Webb runs 1:55.02 today at Armory

wow

Remember when Webb could run 1:55 in the middle of a 1500?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=EyGQGxgVkMg

WEBB ran 1:47 and change in high school!!

I seriously hope this was a fluke..

Wow.

Better never run that kind of time again in my Archdiocese again.

Wow.

stuck with match.com wrote:

2 years ago your pathetic goldenboy Galen rupp ran a 154. Everybody said this was a great time. Alan Webb runs 1 second slower and he gets crucified?!?!??!? You guys are a bunch of losers grow the fvck up and get rid your double standards.

You will never have success with women until you admit that G. Rupp is the ultimate in coolness in distance. Then strive to be like G. Rupp. Reject all others, Solinsky, Webb, Meb, etc., they must be renounced. Only then will you have any hope of getting a gf.

Miss the Old Webb wrote:

Remember when Webb could run 1:55 in the middle of a 1500?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=EyGQGxgVkMg

Yes, and a 12 second 100 too!

how about the 1:43 800m

i had never actually seen it until i went looking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdz6LfZdvMY&feature=related

Regardless off how bad it was.......he got knocked really hard a few years ago about not racing enough.

WOW.

Errr, isn't it just time to hang up the spikes?

Ralphie! wrote:

WOW.

Errr, isn't it just time to hang up the spikes?

In a small post race interview, he said it was very, very easy - wasn't trying to win. He thinks he could knock 10 seconds off easily by OT season.

look i'm sorry, I've been a huge webb fan for years but this performance indicates that things are going the wrong direction. If Webb has been training and is healthy (and really if either of those factors is missing he would not have flow to NY to run a race) then this is an inexplicable performance.

To open a season at this level indicates a huge problem. At the least you need to win this race. At the very least. No offense to the Gwyn-Mercy guy, in fact kudos to him...but Webb is losing to a good Div III guy in January and he needs to be ready to beat Wheating, Centrowitz, Manzano, etc who can all close a 1500m in sub 1:50. Look I hope I'm wrong but to go from this to the fitness it will take to make the Olympic Team (3:32 at the least) seems an extreme stretch.

Was he wearing Nike gear?

Track Fan 1979 wrote:

Was he wearing Nike gear?

Wow an actual good question is asked in this thread, thank you sir.

I'm from the Charlottesville area and fairly connected with the running scene around here. From what I had heard Webb sustained a stress fracture which kept him out of training for the summer and most of the fall. I know that by the end of October he was happy to be running four miles continuous without pain. He is hardly race ready, and personally I think this race is a positive performance. He can only move forward from here and the level of expectation on him will be much lower than in the past. This should offer him the opportunity to relax and stay more level headed throughout his training and racing. Obviously, this all rests on the idea that his coach keeps him level headed and focused on the bigger picture. If he firmly believes that his training plan is going to get him to where he needs to be in June, he'll improve greatly, and I suspect we'll see a much more consistent Alan Webb. The worst thing he could do is to read these message boards and start to doubt his training. He is one talented man, he'll be back.

T&F Analyst wrote:

In a small post race interview, he said it was very, very easy - wasn't trying to win. He thinks he could knock 10 seconds off easily by OT season.

I don't know if I buy this, but how could he NOT say the part about dropping 10 seconds? I mean is he to believe he ran a pretty good race with poor tactics and could get down to 1:51 by June with the right workouts? Of course he thinks he can knock 10 seconds off that time by OT's or we're not gonna be seeing much of Alan Webb in 2012.

Reading some more posts and considering the time he has had away from racing (again), I don't think this is indicitive of anything, other than Alan Webb has been not racing more often than he has raced in the past...what, 4, 5 years? That's a long stretch to keep taking 8-10 month breaks and I think what he needs is a season of racing, be it fast or not. The good news it he probably can summon a ghost of the runner we knew, the bad news is the Olympics are only 8 months away.

I was at the meet. He did a bunch of 200 reps before the race (didn't catch the times but he was using his watch). Also seemed to be doing some hard stuff in the warm up track downstairs.

IMO no excuse, he looked terrible in the race. I don't think he lead at all. Prob split 28-56-1:25 and got run down in the last 50.

Even Marshall Mathers has run faster than that!

the bad news is the olympics are 8 months away and what the trials are 6 months away?

so by your accounts he should already be within 1-2 seconds of peak fitness, hold that for 6 months and then INCREASE that fitness by just 2% to be in olympic shape?

yeah, that sounds about right.

what did wheating run this week?

or manzano?

or lagat?

or centrowitz?

oh wait, that's right none of them have even raced yet. it's not like many of them show up early season out of shape and run 4:17 indoors (manzano) but in 3-4 months are in 3:53 shape.

does no one want this man to do well?

check that. does no one who visits this flaming republican site want this man to do well?