Power of praying wrote:
Fogrunr wrote:
whatishappening wrote:
What the heck is happening. Discus.
I hope he is not seriously sick. I'll be praying for him.
"I'll be praying for him" = " I want to appear caring, without actually doing anything that will help"
Power of praying wrote:
Fogrunr wrote:
whatishappening wrote:
What the heck is happening. Discus.
I hope he is not seriously sick. I'll be praying for him.
"I'll be praying for him" = " I want to appear caring, without actually doing anything that will help"
Gotta bee wrote:
Time to hang em up, probably a good handful of highschoolers would have done better
Come on wrote:
Mods please edit thread title. Thought Manzano had died for a second. Not cool.
"Him and another 4:02 were accepted"? Had he been the only one accepted would you really have written, "Him was accepted with a 4:02" ?
perplexing wrote:
why was he let into the meet? Him and another 4:02 were accepted. Seems unfair and there doesnt seem to be an actual reason.
whatishappening wrote:
What the heck is happening. Discus.
Who are his current training partners? Duncan retired so he's left with no one. So many guys over the years have been in and out of the group. No consistency.
What credentials does his coach have other than that he was on staff with John Cook when Leo won the medal? His coach has coached no one good for more than 3-6 months before they end up leaving.
Leo has had so many coaches... Vig, Hayes, Cook, Ponsonby, George Perry, self coached for a while.
Lack of consistency post London has killed him. Embarrassing result yesterday. If he wants any real chance at success until 2020 he should move to NYNJ, Oregon TC, NOP, something. Anything to be able to run with people on a daily basis.
The Ryun comment, yeah in '72 he ran like 4:30 in March.
That summer he won the trials in 3:41 with a 51 final lap, ran a 3:52 mile (when his record was 3:51), then fell in his Olympic heat.
Leo, who knows? I still think he could make the team for London.
somehow he'll win USA outdoors. He'll head down to Mexico and hop on the needle like he always does.
yawn
I blame it on him wearing Hoka One One.
when he realizes he isn't going to be in contention for the win or top 3 or whatever his goal is he gives up. i personally have no problem with that, but it has pretty clearly been the case over the last decade or so. like any runner, he has good days and bad days. and when he has a bad day he just decides it isn't worth it to run hard and lose anyway.
he may or may not return to the same level of success he had before, but this type of result isn't really anything new.
Can someone please re-title this post? I seriously thought Leo had died and was momentarily sad.
He has been far worse over the last year than ever. He has had inconsistency but this is beyond that. I also agree that he still may find a way to make the US team to London especially since Andrews has not looked good. Blankenship looked great 2 years ago but last year he made the team only because Manzano was not that good.
the magic rat wrote:
when he realizes he isn't going to be in contention for the win or top 3 or whatever his goal is he gives up. i personally have no problem with that, but it has pretty clearly been the case over the last decade or so. like any runner, he has good days and bad days. and when he has a bad day he just decides it isn't worth it to run hard and lose anyway.
he may or may not return to the same level of success he had before, but this type of result isn't really anything new.
What the heck is happening. Discus.
Come on wrote:
Mods please edit thread title. Thought Manzano had died for a second. Not cool.
need to change it on the front page too. I seriously thought he had died. That is not cool at all.
I laughed out loud in a meeting when I read the thread title. Probably because only a true moran would think he died April 21st of 1992. Hard to imagine he was dead when winning a silver in 2012.
That being said he has a pretty sweet website and online store!
https://leomanzano.com/
Glad to see he was helping out his 7 year old niece and let her draw up a logo for him to use.
C'mon, you guys are being a little dramatic. He had a really bad day, but let's not go Ronda Rousey on him already.
First off, he was running pretty bad all year last year and still barely got nudged out of top 3 in the OTs. If there's one thing about Leo, on his bad days, he can really fall apart... But when it counts the most, that dude can step his game up. Let's give him outdoors before you write him off.
Here's to a good bounce back in outdoors, Leo!
MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:
I laughed out loud in a meeting when I read the thread title. Probably because only a true moran would think he died April 21st of 1992. Hard to imagine he was dead when winning a silver in 2012.
That being said he has a pretty sweet website and online store!
https://leomanzano.com/
Glad to see he was helping out his 7 year old niece and let her draw up a logo for him to use.
