Ghost1 wrote:
Dos Braveys wrote:
No denying that he dominates his little fringe niche. But now we have the real truth about where he ranks amongst runners. Sub-elite, able to beat most women, 90 seconds slower than the best high schoolers. Can we please stop with all the nonsense that he is a 4:10 miler and a 2:10 marathoner? Can we please stop with the nonsense that he does 29:40 in a workout, and that he does 5x5000 in 15min?
He's a good runner, not elite. He can beat the snot out of the 50 or so people in his sport, and can be beat by thousands of men, women and children in road racing.
You are on the right track but you are still prone to exaggeration.
However, seeing the children can scalp him is stretching it too far.
US High School List
28:32.7 Rudy Chapa (Hammond, Indiana) 1976
28:55.0 Eric Hulst (Laguna Beach, California) 1976
29:06.8 *Bill McChesney (South, Eugene, Oregon) 1976
29:09.4 ————Chapa 1976
29:09.56 Galen Rupp (Central Catholic, Portland, Oregon) 2004
29:11.0 ————*Chapa 1975
29:11.1 ————*Hulst 1975
29:17.6 Gerry Lindgren (Rogers, Spokane, Washington) 1964
29:27.2 ————**McChesney 1975
29:30.6 ————Hulst 1976
13:37.91 Galen Rupp (Central Catholic, Portland, Oregon) 2004
13:44.0 Gerry Lindgren (Rogers, Spokane, Washington) 1964
13:44.70 Dathan Ritzenhein (Rockford, Michigan) 2001
13:50.55 Nico Young (Newbury Park, California) 2020
13:51.69 ————Ritzenhein 2001
13:52.85 ————Rupp 2004
13:52.8 Steve Prefontaine (Marshfield, Coos Bay, Oregon) 1969
13:55.32 ————Rupp 2004
13:55.65 John Zishka (Lancaster, Ohio) 1980
13:55.96 Chris Derrick (Neuqua Valley, Naperville, Illinois) 2008
Imagine how many hundreds of children in East Africa can beat those times and thus KJ.