blort wrote:
...What is truly sad is message board posters speculating about something they know nothing about.
Really? What is so sad about ignorant speculation? I thought that's what this whole message board was for.
What does strike me as at least a little bit sad though is folks who take these posts seriously.
Lighten up. It's all moronic fun.
I'd like to see him race a few 800s indoor to prep him for a superfast mile at nationals.
I think people forget that the distances he races are irrelevant when compared with the type of training he's doing. If he's doing mile/5k work, then the 800s are just rare speed workouts, rather than representing any specific type of fitness.
if he wants to race with the best in the future, he's got to be able to run a sub 53 last 400, so 800 seems like a great idea in my p.o.v.
any update on this situation?
doesn't look like things have panned out as planned.
I think the poster makes a lot of sense. Young German comes into OSU setting the world afire and will predictions of world records just around the corner. One year later, under Smith's coaching, where's German? Where are his 2010 marks?? Do you all get the picture yet?
Running on Full wrote:
I think the poster makes a lot of sense. Young German comes into OSU setting the world afire and will predictions of world records just around the corner. One year later, under Smith's coaching, where's German? Where are his 2010 marks?? Do you all get the picture yet?
The strange thing is how secretive it all is. When wheating is out with something you know it. Centro too. Derrick as well. With Fernandez it's a big mystery and it doesn't seem have any good surprizes.
That strategy seems to work against them. 2 seasons ago they were favorites to win cross and got blown away, last season heavy favorites and they barely came out ahead of 3rd ranked Oregon. As a whole they don't come up with much on the track. It just seems that trying to be so sneaky and evasive creates a culture and mentality amongst the athletes that tends to bite you in the butt. You have Derrick and Stanford with a very different mentality and Oregon and their stars all willing to put it out their on the line and both of those programs as well as top runners seem to enjoy a more consistent level of success across all 3 seasons.
Actually, Stanford was the favorite throughout the season.
Just like Webb, Fernandez will be ready when it counts
Endurance wrote:
Actually, Stanford was the favorite throughout the season.
That's right, for some reason I had the cowboys as heavy favorites in my mind and I turned out to be rigth, just barely.
Hard to criticize them when they win.
Common Knowledge wrote:
Hard to criticize them when they win.
what are they winning?