The "contrarian" is to argue that an athlete runs his fastest times when he is "tired". He said he was tired?
No. You’re sidestepping. As always. In an interview he said he could “feel” the earlier 800 while racing the 400. Completely normal. You’re dodging because you were caught with your pants down. Others already asked you how many athletes have set their lifetime, full career 400 PR as part of a double? You act like Cooper is as old as the recently retired Clayton Murphy.
So to "feel" something now means "fatigue"? Yet it's still his best time.
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What I am "hanging my hat on" is that he shows no signs of being world class over the 400, which would be a 44-mid runner. That would require he is capable of 20.5-20.8 over the 200. Nothing he has done suggests that. The same applies to your suggestion he "might not even be sub-45". He is nowhere near that either. I am not interested if he simply lowers his 46.1 pb. I am not saying he can't.
Your claim that he has already made his "3 second improvement" in his 800 time, based on his 46.3 time for the 400, effectively reinforces my point that if he were to now carve a second and a half off his 400 pb - so 44.6 - he would therefore make another 3 second improvement over the 800. It is the same argument.
Not many people are on here asserting he can become a “world class” 400 runner, so you are arguing with the wind, per usual.
Nobody is reinforcing your nonsensical logic. If he is worth 1.4 sec faster over 400 than he was a year ago, it’s simply because he was a 1:46 runner when he ran 46.3. Now he is a 1:42 runner. So that commensurate, hypothetical improvement in the 400 has already happened, even if he hasn’t contested the event since his one appearance last May. This just isn’t difficult to comprehend.
Whatever man, I’m done refuting your BS.
You haven't refuted anything. He was quite capable of running faster over the 800 without having to be faster over the 400. There is NOTHING in his 1:42 that says he will now be capable of 44-mid over the 400. To say he is "worth" 1.4 faster over the 400 - what a strange word, no one is "worth" a time, they either run it or they don't - is a claim he is now world class over the 400. So you are effectively arguing that. If you're simply saying he could better his current pb then you are arguing with yourself, not me. Like Gollum.
Not many people are on here asserting he can become a “world class” 400 runner, so you are arguing with the wind, per usual.
Nobody is reinforcing your nonsensical logic. If he is worth 1.4 sec faster over 400 than he was a year ago, it’s simply because he was a 1:46 runner when he ran 46.3. Now he is a 1:42 runner. So that commensurate, hypothetical improvement in the 400 has already happened, even if he hasn’t contested the event since his one appearance last May. This just isn’t difficult to comprehend.
Whatever man, I’m done refuting your BS.
There is NOTHING in his 1:42
What exactly was the reason you changed your opinion on how to give the times?
No. You’re sidestepping. As always. In an interview he said he could “feel” the earlier 800 while racing the 400. Completely normal. You’re dodging because you were caught with your pants down. Others already asked you how many athletes have set their lifetime, full career 400 PR as part of a double? You act like Cooper is as old as the recently retired Clayton Murphy.
So to "feel" something now means "fatigue"? Yet it's still his best time.
Intentionally obtuse. Any runner knows what he meant. You have no interest in being serious. You just sit there trying to be snarky as the sport moves beyond the glory days of your ancient heroes.
So to "feel" something now means "fatigue"? Yet it's still his best time.
Intentionally obtuse. Any runner knows what he meant. You have no interest in being serious. You just sit there trying to be snarky as the sport moves beyond the glory days of your ancient heroes.
The problem is Armstronglivs isn’t / wasn’t a runner. He’s certainly never done an 800m and / or 400m. His post confirm he has no experience.
Which is why he the only one with “non-real-runner” takes on every thread.
So to "feel" something now means "fatigue"? Yet it's still his best time.
Intentionally obtuse. Any runner knows what he meant. You have no interest in being serious. You just sit there trying to be snarky as the sport moves beyond the glory days of your ancient heroes.
Owens set 4 world records in 3/4 of an hour in Ann Arbor in 1935. He was also carrying a back injury. It seems athletes ninety years ago coped with "fatigue" better than those today who have every modern advantage.
Intentionally obtuse. Any runner knows what he meant. You have no interest in being serious. You just sit there trying to be snarky as the sport moves beyond the glory days of your ancient heroes.
The problem is Armstronglivs isn’t / wasn’t a runner. He’s certainly never done an 800m and / or 400m. His post confirm he has no experience.
Which is why he the only one with “non-real-runner” takes on every thread.
None of your "experience" has made Lutkenhaus faster than what he has so far run. None of your collective "experience" makes him world-class over the 400, which is what a 44-mid runner would be. This is a thread of fantasies.
I am not arguing he won't run faster than 46.1, so don't bother raising that.