bizarre, all year long you run time trials and fast races - you finally make it to Nats and you take it out like an old lady driving to church on Sunday. none of these guys are used to this, none train for this. they all looked uncomfortable out there, Abel and Colin were out in the 3rd lane for awhile. Liam was leading for awhile and looked like he was ready to take off and make it an honest race but held back.
I get that tactics are a big part of racing, but you can do tactics AND run in the low to mid 3:40's. once you're in that 3:50 range you're basically throwing all your training out the window and just playing the lottery. ridiculous way for your season to end.
Seriously! How would you feel if you were the collegiate record holder but your season ended in the prelims because you ran over 20 seconds slower than your PR? Talk about regrets.
was it the coach who ordered him to take it out like that? Murphy went to the lead and was almost jogging - im sure everyone else in the race was taking their cues from him. wasn't any coach telling them to make it just a bit more honest? Im not suggesting they run a record pace but at the very least a mid 3:40's pace would have done the job
Birnbaum’s tactics much better than Sahlman’s which were really bad. Maybe he’s been injured. Lots of carnage and surprises in those semis. Taffera didn’t make it either.
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Birnbaum’s tactics much better than Sahlman’s which were really bad. Maybe he’s been injured. Lots of carnage and surprises in those semis.
Birnbaum looked really good at regionals. very comfortable in all the heats. I don't think he's ready to beat Strand or Green but he'll make them work hard.
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Birnbaum’s tactics much better than Sahlman’s which were really bad. Maybe he’s been injured. Lots of carnage and surprises in those semis.
Sahlman seemingly hasn’t been on his A-game this spring but the dude still closed in 50.87 running in lane 2, so you can’t really blame his fitness but rather the fact he was in last place with 400 to go for absolutely no reason. At 300-700-1100-1500 he was 12th-3rd-12th-7th.
Birnbaum on the other hand I can really see placing top 3. He looked great.
bizarre, all year long you run time trials and fast races - you finally make it to Nats and you take it out like an old lady driving to church on Sunday. none of these guys are used to this, none train for this. they all looked uncomfortable out there, Abel and Colin were out in the 3rd lane for awhile. Liam was leading for awhile and looked like he was ready to take off and make it an honest race but held back.
I get that tactics are a big part of racing, but you can do tactics AND run in the low to mid 3:40's. once you're in that 3:50 range you're basically throwing all your training out the window and just playing the lottery. ridiculous way for your season to end.
Seriously! How would you feel if you were the collegiate record holder but your season ended in the prelims because you ran over 20 seconds slower than your PR? Talk about regrets.
Dude. If they didn't make it out of the prelim, they were just not good enough. Enough with these poor excuses. "Oh if they made it faster...." it wouldn't have changed anything
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Abel Teffra and Liam Murphy got on an airplane from the east coast and flew all the way to Eugene… to do that. I would assume this was not the outcome they were hoping for. Undoubtedly they must have faced a minor training setback or illness, because every athlete does. It’s about who can manage adversity.
To both of them, a sad way to end great college careers.
Abel Teffra and Liam Murphy got on an airplane from the east coast and flew all the way to Eugene… to do that. I would assume this was not the outcome they were hoping for. Undoubtedly they must have faced a minor training setback or illness, because every athlete does. It’s about who can manage adversity.
To both of them, a sad way to end great college careers.
They ran like they took a rental and ate fast food the whole way
"Oh if they made it faster...." it wouldn't have changed anything
I completely disagree. Just like I don't think Centro would have won the Olympic Gold without that exact type of race. But, it was and it is so I can't take anything away from him or these collegiate qualifiers.
A distance runner will have to explain the distance mentality of sit and kick to me. Every runner in the first heat has run 10 seconds faster than the winning time. Why not just at your fullest capacity and try to PR, instead of intentionally running slow and missing out on finals.
The mentality is that American, male middle distance runners are TERRIFIED of leading a 1500m race early. Not being able to draft off others during the first two laps is the worst thing in the world to them. This fear causes them to lose their ever freaking minds. Or something like that.