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Training for trials 10k started today with 1 mi of speedwork from one end of @fly2ohare to the other. Still some speed in these legs!
2/14/16 4:01 PM
Via Twitter:
Training for trials 10k started today with 1 mi of speedwork from one end of @fly2ohare to the other. Still some speed in these legs!
2/14/16 4:01 PM
His time has gone. Let it go.
No mas wrote:
His time has gone. Let it go.
His time of failures has not gone. Keep failin', Ritz!
Anything better than a DNF/DNS here would be good but im not confident.
It's over. He got 65% of 18-19 years worth of training and made the most of his god given ability just descends into the category of all time greats who lived the dream but never medaled.
Webb beating him at 10k was a slap in the face and Hall running away in the marathon circuit forced him to jump too soon. His 5000 AR was a shock but not a shock at the same time.
No mas wrote:
His time has gone. Let it go.
It wasn't that long ago he was hanging pretty tough with Galen and Mo in 10K workouts. If he can get anywhere near back to that, he could make the team. Sure he may not do anything at the Olympics, but he'd represent his country again. Kind of like Teg his last USA team.
The thing about Ritz, he seems to force it too much even when he's not feeling great. He could learn something from Rupp. Stay more calm, don't blow excessive energy on short lived surges etc. Maybe ring Alberto up and say hey, would you be willing to have Rupp trade 800s at 27:40 pace for 5k?
The Olympic qualifying standard for Rio is 28:00, and the Trials Standard is 28:15. I assume Ritz will go for both at either Mt. Sac, Cardinal, or Payton Jordan. Since Rupp, if healthy, is certain to take one spot, that leaves True, Derrick, Ritz, and everyone else to compete for the other two.
Is it possible that someone put some sort of diuretic in Ritz's drink that made his muscles cramp up in the marathon race at mile 9?
If he has never had this problem in training then I'm thinking this could be a possibility.
For someone not wanting one of their runners to lose the olympic mens marathon trials. Could this be possible? To ruin Ritz's chances.
What would happen if Ritz beat Galen to the finish?
Unfortunately Ritz wouldnt beat Rupp at any distance.
I believe Ritz was more talented than Rupp. But Rupp's talent is also quite high and the big difference is Rupp's consistent, injury free training for 10+ years whereas Ritz was sidelined many times during his adult life.
Biggest ritz fan wrote:
Anything better than a DNF/DNS here would be good but im not confident.
It's over. He got 65% of 18-19 years worth of training and made the most of his god given ability just descends into the category of all time greats who lived the dream but never medaled.
Webb beating him at 10k was a slap in the face and Hall running away in the marathon circuit forced him to jump too soon. His 5000 AR was a shock but not a shock at the same time.
He moved to the marathon before Hall.
He needs to do some racing while preparing for it.
lknm wrote:
He needs to do some racing while preparing for it.
Ritz has been racing on the roads.
Go for it, Ritz! Buena suerte!
Glad to hear it, and I would think he certainly still has the talent to get top 3
Ritz fan wrote:
Is it possible that someone put some sort of diuretic in Ritz's drink that made his muscles cramp up in the marathon race at mile 9?
If he has never had this problem in training then I'm thinking this could be a possibility.
For someone not wanting one of their runners to lose the olympic mens marathon trials. Could this be possible? To ruin Ritz's chances.
What would happen if Ritz beat Galen to the finish?
maybe the dumbest thing I've ever read here...and that's saying a lot.
i just can't even... wrote:
Ritz fan wrote:Is it possible that someone put some sort of diuretic in Ritz's drink that made his muscles cramp up in the marathon race at mile 9?
If he has never had this problem in training then I'm thinking this could be a possibility.
For someone not wanting one of their runners to lose the olympic mens marathon trials. Could this be possible? To ruin Ritz's chances.
What would happen if Ritz beat Galen to the finish?
maybe the dumbest thing I've ever read here...and that's saying a lot.
Yeah it isn't like Ritz has ever cramped in a marathon before. Clearly must have been a spiked drink. Or maybe someone spiked his drink in his other 7 or so marathons just to throw us off the scent.
asdfads wrote:
i just can't even... wrote:maybe the dumbest thing I've ever read here...and that's saying a lot.
Yeah it isn't like Ritz has ever cramped in a marathon before. Clearly must have been a spiked drink. Or maybe someone spiked his drink in his other 7 or so marathons just to throw us off the scent.
Does this mean that AlSal is going to start feeding his son diuretics to see how much it takes to impact his performance?
Gave this a bit more thought. This seems to be the list for the contenders to qualify for the Olympics in the 10:
Rupp
Ritz
True
Derrick
Jenkins
Mead
Chelanga
Estrada
Braun
Kipchirchir
Quigley
wrong timeline wrote:
He moved to the marathon before Hall.
You're right on the timeline but wrong on how I applied my idea.
Ryan Hall graduated college in 2005. Hall qualified for the world champs at 5000 shortly after he signed with Asics in June. Ritz was sidelined. Webb won USAs and made the team.
Ritz lost to Alan Webb at two miles in 2005 and at 10000 in April 2006. After that devastating defeat at 10000, Ritz, who like the others in the class of 2001 only had medals in mind, made the marathon his focus.
About a month or two after Ritz debuted at New York Hall started making waves at the non-track distances. The AR in the half-marathon was HUGE. But Ritz and company continued the chase at the Marathon distance because it was perceived as the only chance he had at a medal.
Meanwhile, the rest of us at home knew his sweet spot was at 5000, 10000 and half-marathon.
In 2009, he dropped back down to 5000 and ran 12:56 to set the American Record. It came out of the blue.
I always say he would have had a legit career had he focused on the 5, 10, and thrown a couples halves in there and then only gone to the marathon for this Olympic cycle. He probably would have run 26:45 and 59:30. Not sure he would have run any faster than 12:56 but I imagine had Salazar been coaching him for a few years to those distances 12:50 wouldn't have been out of his reach... Maybe even 12:45? Who knows. The marathon just isn't his thing and most in his camp including himself have been too stubborn to acknowledge that.
loser. go away from this site. Ritz has qualified for multiple Olympics, won numerous national championships, set an American record at 5000m (12:56), run 27:22 in a warm championships, and won two world medals at half and junior xc, plus a 2:07:47, 2nd all-time American born athlete.