http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4_V6bOkk4
Time flies when you're having fun. Are we having fun yet?
Time flies when you're having fun. Are we having fun yet?
If I remember correctly, his name was Alan Webb.
who would have thought.. wrote:
that 10 years later he would be running 7 seconds slower...
Although most people run slower for the mile at age 28 than at age 18...
chet wrote:
who would have thought.. wrote:that 10 years later he would be running 7 seconds slower...
Although most people run slower for the mile at age 28 than at age 18...
Rubbish
Nice to see Kevin Sullivan kicking Lagat's ass!
I still get goosebumps from watching that video 10 years later. It is my opinion that that performance may have been the most significant event in American distance running since the turn of the century. You can of course mention championship golds for other runners since then, but Alan Webb started something special.
chet wrote:
Although most people run slower for the mile at age 28 than at age 18...
Except for those people who are professional runners.
10 years later he is washed up
He looks literally the exact same as he does now. No wonder he hasn't improved-he was fully developed in high school.
The only logical explanation is that Webb has a Kenyan age. Tell, me, if Alan Webb really is only 28 and not 32, then:
-how did he run 3:53 at "18"?
-how is he slower now?
-why has his hair been balding since college?
It's annoying how the announcer says that it's "ironic" that Webb has a poster of Prefontaine in his home, and here he is running in Hayward field! Wow, how ironic!
who would have thought.. wrote:
that 10 years later he would be running 7 seconds slower...
He has run 3:37.82 so far this year (3:55.25 equivalent).
Last year- 3:36.21 (3:53.51 equivalent)
bored at wrote:
It's annoying how the announcer says that it's "ironic" that Webb has a poster of Prefontaine in his home, and here he is running in Hayward field! Wow, how ironic!
Haha, yes! Now here we are ten years later, and people STILL don't use that word correctly!
Both under Salazar...WHY on earth would he LEAVE when he started to gradually improve? There is something amiss.
...because most people have become obese sluggards by age 28.
chet wrote:
who would have thought.. wrote:that 10 years later he would be running 7 seconds slower...
Although most people run slower for the mile at age 28 than at age 18...
3:53.43 El G is targeting that time for a Masters World record in three years.
Ok - no he's not, but I bet he could if he started training now.
ukathleticscoach wrote:
chet wrote:Although most people run slower for the mile at age 28 than at age 18...
Rubbish
Listen, I am not surprised that you would be one of those without the cognitive capacity to ascertain that my above statement is irrefutably true. However, it was a trap laid for the foolish, as it is not that relevant when discussing a professional runner. You of course referred to a true statement as "rubbish."
In a related note, Jim Ryun was faster in the mile at 18 than he was at 28. Again, a true statement, but perhaps there is a trap there for the foolish...
chet wrote:
ukathleticscoach wrote:Rubbish
Listen, I am not surprised that you would be one of those without the cognitive capacity to ascertain that my above statement is irrefutably true. However, it was a trap laid for the foolish, as it is not that relevant when discussing a professional runner. You of course referred to a true statement as "rubbish."
In a related note, Jim Ryun was faster in the mile at 18 than he was at 28. Again, a true statement, but perhaps there is a trap there for the foolish...
Maybe his statement of "rubbish" didn't refer to the truth or falsity of your statement, but rather to its irrelevance to the situation at hand. Who's foolish now?!
Blame that talentless idiot Alanis Morrisette and everybody else who uses the word ironic instead of coincidence.
Wise Guy wrote:
chet wrote:Listen, I am not surprised that you would be one of those without the cognitive capacity to ascertain that my above statement is irrefutably true. However, it was a trap laid for the foolish, as it is not that relevant when discussing a professional runner. You of course referred to a true statement as "rubbish."
In a related note, Jim Ryun was faster in the mile at 18 than he was at 28. Again, a true statement, but perhaps there is a trap there for the foolish...
Maybe his statement of "rubbish" didn't refer to the truth or falsity of your statement, but rather to its irrelevance to the situation at hand. Who's foolish now?!
Actually, it is not entirely irrelevant. Many high school prodigies run faster at 18 than they do at 28...are you willing to be educated?