."
Agreed but he ain't holding a pair of spades in 'dem dare deck of cards.
So much of life is capitalizing on the opportunities during the small window when they come your way. Lukas is a junior world champion in the event. He is the best in his sport. If he stuck with running, he had to worry about Kenyans the same age as him running 10 seconds faster in the mile and 20 or 25 seconds faster in the 3000. He would forsake four years of potential income while messing around in college. He could have ended up like German Fernandez, whose may not even get a pro contract when he graduates. Who knows what could have occurred if he stayed at Oregon.
He had hundreds of thousands of guaranteed income waiting for him with triathlon sponsors. Hundreds of thousands. If you had that opportunity, wouldn't you take it? And if he ever wants a college education, he can just sock away $100,000 of that cash and pull it out when he decides to attend college.
Sure, college is a great experience and being a part of a team is fun, but Lukas was never a team player. He trained alone on his high school team and his dad was his coach. Sometimes a person just has do what is best for themselves. If he got hurt at Oregon and never returned to his previous level of performance, the university would leave him out to dry. If he gets hurt in triathlon, the sponsors will leave him out to dry as well. But at least he came out a few hundreds of thousands dollars richer.
If anybody is pissed about this situation, I would recommend you change your thinking to only be pissed at things you can control.
Seyta wrote:
outsider jones wrote:His Wikipedia says that he's 19. Where is this 22 year old/overage stuff coming from?
It's coming from a crowd of bitter buffoons who could, not once in their careers, even hope to achieve his times. Consequently, they accuse him of being 22 as an attempt to demean and discredit his accomplishments.
lol okay. And I'm sure than Kenyan who ran 12:53 indoors last year was 17.
You guys are so naive and clueless. It's actually kinda cute.
Hey, if I were his teammate and he knew his heart wasn't in xc, I would respect and welcome his decision to give his regionals spot to another guy who has been dreaming of running at that kind of stage since junior high.