Slattery breakthru

that is quite superb.

whoever said he'd run 8.09...he seems right on target

you guys are such backstabbers

reoccurring mono?

Where are all of the Wetmore/Colorado cheerleaders. Another of the ridiculous high mileage at altitude training advocates (for a 3000M race distance) bites the dust.

Can't wait for his next interview to hear that, like Ritz, Slattery and Wetmore have decided to take his training a bit more conservatively this fall.

Wetmore doesnt't coach slat anymore dumbass

aarhus wrote:

Where are all of the Wetmore/Colorado cheerleaders. Another of the ridiculous high mileage at altitude training advocates (for a 3000M race distance) bites the dust.

Can't wait for his next interview to hear that, like Ritz, Slattery and Wetmore have decided to take his training a bit more conservatively this fall.

Aarhus, your post supports a point weldon and I were talking about yesterday. The interent has been both good and bad for track and field. Good in the sense that it has totally raised the bar for highschoolers as they now can get tons of info out there and realize what a truly good time is and how others train.

bad in the sense though that now tons of 9:30 guys think they suck. Bad also in the sense that your post illustrates - idiots often needlessly rip people based on results that that they know nothing about.

Take the meet in linz yesterday. Yes Slattery ran awful. However, we dont know what happened. I'm willing to bet taht you weren't in London like we were and you didn't talk to Steve while there. If you had, you'd have learned that Steve injured himself when he clocked a hurdle in the GB-US meet. He was unable to run for quite some time after that.

That was a few weeks ago. I don't know what's been going on since then but the point I'm trying to tell you and others is that simple text results don't show the whole story. Take Stember for example. He ran 3:49. I could say he sucks but then again I don't know whether he just ran awful or perhaps he was tripped. Maybe he was sick. (I actually believe he probably just ran awful but that's not the point)

So please don't draw huge conclusions based on a single result unless you really know what you are talking about. Why needlessly tear down others?

YOur ignorance is laughable. Slattery isnt even coached by Wetmore. He's coached by their former assistant JD.

hey rojo..all people would have to do is keep up, I reported the Slattery injury over a week ago on your website and another..I heard he was going to come back home for an MRI but decided to press on..is he shutting it down or not based on your discussions ?

Either (1) all of the above have never had a bad race and thus have the moral capital to give Slattery both barrels for his, or (2) Slattery's lost 30-odd seconds of fitness in a couple of weeks.

Neither seems a very plausible scenario.

Doh, if you were listening to the play by play on eurosport or fortunate enough to watch it live (I wish), you would have known that it was very wet during the race and that the 1st pacemaker planted his face on the track over the 1st hurdle! If I was there I would have saved myself for another day too...

And one of the Austrian dudes completely died in the last 250m and went from 3rd to 9th. He has a 8.19 PR and just collapsed at the finish and had to have oxygen and stayed there for maybe 10-15 mins before he could get up.

Never saw someone die so badly... weather was calm, but continuous light rain.

That pacemaker's fall on lap 1 looked awful, just never got his leg up and smacked into the tartan face down.

But when was the last time a white guy (new Euro U/23 s/c champ?forget his name) beat a Kenyan and an Ethiopian into 2nd and 3rd in a steeplechase?? Went from 4/5th to first in last 250m and won in 8.21, just off a PR.

8:10 PR not 8:19

Robert:

How about a lesson for the high schoolers reading these posts. Let's suppose that one becomes a top steepler for you at Cornell. Let's also suppose that they "clock" a hurdle 3 weeks prior to Heps bad enough that they are unable to run for two weeks, but start back again the week of Heps. Will you race him at Heps? If so, under what conditions? Do you allow him to drop out if the knee starts to hurt or must he "gut it out" even if totally out of the race?

Like aahrus said..why can't folks keep up with the situation..Slattery was banged up weeks ago..this is his first race back from that and he gamely tried to give it a go so he could see where he's at for Worlds..

he is NOT unfit, he may have had an "off" day..but the more likely scenario is that he is still not right from the knee injury

the difference here is that rojo's "phantom athlete" has only heps to worry about, and rojo knows the injury and will likely take that into consideration when doling out scholarships the next year. Mr. Capriati is in a business, not a charity. that means that when athlete "A" doesn't run well, he doesn't get his contract renewed, or at least gets a reduction. this goes for almost any nike runner, including slattery (exceptions might be BK, MJ (both of them), Mo, etc). thus, the pressure is on, to at least take a chance at running well, even if you don't think you will. you can only get into so many of these meets, slattery did what he needed to do. i would venture a guess that when he knew he was out of it, he just kept going, out of not wanting to dnf, and to get some extra hurdle work in. not a bad idea, and you don't piss off a meet promoter with a dnf. obviously an 8.55 or whatever doesn't impress them, but they are more likely to invite an athlete back who has a bad day but finishes over a dnf any day (unless you're stephen cherono, which, not many are).

give the guy some credit where credit's due, he's had a damn good year, sometimes you wake up without your balls, this obviously was the case for Jersey Steve Slattery. Here's hoping he gets back into form and salvages a great breakthrough season.

I can't believe all you haters on this board. The next time Slatt runs well don't be all on his balls again. One bad race for the American Champion and everyone hates on him. Lets think about the little knee problem he just had. Anyways, don't criticize Wetmore's Program either. All you guys think that it is high mileage. Slatt didn't run that much either and now he isn't with Wetmore so how is it his fault. Slatt had a bad race that is it. He will come back at Worlds and run fast again. My prediction 8:15 at worlds and we'll see. So don't be happy for him when he does good then knock him when he runs bad. We have all had bad days. And who are any of you to say anything. Have you ever won a National Championship? Have you ever qualified for worlds? Have you done half of what Slatt has done. Doubtful, very doubtful.

8:09 -

Why aren't you saying anything about Hudson Santos De Souza?

I mean this guy has run 3:35 and 3:54 and then he runs 4:16 for 1500. I can't understand you guys.

Official Result

Men - 1500 METRES

Pos Athlete Nat Mark

1 Tanui Job KEN 3:35.73

2 Mwangi Paul KEN 3:36.13

3 Kiplak David KEN 3:36.63

4 Mwera Samwel TAN 3:38.37

5 Turnbull Gareth IRL 3:38.52

6 Robison Grant USA 3:38.71

7 Obrist Christian ITA 3:39.19

8 Suleiman Abdulrahman QAT 3:39.20

9 Chékhémani Abdelkader FRA 3:39.57

10 Zegeye Daniel ETH 3:39.62

11 Graczyk Zbigniew POL 3:39.79

12 Kiplangat Samson KEN 3:41.39

13 Árpási Miklós HUN 3:43.36

14 Lebid Sergiy UKR 3:45.93

15 Stember Michael USA 3:49.88

16 Santos de Souza Hudson BRA 4:16.77

I like Slatts also, but man, I wouldn't be setting the bar at 8:15 for Slattery to hit at Worlds. Its not realistic after what we saw at Linz and his injury status, no matter what Brad Hudson says.