Peachtree Results

He’s airplaning, having fun, cupping his ear to the crowd,thankin Jesus,keeping it real....

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Ryan Hall can do whatever the hell he wants.

When you have the American Record in the Half Marathon, the Marathon, and a Top 10 finish in the Olympic Marathon, and a 2:04 to your name, YOU will also get to do whatever you want.

Hall is like Alan Webb. He could retire tomorrow and be absolutely fulfilled and satisfied that he reached his potential and/or went beyond what was thought possible.

what about abdi wrote:

I don't have an opinion either way about Hall, but it seems a lot of good men didn't do so well today (Braun, Mack, Carney...) so the story simply isn't just about Hall. He may be the poster boy for American running at the moment but I hate to see message boards latch onto his every move, not only because it puts unfair pressure on him, but because it does a disservice to the other guys out there who are working just as hard, putting up decent times, and don't get a lot of press for committing to the same sport that the rest of us love/love to talk about.

And can we also talk about how Abdi is 34 years old and just came in third today?

lol...third? nah dude, look again

agip wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

i know he is not a 10k runner, but hall should be up there with kitwara and kisorio, maybe 5 -10 seconds behind, not 70 seconds behind, i know people will say he is training through it and he probably is, but so are kitwara and kisorio. hall is really good he should not run so poorly like today and his last few half marathons, hall should of blown away all the americans, i dont understand it.

This is one reason Americans don't race much. They have a so/so race in ridiculous conditions (dewpoint 69) and they get this kind of criticism.

By that thought, everything would be peachy if they didn't race at all.

If you don't want criticism, run fast.

What most of you are missing is performance that Ben True put in. Yes, this wasn't the track, but it was a race of guts and toughness, and Ben had a great race and missed the podium by a second or two. When Africans are complaining of the heat, you can bet a guy from Maine and New Hampshire thought it was unbearable.

I know Ben from the nordic ski world...he has a VO2 max, lactate threshold and pain tolerance that is off the charts. He's currently racing with an extra 3-5 kgs of muscle. When he figures out how to compete on the world stage on the track, he'll be a 5k/10k phenom.

hey, I lived in NH for a while - it can get fairly hot and humid up there. Right now, the dew point in Hanover is 63.

All credit to True - he is having a super year.

Creeper wrote:

douglas burke wrote:

nice to see kidane getting back in shape with her win today.

Bro, it really is getting a bit creepy now.

Second this. When a middle aged, single guy is "friends" with nearly exclusively young, African women on Facebook, that's creepy and screams "red flag".

Great run by Ben. I think that time makes him the fastest Mainiac since Bruce Bickford.

Not a link, but cut/paste them onto the message board, because when I go to active.com the screen slides/scrolls down and is impossible to read.

Just the sub-31 men and sub-34 women would be great. Thanks.