run the cliff wrote:
Ryan Hall ran 59:43 without super shoes, which as Gault has written was a day the stars aligned for a guy who was super talented and trained super hard.
Call me a hater, a jaded, cynical curmudgeon, but I'm sick of hearing our top American men claim to be in sub 60, sub 2:07, whatever shape, then not deliver on race day.
I think this record is overdue to fall on Sunday, the weather looks good, I respect the work Mantz, Klecker, Bor, Pearson, Young put in, and I'm glad we're sending some big dogs to take a swing. But Ryan Hall was a bad MFer and I'm saying his record is still standing when the dust settles.
This, as all the cool kids say, “aged well”.