I listened to a 15-min interview with Chris Solinsky on WSPT 1010 AM in his home town of Stevens Point, Wis., this morning. Solinsky had to correct the interviewer when introduced as the "world record holder" in the 10,000.
"Not yet," Solinsky said, "but that's the goal within a year." He'll have to drop his U.S. record of 26:59 to under 26:17 to make that happen.
Via Twitter, Solinsky walked back this pledge: "Maybe not within a year, but eventually down the road if it is in the cards," he tweeted.
I tweeted back, "Don't back down, man! We're rooting 4 u!"
In the interview he also said he thinks he can drop his 10,000m U.S. record into the 26:40s. His other goals include winning the 5,000m at the 2011 world championships and positioning himself for a 2012 Olympic medal.
He mentioned running 21 miles in 2 hours on his home turf in Stevens Point yesterday. He said he started at a 6 min./mile pace and dropped it down to 5 min./mile. "Just piling on the miles," he said.
Solinsky said his goal is to win the 5,000m at the world championships in 2011, position himself for 2012 Olympic medal and drop his 10,000m U.S. record of 26:59 into the 26:40s.
I'll be rooting for him!
Solinsky says he'll go after 10,000 WR within the year then backs off pledge
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cool story, brah.
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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.
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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.
