Yeah Stache, I agree with you. When did 26mi235 turn into a total douche? Ah well, another one bites the dust I guess.
Why was he even responding to something that was already answered by the poster being questioned?
Yeah Stache, I agree with you. When did 26mi235 turn into a total douche? Ah well, another one bites the dust I guess.
Why was he even responding to something that was already answered by the poster being questioned?
it doesn't make any difference here does it? English is created and destroyed on a daily basis...it is a living breathing thing
But to clarify...he thinks the use of the unreal conditonal word 'would'(describing a condition that is 'unreal') is not jiving with redshirted (past tense).
Imma say he is correct and imma say his version is most best....we can lose what proper english sounds like 'cause we don't use it often enough.
How many of us end our sentences with prepositional phrases?
ooopss. i thot this was the Clark College English style discussion board.
oh well. who's German?
oldjoe5 wrote:
He seems to be like Dathan Ritz in that he is often hurt but gains fitness very quickly when healthy (plus the high talent level, of course)
Except Ritz ran for 6 weeks and won NCAA XC while German trained for 6 weeks and got 100th.
please prove this.
fsadsf wrote:
Except Ritz ran for 6 weeks and won NCAA XC while German trained for 6 weeks and got 100th.
I don't think that Joe was saying that they have identical accomplishments. He said that they both both gain fitness very quickly when healthy. Saturday's race is one example. German's 3:56 mile in his first ever indoor race is another excellent example.
I LOVE me some German Fernandez. Mmmmm.
ludddddacris wrote:
please prove this.
Prove it? It's common knowledge to anyone who has paid any sort of attention to NCAA XC for the last 5-10 years.
Ritz ran, I believe, big 12, regionals, and nationals that season. Won all three of barely any training. German was training for probably a little longer than 6 weeks and still couldn't even be an all-american.
That's just because Wetmore is a better coach than Smith.
dfsfa wrote:
ludddddacris wrote:please prove this.
Prove it? It's common knowledge to anyone who has paid any sort of attention to NCAA XC for the last 5-10 years.
Ritz ran, I believe, big 12, regionals, and nationals that season. Won all three of barely any training. German was training for probably a little longer than 6 weeks and still couldn't even be an all-american.
Injuried or not I expected to see GF level off or tail off a bit this year as well as Luke and Chris too. It seems to be the way it goes; HS blue chippers either struggle in year-1 and bounce back the next year or vice versa. Not sure why, but it happens in about 9 out of 10 athletes. 2010 would be a success if GF can get back to where he was last year.
The guys who make steady and consistent progress are the Nick Symmonds and Scotty Blahs (sp?), etc.
Sooo ummm opening up at 7:51, is falling off or leveling off??!!?? He was only 4 seconds off his PR from last year at this time, and had already raced going into his 7:47??!!?? What part of 1st race openers does this board not understand? I can't wait to see what happens in the next few weeks, a healthy and training German Fernandez in any mid distance race is going to be a beast to be reckoned with...
Good to see Blahs finally getting the recognition he deserves.
webby wrote:
[quote]fsadsf wrote:
Except Ritz ran for 6 weeks and won NCAA XC while German trained for 6 weeks and got 100th.
Except German ran for 6 weeks and set the indoor NCAA mile record while Ritz trained for ALL OF 2004 and finished dead last in the Olympic trials 10,000. BOOM.
webby wrote:
Good to see Blahs finally getting the recognition he deserves.
Yeah. Fresh off a World Cross qualifying performance and everything. Good thing he held that press conference last year.
dfsfa wrote:
Prove it? It's common knowledge to anyone who has paid any sort of attention to NCAA XC for the last 5-10 years.
Ritz ran, I believe, big 12, regionals, and nationals that season. Won all three of barely any training. German was training for probably a little longer than 6 weeks and still couldn't even be an all-american.
You are a troll. Iron deficiency is not the same as being injured.
Keyboard Master wrote:
webby wrote:[quote]fsadsf wrote:
Except Ritz ran for 6 weeks and won NCAA XC while German trained for 6 weeks and got 100th.
Except German ran for 6 weeks and set the indoor NCAA mile record while Ritz trained for ALL OF 2004 and finished dead last in the Olympic trials 10,000. BOOM.
First of all, he STILL went to the Olympics...with a broken foot.
Second of all, German had been running for more than 6 weeks at that point. I believe the 3:55 was after he ran 3:57.
old ndn runna wrote:
...He was only 4 seconds off his PR from last year at this time...
Agreed on your post. To your point, he was really only 3 seconds off of last year's performance.
7:51.02 - 7:47.97 = 3.05 seconds
For a first time on the track, coming back from injuries and iron problems - doesn't seem so bad.
More like 3 seconds wrote:
old ndn runna wrote:...He was only 4 seconds off his PR from last year at this time...
Agreed on your post. To your point, he was really only 3 seconds off of last year's performance.
7:51.02 - 7:47.97 = 3.05 seconds
For a first time on the track, coming back from injuries and iron problems - doesn't seem so bad.
Yea, not too far off. But keep in mind last year he
won the race,
finished very strongly,
and this year he looked VERY tired after the race-more tired then I have seen him after any race I've seen him run. He dug deep for that 7:51.
But either way, it is a good starting point for the season.
sadfdsf wrote:
First of all, he STILL went to the Olympics...with a broken foot.
I like Ritz, but I don't think it was right for him to show up at the 2004 Olympics with a stress fracture and hobble around the track a few laps. Shouldn't he have let the next person in line take a shot? Or was the problem that Dan Browne did not run a fast enough qualifying time? It's been a while, I don't remember, other than Ritz only had to complete the trials (in dead last, 31:13) in order to go because he ran a qualifying time earlier.
old ndn runna wrote:
Sooo ummm opening up at 7:51, is falling off or leveling off??!!?? He was only 4 seconds off his PR from last year at this time, and had already raced going into his 7:47??!!?? What part of 1st race openers does this board not understand? I can't wait to see what happens in the next few weeks, a healthy and training German Fernandez in any mid distance race is going to be a beast to be reckoned with...
Did not post to be negative, I am aware GF has had some problems this year, but the chances on him improving much over last year was not likely anyway. Where do you go when you run 3:55/7:47 indoors as a freshman; if you can run 3:54/7:42 the next next or just equal his freshman year marks, that would be ok. GF's performance jump from HS to college was so significant that can't expect it to happen again the next year. It would be nice, but it usually doesn't happen that way. The fact is, half of the blue chippers struggle to improve upon their performances from HS as freshman. GF is still an NCAA champion/national class athlete, we want know for another 2 years wheather GF is going to be very good or great.
I think German was mentioned on this blog his teammate writes: