Solinsky basically gave up when he knew he could not continue with Teg when they stayed on sub 13:00 minute pace. He was apparently acting like a suck after the race and probably could not handle dealing with Teg's success. Seems like he set his own personal expectations too high, and realistically he is still not much more than a 13:18 guy. Time to lose the fairy socks fruit-boy !
I think he knows that Teg has the edge on him and can beat him at anytime, i mean hes gotta know because he trains with him. But I don't think there is any jealousy. The race was just a little beyond him. He can get down to 13:05 in a couple of years, but I think his real glory days are behind him(tooling with NCAA 5k fields) The direction the US is going, he may struggle to make future World and Olympic squads. How crazy is that by 2012 a sub 13:10 type runner and you're very lucky to squeeze by in the third. I remember back to the Brad Hauser era where guys only got to the Olympics by default rules and often times only one guy would show up to represent the US, we were so bad. Times have really changed.
One word for you: Steeplechase
Can you run the steeple in knee socks? I would think that would be very uncomfortable. It would probably mean carrying a lot of extra weight around, as well.
Unfortunately, he may just be a 3000 guy. There aren't many opportunities there after college.
Putting Friday behind me and starting to look forward to World Athletics Final, starting to get geared up for a great race. -Solinsky on Twitter so I'd say no he's not throwing it in quite yet.
Well hopefully this is his last event with the socks. Performaing without the socks during WAF might be the opportune time to discard them - my bet is a positive result if he does ! Its possible the socks have jinxed him because he has not yet had the break-through race he has been looking for.
So, if he's wearing them again, he's a bigger dufus than I thought !
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Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!