Did Chris Solinsky really just open his season with a 3:54? Someone please tell me he's raced somewhere else. He's a 5k-10k guy and he just ran 3:54 to open his season, in February. He's getting really, scary good.
Did Chris Solinsky really just open his season with a 3:54? Someone please tell me he's raced somewhere else. He's a 5k-10k guy and he just ran 3:54 to open his season, in February. He's getting really, scary good.
hell yeah!!! solinsky is our great white hope!!!!
If he focused on it in the summer he would scare 3:50/32...but we have enough of those guys already.
He wanted to run the 3k but coach made him run the mile. I have a feeling his coach is going to make him run more mile races to get his speed up for WCs.
You might want to check the date (year) of that result.
date checker wrote:
You might want to check the date (year) of that result.
2/12/2011
im shocked you're not talking about the college kid who was 3:55 in the race who had pr's of like 4:12 in the mile and 3:44 for 1500. Solinsky is one of the top american ever and he beat a college kid by a second.
miles batty had a 2 year mission, so he's probably 23 or so. his best listed 1500m on the byu site was 3:44. this is still a tremendous breakthrough.
jjjjj wrote:
miles batty had a 2 year mission, so he's probably 23 or so. his best listed 1500m on the byu site was 3:44. this is still a tremendous breakthrough.
I looked around on their site and saw he ran a 4:04 earlier this year. This is quite the drop- impressive performance.
who knows wrote:
im shocked you're not talking about the college kid who was 3:55 in the race who had pr's of like 4:12 in the mile and 3:44 for 1500. Solinsky is one of the top american ever and he beat a college kid by a second.
He's a top American ever, but not in the mile, genius.
Kanye North wrote:
jjjjj wrote:miles batty had a 2 year mission, so he's probably 23 or so. his best listed 1500m on the byu site was 3:44. this is still a tremendous breakthrough.
I looked around on their site and saw he ran a 4:04 earlier this year. This is quite the drop- impressive performance.
ya but that was at altitude at BYU if I'm not mistaken, so he looked primed for a big drop.
But 3:55?? Damn I couldn't have predicted that
Definitely agree. I would expect a drop coming down from altitude and in this field, but that sort of drop is amazing.
WOW!!!!! wrote:
Did Chris Solinsky really just open his season with a 3:54? Someone please tell me he's raced somewhere else. He's a 5k-10k guy and he just ran 3:54 to open his season, in February. He's getting really, scary good.
why on earth would that shock and stun you??? You think this 3:54 NOW makes him "scary good" ?? His sub 27:00 (first non-african in history) with a final 1:56 in his DEBUT 800 didn't convince you of that for crissakes?? How about his series of 12:55/56 races where battles top africans down the stretch? Not enough? But an OPENING, INDOOR 3:54 not in his event......now THAT just blows ur mind, eh? Weird.
German Fernandez when 18 nearly ran the same time all by himself indoors a couple years ago. I remember watching Mark Carroll run a 3:54 waaaaay all by himself indoors in Boston, many, many years ago. And while Carroll was good, and sure more of a miler than Soinsky, he too was a 3k/5k guy (maybe not 10k though).
Look, my point is, 3:54 is EXACTLY what I'd expect of Solinsky now. He may not be a miler, but he's run fast 1500's before. In now way does today's run up my estimation of what he is capable of (because last year already proved his abilities are insanely good0 Yes, he is that good now that 3:54 is about what should be expected of him, not the ....ohmygod, ohmygod, ohmygod reaction you had. Now 3:49...... that would be a different story. But that is how you are acting like he ran.
Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:
WOW!!!!! wrote:Did Chris Solinsky really just open his season with a 3:54? Someone please tell me he's raced somewhere else. He's a 5k-10k guy and he just ran 3:54 to open his season, in February. He's getting really, scary good.
why on earth would that shock and stun you??? You think this 3:54 NOW makes him "scary good" ?? His sub 27:00 (first non-african in history) with a final 1:56 in his DEBUT 800 didn't convince you of that for crissakes?? How about his series of 12:55/56 races where battles top africans down the stretch? Not enough? But an OPENING, INDOOR 3:54 not in his event......now THAT just blows ur mind, eh? Weird.
+1
Great PR run by Batty but yes - he did graduate HS in 2005 so...he's got to be 23 or 24.
Tyrannosaurus Rexing wrote:
why on earth would that shock and stun you??? You think this 3:54 NOW makes him "scary good" ?? His sub 27:00 (first non-african in history) with a final 1:56 in his DEBUT 800 didn't convince you of that for crissakes?? How about his series of 12:55/56 races where battles top africans down the stretch? Not enough? But an OPENING, INDOOR 3:54 not in his event......now THAT just blows ur mind, eh? Weird.
You sir, are an idiot. He just OPENED his season with a mile time near his PR, indoors, in Febuary. You act like everyone does this. Bernard Lagat doesn't open in 3:54, and he's one of the greatest milers in history. I think we all know that he is peaking for August at the World Championships, which means he is doing this off of tempo runs and the such. So what do you think he'll be running when he is in top form, AND race sharp? Exactly, "scary good"
He ran one second faster than at the same meet last year.
ya but Russell Brown just did the same thing, why is this such a big deal?
Run to the light wrote:
Great PR run by Batty but yes - he did graduate HS in 2005 so...he's got to be 23 or 24.
He's 23. Same age as Acosta I believe.
so sad