How nervous is Hall right about now

Easy there, fanboy, Ritz's 12:56 is impressive but you simply can't compare 5k fitness to half and full marathon fitness. That 12:56 was a career race for Ritz, they won't all be that easy.

he will get another wrote:

He keeps this up and Hall will have no answer for Ritz

Hall will jump in the Brussels race at the last minute and run 12:53. Mark my words! You heard it here first!!

Hall is chilling, but knows he needs to throw down a good one this fall.

This could only have been written by someone who has never run a marathon

he will get another wrote:

Hopefully Ritz keeps on the track all of next year...then runs a fall marathon and should go under 2:06...

He keeps this up and Hall will have no answer for Ritz

dyestatloser#44 wrote:

Hall is chilling, but knows he needs to throw down a good one this fall.

Well, I'm joining those (Ritz among them, from what I've read) who think it's both possible and beneficial to race more frequently than twice/thrice a year. For most people, running races is part of getting race-tough.

Bolt Fan wrote:

This could only have been written by someone who has never run a marathon

You seem to be pretty defensive. The OP was just calling a spade a spade.

I can see it now - a convoy of Americans ploughing the track of Kenyans during the last 1000 madly trying to set an AR.

so you are saying that Ritz's break thru race will not lead to bigger and better things in the marathon...

you are not thinking this out...

sure thing "fanboy"...yeah I'm sure that Ritz's 5K fitness doesn't mean a thing...he probably couldn't run the 2:10 that he just ran in April. Dude what planet are you on? Ritz only had a couple months of track work before this race

I'm not saying he doesn't have better marathon times ahead, but running a super fast 5k does in no way mean you are going to run a super fast marathon. It's two totally different races that use totally different energy systems. Not to mention, its hard to get things to go perfectly for 12:56 in order to run the race of your life. It's alot harder to get things to go perfectly for over 2 hours.

Ritz is obviously onto something and should use the rest of this year to focus on the 5k and 10k, as he could probably lower the 10k record as well.

Next year he may focus on the marathon. If I remember correctly his issue with the marathon has been cramping. He has dealt with it during the final miles of every race he has run. If he can solve this then something on the order of 2:05-2:07 might be realistic, but it's also possible that he is more suited to shorter distances.

lohalloran wrote:

Easy there, fanboy, Ritz's 12:56 is impressive but you simply can't compare 5k fitness to half and full marathon fitness. That 12:56 was a career race for Ritz, they won't all be that easy.

easy? did you watch the race? how could you call what he did in that race easy?

Ritz will ne injured with stress fracture come November

Your stupidity is stunning. Read what I wrote. It was a career race, it all came together for him. The effort, the conditions, the pacing. It was like Hall's sub 60 or Bekele's 5k and 10k WR. They all think they can beat them because it felt good when they did it, but here we are years after the fact and they haven't. They won't all be that easy, moron.

Ritz is the same person today as he was when he ran the 2:10 marathon. A 5k break through in no way necessarily translates to a marathon improvement.

Hall is not nervous, but he is praying to his god that he talks so much about.

praise the lord!

Didn't Ritz beat Hall at their last race?