Best of luck to Andrew for the rest of the season.
Best of luck to Andrew for the rest of the season.
Andrew Wheating suffers from chronic undertraining.
This is tragic. Will Leer is also out due to an ingrown hair!
Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it...
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Maybe get a blister on your little toe
Maybe get a blister on your heel
Trackstar77 wrote:
Andrew Wheating suffers from chronic undertraining.
How was his appointment even justified except for Vin being the distance coach?
terms out wrote:
Trackstar77 wrote:Andrew Wheating suffers from chronic undertraining.
How was his appointment even justified except for Vin being the distance coach?
He's 9th fastest in the world this year at 1500m.
terms out wrote:
Trackstar77 wrote:Andrew Wheating suffers from chronic undertraining.
How was his appointment even justified except for Vin being the distance coach?
He is/was the best one who volunteered? Who knows? I think his best 800 this year is 148. He could still bring it together this year, the 1500 would be a lot more boring without him.
malmo wrote:
Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it...
...
Maybe get a blister on your little toe
Maybe get a blister on your heel
Don't forget about the money for nothing part.
I guess having a big fat Nike contract makes taking time off an easy decision when everything isn't going perfectly.
That's one of the biggest problems with the sport. The largest part of an athletes income comes from endorsement/ sponsorship deals not from the actual competitions themselves.
I heard David Torrance is now out because his singlet is wrinkled.
is it just me or was usatf kinda putting andy on blast with the twitter reply?
Andrew Wheating is the Albert Haynesworth of track. He took the money and ran.
Just like college football players get huge contracts based on what they did in college, with no guarantee of pro performance -- so the same could apply to this situation.
However, if memory serves, this is a contract year for Wheating, so he has every motivation to get healthy, be healthy, and have a season for being resigned.
What it seems like is that as a new runner, later in high school, he rose up in successive heavier training, and got those Ferrari results in college, and then started to break down due to cumulative wear and tear and stress.
This guy has a major talent engine, and we need him healthy and competitive to make an Olympic final and do something!
A Duck wrote:
Just like college football players get huge contracts based on what they did in college, with no guarantee of pro performance -- so the same could apply to this situation.
However, if memory serves, this is a contract year for Wheating, so he has every motivation to get healthy, be healthy, and have a season for being resigned.
What it seems like is that as a new runner, later in high school, he rose up in successive heavier training, and got those Ferrari results in college, and then started to break down due to cumulative wear and tear and stress.
This guy has a major talent engine, and we need him healthy and competitive to make an Olympic final and do something!
It turns out it is an infected blister, according to someone on TF&N's board, which can be serious. My question is, how does a professional, which support staff, medical people, etc., I assume, allow a blister to become infected. I was a mug runner, and I know enough to treat a blister so I could keep running.
His Coach is Mark Rowland.
Official Draft AJ remark!!
Srsly who USATF only listed 4 for the DMR in the press release?
Bill Huntington wrote:
It turns out it is an infected blister, according to someone on TF&N's board, which can be serious. My question is, how does a professional, which support staff, medical people, etc., I assume, allow a blister to become infected. I was a mug runner, and I know enough to treat a blister so I could keep running.
How does any medical facility "allow" any patient to have an infection after the fact with support staff, medical people, etc.?
Nike shoes giving him blisters!! Not good for him; not good for Nike!!
If it was Jason Rexing, he'd just self-amputate and carry the baton anyway.
Steve on a cell in Brooklyn wrote:
Bill Huntington wrote:It turns out it is an infected blister, according to someone on TF&N's board, which can be serious. My question is, how does a professional, which support staff, medical people, etc., I assume, allow a blister to become infected. I was a mug runner, and I know enough to treat a blister so I could keep running.
How does any medical facility "allow" any patient to have an infection after the fact with support staff, medical people, etc.?
Apparently it was originally misdiagnosed by the Dr. And that's how it was allowed to get serious.