Ghost of Igloi wrote:
So.....
"Like Mother, Like Son"
Genetically, yes, in terms of running. Both parents are excellent runners. Mom at 800, dad at 5k.
Ghost of Igloi wrote:
So.....
"Like Mother, Like Son"
Genetically, yes, in terms of running. Both parents are excellent runners. Mom at 800, dad at 5k.
Enjoyed the video tremendously.
Didn't miss the moves due to commercial, field event, or some sappy background story.
How was he talented? I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. And Bill Bowerman did not necessarily say Salazar wasn't talented. Bowerman said Salazar was one only two or three athletes he ever saw who were like "bumble bees". He looked at them and saw no reason to think they should run at a high level, but they did anyway. Kenny Moore was the other. Speaking for myself, I don't know a lot about form. But for me, Salazar was ugly to watch. Other Duck legends of his time like Chapa, Centrowitz, and McChesney looked so much more talented. To me Salazar was great out of sheer will and determination on almost a freakish level. If Prefontaine had been alive when Salazar came on the scene I'm confident even he would have lectured Salazar to tone it down with all the volume and leaving it all on the track.
Ujay wrote:
ryan foreman wrote:This video is a classic piece of evidence of why I thought it is reasonable what American distance running achieved the past 8 years.
this video is over 30 years ago. Salazar is still young in this video. Just a year out of college. He wasn't that talented. Bill Bowerman himself said so. Yet he is front running most of the race and clocking a 13:15.
Knowing this. Fast forward about 25 years when Dathan Ritzenheim runs 12:56. Should we really have been blown away by that? Ritz is a more talented runner. He trained smarter. He was older. He gave it all on the track, and of course he was being paced almost all the way by the best East African runners. You could just as well ask what took so long for Americans to run in the mid 12:50s range.
Salazar was incredibly talented. It is true that he was mentally tough, tremendously so, but he was also enormously physically gifted.
Where was Doug Padilla? He was quite a 2 mile runner and a 3:56 miler by this time?
Ryan,
Karel Lismont, Belgian Silver Medalist to Shorter in 1972 or one of the best Emil Zatopek, were not pretty, but effective. How about Pat Peterson? Or in the sprints Michael Johnson? The full package is physical, psychological and the will to succeed.
Igy
ANNOUNCER... wrote:
Sorry to disagee with you, but It is unusual. He only trains kickers. He knows how to be a front runner but does train anyone that does that. Hasay used to be a front runner, but Salazar changed her ways. That is unusual.
Every day Salazar remembers being out-kicked in Eugene by an out-of-shape Henry Rono.
ALSal is a cutn...
TrackCoach wrote:
AlSal was a tough cookie.
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