Chris Solinsky is back baby!

badger miles wrote:

solinsky is one of the toughest runners out there. if his body can get fit he just needs to stay healthy, get some more confidence from races/workouts, and he could make a go at it. it'd be incredibly difficult, but i hope he can be there. he's just more exciting to watch than most of the other guys.

30:03 is actually terrible.

He should be running a 10k tempo in 30 minutes without much trouble.

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One of the toughest runners? LOL. He got knocked off the track by a string bean (110-pound) African! LOL

how does that translate to toughness? he weighs 50 more lbs than the guy and got bumped off so he obviously wasn't prepared for a bump or lost his balance. are you saying losing your balance means you aren't tough?gimme a break rhonda. you know if he bumped the 110-pounder, that guy would have gone flying. if you're not prepared to get bumped running a race, you'll probably lose your balance. that's why people fall at the slightly brush of a foot or leg from a '110 lb string bean'. it happens all of the time. is kiprop not tough because he fell back last week in his race from a slight contact.?he ran 3:26 the week before, must have lost all his 'toughness' pretty quickly

Rhonda does Rio wrote:

badger miles wrote:

solinsky is one of the toughest runners out there. if his body can get fit he just needs to stay healthy, get some more confidence from races/workouts, and he could make a go at it. it'd be incredibly difficult, but i hope he can be there. he's just more exciting to watch than most of the other guys.

30:03 is actually terrible.

He should be running a 10k tempo in 30 minutes without much trouble.

One of the toughest runners? LOL. He got knocked off the track by a string bean (110-pound) African! LOL[/quote]

See this picture. No wonder he's slow now.

https://www.google.com/search?q=chris+solinsky+hamstring&client=safari&hl=en&biw=375&bih=559&prmd=in&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI5cvprqGLxwIVzKKACh13rAg0#imgrc=TLLlfvm_tFnlKM%3A

Other options wrote:

Right. Because despite all that he came back nicely for a 13:2x 5k. I think everyone would agree that with that kind of injury and layoff a 13:2x first year back is great progress. Why did he only go backwards??? Afraid to train hard again and risk further injury? Is it mental or physical barrier. I mean I saw the picture that looked like he was missing part of his hamstring but still didn't seem to bother him too much first year back.

He had the injury and surgery in 2011. He ran the 13:23 in 2013, about 20 months after the surgery. While 13:23 is a far better result than anything he's done lately, remember it's 28 seconds slower than he ran in 2010. That's not what I would call great progress. He's just not the same anymore.

Solinsky became a 12:55/26:59 runner through sustained years of high level training. He's a long way from that now, and to think he'll get back to a high level seems highly unlikely.

...but did he look relaxed?

Realistic wrote:

30:03 is actually terrible.

He should be running a 10k tempo in 30 minutes without much trouble.

None of the times were fast

It's not like he's running 30:03 on a track at Stanford in peak form

Soprano wrote:

Considering he hasn't raced a marathon (and isn't exactly killing it at the shorter stuff) it's hard to say he has a good chance at the 2016 Marathon Trials. However, you can't rule him out yet either until he actually runs a marathon. Last year he raced over 25K (1:16:43) and that converts to 2:14-mid with McMillan's calculator (more like 2:15-mid with JK's conversion chart:

http://www.letsrun.com/2007/jkconversion.pdf

). Considering that race marked just under 2-years to the Trials, he could have made big improvements since then. I don't know what his plans are, but if he can make a marathon debut in 2:13 or better this fall (let's say at Chicago) he'd definitely put himself in the conversation as a possible top 3 at the Trials.

If he is still planning to take a shot at the marathon, then it seems like the result is neither here nor there. It's basically the same time he ran last year when he finished in 29:58, which was notably just 2 seconds behind Meb.

And he if he is planning to run the trials, I can't imagine he would try to do so through a marathon. All he needs is a sub-1:05 half which he did in theory en-route to his 25K time. Of course if the 30 minute 10K represents his true fitness, then even a qualifying time in the half becomes a big lift.

Realistic wrote:

30:03 is actually terrible.

He should be running a 10k tempo in 30 minutes without much trouble.

Exactly its good for a club runner but that's it

I'm thinking that the majority of posters on this thread have not had their running stopped by a major injury (giving up, more likely). Solinsky isn't where he was, but I imagine he's grateful that at least he can run again.

bocce wrote:

noce wrote:

Earned a reputation as an iron man, trained like a madman, ripped his hamstring clean from the bone, had it surgically repaired, was never the same afterwards. No inside info needed to figure out what happened.

Seems you didn't read or didn't understand his post.

No I understood. He is not the same runner, physically, and he is not getting back into sub-13 sub-27 shape. This was a serious injury. The letsrun dude explained it well.