Honestly I doubt he could break 60. He doesn’t have great turn over, but he has a decent aerobic engine.
Honestly I doubt he could break 60. He doesn’t have great turn over, but he has a decent aerobic engine.
This is the best kind of thread on this generally grim message board.
A handful of posters riffing on a somewhat interesting running related prompt, while a moderator gets into a heated public argument with a schizophrenic
LETSRUN: WHERE YOUR DREAMS BECOME REALITY!
"In the 80s when I was working for my family in the oil fields in
Pennsylvania, I would often run along the new discovered petrogeological
hottspot known as the Marcellus Shale Formation. This specific
petroleum shale is someone wavy and humpy. It goes thru Amish country. I
would run all the way from ny families company pumping unit all the way
to our tank batteries which were approximately 20 miles apart. Half way
in-between, there was a large amish-owned buffet restaurant called
Shady Maple Smorgasbord. Those runs were a big part of my childhood and
very different topography than the Permian Basin in West Texas where
most if my families rigs were and where I did my ither training in the
mid 1980s."
(Re: Alberto Salazar) What? There is no way anyone could be able to run a 4:02 mile without being able to break 60 in the quarter. Being able to average 60.5 for four quarters in a row but not being able to run a single one 0.8% faster than that average? Mathematically impossible! No way anyone runs a competitive mile with that level of consistency between laps.
Mantz ran 337 1500. Average lap well under 59. Hard to imagine he couldn't run 50-51 for a 400. You guys that say he can't run much faster than 60 in a 400 are nuts. He probably has never raced a 400. I was a 3000-10000 runner in college and never raced anything under 800. I was not in the same zip code as him for distance races but even I could run a 52.
Just now he said he worked on his family\'s oil fields wrote:
"In the 80s when I was working for my family in the oil fields in
Pennsylvania, I would often run along the new discovered petrogeological
hottspot known as the Marcellus Shale Formation. This specific
petroleum shale is someone wavy and humpy. It goes thru Amish country. I
would run all the way from ny families company pumping unit all the way
to our tank batteries which were approximately 20 miles apart. Half way
in-between, there was a large amish-owned buffet restaurant called
Shady Maple Smorgasbord. Those runs were a big part of my childhood and
very different topography than the Permian Basin in West Texas where
most if my families rigs were and where I did my ither training in the
mid 1980s."
Hey now, I'll have you know that Shady Maple also has a robust supermarket and is owned by Mennonites, not Amish! - Sincerely, someone who grew up down the street from it and regularly ran laps in its parking lot
I'll never forget the 2023 5000 US champs. Mantz was leading with 1K left. A step behind the leaders with 800 to go. He finished in 1:57 while Abdi Nur finished in 1:51. Slipped from 1st to 10th over the last K.
He's got incredible strength. But his kick is awful compared to track stars. He could train his whole life for the 400 and never break 50.
Wonder what Erik Lindsey could run a 400?
Without the power of prayer? About a minute.
Lies. You couldn’t run both otherwise you’d have been a low 146 800 runner and a low 350 miler with those times.
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