What? My son just pulled out his Sonic the Hedgehog socks and reminded me of Christian Soratos. I Googled him to see what he’s up to only to find out that he’s retired and a barber now. How did I miss this?
What? My son just pulled out his Sonic the Hedgehog socks and reminded me of Christian Soratos. I Googled him to see what he’s up to only to find out that he’s retired and a barber now. How did I miss this?
pacemasker wrote:
What? My son just pulled out his Sonic the Hedgehog socks and reminded me of Christian Soratos. I Googled him to see what he’s up to only to find out that he’s retired and a barber now. How did I miss this?
I mean, he had that one great SR track season but them’s the breaks in our sport: some NCAA standouts like Manzano and Centro score livable pro contracts and win Olympic medals, but most become barbers...
He showed signs of future greatness in that one indoor season when he showed that altitude is no joke, he was a 3:55 miler and even better that time he took off in the 1500m against King Ches and ran a 53 in the middle of the final and maybe a last 1k of 2:20 or so only to be beaten. Real shame that it didn't happen for him in the pros for whatever reason, a bad situation, no motivation, who knows?
They pushed his mileage too high, 50-60 would've been much better than 80-90.
He needed to bring down his 800 to go much faster in the mile.
Great athlete, hope he gets back.
Pipe dreams, Dad. I’m a barber’s son.
max fischer wrote:
Pipe dreams, Dad. I’m a barber’s son.
+100
Love that movie.
If I remember correctly it seems like he had to switch training groups soon after graduation then had some injury issues and I guess he never got enough momentum to stick with it. But also didn’t he make a US final one year?
Juice Springsteen wrote:
If I remember correctly it seems like he had to switch training groups soon after graduation then had some injury issues and I guess he never got enough momentum to stick with it. But also didn’t he make a US final one year?
He and Steph Brown were a thing at Big Bear, then I think they moved to Montana together before they broke up and now she's engaged to some Akron coach, but I had no idea what happened to him.
Noah Lyles rocks the Sonic socks.
max fischer wrote:
Pipe dreams, Dad. I’m a barber’s son.
LoL just watched that for the hundredth time about 2 weeks ago.
People don't understand that life happens. A huge percentage of the time, people have things in their life that interfere with their running and means they have to focus on a job, relationship, family, etc. For example, I know alot of the top college guys and most of them have parents paying for every single one of their expenses and only a handful even have part time jobs. Outside factors like family wealth, mental health, job issues, and just luck can make or break someone, no matter their potential. It's the sad truth that most kids with pro potential get gobbled up by life while rich D bags like strangio or teare or silva make it seem like they're completely self made while running 60 mpw. Even things like getting cheated on (parker stinson's poor wife) can make you lose your will to run.
You’re so 2000late
Evert Silva came from a family of undocumented immigrants and had to grind his way through high school in order to go to college and earn a scholarship. Just because someone is confident and finds a way to chase their running dream doesn't make them a "rich d bag"
Where did they leave their documents? If you mean they were illegal aliens, just say that.
insiderbrad wrote:
People don't understand that life happens. A huge percentage of the time, people have things in their life that interfere with their running and means they have to focus on a job, relationship, family, etc. For example, I know alot of the top college guys and most of them have parents paying for every single one of their expenses and only a handful even have part time jobs. Outside factors like family wealth, mental health, job issues, and just luck can make or break someone, no matter their potential. It's the sad truth that most kids with pro potential get gobbled up by life while rich D bags like strangio or teare or silva make it seem like they're completely self made while running 60 mpw. Even things like getting cheated on (parker stinson's poor wife) can make you lose your will to run.
Realistically if you are a 3:40 1500m guy at 22/23 when you graduate from college, what are your odds of being a 3:33/3:34 pro no matter what? Unless you had some string of bad luck (injuries, losing a season to covid) or didn't train (i.e. took you til senior year to run 60mpw), it doesn't happen very often. You have a choice to hang around and be a field filler at nationals but never really a threat to make a team or you can get on with life.
For distance guys it is a bit tougher as they are a couple of years farther from their peak and the marathon pays for a notch down in talent level. If you are a 13:50 guy you can imagine turning into a 28:20 guy and dropping that 2:12 marathon if. you. could get in 4 more years of solid training....
It took a bit to find this after looking at speculation on what happened at Big Bear Track Club.
Ultimately, he had a year at Montana St. after going pro, where his workouts were fast but attitude wasn't right. He then went to Big Bear. Things went bad very quickly and broke down in the first month, but he was stuck with a six month lease. Back at Montana St., he ran a 3:54 indoor mile, a 1 second pr, to crush the B field at Millrose by 5 seconds in a time that wouldv'e been second in the A race. He then ran an easy tactical 3:57. That was 2017. Obviously, regression happened after that. I assume injuries. Stephanie Brown became his girlfriend at Big Bear and followed him eventually to Montana St.
He never recovered from this midrace move he made:
I love watching that race. CS truly went for the win and arguably gave himself a better chance than the 'wait-and-see-what-happens-on-the-last-lap' strategy that everyone else does.
It's one of those races where even though I know ches is going to win, part of me wants to believe Soratos will.
Juice Springsteen wrote:
I love watching that race. CS truly went for the win and arguably gave himself a better chance than the 'wait-and-see-what-happens-on-the-last-lap' strategy that everyone else does.
It's one of those races where even though I know ches is going to win, part of me wants to believe Soratos will.
+100000
This aint it chief wrote:
Evert Silva came from a family of undocumented immigrants and had to grind his way through high school in order to go to college and earn a scholarship. Just because someone is confident and finds a way to chase their running dream doesn't make them a "rich d bag"
Ok, we’ll just settle for “d bag” then.
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Ryan Eiler, 3rd American man at Boston, almost out of nowhere
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion