Just saw an ad for a 1/4 marathon.
That's pretty close to 26.2 laps on laps on the track.
A quarter marathon- do I see a 1/16th ot a 1/32nd of a marathon in the future.
I can see the headline now
Bolt 9.97WR!! Blake and Powell set personal bests as 3 duck under the magic 10 second barrier in the East Cuddybumfuk Invitational 1/40th marathon.
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4605908#ixzz1wwQAEKst
Maybe if I did a couple of cycles of whatever, I could get down to 10.6 again within a year or two.
From the blocks!
Sprintgeezer wrote:
Reading this thread again, it just occurred to me that in my ACL reconstruction I also had a muscle re-attached to the bone...my hamstring muscle. Not only that, they drilled through a bone and pulled the tendon around, after having clipped it off. I don't have screws, I have a series of staples that will be in there forever.
I'm not trying to directly compare 2 different surgeries--if, in fact, he had any surgery at all, and if he was injured at all--but I am indirectly comparing them. It's just funny that, yes, I also had my hamstring re-attached to the bone, while ALSO having a hole drilled in my bone, and having lost forever a naturally-occurring ligament.
I notice that Gay will be running in NYC this weekend, and that Solinskrap will not. Nobody expects miracles from Gay, all they expect is that he goes out there and tries.
And, being a real man, a real competitor, he will do just that.
Solinsky running now would be like Gay running that meet while being in 10.70 shape, he would never do that.
sprintgeezer. please please please tell me where you plan to run a 5k or an all comers track meet next time so that i can smoke you, and prove to you that distance runners can indeed sprint.
Barakus: "Solinsky running now would be like Gay running that meet while being in 10.70 shape, he would never do that."
You have absolutely no evidence that that is what it would be like.
Tom Gabel wrote:
sprintgeezer. please please please tell me where you plan to run a 5k or an all comers track meet next time so that i can smoke you, and prove to you that distance runners can indeed sprint.
The very suggestion that there is any actual sprinting in a 5k race shows how laughable your challenge is.
If you're a distance guy, I don't doubt that you could smoke me in a 5k. Everybody knows my 5k time sucks, I am not a 5k runner.
I've seen LOTS of distance races, by the best elites in history--and YOU are going to prove to me that distance runners can sprint? LOL! Unless you're somebody like Jeilan, LMAO--and even he only got close.
June 9, 2012
New York City, NY, USA
Tyson Gay 9.90 adjusted 100m
Top 5 in the world this year, after surgery and training for less than a month.
You know how? Because he TRIED.
2014 University of Washington Invitational
Chris Solinsky DNF
I desperately want Sprintgeezer to come out of hiding.
Commissioner, activate the geezer signal!
I think at this point he's flogging himself to death trying to get into shape. So one thing is going to happen, he's going to be so broken down or tired he can't race(probably what we are seeing) or he'll all of a sudden turn the corner. Chris has never been a hard workout next day easy run type of guy, so he's probably going hard everyday. Those of you that know anything about running and or know Chris understand exactly what i'm saying. Those who don't, won't get it. You don't go from being an American record holder to being soft overnight. The problem is that he's at that 30 year old mark and he's not getting any younger so the window is closing.
The people here saying he has no guts or heart don't know Chris and are flat out ignorant. Chris if you're reading this, and I hope you aren't, let your body recover a little bit and things might start coming back.
GO BADGERS!!!
"You don't go from being an American record holder to being soft overnight."
'scuze me bro, isn't that exactly what he did?
"let your body recover a little bit and things might start coming back"
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agree with sprintgeezer
RE: What has been up with Chris Solinsky? 3/8/2012 10:22PM - in reply to bangalangadanga Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
I agree with sprintgeezer here. in order to win a race, you must finish.
and solinsky has a policy about finishing races. his policy: he doesn't.
Read more:
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4480807&page=2#ixzz2sBLdnKQc
Sad, but have to agree.
Anyone want to email me and let me know who this Sprintgeezer is?
I have a satire writer on deck....waiting.
Some of these guys simply refuse to finish if the result isn't what they're looking for.
I'm talking about Solinsky and Rupp getting tripped up and DNFing on the Diamond League, or Centrowitz just having an off day and stepping off the track.
This is both the luxury and the curse of being at the top of (white) American distance running.
With a nice contract, these guys can afford a DNF result or two. For Kenyans running better than Solinsky ever did, a DNF in the 5000 at one meet means no starting line at the next. There's always another guy to take your place, so these guys are running for their livelihoods. They have heart all day compared with the DNF-fests we've seen on the circuit from US runners.