nice try, but he underestimted his competition and overestimated his racing fitness. To make your first race of the season in late June with the World Championships on the line took alot of guts. (I know about his being in med school).
nice try, but he underestimted his competition and overestimated his racing fitness. To make your first race of the season in late June with the World Championships on the line took alot of guts. (I know about his being in med school).
I haven't heard him ask for sympathy. Did you?
And technically it wasn't his first race, the prelims were...
Jeez, how could he put medical school ahead of Nationals?
Oh, wait, he wants to be a doctor - how quaint.
you are a true idiot. he is lucky to have done as well as he did. there is little time for elite training the first 3 years of medical school. think before you speak.
He would have raced a few times, but had some injury problems!!!
[quote]eric heiden wrote:
you are a true idiot. he is lucky to have done as well as he did. there is little time for elite training the first 3 years of medical school.
uh..not quite. I guess you never heard of Roger Bannister who ran the 1st sub 4 minute mile while in med. school and then won the 'mile of the century', winning the British Empire Games (Commonwealth Games) over the great John Landy.
cranz wrote:
He would have raced a few times, but had some injury problems!!!
Exactly. People kept assuming it was because of his schooling, when it fact it was because of injury that he wasnt racing.
Medical school is a lot more demanding than college for sure. And especially the colleges that top athletes attend. And within those colleges top athletes usually choose the easiest courses. So you see medical school is very demanding regardless of how one guy did while attending med shcool.
cudos to Lincoln for his great achievments in the classroom and on the track; unfortunately, they don't have 2 starting lines: one for professional, fulltime runners and one for those in med school. Running/racing is the "true, 100% commision job. You get to the finish line 1st, you win. You win the money, the trips, the sponsorship, etc.....what else you are doing in your 'spare time' is of no concern to anybody. No excuses.
true but.... wrote:
You win the money, the trips, the sponsorship, etc.....what else you are doing in your 'spare time' is of no concern to anybody.
Not true. Nobody's going to hand him a WC spot on a silver platter, yeah, but they'll definitely respect the fact that he's able to do what he does while also dealing with med school.
Surely I can't be the only guy on the board with a Nobel Prize and an Olympic medal.
know your history wrote:
uh..not quite. I guess you never heard of Roger Bannister who ran the 1st sub 4 minute mile while in med. school and then won the 'mile of the century', winning the British Empire Games (Commonwealth Games) over the great John Landy.
Uh...not quite. I guess you never heard of Roger Bannister, the most undertrained man to ever run a sub-4:00 mile while in medical school and then won the mile of the century', winning the British Empire Games (Commonwealth Games) over the great John Landy.
Seriously, Bannister lived in the age of English amateurism, he was sort of pussy when it came to training and was scared shitless that he would burn himself out. He usually only ran like 28 miles a week.
Get your shit together and know your history.
Go read his autobiography and maybe youll understand, you ignorant fool.
bannister only had time to train like 35 minutes a day during medical school, i think i read that in the perfect mile
ricer wrote:
he was sort of pussy when it came to training and was scared shitless that he would burn himself out. He usually only ran like 28 miles a week.
Get your shit together and know your history.
Go read his autobiography and maybe youll understand, you ignorant fool.
YOU, my friend, sound like a complete moron, buffoon and an idiot to boot.
Safe to say that Lincoln's schooling is probably more intensive than Bannister's was.
Yes, you're right, that "pussy" did what no one before him had ever done, what for a very long time was thought to be an impossible achievement, and what many astute observers say is the greatest athletic feat of the twentieth century.
Please give yourself a pat on the back for having done so much better.
I'm not trying just to make an argument here. I had a lot of respect for Bannister before I read his book.
This is what it comes down to. When I think of running, I don't think of just running fast times, I think of the hard work that goes into those producing those times.
At first I thought Bannister would prove to have worked very hard, but soon after reading his autobiography that for many years he would only run 3-4 days a week, yet produce mile times of 4:10 or faster. At times he would be severely undertrained and still run a 4:13. Only later did he start running 5 or 6 days a week regularly, but his mileage was never more than 50 or so miles a week (and certainly not for consecutive weeks). He found it absurd that some runners could log 200 miles in a month!
I'm not saying what Bannister did wasn't great, but what I'm saying is I didn't find his story or training very inspiring. When I think of a sports hero, I don't just think of their achievements, I think of how hard they've worked to accomplish their goals.
In my mind, I have a lot more respect of John Landy. The guy worked balls out to run a 3:58, while Bannister did much, much less.
I mean, it's great that Bannister broke 4 minutes for the mile first, but what makes these greater is knowing that he put everything into his achievements. However, in an age of amateurism, this just was not the mindset.
To draw one more example, it's like watching a state track meet with two competitors going head to head and running 4:13 versus 4:14. Say the 4:14 guy you know is a senior who's worked his way up from 5:20 as a freshman, who put in the 60, 70 mile weeks, and really dedicated himself to the sport. Say the 4:13 miler is a sophomore and it's his first year doing track. He runs 25 miles a week and from interviews you know he takes it pretty easy. In the end, who do you really have more respect for? I know for me, it's the 4:14 guy.
not as easy as you thought wrote:
alot of guts.
"A lot" is to words.
You must mean "two" and not "to."