With Allan Webb as his coach. He made the announcement on Twitter.
Thoughts?
I think he could crack 4:02...not much better. But this is good for the sport.
With Allan Webb as his coach. He made the announcement on Twitter.
Thoughts?
I think he could crack 4:02...not much better. But this is good for the sport.
If Fam does it, could it mean Webb has potential as a coach? His lack of commitment to a single program has always bugged me.
WEBB IS BACK BABY!!!!
Best of luck to him.
Webb should take a shot at sub 4 when after he turns 40 himself.
Who is Allan Webb?
moist wrote:
If Fam does it, could it mean Webb has potential as a coach? His lack of commitment to a single program has always bugged me.
Probably that lack of commitment to a single program is the reason for him being a coach. Lets see what he can do with the mix of programs from Salazar, Vigilante, Raczko, etc.
About six weeks late for an April Fool's Day joke....bad timing.
Don't know wrote:
Who is Allan Webb?
He's a dieselll mechanic
Anthony Whiteman did it at 40, but he was a better miler in his prime than Fam, running 3:32 for 1500 and 3:51 for the mile as opposed to Fam's 3:35 and 3:55.
Dam, I thought we had heard the last of Fam, dude go away.....
Sub-4 at 40 is a lot harder than most people think -- all the people that have done it had ridiculous running credentials and were also training very seriously.
It'd be a stretch for Fam, but maybe he could do it on a treadmill or something. afaik he last did it that way four years ago
So lame.
This guy is like the male Lauren Fleshman. Tweets, blogs, whines, begs for money...... Does nothing useful athletics-wise. Sad!
joalturn wrote:
Anthony Whiteman did it at 40, but he was a better miler in his prime than Fam, running 3:32 for 1500 and 3:51 for the mile as opposed to Fam's 3:35 and 3:55.
Aren't the only guys to do it Whiteman, Coghlan, and Lagat? That's some serious talent there. Fam will have a tough time reaching this goal. But the satisfaction is in the journey, so I hope he enjoys getting back into it.
Bernard Lagat ran a 3:54.91 Mile Indoors at age 41 or 42, so it is not impossible forn Fam or Webb to also do it, heck Eamonn Coghlan did it decades ago, when everyone had far inferior training than runners now have.
Met Fam once at a race. Possibly the strangest person I have ever met. I got the feeling he had escaped from a lunatic asylum.
douglas burke wrote:
heck Eamonn Coghlan did it decades ago, when everyone had far inferior training than runners now have.
I think American marathoners might disagree with you here.
Who is the oldest to go sub 4 for the first time in their life. And at what age
RiRi wrote:
Who is the oldest to go sub 4 for the first time in their life. And at what age
There was a guy maybe 8 years ago, I think originally Ivy League, quite tall, who did it at about 29.
Otherwise,, there is George Young:
"At age 34, he became the oldest person in the world (at that time) to run a sub-four-minute mile, with a time of 3:59.6 in Los Angeles, CA in March 1972." -wiki
I'm not certain, but I think this was his first sub-4
RiRi wrote:
Who is the oldest to go sub 4 for the first time in their life. And at what age
Probably late 30s. You could figure it out yourself with some math on this list:
https://trackandfieldnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Sub-4-Mile-Register-2018.pdfRIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures