Recreational engineering wrote:
hart crane wrote:A 10k guy just beat the Olympic Gold medalist.
Jenkins needs to move down!
Jenkins has been very suspect (to me) for some time. One just has to look back at his high school pb's, what he ran/how he progressed to 13:18 his Soph year , how he slowed down while at U of O, and how he ran (progressed) during the summer in Europe. I think his mile PB was 3:57 coming into this race. 3:49, give me a break and follow his progression and when his progression has taken place.
Really? I beat Jenkins in high school. Crushed him actually. Did it matter? Hell no. I talked to Jenkins dad at a track meet, and raced against him and talked with his teammates. From what I gather: He ran 25 mpw for most of high school, with 30 mpw pushing it. That's 4. miles a day roughly, and off that, he ran almost 15 flat, and 4:14'ish. All this, and he didn't train for XC until his junior year really. I mean. From what I heard by his teammates, he did run in the summer, and then did 25 mpw in the fall, and then stopped running again. He's as talented as German Fernandez, but just made the jump in college beacuse he didn't train. he would have run 8:30/3:58 in high school if he had a coach that pushed him from freshman year to senior. Then when he got to college, he doubled if not tripled his mileage from 25 to 75'ish (at least 60), and went from 15-14 - again. 15:16 or w/e, was done after training for 1-2 years, but skipping most of summer, and running 25 mpw. Essentially that 15:15 5km he ran in high school was off of nothing. Only natural he would jump immediately to 13:55 when he doubled his mileage, and then his talent started to materialize, and he dropped down to 13:16 in the perfect race at Arcadia or w/e. He's essentially just what German F would have been if he never got injured. One of the most talented runners in the US imo. 4:15/15:15 off 4 miles of running a day is insane. he basically had no base, and just worked sharpened his anaerobic fitness and got us to running fast. He's only 24 as well, so by 28, i expect him to be a 12:54/3:49 guy.