Ryan Hill 7:30.93 for 3000 in Paris- #3 Time in US

superb race. He can go sub-13, I believe. is he running in Zurich?

Rupp also went a couple tenths faster indoors, but it's still a remarkable result for Hill.

The talent level in the US just continues to creep up there. Being a runner from the late 80s early 90s time period, I think it's really cool that today our pro runners have gotten to the point that a 7:30 guy or a 13:02 guy didn't make the Olympics, or that a sub 13:10 guy chose to move to the steeple because he would be more competitive there, and the "unknown" guy who did make the Oly 5k ends up with a silver while the "over-the-hill" guy runs 13:06 for 5th place.

With guys like Fisher, McGorty, Yorks, Hunter, Maton, Murphy, continuing to come out of the woodwork, it's an exciting time to be a fan of US running. Hard to believe the results we're getting considering some of our top young talents (Fernandez, Verzbikas, etc) did not fulfill expectations. What a difference between now and 20 years ago!

Could it be possible that Ryan is doping? I'd think so.

Not the great white hype. He's too blue collar. He's so blue collar he couldn't risk soiling his rep by competing in the Olympics.

Njj wrote:

Could it be possible that Ryan is doping? I'd think so.

Hill's best race seems to be 3000m and he's shown it a handful of times. Will he have enough to better the 13:05 he ran last year? In the right race, maybe. For whatever reason, Hill loves running indoor more than anything else. I'm sure we'll see him racing a lot in February.

To bad Hill just had a crappy race at the worst moment at the Olympic trials.Would have liked to see him run in the Olympics.

wejo wrote:

Maybe it's a sign of how high expectations are for US distance runners that no one has started a thread on Hill's run.

Maybe it's a sign of how American-centred you are that you started this thread and not one about a 7:28 run by Kejelcha.

Seriously, Weldon?

- Go USA!

- What's even better about Weldon's post is that it didn't recognize Chelimo as the real-American & soldier that he is not. I wonder if Specialist Chelimo is on "leave" status from the Army to compete in Paris or is this more WCAP-pseudo soldiering?

definitely not wejo wrote:

wejo wrote:

Maybe it's a sign of how high expectations are for US distance runners that no one has started a thread on Hill's run.

Maybe it's a sign of how American-centred you are that you started this thread and not one about a 7:28 run by Kejelcha.

Seriously, Weldon?

Why would he not be American centered? He's American. The vast majority of Letsrun's readership is American.

I love how no one is talking about how a 19 year ran 7:28, a new WJR. And he looks 19 to, unlike some other "young" African runners. He Is quite tall( might be over 6' as he towered over Iguider who's 5'8") and lengthy, and looks to have a lot of potential. An nobody is talking about that, he also has a PB of 12:53 from last year which he may improve on a lot if he runs in Zurich; we could see the first 12:40 since 2012. Thank you definitely not wejo for pointing that out. I tried to start a thread on it but nobody saw it.

This guy looks like Ethiopia's future in mid distance.

You get what you get wrote:

I love how no one is talking about how a 19 year ran 7:28, a new WJR. And he looks 19 to, unlike some other "young" African runners. He Is quite tall( might be over 6' as he towered over Iguider who's 5'8") and lengthy, and looks to have a lot of potential. An nobody is talking about that, he also has a PB of 12:53 from last year which he may improve on a lot if he runs in Zurich; we could see the first 12:40 since 2012. Thank you definitely not wejo for pointing that out. I tried to start a thread on it but nobody saw it.

This guy looks like Ethiopia's future in mid distance.

Future? The "kid" looks 30.

A 7:31 is equal to a 12:54. So he should be able to run at least 13:03. As far as the WJR stuff, for the last 20 years there has been very little correlation between extremely fast African juniors becoming world beaters for many years. So let's not talk about that.

asdfsadf wrote:

The talent level in the US just continues to creep up there. Being a runner from the late 80s early 90s time period, I think it's really cool that today our pro runners have gotten to the point that a 7:30 guy or a 13:02 guy didn't make the Olympics, or that a sub 13:10 guy chose to move to the steeple because he would be more competitive there, and the "unknown" guy who did make the Oly 5k ends up with a silver while the "over-the-hill" guy runs 13:06 for 5th place.

With guys like Fisher, McGorty, Yorks, Hunter, Maton, Murphy, continuing to come out of the woodwork, it's an exciting time to be a fan of US running. Hard to believe the results we're getting considering some of our top young talents (Fernandez, Verzbikas, etc) did not fulfill expectations. What a difference between now and 20 years ago!

Seriously. This board was blowing up 10 years ago when Goucher ran 13:10. Glad that our best now are not just striving to qualify as a rabbit in a WR attempt.

Actually our best are "just striving to qualify as a rabbit in a WR attempt. There is no U.S. runner who could comfortably rabbit the first half of an assault on KB's 10000m record. The few that could try would be going all out to pace a 13:08.

Wow! What a great comeback -- when he announced his retirement from marathoning a few months ago, I really believed he was finished. I did not see this coming at all.

He's already run 12:53 last year. Do some research.

poijhbv wrote:

To bad Hill just had a crappy race at the worst moment at the Olympic trials.Would have liked to see him run in the Olympics.

According to KG we know what this means.

You get what you get wrote:

I love how no one is talking about how a 19 year ran 7:28, a new WJR. And he looks 19 to, unlike some other "young" African runners. He Is quite tall( might be over 6' as he towered over Iguider who's 5'8") and lengthy, and looks to have a lot of potential. An nobody is talking about that, he also has a PB of 12:53 from last year which he may improve on a lot if he runs in Zurich; we could see the first 12:40 since 2012. Thank you definitely not wejo for pointing that out. I tried to start a thread on it but nobody saw it.

This guy looks like Ethiopia's future in mid distance.

The boards were blowing up about Kejelcha last year--not to say he's old news, but I think most of us expected him to be Mo's main comp over 5,000 this year and he didn't end up making the Ethiopian team, it's not like people are breezing over him.