http://www.athletics.ca/display_news.asp?newsid=1117
Does anybody know why? He mentioned that it was his target race several times over the winter.
Does anybody know why? He mentioned that it was his target race several times over the winter.
my guess is that he is not healthy. The rest of the OTC has been hitting the track this indoor season, but Simon (and Jager) have been on the bench.
I am sure that slapdick bobby e. has the inside scoop.
Did he run the Canadian nationals? I don't recall him there, but I could be wrong & I'm not looking it up...
more miles wrote:
my guess is that he is not healthy. The rest of the OTC has been hitting the track this indoor season, but Simon (and Jager) have been on the bench.
Jager's actually back to running and getting healthier. Here and there he tweets about his runs. I think he actually ran his first "workout" back last week.
Assuming he withdrew his name for some reason...injury?
He didn't run the XC trials for Canada, but that doesn't matter. Everyone knows that he is Canada's top xc runner and he can go if he wants to. He was 12th(?) last year at the world championships.
He said a while back that he is training towards the marathon. That is his main focus now.
Remember, he dropped out of NY around mile 23. He still needs, unlike Nelson, his qualifier.
He said after dropping out of NYC that his next marathon would be in the fall at the earliest. And as recently as Dec. 29 he wrote on his Twitter that he was shooting for WXC.