Alberto Compares Solinsky's Intensity To Lance Armstrong's

Alberto comparing Solinsky to Armstrong is a bit like Trevor Graham comparing Usian Bolt to Marion Jones. It's not a comparison that anyone should welcome.

Thanks for the link. That article was great enough just for the fact that it was written and published in a MSM outlet. Even better that it really was a good article.

The only thing I question is the notion that Solinsky could have run "a lot faster" at Payton Jordan. The writer had a point that he was still fresh even after finishing the last 800 in 1:56. But he left off the great luxury that Solinsky had in being paced at a steady 27:10 pace all the way until the 900M mark. An American 10K runner could easily go through his whole career and never have a race play out like that for him. Theoretically the writer was right but as a practical matter he really wasn't.

Thanks for the link dude, great article. For guys like Simon and Teg to think of Chris like that really makes him seem like an even bigger beast than we thought.

apparently they don't proofread track articles over at SI

Seriously Ritz has to weigh more than 117 though. He probably weighed that in high school but he looks a lot more muscular now. I'm guessing hes about 135.

George Webbs wrote:

Seriously Ritz has to weigh more than 117 though. He probably weighed that in high school but he looks a lot more muscular now. I'm guessing hes about 135.

That's been on his USATF bio forever (like, since when he did) and it regularly gets picked up and repeated like an urban legend.

Snakedoc09 wrote:

Thanks for the link dude, great article. For guys like Simon and Teg to think of Chris like that really makes him seem like an even bigger beast than we thought.

What rock were you living under this past decade, that you didn't know Solinsky was a huge badass?

"And it was the dumbest 12:56 in history,'' says Schumacher

hahahahahahaha

"I'll be sitting around the house thinking everybody is running alone,'' says Solinsky. "Then I'll find out they all ran together, but just didn't call me.''

hahahaha

who the f*** scares sub-13 and sub-27:30 guys on distance runs?

holy shit solinsky is awesome

great article. there's no way he was running 23 for five miles in high school, but other than that it is interesting to see that he was doing three five mile tempos on top of the high school training, which was no doubt a tempo and several speed workouts and that he does his easy runs as strong progressions, like the kenyans (on some of their easy runs). sorry he's not running usa nationals but I look forward to some more shots at fast times at pre and euro this year.

great article

Ritz posts down here his ideal race weight is 120-122. I read an article somewhere saying he tends to weigh 125-128 during most of his training and in the last month or two before his peak he gets down to 120-122, can't find it though.

No matter what you think about any of those people they still work harder than you could ever even imagine.

Hmmm, Ryan Foreman or everybody else who saw that race, including Simon Bairu, who witnessed everything firsthand. Hmmmm....

Ryan Foreman wrote:

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The only thing I question is the notion that Solinsky could have run "a lot faster" at Payton Jordan. The writer had a point that he was still fresh even after finishing the last 800 in 1:56. But he left off the great luxury that Solinsky had in being paced at a steady 27:10 pace all the way until the 900M mark. An American 10K runner could easily go through his whole career and never have a race play out like that for him. Theoretically the writer was right but as a practical matter he really wasn't.

What's your point? What did I say that you dispute?

last lap wrote:

Hmmm, Ryan Foreman or everybody else who saw that race, including Simon Bairu, who witnessed everything firsthand. Hmmmm....

Ryan Foreman wrote:

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The only thing I question is the notion that Solinsky could have run "a lot faster" at Payton Jordan. The writer had a point that he was still fresh even after finishing the last 800 in 1:56. But he left off the great luxury that Solinsky had in being paced at a steady 27:10 pace all the way until the 900M mark. An American 10K runner could easily go through his whole career and never have a race play out like that for him. Theoretically the writer was right but as a practical matter he really wasn't.

Ryan Foreman wrote:

What's your point? What did I say that you dispute?

"...the notion that Solinsky could have run "a lot faster" at Payton Jordan"

I got a laugh out of the part where they mentioned Lagat:

The most jarring part of Solinsky's rise -- and it's been a steady ascent for nearly a decade -- is that he looks not at all like a distance runner. (Many of the best U.S. runners in history resembled East Africans in stature and, in some cases, upbringing. Shorter: Built like a Kenyan. Bill Rodgers: Built like a Kenyan. Dathan Ritzenhein: Built like a Kenyan. Ryan Hall: Built like a Kenyan and raised at altitude. Lagat: Was actually a Kenyan).

No rock, I'm just saying he's even more impressive when you read that great runners like Simon and Teg are scared to run with him, Salazar compares his intensity to Lance, and he walks into Sconsin and does that 70 minute tempo and takes the hard days of all the upperclassmen and does them every day[quote]sfdsfw5654 wrote:

What rock were you living under this past decade, that you didn't know Solinsky was a huge badass?

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