I remember watching the race on TV, it was on a Sunday, I believe, and I was simply blown away! I mean the last 400 meters he was just crushing it!!!!
I remember watching the race on TV, it was on a Sunday, I believe, and I was simply blown away! I mean the last 400 meters he was just crushing it!!!!
I keep a picture from Runner Worlds of Alan Webb and Sir Roger Bannister walking together on an outdoor track. I believed they printed that shortly after Alan's performance.
And one week from now a high school kid will have run 8:25.23 for two miles. YOU HEARD IT HERE.
I wonder why Webb never took more of a shot at the two-mile record? Or maybe he did and I forgot about it?
If you look at the list of the best miler/1600/1500 meter runners in U.S. high school history, how many were faster in the mile at 28 than at 18? Most of them were not...A few of them were.
Alan Webb
Jim Ryun
Tim Danielson
Marty Liquori
Donald Sage
Ryan Hall
Steve Magness
Jonathon Riley
Matt Centrowitz Sr.
Gerry Lindgren
chet wrote:
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...
Very true, lol. Ryun was basically retired by 21 except for a brief comeback. Very different world back then. However, Marty Liquori was faster at 28 than at 18, heh.
So many here are jealous of Webb. Funny and sad at the same time.
chet wrote:
If you look at the list of the best miler/1600/1500 meter runners in U.S. high school history, how many were faster in the mile at 28 than at 18? Most of them were not...A few of them were.
Alan Webb
Jim Ryun
Tim Danielson
Marty Liquori
Donald Sage
Ryan Hall
Steve Magness
Jonathon Riley
Matt Centrowitz Sr.
Gerry Lindgren
How many of those did any serious mile running at 28?
Wise Guy wrote:
chet wrote:If you look at the list of the best miler/1600/1500 meter runners in U.S. high school history, how many were faster in the mile at 28 than at 18? Most of them were not...A few of them were.
Alan Webb
Jim Ryun
Tim Danielson
Marty Liquori
Donald Sage
Ryan Hall
Steve Magness
Jonathon Riley
Matt Centrowitz Sr.
Gerry Lindgren
How many of those did any serious mile running at 28?
Yeah, many of them did not. My point is that Alan Webb is no shocking aberration if he were to be faster in the mile at 18 than he is at 28. However, the jury is still out on that for Alan, as he turned 28 in January. Yeah, there are many reasons why most people are faster in the mile at 18 than they are at 28, and of course somebody like Ryan Hall is certainly a bad example as even if he cannot run a faster mile now than he did in high school, this is really his choice and he has made a nice trade in becoming a tremendous marathoner.
Let's not forget that 6 years later he ran 6.52 seconds faster...
Very good point, I think most here seem to have forgotten it.
chet wrote:
Let's not forget that 6 years later he ran 6.52 seconds faster...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo94KFvDcPo
It's ironic that you would pick on Alanis' talent
Iron Irony wrote:
Blame that talentless idiot Alanis Morrisette and everybody else who uses the word ironic instead of coincidence.
Are you still talking rubbish?
Instead of trawling history for a bunch of losers take a look here:
Even athletes like Ovett and Cram who went off the boil in their late 20's ran miles faster at 28 than 18
http://www.thepowerof10.info/rankings/rankinglist.aspx?event=1500&agegroup=ALL&sex=M&alltime=y
You can waste some time looking up their mile times at 18 and 28 until you find one that fits your rubbbish theory
The fact is unless you get injured, an EA 'teenager',quit are a loser you should be faster at 28 than 18
ukathleticscoach wrote:
The fact is unless you get injured, an EA 'teenager',quit are a loser you should be faster at 28 than 18
Is English not your first language? I have no idea what that gibberish above is trying to convey. It is IRREFUTABLE that most people can run a faster mile at 18 than 28. I wrote the statement while remaining cognizant that the obtuse would not understand that it is true. Of course a professional runner is likely to be faster at 28 than 18, or he wouldn't be able to remain a professional. Duh...winning....
senoj ekim wrote:
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!
It's actually annoying that people don't realize words and language evolve. Always have, always will. Ironic has more than one definition. One of those definitions is synonymous with coincidental. You can look it up fellas. But then you'd have one less patronization tool at use.
chet wrote:
ukathleticscoach wrote:The fact is unless you get injured, an EA 'teenager',quit are a loser you should be faster at 28 than 18
Is English not your first language? I have no idea what that gibberish above is trying to convey. It is IRREFUTABLE that most people can run a faster mile at 18 than 28. I wrote the statement while remaining cognizant that the obtuse would not understand that it is true. Of course a professional runner is likely to be faster at 28 than 18, or he wouldn't be able to remain a professional. Duh...winning....
I don't know that many twenty eight year olds who have run a mile.
The only reason that "most people" run faster at 18 than 28, if that is true, is that many people run the mile in high school, but very few of them continue to run competitively at all into their late 20s.
If you just look at people who run the mile competitively at 18 and at age 28, most of them are likely faster at 28.
I remember John Dye was stuck at the Albuquerque airport when that race went down, having just covered some hugely important meet in New Mexico.
Anyone else find it suspicious that after he met and ran with hicham he suddenly dropped a lot of time...(epo)
Does anyone have pictures of alan webb with Hicham El G? Anyone know how good of friends they are? I'd imagine that EL G would have a language barrier to get through, but then again, im ignorant of anything about El G besides he was an absolute monster running
Nine years ago Webb's season bests were 3:58/3:44.
actually no, ur original statement really was pure horse crap. 28 is most atlhetes (and people's) physical peaks. you continue to make gains in speed, endurance and muscle mass (basically all physcial attributes) up until age 30, with speed being the only one that stops around 29ish, but you can continue to make endurance gains well into your thirties and even early forties. your athletic/physical peak is 30, thats when you start to go backwards, so webb still has 2 years to kill.