John Wesley Harding wrote:
driving me crazy wrote:
Wheating was like 6'6, he's not built for indoor track. And these relay team went out the next day and put down insane times - meaning they probably had more in the tank if necessary in the relay. The 800m leg was a negative split and the 1600 leg was a big negative split.
Yeah and I’m sure Hocker was holding something back while getting beaten by the unheralded Iowa State guy ?
I’m not trying to disparage these guys at all and maybe they are collectively the best mid-d group ever, but no way am I putting them on the same level yet as Centro and Wheating as college seniors.
Centro and Wheating are kind of freak cases in opposite directions. Absent Centro's one meet where he got bronze and Wheating's freak race in Monaco where he ran 3:30. Before those summers, were they that insane?
If, say, Teare wins 5000/3000 indoors; wins 5000 outdoors; Hunter wins indoor mile; James West and Hunter are 1/2 in some order in 1500 outdoors, Reed Brown gets on the podium in mile and 1500; Hocker is on the podium in 3000 and 5000 as a true soph
I think that's clearly as good of a crew as they've ever had.