WTF GERMAN?

My hs school 2M record holder, from the 1970s, ran a xc race without his orthotics at the beginning of his senior year, broke an Olympian's course record, tore up his feet and couldn't run again.

Yeah, and runs 7:35ish with one shoe the whole way! That's running! I like German, but he's got to get his head together.

Swallow Your Soul wrote:

wilfredo wrote:

[quote]Swallow Your Soul wrote:

He needs to be shown what a competitor does in that situation...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7gf-BRLzwM

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you mean start with his foot on the line and then cut someone off at the start?

No. I was thinking the emphasis would be on losing a shoe at the start, but still being composed enough to win the 3K.

Hey, maybe your right. wrote:

i once lost a shoe with a half mile to go in an xc race. I finished the race. However, I was hurt the rest of the season and barely improved. Maybe German made the right move. He didn't want to get hurt. Everyone knows outdoors is more important.

Better to be injured for a season than a pussy for life.

Hey, maybe your right. wrote:

German, if your listening, it's okay. Maybe you didn't make the right choice. But, you will rebound. I believe in you. Don't listen to these haters. You are the best runner in the NCAA and you will win a National Championship this year. Just reflect, learn, and then put it behind you. Good luck man.

German, if you're listening, you're the best runner in the NCAA, no need to prove it, all it does is give haters chance to doubt your greatness based on results. So please retire, we your fans will know you WOULD have won the Olympics, and we'll never tire of pointing that out. German 2012, multi gold, multi WR, he simply chooses not to run.

Be like Seinfield wrote:

German, if you're listening, you're the best runner in the NCAA, no need to prove it, all it does is give haters chance to doubt your greatness based on results. So please retire, we your fans will know you WOULD have won the Olympics, and we'll never tire of pointing that out. German 2012, multi gold, multi WR, he simply chooses not to run.

We need a label to attach to the ignorant, evil, haters. I know: "Resulters" Eww, you doubt German is the greatest, you want to compare his results? What are you, a "Resulter"? Oh, no, what would I do if I were to somehow reproduce and have a child, and my theoretical child's teacher was a "Resulter." Gasp. I might need to start a thread on that.

German,

Please go home and wax your vagina.

Thanks,

World

German is the greatest high school track runner of all time, period, he was becoming the greatest college runner of all time, and got tripped up... NO DOUBT IN MY MIND, that he comes back and puts this issue to bed once and for all. I promise, by the end of this year, he will have another NCAA record, and by the end of next year, he will have all the records from the 1500m - the 10K, BOOM ROASTED

German, I hope you don't read the lousy advice and off the mark comments of posters like many here, so I hope you are not reading this. Waste of your time and, other than a great 600m video, a total distraction for you and from other performances. . They, like I, would give anything to run one of the two times you ran that famed day. Were I your coach, after all you have been through, I would have ordered you off the track after the shoe came off. Worry not. With your talent, you will very likely have the last laugh. Even if not, what you have already done leaves me in awe. These guys forgot that Galen was in a longer race, was not recovering from or prone to injury, and his shoe came halfway off. None likely have ever been to Ethiopia (I have) to understand some of the points made. These guys have not made the NCAA finals, have not run times like yours, have not battled back from injury, and have not endured the Lets Run insult boards like you have. They can vent anonymously, rather than in front of you. Please ignore them. Sad that somehow the best website, one of the best things in recent years for running, LetsRun.com, has insult-laden message boards. I guess it matches other sports and the venting and venom. Ignore it, have the comeback I fully expect, and put that talent to full use. Even if you don't, go down as one of the greatest runners in the history of HS distance running, with times on one day that both rank on all time lists. Wow. Fantastic. Far far above the troll driven drivel on this WTF parade chain.