The brojo\'s seem to want to say that Ritz is in great shape for the marathon, but even they admit that a 5K 10 weeks out from the trials means nothing. I don\'t get it. Ritz had a good run, he\'s definitely in fine shape, however if it means nothing for a marathon. I put him as a darkhorse to make the olympic team. It will have been 15 or 16 months between marathons. I don\'t care how fast you are or how good of shape you\'re in, that\'s going to be a shock to your system - nothing hurts like a marathon.
I hope he can put it together, because in terms of ability he\'s the second best marathoner we\'ve got and I\'d feel really good about he and Hall hitting the olympic start line, but I\'m not putting any money on Ritz just yet.