Wheating Beats Symmonds

ayoooooo wrote:

new PR of 1:44.6 beats symmonds by a couple tenths. kaki with the dub in 1:43low. is wheating the best 800 runner the US has?

It's a fantastic run for wheating (and about what i expected). But i wouldn't go too hard on symnonds just yet. Wheating has been going hard for a while now, Symnonds is just warming up. This was his SB, and i'm sure he'll drop some better times over the next month or so. It's too early to say Wheating is our best 800 runner. Snapshots are just that...a snapshot. The season isn't over and both are at different points in their seasons.

Who was Wheating running for? I'm at work and not able to watch it. Nike I'm guessing?

USA Jersey...

Think he had his Yellow Nike's on...

What about Jacob Hernandez? Isn't he our best 800 meter guy? Wheating overrated a bit in my book

I really don't even get this joke. Hernandez has done jack sh** since college. I knew he was overrated, but now he almost like a scrub. I think in another year he might want to move one.

Paula Struthers wrote:

What about Jacob Hernandez? Isn't he our best 800 meter guy? Wheating overrated a bit in my book

Pathetic post.

theanalyst wrote:

I really don't even get this joke. Hernandez has done jack sh** since college. I knew he was overrated, but now he almost like a scrub. I think in another year he might want to move one.

He got 3rd at USA's a few weeks ago. You are an idiot.

theanalyst wrote:

I really don't even get this joke. Hernandez has done jack sh** since college. I knew he was overrated, but now he almost like a scrub. I think in another year he might want to move one.

pathetic post

I don't get this post. Everyone on here wants U.S. running to progress and people to continue working hard, then we tell a runner with a 1:45 PR to hang it up? That doesn't make sense to me.

Of course not, that distinction belongs to anna pierce. she can run a 50 second quarter to close out an 800.

I saw the run and wheating can do better then what he did, he was like totally last of the pack and then went to lane 2 to start sprinting past other runners if he was in front with his last he might have been second.

It looks to me that his height is a problem because the other runners on the field where so short his stride was not near the same stride as the other runners. Looking from medal contender positions i think he has a better chance in the 1500 with a one lap fast.

BTW i liked the hurdles most this time, also the 1500 woman's race was magnificent as was the 5000 meter race, the second place lady was hot.

Tike wrote:

I saw the run and wheating can do better then what he did, he was like totally last of the pack and then went to lane 2 to start sprinting past other runners if he was in front with his last he might have been second.

I'm not saying he can't go faster...but there's a reason he was last of the pack....the race went out damn fast. Smart running if you ask me, with a 1:45 pr, he did what he should have done with a race going out that fast.

Impressive race for Symmonds and Wheating in terms of remaining upside. Wheating's finishing 100 seems to imply he's definitely got a sub-1:44 in him, maybe this summer, and I thought Symmonds ran one of his better tactical races.

I guess I went way to hard on Hernandez. But I was prompted by the guy even comparing him to Wheating. But in all seriousness, I thought Hernandez would have broken 1:45 by now or at least been running 1:45 more consistently. Sometimes, I don't know, he really didn't appeal to me in his interviews..he seemed a bit cocky in college...all the Texas guys did. I apologise for being so harsh.