Leaning towards Kendra Schaaf... I love watching the way she runs, she looks effortless at the paces she's going!
Leaning towards Kendra Schaaf... I love watching the way she runs, she looks effortless at the paces she's going!
She's not American.
I think Matt Centrowitz is. Have you ever seen how smooth he looks when he is racing? German Fernandez is really smooth too, but he is always hurt, so I'm not sure he counts.
Given the responses to this thread, I'm assuming I missed the part where you mentioned we we're excluding Sam Chelanga from this discussion.
Talented? Fernandez...
Herman Mermandez
Viv Savage wrote:
Talented? Fernandez...
you think he's more talented than Chelenga?
Megan Hogan. Just started running in the fall of 2007 (went to college on basketball scholarship), and has already run 32:34 for 10K. GWU doesn't even have a track team.
http://www.eliterunning.com/2010/07/interview-with-meg-hogan/
Mark Inghram?
It's clearly Chelenga.
There's only one professional American that's better than him at his distance.
Viv Savage wrote:
Talented? Fernandez...
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Alan "Big Thang" Sticker
Fernandez without a doubt. Yes, Chelenga is better at the 10k than Fernandez, but Fernandez is by far the most talented in 5k-1500. Not a bad 10k runner either, as shown by his being in 3rd place at NCAA XC Freshman year with 1k, unfortunately he fell. Also he's a year young for his grade, and still runs those amazing times.
So many folks look at GF as primarily a 1500 and possibly a 5000 guy. I do not think that this is where his talent lies. He has no real explosive speed (ala Webb, Wheating, Centro Jr....). What he does have is a remarkable ability to run fast, smoothly, at a perfectly even pace, for quite a long time.
When all is said and done, he will be known as a 10000 and perhaps even marathon guy (if his health can hold up to the training involved).
And talent-wise, yes I put him ahead of Chelanga when you consider the age difference.
fernandez could run one marathon workout and then be injured for two years.
I cant help but wonder wrote:
So many folks look at GF as primarily a 1500 and possibly a 5000 guy. I do not think that this is where his talent lies. He has no real explosive speed (ala Webb, Wheating, Centro Jr....). What he does have is a remarkable ability to run fast, smoothly, at a perfectly even pace, for quite a long time.
When all is said and done, he will be known as a 10000 and perhaps even marathon guy (if his health can hold up to the training involved).
And talent-wise, yes I put him ahead of Chelanga when you consider the age difference.
Bingo. This is what I've always thought.
And to TrailsNW, he had worked his way up into the pack that was about 4th-8th place by about 8k, when he went down. Still very good, but not quite the same as 3rd at 9k.
Um ... ever hear of Jordan Hasay?
whippersnapper wrote:
fernandez could run one marathon workout and then be injured for two years.
Hilarious and probably true. I'd have the kid run about 20 minutes a day and bike/pool crap for two hours a day. Only realistic way of keeping this guy healthy.
That is insane! She ran 32:30 or whatever after 2 years of running? I would consider myself a moderately talented male relative to the population (1:56 800 to 2:35 marathon), have been training at some level for the better part of 18 years, and I have never run 32:30. Now, I have only ever run cross 10ks, but still... that's amazing.
What would that be equivalent for a male? 29:00? So how many D3 male point guards, who have never run before in their lives, start running at the age of 19 and within 2 years be a 29:00 guy? I say not one.