Ritz still hasn't had a long period consistent training yet, so this 27:45 could be overlooked I think. Did he go out 15 seconds faster for the first 5000m in this race? Does anyone know his splits? Maybe training for the marathon will make him a stronger runner for running the 10,000, and maybe he'll come back to the 10,000 and break the AR, or maybe he'll do it later this summer.
Flagpole Willy wrote:
the 12:50 I KNOW Ritz is capable of.
26:50 is within his range.
I'll be returning to Dyestat now. Obviously you people are complete amateur tools to being throwing around nonsense like that.
does anyone know what Ritz or any of the other Americans went out in?
thanks
Still trying to get back in shape Wejo? Hows it coming?
Good Luck!
IbelieveIcanRun wrote:
Still trying to get back in shape Wejo? Hows it coming?
Good Luck!
i nearly had a heat stroke today and vowed to never run again. I told someone I was fat and out of shape. But then they corrected me. I'm still starving skinny but out of shape.
Ive never run 28:06 and 2:18 and been there...
But ive been there... :)
Keep on trucking!
Joe
wejo,
I ran into Brad H in Eugene this weekend (Pre Meet), he said that Ritz went out in 13:45. He said something about the pacer being off(uneven..or something).
Jzs & Sarah
The leaders went through the first 5k in 13:35 I think. It's on the results website. It even says who was leading at that point I think. Did Ritz have his own pacer?
Can't say I'm not disappointed with Ritz's effort, even if it was only 10 seconds off his personal best. Time for me to eat some crow because, while I was adamant that Goucher is THE man to beat at 3k all the way up to 10k this year (he certainly seems to be showing it early), I was and definitely still am in the camp that Ritz should be dropping sub-27:30s by now and should be realizing the potential many of us believed he had. He may yet open some eyes this year, but he needs to improve by a full minute to be competitive globally, and that just ain't gonna happen. Maybe Oregon wouldn't be such a bad place for him to shake things up ala Goucher.
congrats to adbi
What I do not understand is why Ritz has not been able to improve his 10k time very much? He ran 27:38 in 2004, then got injured for the rest of the summer. Came back in 2005 off some good quality winter training where he ran well in some euro-cross races. Started out the track season with a healthy 13:22(leading in the rain without splits), then gets injured again. Comes back in the winter, having some good hard solid training until he got that walking pneumonia, and now he's back to running healthy races. He is much stronger now than he was in 2004, but his races aren't reflecting it. Why is this? Maybe his current training regime can only take him so far in the 10k? I imagine there must be another route to improving his times as a 10k runner? Meb set the 10k AR after training for and running marathons, so perhaps Ritz running marathons will help him to come back and become a better 10k runner...?
Is the silence about training schedules normal? Have there been runners who have been more forthcoming about what type of training they are doing, what race(s) they are peaking for, etc? With Ritz, it's just a lot of speculation.
Wow. Who would have predicted Ritz being blown out by this field?
Oh, wait: I did.
Why we have to talk about colour or where who came from? This is running! why not talk about legs souls ditermination and courage?
did anyone notice that everyone in the race seemed to run slower than their p.r.'s or is that just me?