Heard through the grapevine wrote:
Aside from all the endless, jokey insults about Goucher, has anyone actually heard anything serious about his plans or activities recently?
Why would it possibly matter? The guy is a has-been, at best! Now he has to feed his attention-whore mania off his wife's coattails.
no
no
Question: Who is more washed up?
Option 1: Adam Goucher
Option 2: Alan Webb
Option 3: Dan Browne
Option 4: All of the above.
Answer: Option #4
Dan Brown is done.
no no nothing important is going on it's Webb's time to shine. Maybe he'll set a world indoor 3k record or something equally useless.
Yes, Goucher is finished with his best racing. He won't see another significant PR. That being said, he's still twice the runner of any of the Let's Run posters, so what's the definition of "finished" really?
Dan Browne done? Have you check the 2009 25K National Championships results..I swear this site has more idiots who talk shit than any other running site out there, hands down. Leave the talking to the real authorities in running!
I agree the people om this site are idiots and would give anything to run like Adam, Dan, or Alan.
Being faster than any of the "Let's Run posters" neither is nor isn't refutation of being "finished." Really.
Justin C.. wrote:
Deer Adam Goucher,
Don't Give Up!
Are all of the grammar trolls on vacation?
I went to see Adam at the Payton Jordan invite at Stanford, and he was a no show! What's up with him? He needs to try his hand at the marathon, so he knows where to focus for 2012.
Adam, I know Kara just read you this post. So what's up?
You might have missed the inside joke Deer/Dear but that's OK. There is a shortage of seats on the short bus to go around for this thread so get ye hence.
Hope Adam is done. THen maybe that beautiful wife of his will leave him on a street corner....and I can move in! Just kidding Adam. It is true however I hate Adam Goucher. Do to the lady he spends his life with compared to my labrador I spend my life with. Why should I not hate him!
His wife looks like she just got smacked in the head with a shovel
As he set his 10,000, pr just last year I would say no
pretty? wrote:
His wife looks like she just got smacked in the head with a shovel
I'm sure Kara Goucher can't hold a candle to the women you've slayed, playa! I'm not rolling my eyes at all here.
Just for the record "Sired" means to father not marry.
Let's say he's really done. So? He has won FL, won NCAAs both in XC and track, made Olympic finals, and married well. Lots of people would gladly take that and be "done."
gamecock wrote:
Let's say he's really done. So? He has won FL, won NCAAs both in XC and track, made Olympic finals, and married well. Lots of people would gladly take that and be "done."
a lot of people would gladly take the 13:18 he ran in the heavy wind in canada not so long ago where he basically ran it alone. very few americans can hit that mark in perfect rabbitted conditions in europe.
but in the world of letsrun if you're not ready to at least crack an AR or be a new kid on the block with seemingly unlimited potential (wait 5 years to see how unlimited that really is) you are done.
most if this is because we live vicariously through these guys and if we decided to hang 'em up at 14:01 or 14:42 or whatever and have always wondered since then what we could have done "only if" (only if nike spotted my talent, only if i had an alter g, only if salazar was my personal coach, only if i could have worked out with so and so, etc. etc.) then how can we painfully watch someone with more talent and more heart continue to go after it and believe in themselves when the future is much less than certain.
the issue here isn't goucher, it's a bunch of insecure, miserable dreamers and hangers on. if you decided to let it go, then LET IT GO. take yourselves out of the fantasy and simply observe, you might experience some joy and appreciation rather than jealousy and anguish.