Solinsky says he'll go after 10,000 WR within the year then backs off pledge

Sorry I want Sol to do great things like everyone else but a world record in the 10,000 is really out of the question and kind of silly to talk about at this point. Would it make any sense to come to this conclusion with some no name 26 year old kenyan who just dips under 27. Of course not your probably don't even know who that guy is let alone believe he going to make the monumental jump. His performance is great but it really only the 65th best time ever run. Can anyone on this site even nam who is 64 with out looking it up? I doubt it.

some crazy runner guy wrote:

Sorry I want Sol to do great things like everyone else but a world record in the 10,000 is really out of the question and kind of silly to talk about at this point. Would it make any sense to come to this conclusion with some no name 26 year old kenyan who just dips under 27. Of course not your probably don't even know who that guy is let alone believe he going to make the monumental jump. His performance is great but it really only the 65th best time ever run. Can anyone on this site even nam who is 64 with out looking it up? I doubt it.

I don't think Solinsky is going to break the WR either but I don't think you can call anyone, Kenyan or no, who breaks 27 a "no name". Only 26 people in history have accomplished that feat.

Vet wrote:

I don't think Solinsky is going to break the WR either but I don't think you can call anyone, Kenyan or no, who breaks 27 a "no name". Only 26 people in history have accomplished that feat.

26 people, which means about 20 no names.

Menjo? 26th

some crazy runner guy wrote:

Sorry I want Sol to do great things like everyone else but a world record in the 10,000 is really out of the question and kind of silly to talk about at this point.

Are you kidding me? Imagine YOU were 40 seconds off the world record. You'd be thinking about how to get there every single day.

Silly? Please.

26:59 in first attempt, with 1:56 last 800. 26:30 should be his goal. Doesn't look like even Bekele will run sub-26:20 again.

Are you kidding me? Imagine YOU were 40 seconds off the world record. You'd be thinking about how to get there every single day.

Silly? Please.

I'm only 39 seconds off the world record in the mile, it's not that exciting.

weenerDrizzle wrote:I'm only 39 seconds off the world record in the mile, it's not that exciting.

Ha, good point!

deleuze wrote:

Are you kidding me? Imagine YOU were 40 seconds off the world record. You'd be thinking about how to get there every single day.

Silly? Please.

Yeah, 42 seconds in the 10k is like being only 21 seconds off the record in 5k (12:37), which comes out to 12:58, which Solinsky has run faster than, which means he should be thinking of breaking the 12:37 WR every single day.

"Yeah, 42 seconds in the 10k is like being only 21 seconds off the record in 5k (12:37), which comes out to 12:58, which Solinsky has run faster than, which means he should be thinking of breaking the 12:37 WR every single day"

Complete trash: To compete in 5k is sth completely different than 10k

In addition it´s hard to imagine that someone so heavy can go so fast, just not comprehensible for me that his bones&physiology don´t collapse^^

pre-nuptial turnon wrote:

26:59 in first attempt, with 1:56 last 800. 26:30 should be his goal. Doesn't look like even Bekele will run sub-26:20 again.

Trolling of course. But this is ridiculous. I wish Sol the best of luck. But if you are talking about breaking 26:17, please wake me up when he dips under 26:30. Until then gimme a break.

Let the man dream, it's about time someone from the U.S. is bold enough to dream while having broken 27 minutes at the same time. Quit trying to bust his balls, I'd be thinking the same thing if I was in his shoes. It probably will never happen, but you never know.

Westeuropean Hope wrote:

"Yeah, 42 seconds in the 10k is like being only 21 seconds off the record in 5k (12:37), which comes out to 12:58, which Solinsky has run faster than, which means he should be thinking of breaking the 12:37 WR every single day"

Complete trash: To compete in 5k is sth completely different than 10k

Then why are the events so often dominated by the same people? The fact is he's closer to the 5k WR than the 10k.

I did 12 miles at 5:49 pace last weekend. That's a few seconds slower per mile than Solinsky did for 21 miles. But then again, I am not an AR holder.

As the American record holder, you might say it's Solinsky's "job" to prognosticate for the media. Of course he's going to throw vagaries out there if pressed. Like all runners, he will try to run as fast as he can. It helps to have an "anything's possible" mindset to do so. Will he break the WR? Extremely unlikely, but it's not his job to harbor that mindset.

Cool story, brah.

Dreams very rarely come true. Dreams CAN'T come true if they don't exist in the first place. Maybe if more US runners dreamed that big we be more competitive on the world stage.

Thats like being 7 seconds off in the mile.

Webb is only 3. We should only pay attention to him

wowzaa wrote:

Thats like being 7 seconds off in the mile.

Webb is only 3. We should only pay attention to him

I think you forgot to add in, that it was his first time in an event that he doesn't focus his training on, and he ran his last 800 in 1:56. So I think its safe to say he could have gone much faster. And he hasn't run a 10,000m scenes then. So I'm guessing that if he trains for 10k and runs more 10k he could run in the 26:30s by this time next year.