So you think world championships are the only times they drug test? Not true.
Deshawn Kemp wrote:
"We just got the lab test results and determined that it was too risky to participate in World XC. Our masking agents did not work as expected."
Post of the day!
Deshawn Kemp wrote:
"We just got the lab test results and determined that it was too risky to participate in World XC. Our masking agents did not work as expected."
Solid post IMHO.
run for free wrote:
Ritz,
has to be extremely careful...foot problems are really dangerous for runners..don't want scar tissue to form in this area..
....this current setback reminds of his foot problems dating back to when he used to focus on the 10km training under Wetmore...his old coach Brad seemed to have those problems "managed" even though he was marathon training.....
.....salazar has to remember that ritz's foot is his limitation in IMPROVING...his goals were EXTREMELY ambitious and had him peaking three this year...his foot can't handle it....
...even with salazar's periodization (9 periodizations periods per year...assuming 3 periodizations for each goal) this is WAY too much for ritz considering his history of foot problems.....
....focus on one big goal per year.....peak one time per year.....let his marathon training carry over to other events...rest of the year is for recovery, base, and injury prevention exercises...his foot will last longer maybe until 2012...
....if they are not careful about ramping down his "MANY" goals (5km, 10km, XC, half-marathon, and .marathon).... his foot may not allow him to perform the necessary HARD training needed to medal in London 2012 ( 2 years away)..
....focus on the "big prize" down the road.
Totally agree here too. Despite wanting world cross badly and having the confidence he's on another level after last year, he's doing the smart thing.
Yanqui wrote:
I know I can't expect this from letsrun, but Ritz should be above this kind of criticism at this point. He had a high placing in the 10,000 on Berlin, he broke 13:00 for 5000 meters in Zurich, and he got a bronze at the World Half Marathon. He's not joking around. I don't think there's any doubt that he actually did want to go to World Cross, and I don't doubt that when he pursues his next goal, to break 27:00 in the 10,000, that he'll be running against some of the best 10k people in the world.
Cynicism really is cheap.
i don't see it as a problem at all, he can't raise the maturity level of those select few who choose to snipe at our greats. but if future talent can learn from his examples of looking at the big picture than he's doing a service. he's certainly disappointed at missing it, as we are for not seeing what he can do. salazar has done a good job on keeping perspective. would have been great to see rupp race a 5K in europe last summer, but it would have cost his u.s. and world championship efforts under the circumstances.
wtf is an airbnb wrote:
meanwhile, no one has said squat about Teg going AWOL. Ritz's main problem is in declaring his goals so early and publicly.