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Congrats Daniel Tapia! Didn't even break 10:00 for 2 miles in high school and now averages 5:04 per mile for full marathon!! We are very proud of you! https://results.chronotrack.com/m/ctlive/#23616/result/57923/25878082
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Awesome. I remember Daniel coming out of nowhere ~5 years ago but think he had been struggling a bit since. Glad he has stuck with it and is crushing again! Great run!
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EJ Fernandez had a decent run in 2:14 or so, and Eric Finan made a bit of a comeback in 2:17 high.
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Yup, totally doped on one major drug, HARD WORK! Keep it up Danny and congrats to Mammoth training group! Clean athletes working hard in beautiful Mammoth Lakes!
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Sweet! I saw him finish this year at the San Jose half rock n roll and he looked fit as fukc coming in right behind the Kenyan winner
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Eric Finan had a very short build up for this. Very impressive. This guy has had bad luck with injury for the past 5 years. I've been a follower of his training log on running2win for quite some time.
I see an A standard in the near future with a full build up. He can handle mileage and aerobic workouts well, and seems to stay injury free when doing so. It's the track work that seems to hurt him. -
Awesome, great to see that development, congrats to him.
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Remember this is a downhill point to point course. Perfect weather today.
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Top two American finishers were Hispanic.
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Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
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Beevie wrote:
Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
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Nope. Fourth post was pulled down for comparing him to Zach Miller who was accused of drugs.
LRC cynicism is preserved. Especially by the mods, who left up multi-page thread on Miller supposedly doping (with zero evidence other than winning while having been slow in college).
somebloke wrote:
Beevie wrote:
Seven positive posts before the doubter came on. Good job Letsrun! And awesome job by Daniel. Love these guys who succeed with hard damn work.
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glj/ wrote:
Top two American finishers were Hispanic.
Love it.
This is a problem for American athletes, we are content with being top Americans. Its a little bit like saying all finishers are winners.
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Coach Ibarra wrote:
Congrats Daniel Tapia! Didn't even break 10:00 for 2 miles in high school and now averages 5:04 per mile for full marathon!! We are very proud of you! https://results.chronotrack.com/m/ctlive/#23616/result/57923/25878082
This was a great race by Daniel Tapia.
Eric Fernandez (2:14:09 in 4th) and Stephanie Bruce (2:32:37, 2nd place woman) from Flagstaff also had great races.
Please note that 6 out of the top 7 men and the top 2 women at this race live at altitude.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24282203
http://www.hypo2sport.com/total-hemoglobin-mass-testing-the-gold-standard/
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To be fair, he didn't really start running much till after high school.
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I wish the organizers would change the name of this marathon.
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Great Job. He is on pace for sub 2:11 next year.
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Looks like he only ran 14:40 in college, so it's not as if he became a stud as soon as he left high school.
I always love hearing these stories. Shows that hard work really does pay off.
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I guess he was only a sophomore when he ran that mark. That's all I could find online.
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Actually, he started running as a sophomore in high school and ran just as much as your typical varsity high school kids... he ran around 40-50 miles a week during most cross and track seasons... he was actually part of a fairly good team but just didn't keep it going out of high school and, as you said, really picked it up later on...
