Like all our best distance runners should be doing, Slattery is opening up his steeple season in Hengelo on the 31st. I am predicting sub-8:15 and if he runs another race over there (better acclaimated to Europe time), he'll be down in the 8:10 range. Did we not learn anything from Bob Kennedy? Training and racing in Europe is where it's at!
Very very smart move on his part.
jason
every year this board designates somebody as the "he's- gonna-break-8:10-and-croghan's-record" guy... i guess it's slattery this year...
8:09 is very, VERY fast...
saw slattery out kick A rated Kenyan in a boulder workout
he's fast, VERY fast...
marsh has the record
You're an idiot! Outkicking one guy in one workout on one day does not make a stud! You have no idea what Slattery's training program was around that workout or the Kenyan's. Hell, the Kenyan could have been at the end of 4 weeks running 140 miles. Dumbass!
True, very true! Workouts mean nothing. Tinman
marsh wrote:
marsh has the record
duh!!! my bad...
I agree. 8:09 is very, very fast.
Slattery, Lincoln, and Fam make up our strongest contingent going to Athens (I feel these three will absolutely run away from the field). Of those however, Slattery is the one who can sprint best over the last 150 meters and that is where the majority of steeplechases are won and lost.
I meant these 3 will run away with the Trials, not the Olympics. However, I predict that 2 will make the finals at the Games.
marsh wrote:
marsh has the record
but marsh doesn't have an olympic medal . . . diemer has that!
marshmellow wrote:
but marsh doesn't have an olympic medal . . . diemer has that!
Diemer a religious man thnaks god every day that Marsh was sick during the 84 games.
Now if we can just get Americans to race the European cross season, we'll see even more improvement.
Whats up with Broe?
Careful fellas wrote:I meant these 3 will run away with the Trials, not the Olympics. However, I predict that 2 will make the finals at the Games.
I thought there were usually at least 8 in the finals at major events.
"You're an idiot! Outkicking one guy in one workout on one day does not make a stud! You have no idea what Slattery's training program was around that workout or the Kenyan's. Hell, the Kenyan could have been at the end of 4 weeks running 140 miles. Dumbass!"
Actually...it seems you stuck your foot in your mouth, dumbass. I train with Slattery and was only offering a compliment. And in speaking with the Kenyans ... WHILE WARMING UP ... they spoke of their training for the Kenyan olympic trials in Nairobi in July. The kenyan Mr. Slattery outkicked was 1st at Bay to Breakers in May. Have you heard of that race, 8:22? Oh, and that Kenyan ran .... 26:52 this year in the 10k. Is that your 4 mile time? It seems you're the dumbass...and probably a very slow one.
"... It seems you're the dumbass...and probably a very slow one...."
He (or she) didn't call you a "dumbass." She (or he) referred to you as an idiot.
Please be careful with intellectual levels of measurement.
actually, he did call him a dumbass.
so who on colorado is posting as 8:09?
"so who on colorado is posting as 8:09?"
answer: an american darkhorse