XxrunxX wrote:
malmo wrote:First and formost indoors is a sideshow, it is not the primary season for running. There are few indoor events and not everyone runs them, and those that do, it is not their peak season. What you should be amazed by, if you would open your eyes, is that El Guerrouj has run faster on an indoor track, a season that he rarely runs and have never pointed to, than he has on outdoor tracks in Zurich, Paris, Eugene, and Reiti. Just as amazing, is that he has run almost as fast on an indoor track as he has in Rome, Brussels and London!
Secondly, at 55s the advantages of perfect temps and no wind start to get trumped by the increasing disadvantages of negotiating the turns at higher speeds. At 59s pace, the perfect temps, no wind and the ability to hug the rail to run shorter than the same distance on a outdoor track, it becomes an advantage.
Hey Malmo; Get a life.... hahha ....Now we all have a firm grasp on the obvious (Sherlock Holmes). Except you've seemed to confused me a bit when you expelled the indoor season from being a legit stage for competitive running. You are a fool my Boy...
... For you other insecure cruds out their arguing over the premise of talent and who has the most... pick at your teeth with this one.
Tal-ent: is the WHOLE package... not only about the demographics, or about the what ifs of a good runner... It is the 100% ability for the athlete to perform.
Talent is only really observable when the athlete has retired from His or Her career. It is the potential, but in all aspects including: injury prevention, training, race logic, genetics, ect.
God Bless him, GF... but whatever his injuries were from, (coaching, ignorance, leisure activities, ect...), the faults lie on him and contribute to his lack of talent.
If he overcomes them and evolves into the runner everyone wishes he will be... then I guess you can then say he is "the" most talented mid-distance American runner ever. But you know what the ol' timers say; Wish in one hand and s*** in the other and see which one fills first. ;)
oh and for all of you "GF" eccentrics on the boards...if you wish to reply to this post, you might want to give your left hand a break,.. time to switch, just reminding you.