• Good kidd maad city
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/4/2016 11:44AM - in reply to Coach Ibarra
      • Good kidd maad city
      • Awesome. I remember Daniel coming out of nowhere ~5 years ago but think he had been struggling a bit since. Glad he has stuck with it and is crushing again! Great run!
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/4/2016 12:10PM - in reply to Coach Ibarra
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      • EJ Fernandez had a decent run in 2:14 or so, and Eric Finan made a bit of a comeback in 2:17 high.

        If only the trials window was open this early for those guys.
    • Coach Ibarra
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/4/2016 12:12PM - in reply to
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      • Yup, totally doped on one major drug, HARD WORK! Keep it up Danny and congrats to Mammoth training group! Clean athletes working hard in beautiful Mammoth Lakes!
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/4/2016 12:24PM - in reply to Coach Ibarra
      • Sit and kick
      • Sweet! I saw him finish this year at the San Jose half rock n roll and he looked fit as fukc coming in right behind the Kenyan winner

        Congrats Daniel !
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/4/2016 1:07PM - in reply to cool kid
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      • Eric Finan had a very short build up for this. Very impressive. This guy has had bad luck with injury for the past 5 years. I've been a follower of his training log on running2win for quite some time.

        I see an A standard in the near future with a full build up. He can handle mileage and aerobic workouts well, and seems to stay injury free when doing so. It's the track work that seems to hurt him.
    • Beevie
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 9:30AM - in reply to Doc Ryan
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      • Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 12:15PM - in reply to Beevie
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      • Beevie wrote:
        Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
        must be a record
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 12:24PM - in reply to somebloke
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      • Nope. Fourth post was pulled down for comparing him to Zach Miller who was accused of drugs.

        LRC cynicism is preserved. Especially by the mods, who left up multi-page thread on Miller supposedly doping (with zero evidence other than winning while having been slow in college).


        somebloke wrote:
        Beevie wrote:
        Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
        must be a record
    • cruel joke
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 12:27PM - in reply to glj/
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      • glj/ wrote:
        Top two American finishers were Hispanic.

        Love it.
        This is a problem for American athletes, we are content with being top Americans. Its a little bit like saying all finishers are winners.
        We need these athletes wanting to win, not be happy with top American!
    • CIM = Comes In Mouth
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 2:58PM - in reply to Coach Ibarra
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      • I wish the organizers would change the name of this marathon.

        I entered last year, fully expecting a bareback slopjob
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 6:53PM - in reply to Coach Ibarra
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      • Looks like he only ran 14:40 in college, so it's not as if he became a stud as soon as he left high school.

        I always love hearing these stories. Shows that hard work really does pay off.

        Major congrats to Tapia.
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      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 6:56PM - in reply to Lofty Goals
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      • I guess he was only a sophomore when he ran that mark. That's all I could find online.

        Still, it's not very many 14:40 sophomores go on to run 2:12
    • Coach Ibarra
      • RE: Daniel Tapia 2:12:28! CIM! 12/5/2016 7:00PM - in reply to He is good but
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      • Actually, he started running as a sophomore in high school and ran just as much as your typical varsity high school kids... he ran around 40-50 miles a week during most cross and track seasons... he was actually part of a fairly good team but just didn't keep it going out of high school and, as you said, really picked it up later on...