Ritz is leaving the Oregon Project

Yet you have never actually met him in person,we've been through this before A Duck.....

A Duck wrote:

Actually Ritz has been mentioning for at least a year or more that he missed his home area.

Happy for him.

Salmon must return from the stream they were spawned, or something.

Ritz is an all around GREAT guy on a team of GREAT guys.

How can you really still post after you were outed as nothing but a liar?

good for Ritz wrote:

le pigeon wrote:

so, the real question is who will Saladbar get to proctor the Ducks distance crew works now that Ritx is leaving?

What is proctoring?

It's banned in Texas.

will Ritz have an altitude tent in Michigan?

yeah it's not like he has another 50-60 years to do that...

Skooled wrote:

Good for them. They are thinking about their lives beyond running.

strike while you can wrote:

yeah it's not like he has another 50-60 years to do that...

His whole life he's been Ritz the Runner. What if he wants to instead be daddy Dathan now? You guys have to understand that running is not everything. Dathan ran 8:40/13:44 in HS, won two FL national titles, made three olympic teams and was a catalyst in the resurgence of American Distance Running.

What more could you ask of someone?

yis wrote:

strike while you can wrote:

yeah it's not like he has another 50-60 years to do that...

His whole life he's been Ritz the Runner. What if he wants to instead be daddy Dathan now? You guys have to understand that running is not everything. Dathan ran 8:40/13:44 in HS, won two FL national titles, made three olympic teams and was a catalyst in the resurgence of American Distance Running.

What more could you ask of someone?

You just set yourself up for some big time trolling.

He was pretty good before he went to Oregon. Funny how Al S's people seem to become injury-prone, the leave.

Ritz is awesome. Plagued by an injury-ridden career, he still managed an NCAA XC championship on very little training, a 12:56, 1:00, 2:07, three Olympic teams, 6th at the IAAF world championships, 9th in the Olympic marathon, and three national XC titles as a pro, running under three different coaches. I would hope that 2016 would be his swan song, but if it's not, he left very few stones unturned as a pro, other than world cross.

He is correct in wanting to move his kids now before they start making their connections. And, frankly, the time away from doing brutal interval sessions will probably be good for him, especially if his primary focus will be the marathon exclusively.

I have been part of this sport for over 60 years as runner, coach and fan, and I don't think any performance awed me more than Ritz's Footlocker win at Disneyworld when he CRUSHED Alan Webb and Ryan Hall. They disappeared from view just past two miles with Ritz up about ten yards on Webb. When we saw them again half a mile later he had put twenty seconds on Webb. Stunning.

I love the fact that he and his wife want to go home. Portland - and Eugene - are great places to live, so their choosing their old hometown says a lot about it - and them. I should think every follower of U.S. distance running would wish them only the best.

Who will Luke P do long runs with now?