His 8084 performance last year was phenomenal for him (he was basically adding up all his PRs). Again last weekend he basically did the same (add up a whole new set of PRs).
Like the last poster said, maybe in Beach's case, you can indeed add his PRs.
If that's the case for him (being incredibly consistent over 2 days), then he'll end up being one of the very best...
well crap. He could probably scare 4:05 in the mile with that time.
TrackCoach wrote:
Gfrffrfccf wrote:I actually didn't realize how amazing 6,138 points is. That's the 7th best performance in US history!!! Most of the guys ahead of him are obviously not competing anymore.
He is improving very fast in substantially all events (especially the PV). Can he make the US team this summer? But the more interesting question. Can he run sub 3:50 in the 1500?
It would almost be impossible to make the USA team this year becasue Clay, Hardee and Eaton stands in his way...they are the 3 best in world. Also, a full dec is a slightly different animal.
The problems for Beach are that:
1) He will not get nearly as many points in the 1500 as he does in the 1000m; although he will get a bunch in the 400 as well, so will a lot of other guys.
2) There are three more events and two of them are throws, where he gives up gobs of points; given that he has a weak PV (at the USATF level) despite three PRs makes this even more of a problem.
3) His HJ is weak by USATF standards (1.99/6-6.25) and his speed does not carry over to the hurdles (yet). FOr instance, he had a 7.03 60 but only an 8.15 60h (1.12 seconds) while Cato, for instance, had 7.08/7.91 Delta = 0.83 seconds.
Still, he did stunningly well, enough to easily get the Silver at the WIC for his total.
What is also stunning is how good the college guys are at the Hept now. In addition to these two, there is also Nixon (frosh), Lazas, Horn (got hurt while leading after five events), Olson (another FR). And. lets not forget that Eaton just left the college ranks. In a five-deep or ten-deep contest, the US might beat all all-star team (although there are several good deca guys that did not do the indoor that would score well).
TrackCoach wrote:
It would almost be impossible to make the USA team this year becasue Clay, Hardee and Eaton stands in his way...they are the 3 best in world.
Perhaps not for long. Beach may own the event by 2016. Also, it would not be unusual for one of those three, Clay particularly, to come down injured.
I'm no multi sport guy, but maybe part of the reason he is able to do so well across so many events(PRs in almost everything) is because he has an endurance background as opposed to a anaerobic background. So he doesn't tire as much from so many events in one weekend.
He bleeds points in the throws... No way he makes the team this summer, USA is way too deep in this event. He has jumped 6'9" in a multi before.
Curtis is a great kid and fun to watch because he never gives up. The Hep and the Dec are two different animals. I think he can take the NCAA dec title this year for sure, no disrespect to Horn.
I love watching him run the 1k and 1500. He might be the only multi guy who gets off on running it.