It always surprises me when an athlete has one fabulous breakout year and everyone expects they will just automatically return to that standard or just keep getting better.
Its like Mu and Keely. You'd think two 19 year olds running 1.55 then would have to be better and totally dominate this year but it rarely works like that.
Like when COVID postpone everything a year there were two youngsters dominating their events where being a year older you'd think they both be more dominant the next year. Brazier and Mondo but I said I thought only one of the two would.
It always surprises me when an athlete has one fabulous breakout year and everyone expects they will just automatically return to that standard or just keep getting better.
Its like Mu and Keely. You'd think two 19 year olds running 1.55 then would have to be better and totally dominate this year but it rarely works like that.
Like when COVID postpone everything a year there were two youngsters dominating their events where being a year older you'd think they both be more dominant the next year. Brazier and Mondo but I said I thought only one of the two would.
I think it’s just human nature and enthusiasm. You are 100% correct, anybody following the sport has seen this pattern over and over and over. Runners don’t progress relentlessly, breakout years are followed by mediocre ones, yet we all keep hoping. I know better, and in my mind this is obvious, but in my heart I was all in on Hocker running 3:28 this year, and who knows, with the right race, running Jakob down in the final 100 at the WC. It almost seemed inevitable. So when he gets beat tonight and can’t break 3:35, it’s a shock to the system, even though we should know better. I think most fans don’t want accomplished but fallible pros, we want heroes…..so maybe Mu will break the world record this summer and Fisher will run down Kiplimo for the gold….hope springs eternal….
It always surprises me when an athlete has one fabulous breakout year and everyone expects they will just automatically return to that standard or just keep getting better.
Its like Mu and Keely. You'd think two 19 year olds running 1.55 then would have to be better and totally dominate this year but it rarely works like that.
Like when COVID postpone everything a year there were two youngsters dominating their events where being a year older you'd think they both be more dominant the next year. Brazier and Mondo but I said I thought only one of the two would.
And it's also May and this is just a rust buster / opener for guys like Hocker.
WTF!? Says the coverage is over... Wasn't even to 1600 of the men's 5k yet.
Yeah, what happened? Who do we complain to?
Relax everyone , this isn't the PGA tour with 30 hours on network coverage . Our IT guy had dentist appointment and took home the power cords for the server . The next event we will buy our own instead of borrowing equipment.
Hocker didn't look great tonight, but I'll give him a pass until pre next week. Would like to see him look more like his old self there
He looked terrible! Think back 12 months ago, he would have spanked everybody in this race.
12 months ago, no, he actually wouldn't have. Hocker didn't win the 3:35 Oregon Twilight race 12 months and two weeks ago. However, he did run marginally faster in Walnut.
It always surprises me when an athlete has one fabulous breakout year and everyone expects they will just automatically return to that standard or just keep getting better.
Its like Mu and Keely. You'd think two 19 year olds running 1.55 then would have to be better and totally dominate this year but it rarely works like that.
Like when COVID postpone everything a year there were two youngsters dominating their events where being a year older you'd think they both be more dominant the next year. Brazier and Mondo but I said I thought only one of the two would.
And it's also May and this is just a rust buster / opener for guys like Hocker.
Hocker will be fine, probably run around 3:30 this year if he goes to Monaco. But this wasn't a rust buster. He raced part of an indoor season, ran that 4x1 mile and paced Teare to a WC QT. The rust was busted long ago. This was just a mediocre race, it happens. All it confirms is something that probably everyone knew anyway: he's not an Ingebrigtsen level talent who can bang out a sub-3:35 whenever he likes, very few people are.
I was at the meet. At the EXACT same time that the stream ended, all the lights at the Mt SAC practice track suddenly went off, even though dozens of runners were still there warming down.
I suspect that whatever caused all those lights to turn off may have also turned off the power to the streaming equipment at the same time.
Why are they not running these races so the wind is at athlete's back final 200? 800s finishing into a direct headwind. Mt Sac Relays never starts from that side for this very reason.
That's not true. Mt SAC Relays started ALL their races at the normal start/finish line EXCEPT for the 2 hour window of races that were shown on TV.
You obviously watched on TV and weren't there in person.