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I've never, ever read anything hateful on this board towards Solinsky. He gets more all around respect than Prefontaine. I think posters (like me) just question his wisdom. And this news justifies it. Why the hell was he doing such high volume, high intensity workouts in the winter and early spring of 2010 that led him to 26:59? It was great. but its the freakin spring of an off year. Then he ramped things up from there. I remember vividly posting at the time basically saying 'Amazing, but I hope the hell he knows what he is doing'. Schumacher was coaching him so I kind of assumed he did know what he was doing. Maybe the injury would have happened anyway and it was just fate. But I suspect if he had just taken it easy through 2010 and god forbid only run something like 27:40 at Payton Jordan he would have stayed healthy and then could have unleashed his 2010 Payton Jordan performance at USATF and in Daegu. Then be healthy to experience running in the Olympics. Not taken anything away from him. His Payton Jordan performance deserves to go down in US running lore. As does some of his Diamond league performances and last year's USATF. Just pointing out, it was freaking Payton Jordan. Its like watching a baseball player hit 40 home runs for the season but 20 of them come in the month of May.
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He always reminds me of a triathlete when I watch him run. Anyone know if he can swim? I see him dominating triathlons for next 10 years. |
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You must not come here very often.
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But at what price? I noticed that it essentially says the same thing on the front page by stating that "LRC Message Boarders Do It Again" regarding this thread. On the other hand, are these nice little "scoops" once or twice a year genuinely worth the other 95% of the anonymous posts with their incessant trolling, spam, profanity, racism, and misogynistic comments? Everyone seems to conveniently ignore the fact that there have been many national and world-class athletes (as well as their coaches) who have been driven away from the LRC boards by the exact same environment that has temporarily earned this praise. The real question is how many great insights have we actually missed by cultivating the National Equirer of track & field? |
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So true.
But at what price? I noticed that it essentially says the same thing on the front page by stating that "LRC Message Boarders Do It Again" regarding this thread. On the other hand, are these nice little "scoops" once or twice a year genuinely worth the other 95% of the anonymous posts with their incessant trolling, spam, profanity, racism, and misogynistic comments? Everyone seems to conveniently ignore the fact that there have been many national and world-class athletes (as well as their coaches) who have been driven away from the LRC boards by the exact same environment that has temporarily earned this praise. The real question is how many great insights have we actually missed by cultivating the National Equirer of track & field?[/quote] |