bladerunner wrote:
12:56 is pretty talented. Maybe if he had stayed with the 5k and 10k, he would have been injury free. There are a lot of marathoners who disappeared pretty quickly from injuries.
It's too bad. He might have gone sub 12:50 or run something sub 27. But I guess we'll probably never know. He seems committed to the marathon no matter how much it breaks him down.
Ritz was breaking down from just the 5k/10k in college, marathoning was an attempt to get away from the track were he was getting injured constantly.