Jim Ryun
Frank Shorter
Bob Kennedy
Galen Rupp
Jim Ryun
Frank Shorter
Bob Kennedy
Galen Rupp
Lynn Jennings
Joan Benoit
Mary Decker
Jenny Simpson
Ryun, Ryun, Ryun, and Webb.
Mount Rushmore is Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt and Lincoln. So who are corollary figures in distance running?
Ryun and Mills make sense in place of Washington and Jefferson. Early leaders of a nation, if you consider the U.S. distance running movement to have begun in the 60s.
In place of Lincoln, the Great Emancipator... Centrowitz? His Olympic gold was a uniting force after a long struggle to make US distance running competitive again. Or something.
Roosevelt didn't do as much to deserve a place on the monument, on paper, but got there for his work inspiring conservation and preservation. Pre makes sense for his spot, for creating a spirit of guts and boldness in U.S. distance running.
Using the same types of arguments for women.. Mary Decker is clearly Washington. There was such a relative drought after her, it gets difficult from there. Maybe SFH is Jefferson? Deena is Roosevelt. Jenny Simpson is Lincoln?
sanchobaile wrote:
Mount Rushmore is Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt and Lincoln. So who are corollary figures in distance running?
Ryun and Mills make sense in place of Washington and Jefferson. Early leaders of a nation, if you consider the U.S. distance running movement to have begun in the 60s.
In place of Lincoln, the Great Emancipator... Centrowitz? His Olympic gold was a uniting force after a long struggle to make US distance running competitive again. Or something.
Roosevelt didn't do as much to deserve a place on the monument, on paper, but got there for his work inspiring conservation and preservation. Pre makes sense for his spot, for creating a spirit of guts and boldness in U.S. distance running.
Using the same types of arguments for women.. Mary Decker is clearly Washington. There was such a relative drought after her, it gets difficult from there. Maybe SFH is Jefferson? Deena is Roosevelt. Jenny Simpson is Lincoln?
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KipGOATge wrote:
doot doot wrote:Please. Lindgren was better than Chapa 🙄
8:40i for two miles and 13:44. 27:11 for 6 miles in 1965 (18 or 19 years old).
Learn to read - Webb, Ryun, Lindgren, Chapa. Lindgren is on there.
I should have said that Lindgren was SUBSTANTIALLY better than Chapa to such a degree that Chapa doesn't deserve to be on the mountain. Why wouldn't Ritzenhein or even Solinsky/Prefontaine deserve Chapa's place on the mountain? (Did Ritz attempt a 10k in HS?)
Chapa was a fantastic runner. His HS 10k and 3k AR are great achievements, but not quite worthy of being immortalized on a national landmark.
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Ryun's achievements are so much more groundbreaking than Webb's that Ryun should eclipse Webb as well.
WEBB, RUPP, LAGAT, CENTRO