Why do Ritz and Teg Run Marathons?

800m Coach wrote:

Clearly both of these guys' best races they've ever run has been at 5000m. So why, instead of continually trying to run a good marathon, don't they concentrate on improving their 5k or 10k?

I think Jerry Schumacher is obsessed with the marathon and is wrecking these 2, along with Simon Bairu, Simon could have run on the Canadian team in the Olympics, but wrecked himself running slow marathons. Teg and Ritz ran fast as young runners, but have slowed down running average marathon times.

Why do these guys give up so quickly at 5000m and 10,000m. This training is not helping them become good marathoners, and is making them too slow to be affective at 5000 or 10,000.

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Top tier trolling. Excellent subtlety in getting things wrong.

Yeah...none of that is correct wrote:

Top tier trolling. Excellent subtlety in getting things wrong.

Great writing skills there

There's more money in marathon, even if they have a less equitable performance.

CGBatch wrote:

There's more money in marathon, even if they have a less equitable performance.

This is true, so I can't argue there.

Clearly, though, they may have done well to take an Olympic year and train more for the lower distances. They could have always gone back and made money in marathons in the subsequent years

*starts slow clap*

Clearly, Canadian coach and 800m Coach are the same person.

Replying to your own troll thread is an automatic 1 point deduction.

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Teg don't run no 42.2K!

They run marathons for the same reason Tim Culpepper does.

800m Coach wrote:

Clearly both of these guys' best races they've ever run has been at 5000m. So why, instead of continually trying to run a good marathon, don't they concentrate on improving their 5k or 10k?

I think Jerry Schumacher is obsessed with the marathon and is wrecking these 2, along with Simon Bairu, Simon could have run on the Canadian team in the Olympics, but wrecked himself running slow marathons. Teg and Ritz ran fast as young runners, but have slowed down running average marathon times.

Why do these guys give up so quickly at 5000m and 10,000m. This training is not helping them become good marathoners, and is making them too slow to be affective at 5000 or 10,000.

800m Coach wrote:

Clearly both of these guys' best races they've ever run has been at 5000m. So why, instead of continually trying to run a good marathon, don't they concentrate on improving their 5k or 10k?

I think Jerry Schumacher is obsessed with the marathon and is wrecking these 2, along with Simon Bairu, Simon could have run on the Canadian team in the Olympics, but wrecked himself running slow marathons. Teg and Ritz ran fast as young runners, but have slowed down running average marathon times.

Why do these guys give up so quickly at 5000m and 10,000m. This training is not helping them become good marathoners, and is making them too slow to be affective at 5000 or 10,000.

First of all Schumacher doesn't coach Ritz, Salazar does. Secondly, Ritz is currently the 16th fastest American in history, and stands to climb well up the list with a good race. A mid 2:08 would make him third fastest American ever. Third, in his three olympics, Ritz's best event was the Marathon. Fourth, Ritz got a bronze at the world half marathon championships, making him more competitive at longer distances than he ever was in 5k or 10k. Fifth, the marathon is badass.

As for Tegenkamp, he's never run a marathon, and unless I missed it, he hasn't made any announcements about making a debut.

Bill Huntington wrote:

Teg don't run no 42.2K!

Teg also don't run 10k x 4.22

I agree with you. But in addition at 5K, Ritz can't close in 3:58 or even remotely contend for a medal. With a career's worth of races, he's never shown it. He can only even-pace off rabbits for a fast time- that's it.

The marathon in an olympic setting, requires pain-tolerance grinding & endurance. Despite not putting it all together yet, Ritz has these. IMO, it's a training/Salazar issue.

ttc wrote:

I agree with you. But in addition at 5K, Ritz can't close in 3:58 or even remotely contend for a medal. With a career's worth of races, he's never shown it. He can only even-pace off rabbits for a fast time- that's it.

The marathon in an olympic setting, requires pain-tolerance grinding & endurance. Despite not putting it all together yet, Ritz has these. IMO, it's a training/Salazar issue.

CGBatch wrote:

There's more money in marathon, even if they have a less equitable performance.

Learn English.

Road Warrior wrote:

Ritz is currently the 16th fastest American in history

ROTFLMFAO.

Road Warrior wrote:

Ritz is currently the 16th fastest American in history

Here are his ranks in other events:

2 mile - 4th

5000 - 3rd

10,000 - 6th

1/2 marathon - 2nd

As someone else mentioned, I'm pretty only Ritzenhein of the two has run the marathon.

But no matter, the idea that training for a marathon slows you in the 5,000 and 10,000 is just wrong. Ritzenhein had done a marathon before he ran under 13:00 for the 5,000. Shorter was training for and racing marathons when he set the AR at 10,000 in Munich. Barry Magee's best times from 3 miles to 10,000 neters came after his Olympic bronze in the marathon.

Finally, maybe he, "they" if Tegenkamp ever does run a marathon, just want to see what they can do, want the satisfaction that running a hard marathon brings, etc.