How many of us know top runners who ruined their
competitive careers by running an all-out marathon?
I've know of at least three.
How many of us know top runners who ruined their
competitive careers by running an all-out marathon?
I've know of at least three.
to your 3, I can point to 300 who didn't
Three? Well that settles it.
That is probably because you run in the extremely slow group who finish in over 4 hours.
Define top runners. (Sponsored pros, trails qualifiers, etc.)
A lot of runners move up to the marathon after their competitive track careers are close to done anyway.
Jed Clampett wrote:
How many of us know top runners who ruined their
competitive careers by running an all-out marathon?
I've know of at least three.
Okay, so who are these three people?
Lets see how Shalane Flanagan bounces back from the Olympic Trials. It looked like she ran all-out.
I can think of Salazar, Beardsley, and Hall if you want to throw him in there. Probably other factors though, like apparently Salazar didn't take anytime off after his duel in the sun and just resumed his regular training.
Please define all-out? Is running at your MP equivalent from your 5k time considered all-out? Or would you have to go beyond that?
mucus pus dairy wrote:
I can think of Salazar, Beardsley, and Hall if you want to throw him in there. Probably other factors though, like apparently Salazar didn't take anytime off after his duel in the sun and just resumed his regular training.
beardsley became addicted to pain meds and mangled his leg in some farm machine, barring those hed have returned to top form
what is all out marathon? wrote:
Please define all-out? Is running at your MP equivalent from your 5k time considered all-out? Or would you have to go beyond that?
All-out meaning you run the race as fast as you can
mucus pus dairy wrote:
I can think of Salazar, Beardsley, and Hall if you want to throw him in there. Probably other factors though, like apparently Salazar didn't take anytime off after his duel in the sun and just resumed his regular training.
Marathons ruined Ryan Hall's track career in the same way that basketball ruined Michael Jordan's baseball career.
I am not sure about Beardsley returning to top form but for the accident. In the Duel in the Sun book, he discusses the Achilles injury he picked up after Boston because he like Salazar, kept plugging away without resting enough. If I recall correctly he attributed that to his drop from prime form as that along with other injuries prevented him from returning to top form. He was a non-factor in the 84 Olympic Trials marathon. The farming accident was in 1989 after he pretty much was done as a competitive marathoner.
"How many of us know top runners who ruined their competitive careers by running an all-out marathon?"
Does that have to mean Alberto Salazar. Why can't it mean someone who ran a 4:15 mile and then foolishly attempted an all out marathon?
Literally hundreds of high school kids have done that. Perhaps I should have made it "crystal clear" and said "high school kids."
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