His downfall was man’s best friend. He tripped and fell coming downstairs because of his dog. He never recovered from this accident.
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ringo-starr wrote:
Ofgon project wrote:
Check out Oregon project training. If you survived it, you were world-class. I love the video of him breaking 27.
The Oregon Project was the Alberto Salazar group (Galen Rupp and others), wasn't it? Solinsky was with Jerry Schumacher since his time as a Badger at UW. When Jerry left Wisconsin and brought Tegenkamp, Solinsky, Jager, and others west, I seem to remember they were the Bowerman Track Club from the beginning.
The distinction between the Schumacher and Salazar groups was very clear.
If you replace "Oregon project" with "Jerry Schumacher" that might be true though, no one has said it's easy.
Actually there was overlap for at least a year. Salazar in part recruited Jerry to be his no2 and assist. Factions within the group grew quickly and, if memory serves, Solinsky breaking the AR on a night set up for Rupp caused the group to fracture fully. Off the bone.
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Kickers usually win wrote:
Every elite 5/10 runner is an aerobic monster. The difference in performance is due to leg speed and stride efficiency. Solensky’s success was not due to out training his rivals.
Leg speed? Leg speed?!?
What century are you living in? It has been known for Quite Some Time that the key to success in these events is Leg Speed Velocity!
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ah, now that you mention it I think I remember something like that, thanks. this wiki page also claims Jerry was considered a potential successor, rather than the leader of a separate training group (as it ultimately turned out to be) at one point.30
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Reality Bites Man wrote:
He wasn’t that big. He was lean and just bigger than the East Africans. I raced him and saw him in person a lot. He looked like a really fit guy, not a linebacker. On the track it was liked forced perspective. On the street you’d say, “that guy is skinny and super fit.”
He had the perfect build and engine for an elite Nordic ski racer; if he'd have grown up in Norway his athletic trajectory might have looked decidedly different.
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good morning to you too and I hope you have wrote:
He was like a linebacker out there compared to a Kenyan. Dropped like 8:40 in high school then sub 13? Wtf?
He was built like a linebacker would be at a really small HS where the linebackers weighed between 155 and 170.
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Hiney Licker wrote:
ringo-starr wrote:
The Oregon Project was the Alberto Salazar group (Galen Rupp and others), wasn't it? Solinsky was with Jerry Schumacher since his time as a Badger at UW. When Jerry left Wisconsin and brought Tegenkamp, Solinsky, Jager, and others west, I seem to remember they were the Bowerman Track Club from the beginning.
The distinction between the Schumacher and Salazar groups was very clear.
If you replace "Oregon project" with "Jerry Schumacher" that might be true though, no one has said it's easy.
Actually there was overlap for at least a year. Salazar in part recruited Jerry to be his no2 and assist. Factions within the group grew quickly and, if memory serves, Solinsky breaking the AR on a night set up for Rupp caused the group to fracture fully. Off the bone.
this is well played
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Webster Tube wrote:
Solinsky saw Dr. Brown for thyroid medication without medical necessity.
This is for maximizing micro dosing juice and to keep the thyroid in check while using HGH and off-lr3
for all the people wondering what the new drug is that is making all the euros and Americans fast….MOTS-C “mitochondria peptide”. I’m sure adding this to some micro dosing epo would get you some 90s era results
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TMADDDHASFNE wrote:
His downfall was man’s best friend. He tripped and fell coming downstairs because of his dog. He never recovered from this accident.
He had to have something preexisting for that to be the final straw that broke the camels back. Probably from Jerry's training being too intense all the time and potentially from thyroid medication, it was a make it or break it type of training.
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Jaeee wrote:
good morning to you too and I hope you have wrote:
He was like a linebacker out there compared to a Kenyan. Dropped like 8:40 in high school then sub 13? Wtf?
He was built like a linebacker would be at a really small HS where the linebackers weighed between 155 and 170.
holy heck, I forgot or never knew that his 8:43 was split 4:27/4:16.
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Once a month we see a thread about how much of a lardass Solinsky was and you idiots scratch your heads wondering how he ran sub 27 while drinking a milkshake
You guys have mental disorders. Solinsky would be the smallest guy in any midwest bar. He had great musculature and didn't starve himself trying to be an elite athlete. Did he look like Asbel Kiprop or Klosterhafen? No. Would he hand with any American elite today? Yes
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It makes people around here really nervous when a guy who doesn't look like Konstanze Klosterhalfen runs fast...
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Hiney Licker wrote:
Actually there was overlap for at least a year. Salazar in part recruited Jerry to be his no2 and assist. Factions within the group grew quickly and, if memory serves, Solinsky breaking the AR on a night set up for Rupp caused the group to fracture fully. Off the bone.
I feel like they were fully distinct groups already when Solinsky ran his 26:59, but one of the best things about that race was how furious Salazar was that Schumacher hadn’t “disclosed” Solinsky’s awesome fitness. Pissed that they’d stolen the moment from Al Sal’s golden boy.
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This will be controversial- but he never medaled on a World stage and only managed one silver on the national stage. I wouldn't call him "so good".
As we have seen the last couple years- running fast time trials is the easy part, winning remains hard.812 -
shootpost wrote:
This will be controversial- but he never medaled on a World stage and only managed one silver on the national stage. I wouldn't call him "so good".
As we have seen the last couple years- running fast time trials is the easy part, winning remains hard.
Well it has been the shoes perhaps among other things that have seemed to foster a spree of fast time trials the last few years. But Solinsky was “so good,” as were Mark Nenow and Alberto Salazar. I am not sure they had the skill sets to medal in championship races though.
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Who would you say is the most physically massive distance runner you've seen in person? I believe you once said that Jakob had the opposite effect, that he appeared 5'6" in person.
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good morning to you too and I hope you have wrote:
He was like a linebacker out there compared to a Kenyan. Dropped like 8:40 in high school then sub 13? Wtf?
Solinsky was always massively talented. He ran 14:40 to win Footlocker XC.
The "badger mile" method of counting all easy runs at 7:00 pace (I think that's what it was) also had him running underestimated volume, where his true weekly mileage was far north of 100mpw for years. The dude put in the work. Matt Tegenkamp also ran sub 13 for 5k on the same system when it wasn't normal at all for American men to do that. When Matt retired, it was only Bob Kennedy, Bernard Lagat, Galen Rupp, Chris Solinsky, and Dathan Ritzenhein who had also done it.
In short, Chris came very close to maximizing his potential and his peak was unfortunately cut short by the freak injury.
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