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He was more of a pure endurance guy who didnt have a kick before his final year of college. He worked on his weakness and improved his kick later on.
Rjames_mile wrote:
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Cause he didn't run a rabbited 2 mile when in peak shape. That 13:37 was a bit of an outlier performance wise. His 4:02/8:04/29:10 line up much better. Some combo of having a great day, rabbiting,... resulted in a performance like 6-7s faster than than what you would expect.
I am sure he could.
13:37 = 8:42/8:45 3200/2 mile pace. He ran 8:03 , which converts to sub-8:40 around the time of his first 5000 attempt in 13:55.
So Webb could run 3:53 in HS, but not under 8:40. Why? Ryun ran 3:55, but not under 9:00. ,Why?
dadsfadsfdasfdsafdas wrote:
Rjames_mile wrote:
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Cause he didn't run a rabbited 2 mile when in peak shape. That 13:37 was a bit of an outlier performance wise. His 4:02/8:04/29:10 line up much better. Some combo of having a great day, rabbiting,... resulted in a performance like 6-7s faster than than what you would expect.
Many HS runners have put up great times without pacers. German Fernandez ran 8:34 while leading every step of the way. Virgin and Pre's HS records were effectively solo runs.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
dadsfadsfdasfdsafdas wrote:
Cause he didn't run a rabbited 2 mile when in peak shape. That 13:37 was a bit of an outlier performance wise. His 4:02/8:04/29:10 line up much better. Some combo of having a great day, rabbiting,... resulted in a performance like 6-7s faster than than what you would expect.
Many HS runners have put up great times without pacers. German Fernandez ran 8:34 while leading every step of the way. Virgin and Pre's HS records were effectively solo runs.
And yet the fastest times are all in rabbited races. What is Webbs PR in a HS race verus the pros? Verbicas 2mile versus German?
Rjames_mile wrote:
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For one, they don't run the 3200m in OR.
Any runner who can run 13:37 can go sub 8:40. The reason it wouldn't have happened is they didn't attempt when in the 13:37 shape or didn't find the right race. You're talking about running about 3 secs a mile faster and shortening the distance by 35%. It doesn't matter how slow-twitch you are, sub 8:40 would have been doable.
Why didn't Chapa run sub 8:40 when he was a 28:32.7 guy, because his PR was 8:51. Probably because they both had their bigger goals in the 5000 and 10,000 and didn't target a super fast 2 mile.
But Rudy totally could've broken Virgin's 2 mile record.
Rjames_mile wrote:
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Didn't doesn't mean couldn't.
dadsfadsfdasfdsafdas wrote:
SDSU Aztec wrote:
Many HS runners have put up great times without pacers. German Fernandez ran 8:34 while leading every step of the way. Virgin and Pre's HS records were effectively solo runs.
And yet the fastest times are all in rabbited races. What is Webbs PR in a HS race verus the pros? Verbicas 2mile versus German?
Rupp wouldn't have needed pacers to break 8:40. You think that Virgin could run 8:41 on a hot day without any any help, but Rupp would need pacers to break 8:40? Virgin's other PRs were 4:05/13:58 and Rupp's were 4:01/13:37. You must think Rupp is a wimp.
Rjames_mile wrote:
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You’ve seen his name written probably hundreds of times, yet you still can’t spell his name correctly?