Teg, that was one of the guttiest performances that I have evey witnessed!!! Your kick was better than many of the world's best distance runners. Now, Matt, give your self more respect and start running up farther towards the front and take that next step! The fast times will come because now you know that you can run with these guys!!!! Good luck in your last few races in Europe.
Incredible performance, Kara's bronze was great but this even better.
i bet hes reading this thread right now
cmurph wrote:
i bet hes reading this thread right now
Teg, has two more races in Europe (I believe Zurich and Brussells) and he deserves much credit for his best performance of his career!!! I hope that he does read this and wish him continued success and a medal in Bejiing!!!!
Teg could cap off a very good season (2 mile AR, 3:34+ 1500, and WC 4th) by throwing out a good time or two in Zurich and Brussells. Good Luck and Go TEG!!!!!
but in all honesty that was one of the weakest 5000m feilds ever assembled for a world championships.
krol wrote:
Incredible performance, Kara's bronze was great but this even better.
Of course, Matt's a guy.
One of the weakest ever? Where did you get that information. Its one of the best ever. There were 12 guys with faster PR's then Teg's 13:04 and probably about 10 of them are sub 13? Just because there wasn't a world record holder in the race doesn't make it weak, there were multiple World Champions in the race. What is weak about that?
toooker wrote:
but in all honesty that was one of the weakest 5000m feilds ever assembled for a world championships.
and the 1500m was weak as well. Hats off to Bernard, but he should have been pushed a lot more. It seems like they were all running for silver.
toooker wrote:
but in all honesty that was one of the weakest 5000m feilds ever assembled for a world championships.
No, it wasn't. How do you come to this conclusion?
MORON.
To my knowledge Teg hasn't touched altitude training yet. The future is his!
Teg missed a medal by just .02 of a second. M
The times of this race looked like it was from 1968. Just plain weird and Teg could have got a medal. Lagat is a double gold medalist! Man imagine if Teg was just .02/sec faster the US would have 2 medals in the 5000!!
Even the US championship 5k was faster than this. WEIRD.....
even the last 5k of the 10,000 was faster than this.
manius wrote:
The times of this race looked like it was from 1968. Just plain weird and Teg could have got a medal. Lagat is a double gold medalist! Man imagine if Teg was just .02/sec faster the US would have 2 medals in the 5000!!
Even the US championship 5k was faster than this. WEIRD.....
The US championships weren't run with prelims and in oppressive heat. Weird, yes very weird, McFly.
it had less to do with heat/humidity and prelims.
it had a lot to do with guys like Mottram not wanting to lead and running a 70 second lap in the middle of it.
for some reason they jogged a lot of the laps.
you'd think if you were in a 5000 with the 2nd fastest 1500m runner ever you'd run it more like a 5k and less like a mile.
that last 200, with Lagat easily passing guys that were sprinting all out, not only make him look superhuman
it looked like he was running a 2nd 1500 race during a 5k
jama wrote:
Teg, that was one of the guttiest performances that I have evey witnessed!!! Your kick was better than many of the world's best distance runners. Now, Matt, give your self more respect and start running up farther towards the front and take that next step! The fast times will come because now you know that you can run with these guys!!!! Good luck in your last few races in Europe.
I just saw it. I thought the same thing... except that the last 1K was in 2:23. But yea, he gave himself too much to make up.
I just watched the race on NBC, and couldn't help but wonder if Teg would have medaled had he run closer to the front of the pack rather than hanging so far back until the very last moment. Far be it from me to criticize his choices; I thought he ran a very good race for one whose experience running in an international championship race is limited. But watching him run most of the race running 5-10 yards off the pace, I wonder...
Great run for Teg and Lagat, and for that matter, for Goucher and the rest of the USA distance crew.
wow. just wow. awesome stuff. he let it get too far out around 200, but otherwise beautiful...
good things are happening with usa running!
3 in the finals...gold and just off bronze!!!
a great run by Teg, but let's not get too carried away