I've never, ever read anything hateful on this board towards Solinsky. He gets more all around respect than Prefontaine. I think posters (like me) just question his wisdom. And this news justifies it. Why the hell was he doing such high volume, high intensity workouts in the winter and early spring of 2010 that led him to 26:59? It was great. but its the freakin spring of an off year. Then he ramped things up from there. I remember vividly posting at the time basically saying 'Amazing, but I hope the hell he knows what he is doing'. Schumacher was coaching him so I kind of assumed he did know what he was doing. Maybe the injury would have happened anyway and it was just fate. But I suspect if he had just taken it easy through 2010 and god forbid only run something like 27:40 at Payton Jordan he would have stayed healthy and then could have unleashed his 2010 Payton Jordan performance at USATF and in Daegu. Then be healthy to experience running in the Olympics.Not taken anything away from him. His Payton Jordan performance deserves to go down in US running lore. As does some of his Diamond league performances and last year's USATF. Just pointing out, it was freaking Payton Jordan. Its like watching a baseball player hit 40 home runs for the season but 20 of them come in the month of May.
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kudos to the OP. once again a message board poster scoops everyone, as in the vig story.
It is surprising to me that he hasn't recovered from a September surgery to be in good shape by May, so that must have been a long recovery. Is he really recovering or is there more surgery to come? It gets worrisome when athletes are not able to compete 7 months after an injury other than ACL or rotator cuff. I have no idea where the hatred for this guy comes from. He embodies all the incredible hard work and performance that this board wants. 12:55/26:59 AR and hatred. I don't get it. Good luck to him and I hope he runs 12:49 next year.