Steve Magness

A 3:53 is bad for any elite college runner. Ok, it would be a good time at a D3 school.

We are not hard on US distance runners. Kenyans are running 3:34 1500s at Magness's age.

Magness will be will break 3:40 someday.

Southern Dirt wrote:

If you want to blaim Steve's shitty race on the so called "Humidity" at houston, then I guess the 3 people that beat him should take seconds off their times' as well(even though they were close to P.R.'s if not a P.R.) Magness took the Race out in 58 and died,

I clearly wrote what happened at the Rice meet and all the Magness Groupies get all offended.

and you were clearly, patently WRONG about the conditions, so why should anyone believe the other BS you spout?

which one of the so-called "Mugget Warriors" are you? there certainly weren't many other hangers-on left at the meet by that point

The conditions were fine at the meet, Especially at 8:00 at night with no wind and hardly any humidity. I mean Adam Davis didn't have a problem with the conditions when running a 3:49 there to easily win the race, Raul from SHU P.R.d by 3 seconds, I am not lying about anything.

As For asking which "Mugget Warrior" I am, I would have to say that I am not a member of any Mugget Warrior organization or have any affiliation with Sam Houston.

Magness Sucked...........deal with it, find some other runner to crush on if you can't deal with it.

Who cares about Steve Magness, he ran 4:01 like a year ago, I don't care if he runs 4:09, he is a goofy ugly tool who belongs at Rice with all the other Has Ben's

Southern Dirt wrote:

The conditions were fine at the meet, Especially at 8:00 at night with no wind and hardly any humidity...I am not lying about anything.

Funny how the weather records prove you a complete fool/liar. The humidity was 80-90%.

I said nothing about Magness or anyone else. I simply pointed out your baldfaced lie about the conditions.

Your obsession with a college freshman is your problem. You might want to seek help.

Check it out!

Alright, Lets think about some thing fellas ...

1. There are some pretty over the top things being said here. I mean lets be honest, 3:40 or Under??? That is putting him up with some of the best in the world, let alone the NCAA's. That is not a fair thing to do when there are TONS of other TRUE FRESHMAN out there running much faster than Magness this EARLY IN THE SEASON. I can even name a few from Houston ... Brian Duplechain, Darren Brown, Johnathan Norris, and Matt Munoz.

2. No one here is saying that he is not a good athlete, some people are saying that they dont like him as a person, which I tend to agree with, but obviously the people who are really getting offended quicker and more than they should be are either his teammates or followers. I will agree though that people are right in saying, HE IS NOT A GOD. There is no need for him to be posting his training log online or for people to think that that must be the perfect schedule ... ITS NOT.

3. Finally, I just happened to stumble on here while looking for something else on letsrun.com. Personally I think you should all grow up and worry more about trying to become a good runner yourself than worshipping some guy who ran some very good races. That is not going to make you any better!

Well, thats all I have to say about that. GOODBYE!

dg wrote:

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i agree!

y dont u people like him?

Imarunnaman wrote:

y dont u people like him?

i like him, he is a talented, hard working example of what all future elite distance runners should follow.

I'm pretty happy with my life, my family, my job and my running. It seems like the immature, insecure high school and college boys who have some anger and envy issues that get expressed anonymously on this message board.

and this is what happens when you break 4 or come very near in HS, magness.......people love to hate you

webb gets screwed everyday on these boards, sage, now its magness' turn, eh?

I'm glad you guys love to hate me. I have no idea what I've done to any of you. I ran like crap, very true, but does this affect you in anyway or enough to just flat out bash you? There are reason's for my running like crap though. I'm in excellent shape based on workouts but some things are out of my control. Yes, it's bad timing, but I can't exactly control my allergies or thyroid problem exactly. Thanks to all who took up for me.

Maybe you guys should look at why basically no, or very few, "elite" or even semi-"elite" guys post on here. It's because we get bashed like no other. Maybe if you guys really wanted American's to succeed you'd support all of us, instead of constantly putting all of us down. It almost seems as a lot of you guys get joy out of seeing me fail. Well sorry to dissapoint you guys, but I'm still gonna train my butt off to make sure to not let that happen.

The last thing I'll address is the guy who claims my 4:03 split was a 4:08. First off, I have the whole race on video, so I'm absolutely positive it was a 4:03. Second, if you can't take my word, Go look it up in the Track and Field News Magazine that listed the Arkansas meet. It says in there plain and simple that my split was 4:03.3. Ya, I'm sure they lied too because it's all a big conspiracy, right man??

Alright, that's enough of my rant. So you guys have fun bashing all of us athletes. It's really helping solve the problem of why American's suck at distance running. Maybe if we trash our athletes long enough, they will be good? Oh wait, that makes absolutely no sence what so ever.

To those who support me and the rest of us Americans attempting to close the gap with the African's, I'd like to say thanks. Some day's we aren't going to all run at 100% of our best, but you just have to forget about those days and continue racing and training. You can't get too high during the high times, or too low during the low times. It's all about putting in the work each and every day. That's all we can do.

Hey Steve, way to tell them off. In a weird letsrun kind of way, the moron bashers are actually complimenting you. It works like this:

Runner runs 4:10 - Good strong effort for a local guy.

Runner then runs 4:05 - He is a rising star.

Runner then runs 4:02 - He is the future of American distance running.

Runner then runs 4:00 - He is going to the Olympics!

Runner runs 4:00 again - He hasn't improved upon his best.

Runner runs 4:00 again - He is not getting any better.

Runner runs 4:00 again - He sucks. He should take the blame for the woeful state of American distance running.

See how it works? The 4:05 guy was great, but the same guy at 4:00 now sucks. Webb sucks, Ritz sucks, Suzy sucks, they all suck.

Do not let them get you down. Your future is as bright as antone's right now. They make themselves feel better by putting down people who work harder than they do.

WHo said anything that we bash on elite athletes, I don't think anyone here has a problem with Eric Stanly. He ran 4:03 as a Junior and will probably do better this year.

The reason everyone wants you to fail is your arrogance. Anyone that reads your online log can clearly see you place yourself on some imaginary thrown. Maybe the Rice runner's(Excluding Adam who smoked you last week) believe you to be their King but every other school believes you to be an overated Highschool Cinderella story.

Oh yea, Bye the way, Rumor has it Stanley was offered a full ride to Rice but would never consider being on the same team with you, so he is going to Texas. Suites him better since he may actually IMPROVE in college unlike some people.

P.S. Im glad you read these Posts Steve, because you should know runners don't like arrogant,suck ass Has Been's.

:)

Hey CoCoCo, u sound like a tough guy... why don't u give everyone ur name so we can see who the man behind the bashing is. Come on, who are ya man? Whats your P.R.'s?

rumor has it, cococo listens to john mayer

sjm1368 wrote:

To those who support me and the rest of us Americans attempting to close the gap with the African's, I'd like to say thanks. Some day's we aren't going to all run at 100% of our best, but you just have to forget about those days and continue racing and training. You can't get too high during the high times, or too low during the low times. It's all about putting in the work each and every day. That's all we can do.

Right on. if you have to come on letsrun (and we all know it's an addiction for most of us) just use most of the drivel on this thread as motivation. remember, most of these posters don't have any idea what's going on with you or even how to train to get at the level you're at right now/striving to get to. they put others down to help their own low self-esteem. an athlete on this board is either crap or, when they do run fast times, on drugs. there's no in-between. good luck with the rest of your year.

No one bashes me because I'm not an elite runner.