Ritz Talks A Big Game... Just Like Rosario.....

No Cheeseburgers Please wrote:

have to say it..... wrote:

Some of you may remember a race on Leap Day last year in which 3 of the top 8, including the winner by a good margin, were from Rosario's group. Out of the entire United States, only 5 others from all groups, coaches, and sponsors combined, got over the line before their 3rd. Good thing Schumacher doesn't have too big a mouth, since in that race, and another race held the same day some of you may also remember, he didn't get anywhere near that kind of team score. Seems to me Rosario should be talking a bigger game than he is.

no idea what you are talking about, bennie

This dude forgot about the Olympic Marathon Trials! Everybody point and laugh!

Ritz ran well from 5k on up. I don’t expect much from his coaching abilities in the mid distances. He’s likely gonna get more out of grinders like Klecker because that’s the exact type of runner he was.

Criss cross wrote:

Ritz ran well from 5k on up. I don’t expect much from his coaching abilities in the mid distances. He’s likely gonna get more out of grinders like Klecker because that’s the exact type of runner he was.

Maybe. He's done pretty well with Hoare, though. Although Hoare is a bit of a middle-distance grinder.

Criss cross wrote:

Ritz ran well from 5k on up. I don’t expect much from his coaching abilities in the mid distances. He’s likely gonna get more out of grinders like Klecker because that’s the exact type of runner he was.

Ritz's best event was 3000/2 mile.

quavo wrote:

No Cheeseburgers Please wrote:

no idea what you are talking about, bennie

This dude forgot about the Olympic Marathon Trials! Everybody point and laugh!

Rupp won the Olympic Marathon Trials. He is not coached by Rosario...

malmo wrote:

Criss cross wrote:

Ritz ran well from 5k on up. I don’t expect much from his coaching abilities in the mid distances. He’s likely gonna get more out of grinders like Klecker because that’s the exact type of runner he was.

Ritz's best event was 3000/2 mile.

If we are going by PR’s his best event was easily the 5000m. 12:56 is super to his 2mi and 10k PB’s

Lenny Leonard wrote:

quavo wrote:

This dude forgot about the Olympic Marathon Trials! Everybody point and laugh!

Rupp won the Olympic Marathon Trials. He is not coached by Rosario...

Went over your head.

malmo wrote:

Ritz's best event was 3000/2 mile.

A 12:56 5000m displayed his best fitness.

Jack Daniels Calculator wrote:

malmo wrote:

Ritz's best event was 3000/2 mile.

A 12:56 5000m displayed his best fitness.

Maybe by the calculators, but they favor the shorter distances. His best performance was his 60:00 HM, bronze @ worlds.

His fitness was better for 10k. He could not hold together for a good one.

His 27:22 in Berlin WC was impressive. Probably good for close to 27 in ideal conditions.

lookism wrote:

His fitness was better for 10k. He could not hold together for a good one.

His 27:22 in Berlin WC was impressive. Probably good for close to 27 in ideal conditions.

I agree.

His 60:00 for 3rd, 27:22 for 6th slightly edge out the 12:56 in his career accomplishments in my view, given the conditions for all those races. Maybe his WC Jr Bronze is up there but I hesitate to ever put junior accomplishments in the mix.

This just isn't completely true. Beamish got up to 70-80 MPW at times, when he could string together some training.