[quote]cream top wrote:
Fisher spread himself too thin last winter/spring. He ran a several indoor races between 4:04-4:07, including a one in a college field where he got tripped up pretty bad entering the last lap (recovered very well to beat the guy that tripped him up). Then ran a solo 4:04 at his state meet. Then tried to threaten 4:00 at indoor nats (would've hit about 4:01.low had he not tripped on the rail and nearly gone down on the final turn). Then he traveled out to run a 1500m at Stanford outdoors mid-season (which certainly wasn't necessary). Then he ran a 4:00.26 1600m solo time trial in a light rain at his state meet (awesome to watch- the whole stadium was into it). Then doubled back to win the 3200m in 8:53 over another Footlocker qualifier. Then 4 days later he heads out to St Louis to finally get his 3:59.38. A lot of people on LR were saying that this was a bad move after his state meet double. Then he goes 4:01 at the Dream Mile to win in predictable fashion.
All the while, Hunter is training just for the end of the season. And it showed.
I think your right on Grant's end of season last year. It was obvious it was gonna all show up. Don't think he cared much it was a long season. What your describing I think happened to many of the NXN elite. That Jon Davies is on a video about 4 weeks prior to NXN talking about him cutting mileage down and tapering for his Sat. big race. I was thinking you got 3 more big races, next 3 Saturdays before you head to NXN. I just figured they must know what their doing???? He was done at the mile mark, Tamagno way earlier. Oh well.