why american runners are shitty

click this, did this occur around a resevoir in nj?

What kind of role model or mentoring did you do for these supposed hapless HS kids? Encouragement & constructive coaching would help those kids. Were you part of the problem or part of the solution? Don't be a jerk to any young runners, you kill their spirit, you kill the sport.

Don't let them screw up the tempo run by going anaerobic the first mile. Let's all do our jobs.

I do like how you turned the story from one about how kids are weak, to how you were running with them and they were weak and you, of course, were not. Bravo!

End of the victory culture.

This message sums up American Running.

Sing along with Mitch Miller wrote:

End of the victory culture.

Where does this put New Zealand, British, and Austrialian distance running.

Answer:

In the Toilet

That is a totally unique and unheard of assessment on the state of American running. How did you ever come up with that?

I really dont like your generalizations, come to grand forks red river and check out our distance runners, there are 5 very serious athletes on that team, and what you just described would never happen with us 5.

There is another school to the south of us, Fargo South high school.... They are the same way, and they have even more kids...

You can go screw yourself click this, american distance running may be in the trash now, but i gaurentee you there will be at least one more great distance runner from america.

Me

[quote]click this wrote:

Kids are little whinny Secondly, kids are whinners. [quote]

That would be "whiners," WHINER!

squan,

No it didn't happen around any sort of body of water in NJ. Why in god's name would I run in NJ? Why do you ask? did you have a similar event?

click this does sound like a moron, and not very original, however, you guys who are bashing him are week too. All he was trying to say was that these supposed hs kids are a bunch of whimps b/c the first part of a workout was too hard. I agree, I am in HS right now, and all I hear from the kids who are "super stars" is complaining and bitching if a certain workout doesn't go exactly to plan. It's pathetic. Right on Click This.

England and Ireland are doing even worse than the United States. Under 10k the United Kingdom did not have one distance runner reach the finals in the last World Championships.

Ireland and England have great runners. Just they come over to American colleges and get ruined due to our system of over racing in the ncaa system.

The truth is that UK distance running is in worse shape than American distance running. In 2003 the fastest British marathoner was a women! Not one English male marathoner broke 2:15, which is the Olympic qualifying standard. No wonder Coe is pulling his hair out!

Where is the next Steve Jones and Steve Cram.

At least the US has a few talented young runners coming up.

The US is still pretty solid in the 10,000. We did get three runners into the finals.

Alas, poor Austrialia their slump is more pronounced. Only a few of their distance runners even qualified for the last World Championships. Does Austrialia even have a 3:55 miler?

actually, as a former ncaa runner, i don't think they race enough! esp. the top d. 1 teams....4 races in an xc season?? come on! train all you want, but the only way to get better at racing is by racing. when i got to college & saw the schedule, i couldn't believe that there was only 1 meet per week! most kids who come out of hs are used to racing 2-3 times a week(that includes the weekend meets).

if anything, our athletes need to race at least 2x a week.

Chew on these:

1. Lack of general activity and movement, including by athletes in serious training (when not training).

2. Slacker chic.

3. General tendency to douse the fire in kids through the US?s current system of overstructured youth sports. i.e., too many runners gave up sports completely after 6 years of year round soccer.

4. Lack of even rudimentary knowledge as to what food is, especially including vegetables.

5. Media fascination has moved past entertainers, many of whom actually worked to achieve their status in the past, to celebrities with no known reason for even existing on the planet, let alone in the media eye. Why toil in obscurity to be a distance runner, when you don?t even need a Britney Spears level of work and talent? This week?s example: Paris Hilton.

Forget about Paris Hilton; Ron Jeremy has a higher name recognition than any US track star.

Hmmm, we got P. Diddy running the marathon, what is the chance of getting Ron Jeremy to run track. Remember, he could be fast since he does have an extra leg.

Because we spend our time on message boards and not training.