sdsd wrote:
the description of the youtube video says the time of the workout
"Northern Arizona's Nico Young puts in the work in Flagstaff, Arizona one week prior to his 3:57 mile at altitude and two weeks prior to his 5k run at BU."
faux accent? wrote:
What is with Smith’s way of talking? I can’t tell if he has an accent (it’s not a Massachusetts accent) or if it’s just a super affected, faux-casual sort of delivery.
I showed the video to my wife. She said that it wasn't an accent, it was a persona.
This article is about Ryun in Mexico City. The IOC strictly limited the amount of time non-altitude athletes were permitted to train at altitude in 1968 before the games. That gave an enormous advantage to altitude athletes. This was on grounds of fighting professionalization of athletes. I think that Ryun was permitted a couple months at altitude that year, but nothing close to the games themselves. As for the 1500m final, Ryun was coming back from mono and a hamstring injury. He hung back as Jipcho set a fearsome pace but he should not have hung back behind the whole field, as it cost him drafting help and put him way back.
The second article goes into the altitude training at Flagstaff and Tahoe that Ryun did in 1968, but doesn't give a full count on time at altitude. It's really too bad that he didn't run the 800m at Mexico City, as he probably would have crushed it.
