Falmouth Road Race Prize Money- SLASHED

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RE: Falmouth Road Race Prize Money- SLASHED 7/31/2012 9:47AM - in reply to douglas burke

http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/07/31/solinsky-will-do-falmouth-road-race/

By Peter Gambaccini
Photo by Giancarlo Colombo/Photo Run

There's been no official announcement, but Chris Solinsky, who is one of America’s premier distance runners on the track but who was unable to compete at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, has Tweeted that he will do the Falmouth Road Race in Massachusetts on August 12. The race is just slightly longer than seven miles.

Solinsky, an Oregon Track Club member who was the first American to run under 27:00 for 10,000 meters on the track (26:59.60 in 2010), missed the Trials as he made slow progress after an operation to reattach a hamstring muscle. He Tweeted that he is “very excited to put the OTC singlet on again for the 1st time in 13 months.” But when he Tweets about going to Falmouth, he puts “race” in quotation marks, indicating in a previous Tweet that “it'll be more of a glorified tempo run as I will not be ready to fully compete, but can't wait!!”

Yesterday, Solinsky had Tweeted, “Finally had a good long run that felt comfortable. 2 hrs at 6 min pace.#progress feels good. Slow but sure grind back to being fit." On July 22, he Tweeted, "About to start my long run to finish off my first 100 mile week since getting my hamstring reattached, first in over 14 months."

Solinsky, who was a national champion in high school and at the University of Wisconsin and is the second fastest American at 5000 meters (12:55.53), had decided in early May, "I'm going to have to bag it this year and swallow the hard pill that it's not going to happen," that he would not be ready for the Olympic Trials even though "I was setting myself up to have a really legitimate chance to win a medal" at the London Olympics.

He is known for a determined and perhaps even overzealous work ethic, and that may have proved to be Solinsky's undoing. He acknowledged that in 2010, "I got a little bit greedy. I did 120 miles five weeks of that year and the rest were in the 100-mile range. I thought, 'If I double that, I'm going to get aerobically stronger.' So last year I did 12 or 13 weeks at 120 miles or more and none of the runs were very easy. I think my body kind of revolted."

Ultimately, his hamstring separated itself from his pelvic bone last summer and had to be reattached by titanium screws. The surgery was on September 16, the day that Galen Rupp smashed Solinsky's American 10,000-meter record.

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