Prairie Dawg wrote:
Let me get this right. Webb's been training with Rupp, a 5k/10K guy under Salazar who is not known as a mid-distance coach and he ran a sluggish looking 1:52 800 at a low-key meet after 2 years off and now everyone wants to write him off for good. Really now?
Let me help you get it right.
Webb's been training with one of America's top 3 distance runners, after 2 years of rest and no pressure of competing, and is coached by an era's best marathon runner. He's surrounded by talent and is paid to live very comfortably by Nike.
He runs a very short race (I can throw a rock 800m!) in his ideal conditions - no crowd, no pressure, no world-class runners - and runs almost 10 seconds slower than his PR.
yeah, you have it about right. Everything's on track. His plan is falling into place just as they'd planned.
His wife is going to start cheating on him once he gives up the track spikes. Then he'll go back to lifting weights, playing XBox360 and hanging around his old high school.
He'll become a H.S. track coach, give up on the hair plugs maintenance, get a gut, and coach a district-winning H.S. cross country team.
Yay Alan. Be all you can be. You've let down an entire generation.