Drew Hunter - 2 mile TT prediction thread

No one in Drew’s neighbored or county even is hurting for money ?

Virtue signaling? Drew has two adopted sisters from Haiti, both of who are nurses.

We adopted my two oldest sisters from Haiti in 2002. Both of them are now nurses here in the U.S. and one of them cares for patients infected with the virus. I have been in Virginia for most of the quarantine, and only 30 minutes away from my sisters, yet I haven’t been able to see them. The work they do is emotionally, mentally, and physically grueling with little to no end game in sight. When I realized I had a time trial coming up, I knew I wanted to do something to properly honor my sisters AND healthcare workers around the world. So, my sisters suggested supporting a Haitian organization. With so much poverty and lack of funding, Haiti is in need of some assistance during this pandemic. Plus, the same sister who is caring for infected patients, went on a medical mission trip to Haiti a few years back and saw firsthand the huge need for medical care, during normal conditions. So imagine the need during a pandemic.

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rojo wrote:

Thumbs up to Drew for doing this and for raising money for charity. I wish I'd been paying attention to the boards or someone had let me know as I would have highlighted to get more live viewers but I had no idea this was going on.

Anyway, it's appropriate that this performance came today on Ritz's retirement day as it makes me appreciate Ritz a little more, particularly Ritz's 27:22 at Worlds in 2009 which I estimate was run in 78 degree weather. In that race, no one paid any attention to it as Bekele (1st in 26:46) destroyed him as did the bronze medallist (26:57). But he spanked Rupp and ran probably equivalent to sub 27 for most people as most people don't run well in high 70 weather.

More on that here:

https://www.letsrun.com/news/2020/05/dathan-ritzenhein-hangs-em-up-we-pick-our-5-favorite-moments-from-his-career/

There is not a damn thing going on, maybe you noticed, and you didn't realize Drew Hunter's TT was today? Despite it being on the board, the board you run, for days?

Yeah, Ritz retired today. Did you sit on your couch crying all day?

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

OWL wrote:

Agree on not understand the science behind the 2 mile tempo at 5:00/mi which would be marathon pace. Tinman is forgetting a fundamental physiological principle: muscle memory. This is the reasons why Canova, et al, do not prescribe big cool downs. You want the muscle to experience and remember the specific effort.

My guess is that perhaps Tinman knows Hunter is a bit lazy in terms of getting full volume density of work during the week and is sneaking in some marathon pace work for the future. This pace has no relevance to Drew Hunter for 1500, 5000, or 10,000m training.

Good news is that we could probably ask Tinman or Hunter to explain this workout on social media.

Jenny Simpson ftw wrote:

Don't understand this workout. Why the two mile tempo at the end? Why not just tack on another 800m in 2 flat ?

why not just do a hard at-pace workout one day and a marathon pace workout the next day?

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

No one in Drew’s neighbored or county even is hurting for money ?

Wrong. There are kids in his former school district who are hurting right now. I know because my coworkers and I are trying to help them every day.

Virtual signaling for the win.

I give Drew a lot of respect for doing this. Not a very good time but pretty silly to worry about at a time like this. I wish I could go 8:36 and have people say it was bad.

It takes a lot of guts to do something like he did. I don't see any other pros putting their necks out like this. I do see plenty of wankers doing downhill time trials. There's a reason for that. They're cowards.

i live there wrote:

ThatAverageRunner wrote:

No one in Drew’s neighbored or county even is hurting for money ?

Wrong. There are kids in his former school district who are hurting right now. I know because my coworkers and I are trying to help them every day.

Virtual signaling for the win.

JFC you types just can’t miss trying to make a political issue out of everything. Just go back to your troll hole and give it a rest.

not banned wrote:

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

LRC really is a cesspool sometimes. A pro runner took a stab at a fast 2 mile by himself & after coming back from an injury. He brought a lot of people together to watch track & raised money for a good cause. Instead of celebrating that, many have made jabs at the cause & the time. What's wrong with you people that you have to knock someone down to make yourself feel better? 8:36 solo is probably around 5k capability or where he could get to with another month or two of training.

FightFor15 wrote:

not banned wrote:

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

LRC really is a cesspool sometimes. A pro runner took a stab at a fast 2 mile by himself & after coming back from an injury. He brought a lot of people together to watch track & raised money for a good cause. Instead of celebrating that, many have made jabs at the cause & the time. What's wrong with you people that you have to knock someone down to make yourself feel better? 8:36 solo is probably around 5k capability or where he could get to with another month or two of training.

Everyone deals with their own misery and suffering differently.

FightFor15 wrote:

not banned wrote:

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

LRC really is a cesspool sometimes. A pro runner took a stab at a fast 2 mile by himself & after coming back from an injury. He brought a lot of people together to watch track & raised money for a good cause. Instead of celebrating that, many have made jabs at the cause & the time. What's wrong with you people that you have to knock someone down to make yourself feel better? 8:36 solo is probably around 5k capability or where he could get to with another month or two of training.

+1

not banned wrote:

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

Imagine thinking Nico Young is faster than Hunter. It would have maybe been close if Drew was still in hs but these days no. Last year drew got 5th as USA's with a few injuries and is a 3:35/13:20 guy. Ran 7:39 last year. Nico is great but you guys think he can do anything.

dang he's pretty out of shape.

although considering he trains with a bunch of runners who can't get signed by any company and is too busy selling t-shirts to really focus in running i'm not shocked.

watch him move to a real training group in a couple years and the whole tinman facade explode as no one else can break 14 in the 5k on a good day...the fanboys are gonna be so mad it's gonna be hilarious.

funny that a couple high schoolers are in better shape rt now. but hunter is soft, thought he was too good to go to college and all he's done is get a couple seconds faster in the 1500 and get 6th at outdoor USAs. would have been way better off going to any decent school and training with good runners.

The whole Tinman thing is silly, remember this winter when they were all going to run fast a BU and they all ran like 14:30?

Nico's coach claimed that he ran 8:03 followed by 10x400 a week or so ago. If close to true, he could have paced Hunter for 3000 and then run a 10x400 workout. I am not buying it but some here probably do.

Is there a guy in college with a PR as fast in the 1500 as him? He should be a college senior but there is nobody with the same resume of combined 1500/3000/5000.

FightFor15 wrote:

LRC really is a cesspool sometimes. A pro runner took a stab at a fast 2 mile by himself & after coming back from an injury. He brought a lot of people together to watch track & raised money for a good cause. Instead of celebrating that, many have made jabs at the cause & the time. What's wrong with you people that you have to knock someone down to make yourself feel better? 8:36 solo is probably around 5k capability or where he could get to with another month or two of training.

Yes - this is only on letsrun...

No one trashes Lebron when he plays poorly.

Everyone always says nice things about Aaron Rodgers after a loss.

The women’s USA soccer team never gets trolled when they make public statements.

Oh wait... all professional athletes get criticized always... especially when they fail to meet public expectations.

Go read a yahoo message board on any sports related topic.

Get over it.

FightFor15 wrote:

not banned wrote:

Can’t wait for Young to split faster than that whenever he decides to drop his 5k time trial

LRC really is a cesspool sometimes. A pro runner took a stab at a fast 2 mile by himself & after coming back from an injury. He brought a lot of people together to watch track & raised money for a good cause. Instead of celebrating that, many have made jabs at the cause & the time. What's wrong with you people that you have to knock someone down to make yourself feel better? 8:36 solo is probably around 5k capability or where he could get to with another month or two of training.

The time trial was prescribed by his coach, he didn't run it just to please us. He should be donating more than 10k out of his own pocket because he has a 7 figure contract. And with 33 million Americans unemployed and 1 in 5 kids going hungry, that money should stay in America.

It's 100% fair to evaluate whether that time trial is a good performance, especially seeing as he broadcast it himself. There are more than 40 college runners that ran faster than that and several high schoolers who would have given him a run for his money.

hunter runs wrote:

Nico's coach claimed that he ran 8:03 followed by 10x400 a week or so ago. If close to true, he could have paced Hunter for 3000 and then run a 10x400 workout. I am not buying it but some here probably do.

While I actually do believe Nico could have ran that based on Sprout running that ridiculous 2 mile and seeing a few other highschoolers do some impressive things. Nico has had some killer workouts this year too. It is absurd to think he could beat Hunter.

Since all we can do theses days is hypothesize. A good hypothetical race for Nico would be Verzbicas, Hunter, G. Fernandez at 2 miles All in HS obviously.

Man, shut the hell up.