Why didn't Ryan focus on the 10k in college? With his success in the marathon, you would think Stanford would have had him in the longest event they could. I guess the mile wasn't a bad place to start for this great marathoner. He is great now isn't he?
They probably got the idea that he would be a good miler because of his 3:42? in highschool
tigranya wrote:
Why didn't Ryan focus on the 10k in college? With his success in the marathon, you would think Stanford would have had him in the longest event they could. I guess the mile wasn't a bad place to start for this great marathoner. He is great now isn't he?
LOL.
When you look up "revisionist history" in the dictionary, there's a picture of you, tigranya, described as "lead historian."
Because of the person he is, I do not think he will question his time spent there, but it probably could have been better spent somewhere else. Hall and the one mile..what were you thinking? Most everyone in the US seems to think the marathon is something you mature to. Rupp will be there before you know it. Why the hell would the most brutal of events be left to those who recover poorest? It is time to stop separating this event out from the rest. This is an event for the young. If I can con the youngsters into believing it will ruin them, maybe I have a chance - bullshit kids you can clean house!!!!
This is an event for people 20-26! Run one every couple of months and treat it as the Kenyans do. Why in the hell would you be better at 30 when every other aspect of your life is slower? This is the great con of the American distance runner. Physiologically the best you can do is your early 20's, after that you are more sophisticated but slower.
Hall did win ncaa 5k (pr of 13:16 at usa's) and was runnerup in xc. Not a bad collegiate career.
wantarun wrote:
Because of the person he is, I do not think he will question his time spent there, but it probably could have been better spent somewhere else. Hall and the one mile..what were you thinking? Most everyone in the US seems to think the marathon is something you mature to. Rupp will be there before you know it. Why the hell would the most brutal of events be left to those who recover poorest? It is time to stop separating this event out from the rest. This is an event for the young. If I can con the youngsters into believing it will ruin them, maybe I have a chance - bullshit kids you can clean house!!!!
This is an event for people 20-26! Run one every couple of months and treat it as the Kenyans do. Why in the hell would you be better at 30 when every other aspect of your life is slower? This is the great con of the American distance runner. Physiologically the best you can do is your early 20's, after that you are more sophisticated but slower.
Carloes Lopes PR'd in the 10,000 and marathon at age 37-38, winning both the world cross and Olympic gold medals.
I think Hall had some incredible races in college, I'm not questioning that. But, he excelled most in which events: the 5k and cross country. That implies that he runs better the longer the event is. I will assume that being a "revisionist... historian" is a compliment:)
I guess the shorter events just saved his legs and body for the marathon.
Hey, he met Sarah there, and after her short but physically passionate realtionship with me, he got her back.
I'd say he did OK at Stanford.
Egg Salad Surgery wrote:
Hey, he met Sarah there, and after her short but physically passionate realtionship with me, he got her back.
I'd say he did OK at Stanford.
This is why I keep coming to Letsrun. Wonderful juvenile humor if you don't take life too seriously. Bravo.
Yes, but would he have had more fun with a relationship? I don't know what a realtionship is.
Wasn't Lanana Halls coach in the beginning? Before he left for his AD job?
What I'm curious to see is how Lanana tries to utilize Ryan's younger brother Chad who is a true freshman at Oregon now.
I'm also curious to know how Chad is thinking. His older brother has had 3 very impressive races this last year that pretty much solify him as the greatest American long distance runner right now.
American 1/2 marathon record holder.
American marathon debut record.
American Olympic Trials marathon record (on a slow course).
Chad's teammate is the next up and comer, Galen Rupp.
American Junior Records 3K, 5K, 10K.
American Collegiate Record 10K.
This guy, who is obviously talented as well as he was the footlocker national champ, has some pretty nice role models to be around.
I picture Lanana licking his chops after seeing that race by Ryan yesterday.
Usually, you have to have a lot of miles behind you. That's why you can have a lot of yound world class marathoners coming out of east Africa. Ryan is probably as close to an east African background as you cold hope for: physically active in his youth, a good amount of miles run in HS and most of his formative years spent in Big Bear.
It was good for him to do the 1500/5000m work in high school in college, because the better he is at those shorter distances, the more potential he has at the marathon. Of course, there are some overachievers, but generally a 13:10 5000m with proper training will have an easier time turning out those 14:30s at the end of a marathon, than a 13:40 runner.
When did Ryan run well under Vin? I can't seem to think of a single good result he had while running for him.
He ran well in high school under Mickey and Irv Ray. He had good results under Gerard, finishing 2nd to Ritz in cross in 2003 and winning the 5000m at NCAAs. And he's been great under Mahon.
It's no shock that he's been most consistent in high school and post-collegiately running for coaches linked to Joe Vigil. Similarly, a lot of those top contenders in the OT field (and simply many of the best runners in the country) are coming from Vigil/Larsen connected programs.