Over or under 13:15 for Fernandez

the smith strategy wrote:

our plan is to have german ready for a 13:15 5k by the 2020 olympics!

Good, good!

the smith strategy wrote:

our plan is to have german ready for a 13:15 5k by the 2020 olympics!

Aren't you the guy who couldn't cut it at OK State and has been spending the last several months (years?) advertising your failure here on these boards?

Weird.

i.was.there wrote:

ritz ran 13;27

dopehouse wrote:

Ritz went 1324 his freshman year...he couldnt hold Germans jock strap even now!!! 1309

I think it's funny that the quote above was made the same year that Ritz went on to run 12:56 and German 13:25.

13:11!!!!!

Under...WAAAAAYYYYY under.

this may be the funniest thread on LR. especially the ones who said that he would scare 13. HAHAHAHAHA.

I go over. 13:29 if he even runs a 5000 this spring.

He's going 13:14.99 this year, baby!

No doubt Fernandez is one of the most talented runners in college, but let's just get to the spring season without any injuries first. No need to put the cart before the horse again.

His teammmate, Lowe, is ridiculously consistent. They should change is name to Clutch Lowe.

Since the NCAA track championships are now one month away, I thought it was appropriate to bump this thread to help remind "coach d" as well as German's 20-year-old fan boys to keep things in perspective. Even three years after the discussion was started, we are still waiting for Fernandez to break the American-born Collegiate Record in the 5,000m!

health was the obvious underlying assumption in the predictions.

jjjjjjjj wrote:

health was the obvious underlying assumption in the predictions.

+1. Its hard for some to comprehend I guess.

jjjjjjjj wrote:

health was the obvious underlying assumption in the predictions.

So was a realistic perspective regarding short-term potential, but it sounds like they were both lacking in this scenario. I am not typically an "I told you so" type of guy, but many of the predictions within this thread were absolutely ridiculous, regardless of health.

Predicting that we would threaten the sub-13:00 barrier? Seriously?

Blind Eye wrote:

So many people on this board cannot seem to grasp how difficult it is to go from 13:40s to under 13:15.

+1. It's hard for some to comprehend I guess.

Hi teammate, Tom Farrell, did it last week. http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-track/spec-rel/050212aab.html

Do you really think he wouldn't have broken 13:15 by now if he'd stayed healthy? This is a guy who ran 3:55/13:25 at 18. OK, the sub-13 predictions were out there, but the people saying 13:10-13:15 weren't crazy.

tmcarroll wrote:

Hi teammate, Tom Farrell, did it last week.

http://www.okstate.com/sports/m-track/spec-rel/050212aab.html

A very nice run by Farrell, but he still hasn't run faster than Bill McChesney and I think it's difficult for a runner from the United Kingdom to break the American-born Collegiate Record!

Azaleas wrote:

Do you really think he wouldn't have broken 13:15 by now if he'd stayed healthy?

I highlighted the critical word within that sentence. You could potentially say the same thing about Eric Hulst, Jeff Nelson, etc. The point is, that isn't a small factor!

I'm sorry, but predicting Fernandez would break the American-born Collegiate Record before he had run even one 5,000m race in college was ridiculous.

We are now celebrating the fourth anniversary of this question. Hopefully, the post-collegiate German will begin to fulfill his tremendous potential!