Clearly, Tom has no background in running. "Shannon" Flanagan. Come on. Americans can barely qualify for the Olympic Marathon? Perhaps he meant the trials, but still... Dathan Ritzenhein, Ryan Hall, and Brian Sell finished, 9th, 10th and 22nd, respectively, out of 76--not to mention tons of DNFs--in Beijing. That's a pretty good showing.
I was not impressed with Jennifer Kahn. She is a very good writer, but that's about it. Her statement that no American has run a faster time at the Boston Marathon than Alberto Salazar and Bill Rodgers is absolutely not true. Ryan Hall holds the American record on that course. In fact, no American has run a faster marathon than Ryan Hall with the exception of Khalid Khannouchi, who is Moroccan-born. Not even AlSal or Bill Rodgers. Ritz will never run like Kenenisa Bekele. (Jennifer, it wouldn't have killed you to say his name.) He's not even a marathon runner. He's a 5k/10k guy.
Scott Douglas made the most sense.
I note that Meb and Ritz finished ahead of a lot of big-name Ethiopian and Kenyan marathoners at the NYC Marathon this year.
The Oregon Project is dumb.
Salazar had Ritz doing 20-mile tempo runs at threshold pace and 10x1 mile intervals (with short recoveries) at about 95% of VO2 max pace. STUPID. No wonder he couldn’t run more than 120 miles/week. Do volume/sub-threshold running. Just run the guy, for crying out loud. Let me coach Ritz. Ritz, who formerly held the American record in the 5k at 12:56 is right. He should be running 2:05 marathons. He said this before NY. He said, however, that 2:07 is more realistic. He was 5 minutes off that time. Instead of focusing on big workouts that you can put up on youtube.com, just go out and run. And cut it out with the technology.
Jess and I got some good pictures of AlSal and Ritz walking back to their hotel after the NYC Marathon. They didn't look too happy...scratching their heads.
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Decent show.
Clearly, Tom has no background in running. "Shannon" Flanagan. Come on. Americans can barely qualify for the Olympic Marathon? Perhaps he meant the trials, but still... Dathan Ritzenhein, Ryan Hall, and Brian Sell finished, 9th, 10th and 22nd, respectively, out of 76--not to mention tons of DNFs--in Beijing. That's a pretty good showing.
I was not impressed with Jennifer Kahn. She is a very good writer, but that's about it. Her statement that no American has run a faster time at the Boston Marathon than Alberto Salazar and Bill Rodgers is absolutely not true. Ryan Hall holds the American record on that course. In fact, no American has run a faster marathon than Ryan Hall with the exception of Khalid Khannouchi, who is Moroccan-born. Not even AlSal or Bill Rodgers. Ritz will never run like Kenenisa Bekele. (Jennifer, it wouldn't have killed you to say his name.) He's not even a marathon runner. He's a 5k/10k guy.
Scott Douglas made the most sense.
I note that Meb and Ritz finished ahead of a lot of big-name Ethiopian and Kenyan marathoners at the NYC Marathon this year.
The Oregon Project is dumb.
Salazar had Ritz doing 20-mile tempo runs at threshold pace and 10x1 mile intervals (with short recoveries) at about 95% of VO2 max pace. STUPID. No wonder he couldn’t run more than 120 miles/week. Do volume/sub-threshold running. Just run the guy, for crying out loud. Let me coach Ritz. Ritz, who formerly held the American record in the 5k at 12:56 is right. He should be running 2:05 marathons. He said this before NY. He said, however, that 2:07 is more realistic. He was 5 minutes off that time. Instead of focusing on big workouts that you can put up on youtube.com, just go out and run. And cut it out with the technology.
Jess and I got some good pictures of AlSal and Ritz walking back to their hotel after the NYC Marathon. They didn't look too happy...scratching their heads.
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