What’s your PhD in?
What’s your PhD in?
45 minute 10 mile in training wrote:
Must've done the 62 half in training, like how he ran the American record for 10 miles during a tempo run.
You must be confusing him with Josh McDougal!!!
Clay loop regular wrote:
Ritz was down in Florida 2 weeks ago. He was also down here twice last year. So when you say he’s only been here once is wrong. He also told me that he’s coming back here next week.
By "once" I meant during one winter--a bit sloppy on my part, though.
So the one part in my overly officious email in which I refer to a "simple mistake" and I write "simply" and you miss the obvious irony. Oh my.
Mind clarifying what this means--"your fictions degrees"?
And by the way, in my initial post I was praising Ritz, stating how good his run was, and I was tied to the mast by Ritz2020. Why?
44 tempo.......... wrote:
45 minute 10 mile in training wrote:
Must've done the 62 half in training, like how he ran the American record for 10 miles during a tempo run.
You must be confusing him with Josh McDougal!!!
Nope:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=3234060Ritz2020 wrote:
GBohannon wrote:
Great come from behind win for Ritz. Looks like he is a real contender to make another Olympic team. I wasn’t sure if that was the case.
Wow, GBohannon, Ye of little faith.
I believed the whole time and still do. He's tougher than most of you give him credit for.
I'm from Michigan and Dathan does NOT train in Grand Rapids area the entire winter, hardly. Whoever Montesquieu is, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's registered, but is clueless on where Dathan trains.
Dathan WILL be a top contender on February 29th, 2019. The hills won't hurt him at all, just if it's extremely humid that day, otherwise he's got a real chance to make the team.
Fortunately, it's rarely humid in Atlanta!
GBohannon wrote:
Hardloper wrote:
When did he race earlier this year?
He ran 1:00:12 only 2.5 years ago
Earlier this year as in within the last 12 months. Definitely not the best wording. He was 1:02 in NYC last March. I had forgotten about his Great North Run. Good call, although we know the course is downhill. Still a great result and superior to a 1:01 regardless of how you “rate” the course.
That 1:02 in NY (on the ridiculous new course) was worth sub-61 for sure on a flat course on a decent day.
Brutal headwind for most of it that day, and lots of non-negligible hills.
My goal this year is to go under 1:12:30. If I can just get this I could be exactly 11 minutes from Ritz. That would be pretty cool to say. I will be doing my first half mary in a month. I'm averaging over 100k per week so far this year(last year I must have averaged under 75k per week if I was to guess). I did a long run of 30k yesterday(longest run since I did a marathon in 2011 without training). On Saturday I did a session(6 X 2.5 loops of a field. Each lap was 700m) with 200m jogging recoveries. I'm feeling good about the target.
Banana Bread wrote:
My goal this year is to go under 1:12:30. If I can just get this I could be exactly 11 minutes from Ritz. That would be pretty cool to say. I will be doing my first half mary in a month. I'm averaging over 100k per week so far this year(last year I must have averaged under 75k per week if I was to guess). I did a long run of 30k yesterday(longest run since I did a marathon in 2011 without training). On Saturday I did a session(6 X 2.5 loops of a field. Each lap was 700m) with 200m jogging recoveries. I'm feeling good about the target.
Excellent goal. I hope you get it. I also hope to see Ritz get on the team next year. If he can stay healthy (big if), he is a near lock in my opinion. I would probably pick Ward for 3rd, but would love to see Austin or Fauble make a team.
Fauble has a shot. Ward has a shot. Austin is not close. You really need to add 3 minutes to a CIM performance to be realistic. Remember that Tim Ritchie ran faster than Austin in winning CIM in 2017 and couldn’t run anywhere near it in 2018 when put in with the big boys.
CIM ain’t real wrote:
Fauble has a shot. Ward has a shot. Austin is not close. You really need to add 3 minutes to a CIM performance to be realistic. Remember that Tim Ritchie ran faster than Austin in winning CIM in 2017 and couldn’t run anywhere near it in 2018 when put in with the big boys.
Be that as it may, Austin’s ferocious close leads me to believe that he was capable of a bit more. He also seems to be on more of an “upswing” than just about anyone else and has another year to improve.
With that said, I consider him more or 5th-10th type, but would love to see him top 3.
Course was short
This performance definitely translates to a sub-60 in Vaporflys. If Ritz had stayed on the track where he truly belonged and kept his volume and intensity at reasonable levels instead of severely overtraining, he clearly could have run 12:45ish in his prime with good pacing.
Also, dammit! I was so close to starting a thread where we try to predict which aging US runners are most likely to come back from the dead and make the 2020 Olympic team. I was going to go with Ritz, but now he made it too obvious that he is still a force.
This is such awesome news. It sounds like Ritz and the Hansons are a great match. I love that they are holding him back so much in training and letting his talent and massive lifetime base take over. Go Ritz!
Clay loop regular wrote:
Ritz was down in Florida 2 weeks ago. He was also down here twice last year. So when you say he’s only been here once is wrong. He also told me that he’s coming back here next week.
No one said he was only here once, but maybe you. I live in Belmont you bozo but have zero clue on where the rest of you are. Dathan Ritzenhein does not spend the whole Winter in western Michigan, which is what one poster implied. Learn to read or comprehend. This is my first post, have Wejo do an IP check if it'll make you happy. I was just reading thru the garbage and came upon your false statements Montewho?
Agreed. This Montesquieu guy sounds like a tool.
Envoy official wrote:
Ritz2020 wrote:
Wow, GBohannon, Ye of little faith.
I believed the whole time and still do. He's tougher than most of you give him credit for.
I'm from Michigan and Dathan does NOT train in Grand Rapids area the entire winter, hardly. Whoever Montesquieu is, he doesn't know what he's talking about. He's registered, but is clueless on where Dathan trains.
Dathan WILL be a top contender on February 29th, 2019. The hills won't hurt him at all, just if it's extremely humid that day, otherwise he's got a real chance to make the team.
Fortunately, it's rarely humid in Atlanta!
Your sarcasm is strong but your point is weak---the marathon trials are held at the end of February next year, not during the Spring or Summer. I lived in Atlanta for 6 years after receiving my Phd from the University of Michigan (not MSU, an average school).
Spartans suck wrote:
What’s your PhD in?
stupidity and arrogance
Montesquieu wrote:
bhudson@bouldertraining.comSun 7/29/2007, 7:16 PM
Dear Dr. Warner,
Thanks so much for the tip, pretty similar to what we are doing right now in regard to the heat. It is always interesting to hear anecdotal successes.
All the best,
Brad Hudson
Coach
BHudson@bouldertraining.com
Translation:
"Your 'tip' was worthless. We know what we're doing. Please don't write again."