You guys just want to see someone with white skin do better than someone with brown skin.
You guys just want to see someone with white skin do better than someone with brown skin.
GF double will be hard to match especially when he ran 4:11 the day before. I know for a guy of his caliber, 4:11 is slow but it is still quick enough to make him a little stiff the next day.
As for comparisons, I think LV is going to have a Rupp like career and GF a Ritz like career. Ritz can light it up when healthy but it is hard for him to remain that way. Rupp can grind it out week after week and is way more durable and has steadily improved. Unfortunately in distance running, durablility usually beats superior talent that is injury prone.
Einstien but Indoors Nats is no Outdoors where you would probably have Lutz, Moussa, Rosa twins who beat him last year and so on.. I think you had only 1 guy under 9 in this race besides LV.. Sorry still stand by my statement..
You have to consider that 14:06 in the night before.I don't 't think Fernandez could have done that and still run a 4:00/8:40 with 4 hours rest. That's a crapload of fast running in two days. If he ran much faster than 4:10 he would have struggled to come back for a national record in the 2 mile. I've watched a 3 time NCAA Champ attempt the triple at Big 10's where he had to run a 4:08 mile and a slow 3000 final the same evening, a mile final, which might have been slow which meant an all out sprint finish and run about 14:17 in the 5000. Lactic acid lingers, legs go dead.
You can recover from an all-out mile in an hour and a half for another pr. effort in a two mile. But put a 5000 all-out the day before?
free beer wrote:
You have to consider that 14:06 in the night before.I don't 't think Fernandez could have done that and still run a 4:00/8:40 with 4 hours rest. That's a crapload of fast running in two days. If he ran much faster than 4:10 he would have struggled to come back for a national record in the 2 mile. I've watched a 3 time NCAA Champ attempt the triple at Big 10's where he had to run a 4:08 mile and a slow 3000 final the same evening, a mile final, which might have been slow which meant an all out sprint finish and run about 14:17 in the 5000. Lactic acid lingers, legs go dead.
You can recover from an all-out mile in an hour and a half for another pr. effort in a two mile. But put a 5000 all-out the day before?
The 5k was two days before... big difference.
Missed that. Throw it out. Still go with German's double then.
Please, I once Doubled a 4:06 1,500 and then came back a half hour later and ran a 1:59 800 to win both. BOOm
Lukas isn't a true American...German is. Edge to our guy - GF!
This is all weaksauce. I ran the 1600, 3200, and 800 in middle school and won all of them, setting school records in all three events. Ok, maybe that's just a tad more impressive, but I'm still proud of being the first kid to hit puberty and get fast in my grade.
shoe guy wrote:
free beer wrote:You have to consider that 14:06 in the night before.I don't 't think Fernandez could have done that and still run a 4:00/8:40 with 4 hours rest. That's a crapload of fast running in two days. If he ran much faster than 4:10 he would have struggled to come back for a national record in the 2 mile. I've watched a 3 time NCAA Champ attempt the triple at Big 10's where he had to run a 4:08 mile and a slow 3000 final the same evening, a mile final, which might have been slow which meant an all out sprint finish and run about 14:17 in the 5000. Lactic acid lingers, legs go dead.
You can recover from an all-out mile in an hour and a half for another pr. effort in a two mile. But put a 5000 all-out the day before?
The 5k was two days before... big difference.
I've always felt more dead two days after a race than one day after.