Our distance runners in this country are a joke. Until we get serious about World XC and training hard in the best places to train like Kenya then I refuse to believe we are serious about trying to win. Please do not confuse trying to win with what most of these guys are trying to do - make our Olympic team. Big difference!
What are YOUR PR's? Can YOU make the World X-C team? I KNOW I can't.
Well...? I'm waiting to hear.
Yeah! And also don't be commenting on the President until you're the president, and no talking about football until you play football, and no comments about music unless you're a musician, etc., etc.,
XC is just a warmup act to the track season.
My pr's are pretty good but I am not good enough to make the team. That has nothing to do with what I just said.
For those saying that xc is a warmup for track - it is a meet that the other distance runners in the world take seriously. Why not the Americans? Too soft!!
What? YOU again?
You're a fool. It's the resposibility of the sport fan to cast his opinion. This site wouldn't even exhist if it wasn't for running fans.
I agree. American ditance runers are a joke on the world level.
Well? wrote:
What are YOUR PR's? Can YOU make the World X-C team? I KNOW I can't.
Well...? I'm waiting to hear.
The most illogical argument EVER.
Well then its a good thing we have distance runners and not "ditance runers"
Oh, by the way, we are pretty damn good. I'd put us behind Kenya, Ethiopia, and Morocco and maybe Japan if you count 10k-marathon depth. But that's it. 4th best country in the world.
What is this superiority complex that we have that we must be the undisputed best at everything we do? Distance running is just one of those.
No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us.
no, i think the rest of the world is laughing at us because we're not sending full teams to a worldwide competition.
Americans are a provincial thinking group. As long as they conquer their backyard, its good enough. The world begins and ends right here.
Their dread fear of travelling to a "terrorist haven" like Mombasa is quite telling.
"Liberate" the rest of the world and tremble in fear at home. Ironic isnt it?
One eventually wonders if it fear of attack or fear of real competition that makes them stay home.
Either way, GUTLESS.
midwesta wrote:
no, i think the rest of the world is laughing at us because we're not sending full teams to a worldwide competition.
And because the US thinks it's the 4th best distance running nation in the world behind Ethiopia, Kenya, Morrocco and Japan... what a crock.
midwesta wrote:
no, i think the rest of the world is laughing at us because we're not sending full teams to a worldwide competition.
No one's laughing because no one cares about distance running.
What about the other countries that have kenyan runners racing for them are you better than these countries?!?!
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Plus other African countries such as Tanzania and Eritrea
Think you might be a little further down than 4th!!