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Watching the races he was obviously there to work out. Straight to the back in both races, ran pretty even, wore flats in the 5k.

One of the announcers mentioned they talked to Jerry prior to Stanford, guess the plan is for GF to try and run fast at Oxy.

That's what you tell someone with such a fragile state of mental confidence. The thing about track though is sooner or later, there is no place to hide him/her. You have to run a real race with no safety net.

He's done. His comeback reminds me of Alan Webb's.

Coffee Black wrote:

Watching the races he was obviously there to work out. Straight to the back in both races, ran pretty even, wore flats in the 5k.

One of the announcers mentioned they talked to Jerry prior to Stanford, guess the plan is for GF to try and run fast at Oxy.

That makes no sense. If he was doing a workout...why wouldn't he just have done a workout? Why would he take up a spot at a very competitive meet just to go out and intentionally run slow?

He looks horrible.

Over-trained.

Weren't people a bit excited over his 10k track time (low 28min)? I'd hold off judgment until his oxy race

bigtool05 wrote:

Coffee Black wrote:

Watching the races he was obviously there to work out. Straight to the back in both races, ran pretty even, wore flats in the 5k.

One of the announcers mentioned they talked to Jerry prior to Stanford, guess the plan is for GF to try and run fast at Oxy.

That makes no sense. If he was doing a workout...why wouldn't he just have done a workout? Why would he take up a spot at a very competitive meet just to go out and intentionally run slow?

Playing devil's advocate:

1) That workout wouldn't be very enjoyable by himself (the 1500 was closer to a max effort probably than the 5000)

2) He hasn't been in many races in a while. This gives him a chance to practice running in a pack.

Real question, who would win a 10k race between Fernandez and Derrick in their current, respective states?

Fernandez ran 28:05 for 10k recently. Derrick's 13:40 implies that he's in worse than 28 10k shape.

Sad to see potential fizzle.

sdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdfsdf wrote:

bigtool05 wrote:

That makes no sense. If he was doing a workout...why wouldn't he just have done a workout? Why would he take up a spot at a very competitive meet just to go out and intentionally run slow?

Playing devil's advocate:

1) That workout wouldn't be very enjoyable by himself (the 1500 was closer to a max effort probably than the 5000)

2) He hasn't been in many races in a while. This gives him a chance to practice running in a pack.

Why would you do that workout anyway?

I wish Chris Derrick didn't suck