someone has to say it wrote:
has anyone told him?
There is a video of him running the 1200 leg at Penn in the DMR when he was at Binghamton. He was a bull in a china shop and bounced off a couple of guys. Ended up fading. He’s definitely a beneficiary of the new super shoes. Zero sprint mechanics. Like Drew Hunter.
So tired of him whining abour being unsponsored. Would you want Holt representing your brand? He performs inconsistently, incessantly bitches and moans, and hasn't a shred of class or humility. Newsflash: companies consider way more the PRs with contracts.
There are so many other better stories to tell out there.
He's very inefficient.
He extends and contracts his right elbow joint with each stride (not so much on the left), which destabilises his torso and results in that pronounced head movement from side to side. It's why he looks like he's swimming through treacle in the last 300m.
Most runners have a slight deviation of the elbow angle through the entire gait cycle, but that tends to be as a consequences of the jolt in each stride. Holt is actively contracting a muscle he doesn't need to contract.
He'd be much faster (especially at the end of races) if he worked on this.
But he's still faster than me, so what the hell do I know...