I ran around 9:10 then barely broke 15...lots of injuries cumulative about 1+ years out of 4 that I was on the DL with no running.
Think there is a change that I could be good again?
I still love running as much as I ever did, but thinking about my collegiate career is admittedly depressing.
How old are you?
yes, if you mean the 4:13 high school miler or the 9:15 2 miler who got a D1 scholarship, then quickly disappeared and/or quit? yes...then when they were 25-30 years of age, resurface as a 'local road racing top guy', ie, the 30:30 10k guy who is in the top 5 in all the local stuff?
then the answer is Yes.
Ron Clarke...great junior, then disappeared until age 24.
then broke many WRs
22
I would like to live up to my abilities
Yeah, if you're willing to go for it and can stay relatively injury free, you still have a long time to get where you want to be. Even for the 800 you have still probably have 3 years until your body peaks, and much longer for 5000 and up.
I was state champion in the mile in high school. Had one good year in college, (freshman year); then spent the next 3 years being injured 90% of the time. Fed up, quit running for 3 years, then at age 26 started up again and after a few years was winning or placing in alot of the local road races in a big, metropolitan city. Got road prs of 30:09, 1/2 marathon of 1:07 and marathon of 2:26.
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney
Alan Webb
Lynn Jennings?
I was a fairly solid prep runner, finishing second at my high school state meet and running about the equivalent of a sea level converted 9:15 in the 3200. I became anemic in college and never figured out the problem until just after I graduated. As soon as I started supplementing with iron, I started training intensely, trying to "make up for lost time," which proved to be my undoing as I sustained, as it turned out, a career-ending injury. However, I did get myself into 29:30 10k shape in the process in a short six or eight months. My advice to you -- go SLOW, take your time, and have a multi-year plan trying to revive your career. I didn't have the patience and it cost me. Good luck.
Julia Stamps?
Matt Tegenkamp
Ryan Hall?
relatively speaking
Implications on Stanford's training?
Ryan Hall and Matt Tegenkamp were multiple time all americans. get real.
froosbabba wrote:
Ryan Hall and Matt Tegenkamp were multiple time all americans. get real.
Compared to his peers, Matt Tegenkamp was among the best of the best in high school. While he was a seven-time All-American, he was often injured in college and didn't run near his potential. That potential was shown after college when he ran the fourth fastest 5,000 for an American ever. This puts him into a class that he was not in in college.
Soooo,
Among high school runners when he was in high school he was a top dog.
In college, he was not a top dog, often overshadowed by one or two runners on his own team even and while a threat to place well, never really a favorite to win anything.
Post college, he has once again risen to the level of a top dog.
Matt Tegenkamp. Perfect example.
Cathy Schiro was a wash out at Oregon and then kicked some serious ass on her own.
In comparison to her later career, Deena didn't do much in college -15:50 isn't bad but wouldn't predict an Olympic Bronze and a bunch of AR's in the ensuing years.
Former Highlander wrote:
Mary Decker Tabb Slaney
Alan Webb
Each may have had an abbreviated college career, but Alan won Big 10 xc and was (I think) an all-American in both cross and track that year.
Mary was at Colorado maybe one year, but won the national collegiate xc title (over a misdirected Kathy Mills, if memory serves).
Neither "did *nothing* in college," to quote the OP's question (emphasis added).
Flagpole Willy wrote:
Matt Tegenkamp. Perfect example.
Very bad example Willy. There's some part of 'nothing' you're not grasping.
he was a top 10 runner in the ncaa when healthy... he was top 5 at footlocker... those are pretty comparable to me. also, in college he won us junior nationals and finished fifth at worlds. so no... matt tegenkamp is a bad example.
I hit college hard and did well for a couple of seasons before the crash and burn..then quit completely for a about 10 years with nothing more than some easy jogging. Came back, hit the roads, had fun, made a little money, even ran into Kathy Mills at a nationals cross meet in Portland where we reminisced about the old days. College is tough to survive, with the academic, financial, social and just plain growing up stresses, never mind being in a competitive pressure cooker. I have tremendous respect for those who can balance it all. But, yeah, you can come back and give it a go , anytime. Even if you can't get back your luster, it's better than asking yourself " what if?"