10 foot midget wrote:
...get away from Dunne, who has never showed he can coach winners.
Ouch. That's just painful.
"has never shown"
10 foot midget wrote:
...get away from Dunne, who has never showed he can coach winners.
Ouch. That's just painful.
"has never shown"
t94bell wrote:
I don't follow the news around here often, so I may be getting my facts mixed up, but doesn't Levin's already do 140 miles a week and Derrick does 80 miles a week? That's a 60 mile difference. If anything I would go with Derrick being the better of the two based on what effort they have to put in to receive such fast times.
By this logic, the "best runner in the world" may be some fat fvck eating KFC in southern Georgia, for all we know.
The best WINS RACES!!
No one gets paid to run XC.
riley stops wrote:
(2) Puskedra not a good as Riley, Lowe, etc.? Is this the same Puskedra who has dominated these guys every single XC season and earlier this year busted out a fantastic half marathon debut?
eltjim wrote:
Levins - the next Adrian Royle. Who? Exactly...
Adrian Royle (born February 12, 1959)[1] is a retired English long distance runner born in Manchester. He is notable for running exceptional times on difficult courses, making race organizers think the course had been mis-measured.
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1 Early life
2 Athletic career
3 References
4 External links
[edit] Early lifeRoyle moved to Grimsby as a child and took up running as an 11 year-old at Wintringham School, joining Grimsby Harriers as a 17 year old. He then moved back to Manchester and joined Manchester Harriers & AC whilst working as a clerk in a rubber factory. In 1980, aged 21, he moved to the United States to attend the College of Southern Idaho and he enjoyed most of his success in America. He easily won the US Junior College Championship later that year.[2]
[edit] Athletic careerMatriculating to the University of Nevada, Reno, in 1981 he shocked much better known athletes like Alberto Salazar, Steve Scott, Henry Rono and countrymate Nick Rose by winning the TAC National Cross Country Championships.[3] His time for the 10,000 metre course was over 2 seconds faster than the listed World Record for the distance on the track (set by Rono).[4]
A few weeks later he ran the Lasse Viren Finnish Invitational, an elite 20 km cross country race on hills and dirt trails. His time of 58:38 also surpassed the standing World Record for the distance on a flat course. It was not beaten until 1994[5] His time still stands as the British 20 km road record. The following year, he also set the British 12 km record.[6]
Nearly three decades after his peak athletic years, he is still ranked number 16 on the British all-time list for 10,000m.[7][8] The time was set in his first attempt at the distance on the track on a rainy day in Eugene, Oregon running behind a stirring duel between Salazar and Rono that exacted revenge for the previous defeat.[9] The picture of the three competitors graced the cover of the May 1982 issue of Track and Field News.[10] A mystery illness, probably Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, struck in October 1983 and lasted for 18 months. He returned to the UK in 1983 where he joined Charnwood AC and ran a sub 48 minute 10 mile in 1987 before retiring the next year.
Royle now lives in Louth, Lincolnshire England and has been a prolific photographer.[
US training groups shouldn't waste their knowledge and resourses training foreigners (Kipyego, Levin, Bairu, Farah, Jenna Simpson,etc.).
OK. And the above relates to international success (e. g., World XC champs, World T&F Champs, Olympics) how? He found his niche and succeeded, but that doesn't mean he was a consistent world beater.
coachkritter wrote:
US training groups shouldn't waste their knowledge and resourses training foreigners (Kipyego, Levin, Bairu, Farah, Jenna Simpson,etc.).
Yeah, bringing Farah into Salazar's group has really hurt Rupp's development hasn't it.
MORON!
Why should a US based training group help Mo Farah win a gold medal?
It's not a US based group, it is a Nike based group situated in Oregon.