Mt. Rushmore of current American distance runners

Mmmmmmm wrote:

All time is Mike Morton Scott Jurek Ann Trason and Courtney Campbell. If you dont know these names you shouldnt post here.

THIS ALL OTHERS ARE FALSE.

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Like the subject says, who would you put on have a Mt. Rushmore of current American distance runners. No Glen Cunningham, no Jim Ryan, no Alan Webb, not even Ryan Hall. My picks:

Matt Centrowitz,

Shalene Flanagan,

Galen Rupp,

Jim Walmsley.

Let's stop SUCKING OFF Jim Walmsley!!!!!

His 100 mile ultra race is a great achievement... No argument there. BUT.....it's comparing apples to oranges. In the world of ultra running the competition is extremely limited compared to that of track and field and road racing. I'm sorry, but you can't consider him among the best American runners until the sport of ultra running is legitimized with regard to "accurate" courses and times (no bears or lions influencing times) and a greater number of participants. Also, not that track and field or road racing is drug-free but the probability of doping in ultra endurance events is much greater. Mr. Walmsley's Western States victory and shattering of the course record in reported 106 degree temps and altitude is HIGHLY SUSPECT. What is the drug testing protocol for ultra races? Are there any?

Wait, this is going to be a huge sculpture of their head that people pay money to see in person. They have to be good looking. I think that puts Coburn at the top of the list. Rupp is out.

Bernard Lagat is still running,road races and Masters. So put him up there.

LETS STOP SUCKING OFF TRACK AND FIELD RUNNERS!!!!!!!

THIER ACHIEVMENTS ARE GREAT BUT THE COMPETITION IS EXTREMELY LIMTED COMPARED TO THAT OF NFL PLAYERS WHO CHOSE TO MAKE MILLIONS INSTEAD OF GO NCAA TRACK.......where the fuckk does your logic end???? The track and field guys aren’t even the top in the world I would reckon to say that all of the elites go on to money maker sports and what you have left over is the remaining elites in track and field....same goes for ultras. It’s not walmseys fault that these ncaa cats don’t run ultras so its not his fault so basically stfu. It’s like saying Magnus Carlson shouldn’t be called the best chess player becuase some other genius like Stephen hawkin never decided to play chess. Your logic sucks worse than my grammar.

Previous poster just got destroyed, hard.

Great thread!

Rupp

Centro

Jager

Murphy

Desi

Coburn

Flanagan

Simpson

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Like the subject says, who would you put on have a Mt. Rushmore of current American distance runners. No Glen Cunningham, no Jim Ryan, no Alan Webb, not even Ryan Hall. My picks:

Matt Centrowitz,

Shalene Flanagan,

Galen Rupp,

Jim Walmsley.

To be on Mt Rushmore I think you need to be the best in the world in at least one event and world class in another . Jenny Simpson meets that criteria too . Jaeger and Coburn have only excelled at the steeple

If they started offering $100,000.00 at ultras you would quickly see better times. That's all unless anyone can tell me how much they paid.

So back to Rushmore , where's the love for billy mills?

2:18 wrote:

If they started offering $100,000.00 at ultras you would quickly see better times. That's all unless anyone can tell me how much they paid.

So back to Rushmore , where's the love for billy mills?

Current, not one hit wonders.

letsjog wrote:

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Tsk, tsk, that race yesterday gave ultra running more visibility then it ever had. It was no different than shorter winning in Munich, Joan Benoit in LA and Dave Scott winning the Ironman

The event is not going to be the same.

Quick. See if you can buy the Letsjog.com domain. It's going to be huge. You can be famous like Rojo.

8:30 pace wins ultra races? Maybe LetsShuffle.com would be more appropriate...

llort_vbo wrote:

letsjog wrote:

Quick. See if you can buy the Letsjog.com domain. It's going to be huge. You can be famous like Rojo.

8:30 pace wins ultra races? Maybe LetsShuffle.com would be more appropriate...

You could never maintain that pace for 100 miles through elevation. You’d probably be at 50 min miles lol

llort_vbo wrote:

8:30 pace wins ultra races? Maybe LetsShuffle.com would be more appropriate...

Only easy ones. The harder ones like Hardrock can be won with a 12:00 pace.

My criteria for the four: Olympic or World Championship medals.

CENTRO

SIMPSON

RUPP

MARTINEZ/ROWBURY/FLANAGAN -- you pick

Sorry didn't pay attention to the whole thread.

Should not really be a current mt. Rushmore since it was built using dead presidents with dead presidents(money).

Forgot JAGER. He would be my fourth face.

osm wrote:

Rupp- Arguably the greatest non-African born male distance runner of all time (5k-marathon), two Olympic medals.

Centro- Olympic gold, two WC medals, super consistent near the top of the global 1500 ranks.

Simpson- WC gold, three other Olympic/WC medals, similar deal to Centro.

Coburn- I want to keep the gender balance even, arguments could be made for Huddle or Flanagan, but no global medals hurts Huddle, and I consider WC gold to be more impressive than winning NYC.

That's fine....but Webb is better than rupp at muddle distance......and craig mottram is better than rupp at long distance.

All in all, mottram is also non African, and us twice the runner rupp is.

Paul MF Chelimo

Galen Rupp

Centro

Jager

In no particular order. Though Rupp is probably the most successful.

Senior-Lazarus_Long wrote:

Bernard Lagat is still running,road races and Masters. So put him up there.

Legat, the Kenyan who ran for Kenya in the Olympics? Or is that someone else I’m thinking about?