How is he even coaching kids with a drug arrest on his record? He should have gotten a job at the gym instead of pushing drugs when he needed lunch money.
How is he even coaching kids with a drug arrest on his record? He should have gotten a job at the gym instead of pushing drugs when he needed lunch money.
Link wrote:
Sesamoiditis wrote:What percentage of these guys who only qualified with a 1:04 half will fail to break 2:20 at the trials?
Probably most of them, but the trials is not a race where you try to set a PR. It's a race where you try to make the team.
That said:
In principle, a 1:04 half is much much better than a 2:20, but half marathons are more like an extended 10k than they are a full marathon. To succeed in the marathon requires more than just a high VO2. It requires that a runner really get a feel for the vagaries of the distance, she or he must be cunning in a way that other races don't require.
On one hand, I'm glad that the Trials will see more of America's top distance runners in it. But I still think, on balance, we should have stuck with the marathon as the only race distance at which one can qualify.
They will need to up the standards. 1:04 is the new 1:06. Make the standard a sub 1:04. That's getting really fast.
yeah. he's super good. no one is disputing that.
nikeman wrote:
Why is nobody talking about Jon Grey here? After leading XC Club Nats the entire race and just getting caught and out-kicked by Heath and then dominating today's race there needs to be some serious discussion about him being a contender in the Trials marathon.
He was with the pack at 10K and then dropped the hammer between 8-9 miles.
His 10K split was 30:29, which means that he averaged 4:41 pace from there to the finish.
He's only been in Boulder since August training under Lee Troop and obviously the change has been good for him. Today was only a workout for him. Watch out for this guy in L.A.