chauncey wrote:
agip wrote:well, we'll see - to your argument, OTC elite does have several 5000 guys and a couple - Pifer and Chelimo - haven't broken 13:30 yet. But on the other hand, I had never heard of Pifer or Chelimo before I looked on the OTC Elite website. They can't be making any actual money.
Just hard to imagine where Derrick is going to get 30 seconds in the 5000 after serious running for 6 years.
Stanford coaching can't be that bad - they finished 5th this year, and Derrick was 2nd individual.
Maybe his senior spring he can put the books down and step up his training. I dunno.
Solinsky had a PR of 13:27 when he graduated college. So was Ritzenhein's. Tegenkamp's was 13:25. Derrick's is currently 13:29, and he still has another outdoor season left.
But Solinsky won races and even when he did not he was close and sometimes had doubled.