Good race.
Good race.
facility record, faster than the big boys last night.
People throw this out there too often, but he made it look easy, ran way past the line to slap high fives with lanana.
blazing wrote:
facility record, faster than the big boys last night.
Oversized track....still an impressive race.
Andrew Wheating IS one of the "big boys". Olympian - only 2 runners in America were faster.
nice time. anyone know if jacob hernandez was a dns?
read what I wrote and then see if u can answer this:
Was HE one of the BIG BOYS......LAST NIGHT? Get it?
And fyi, Symmonds and KD still have much larger impressive resume's than Wheating, including pr's.
So good for Wheating to run faster than them, "oversized" track or not.
not fully updated, but wheating would be 6th in the world according to this list.
Performances on oversized tracks do not make the IAAF list.
Considering how last year he was running 1:50s and maybe - correct me if Im wrong - 1:49 indoors, this kind of improvement could forecast a 1:43 for outdoors.
uhhh, if you look at the bottom of the iaaf page, it shows that wheating is still leading with his 1:47.03 in the oversized track settings.
I will correct you because you are wrong. He ran 1:48 indoors last year, But that's about the only result I saw from him last year. He laid very low indoors, probably to prepare for a long summer. Also someone mentioned how inddors was so much faster this year than last. It's not an olympic year this year. I figured that was pretty obvious.
Honestly I don't think he made it look that easy.
Talk to me when he breaks 1:47 indoors. Yes, I've already done that.
Well he takes of with about 60-70 meters to go and drives away. He is focussed but not gritting in the least. He runs through and 20 meters past the line straight to lanana for a high five.
Looks like he just finished the 3rd quarter in a 4 x 400 workout.
To the guy who just responed about 1:46, I don't think it's too hard to see that the only reason he didn't run 1:46 is because he obviously was not instructed to run all out. I'm sure lanana knew it would be a fast race and told him sit, get in position to win and then go at the last straight to practice for NCAA's, UNLESS the pace doddles early. Obviously that didn't happen so he just executed Lananas plan.
Hopefully next time he will tell him to go earlier.
I rest my case.
You act like he was a front runner to compete in the Olympics this time last year. A year ago, Wheating was still a blip on the radar. I doubt anyone, including Andy, could have forseen the tremendous breakthroughs that were to come in the Spring.
No matter how fast his time was, you have to admit that this kid has some serious potential. Not only does he have some good speed, he is also a smart racer. He is only going to get better.
haha, yeah I didn't even read that guys post. Wheating was under the radar because he just hadn't grabbed anyone's attention yet. He was racing just as hard but was just another runner this time last year.
He opened outdoors at Stanford winning in 1:47, running as hard as he could. He then broke 4:00 for the mile at a meet at Oregon and started to gain some attention, some people brought up his 800 victory at Stanford earlier. It wasn't until his 3:38 victory at the Oregon twilight that people really started to buzz about him, since he slapped down a 26 last 200 to blow away a field with elites.
I remember about that time hearing about his indoor 800 relay leg in 1:50 with a shoe on one foot and a sock on the other. That was one of the things that made me think this kid is going to be great. He was just figuring out his own tools and talent.
What's remarkable to me, was that he DIDN'T lay low. He hammered from indoors to outdoor NCAA's, pr'ing nearly every race. Then he continues to to trials, PR's in the finals and has to drag it out to the Olympics.
This year I think he is racing more conservative. Focussing on skill development and not time chasing yet.
I'm curious to see what he will be running at NCAA's indoors. Obviously he could win the mile or the 800 or both, but they probably want him on that DMR. I guess almost every school who wants points on the DMR will be racing guys who have already raced at least one or two races (Arkansas Ulrey comes to mind).