Where's German?

Pac-10 is for men wrote:

And understand mine before you do. People said the same of Centro last year. Centro wasn't a no show for the final, he was a no qualifier out of semi's because he was injured. People called him a choker or p@ssy etc until he wasn't able to race at USA's. The same things could be said about German, which makes it hypocritical.

Someone said German was faking injury to avoid competition.

I said the whole Oregon team was faking injury to avoid German.

You said the same could be said about German.

You can't counter a counterarguement with same statement.

Five demerits for Griffindorf.

Penalty upheld, first down.

I watched those Oregon guys for three days at the Penn Relays. They sure as hell don't back down for anyone, and they sure as hell wouldn't duck a German.

Instant replay, call reversed...penalty holds, 1st and Goal at the 1.

The newspaper from Riverbank has said, "That he is in training for the Big 12 Championships on May 12th." Hopefully this is the case! The Stillwater 10k was nothing more than a tune up tempo run for him and his teammate.

soft surface wrote:

While dirt is great for a fairly strong runner, if you're injury prone I'd take running on bark dust any day, much lower impact. Oregon also has quite a large indoor and outdoor astro turf scene for someone coming back from injury.

Where are you ninnies getting the notion that a soft surface reduces one's risk of injury? That's flat out wrong.

RELAX!!!

I can't think of any high school phenon who was able to put together an injury free (-or equally successful) freshman and sophomore in the NCAA. Either they had a great freshman year or an off sophomore season or vice versa.

Go back and look at:

Acosta

Derrick

Tebo

Ferris

Luke

German

Centro

Finnerty

Galen

Ritz

Solinski

Primm

Coe

AGoucher

Jager

Teg

Hall

Webb

Torres

Brasovan

Chetelat

Badcock

Kosinski

Lambie

Jillian Smith

Donohue

Kara

Barringer

Fleshman

Rowbury

Price

Tauro

Blood

Lawrence

EInfeld

...new coach, new training, new food, new surroundings, new routine, new everything...

Sometimes it takes a season to adapt, sometimes they over adapt and have a great first season and it catches up with them the second season. Whatever the reason, almost none of the blue chippers put together two great seasons and usually it is becasue they were injured one of those seasons.

he's redshirting outdoors; but he will be back, bitches!!!

HC wrote:

soft surface wrote:

While dirt is great for a fairly strong runner, if you're injury prone I'd take running on bark dust any day, much lower impact. Oregon also has quite a large indoor and outdoor astro turf scene for someone coming back from injury.

Where are you ninnies getting the notion that a soft surface reduces one's risk of injury? That's flat out wrong.

I ran on the Eugene bark trails when there for the marathons around 1979/80 and feel they were a terrible surface to run on, very soft and like running through mush.

My favorite surfaces are short cropped grass or dirt roads.

Running on Full wrote:

... Just a thought, but I always wondered why he went to a school like OSU when he could have gone elsewhere with more proven coaching and better facilities.

better facilities? Are you joking? Ever hear of T Boone Pickens the self proclaimed biggest Oklahoma State fan in the world? In case you havent been there, lets just say T Boone made damn sure his OSU athletes have it good.

German has the best facilities to work with and probably has a guaranteed job with ol T Boone for a shitload of cash after graduation. Anything for OSU if T Boone Pickens is involved.

Last I'd heard, German was studying his ass off for finals. His education is important to him, too.

I keep checking cowboytrack.wordpress.com to hear more about what German is doing this season. The author is incredibly clever and surprisingly insightful with his rhetoric, but German doesn't get mentioned nearly enough!

Oh yah, http://www.cowboytrack.wordpress.com ive heard of that. pretty legit

Tom Farrell is British.

Tom Farrell is British.

Kirubel is an American citizen

I think we all want to see German run to his full potential off a few solid years of training. But I just don't ever see it happening. I hope he can run world class times off cross training and alter G workouts. Unfortunately for German, he has a formula one engine, but his tires are from Walmart.

I thought Tom Farrell was Welsh, or perhaps, Northumbrian?

Running on Full wrote:

Everything around Stillwater is hard surface, but there are locations like at Oregon where they have near unlimited soft bark trails for delicate runners like German. Just a thought, but I always wondered why he went to a school like OSU when he could have gone elsewhere with more proven coaching and better facilities.

Uh...wrong on all accounts here. PLENTY of soft surfaces around Stillwater, OSU's coaching is just as proven as Oregon's, each school has its success stories and its failures, OSU has top notch facilities which may not be on Oregon's level but are close enough that it does not matter.

soft surface wrote:

While dirt is great for a fairly strong runner, if you're injury prone I'd take running on bark dust any day, much lower impact. Oregon also has quite a large indoor and outdoor astro turf scene for someone coming back from injury.

If the only way you can run and not get injured is by running on soft bark trails then this is not the sport for you. If German can not run on the numerous great dirt roads around stillwater and not get injured then he either needs to change his mechanics/shoes, or quit the sport.

He can't defend a title he shouldn't have won