So whatever happened to Greene from Winthrop from the early to mid 90's? I actually remember this guy. Wasn't Bob Schull(sp?) the coach there during that time. I think that I remember Greene getting a stress fracture or something like that. He and Bob Donker and Rob Cook were the runners from that area of the country I remember as having their names on the performance lists most of the time.
I went from 8:05 1600 as a high school frshman to a 4:50 1600m as a senior :D
I trained with Matthew a few times during his senior year at PC. The kid was an amazing talent, but the coaching he was recieving was laughable. The workouts consisted of 3-4 organized practices a week totalling maybe 30 miles.
When I met Matthew, he had somehow got it in his head that he was a marathon runner. He was training to try to break 3:00 at Myrtle Beach. I was doing mile training and he would join me for some of the interval workouts. With only marathon type speed work, Matthew could easily keep up with me even though I was in 4:20 mile shape. In anything 400M or under, the kid was a beast. It was incredible to watch him fly around the track, easily doing 63-64 for 8x400 and then listen to him talk about trying to run a sub-3 marathon. He needed coaching badly.
Matthew is also one of the nicest guys around. It's great that his coaching finally caught up with his talent.
I met him at an indoor meet at va tech. I think he won the 800 in 1:52. He ran his cooldown with me and my buddy, just a couple of d3 guys from the eastern shore. Really nice guy
He dropped from 4:47 (1600) in high school to 3:51 (1500) in college. I dropped from 4:41 (1600) high school to (3:48) 1500 in college. This is not the norm but it's not freakish. It could just mean he hit puberty really late in life, like me
i went from 4:27 to 3:56 (1500m)...i used to be proud but this thread makes me feel as if ive underachieved