t-and-f: RK's Season
Netters below is RK's season record I think I had seen two other races not listed here but what you have is 11 wins 12 losses over 5, 10, 20 and 50k. his only loss was to two russians at 10k one of whom was last years world champ the other was in the top 5 at the games. It is especially note worthy that RK was considered a 50k specialist before this year. In any case it's a great year for any athlete. Remember too that no one ever thought anyone would win the 2050 in one Olympics. On like MJ's double which required considerable changes to the schedule RK did his on the normal schedule. It was akin to Zatopek's feet. Feb 13 POL Ch. Spala 5000m 1st 19:00.53 Feb 19 FRA Ch. Liévin 5000m 1st 18:53.71 Mar 5 Ponte de Sôr 50km 1st 3:41:50 May 7 Villeneuve d'Ascq 5000m 1st 19:16.30 Jun 3 Kraków 10km 3rd 38:48 (1 Ilya Markov 38:42, 2 Vladimir Andreyev 38:47) Jun 10 Spala 5000m 1st 18:48.92 Jul 17 Eur Cup Eisenhüttenstadt 20km 1st 18:18.29 Jun 24 Warsaw 5000m 1st 19:02.88 Jul 9 Hildesheim 20km 1st 1:18:22 Aug 5 POL Ch Kraków 20km 1st 1:20:52 Sep 22 OG Sydney 20km 1st 1:18:59 Sep 29 OGSydney 50km 1st 3:42:22
Re: t-and-f: RK's Season
I dunno...long time no post. Have not even looked at these ratings or read everybody's rants about them, but regarding the RK fella, one big difference with him and Zatopek is that Zatopek RAN. Running is running, racewalking is a bit contrived at the very least. So, I say do the apples to apples thing, in which case there are lots of 18-19 minute 5k folks (men and women) who are not world ranked, so the RK fella should be thankful. Grote adiRP - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:15 AM Subject: t-and-f: RK's Season Netters below is RK's season record I think I had seen two other races not listed here but what you have is 11 wins 12 losses over 5, 10, 20 and 50k. his only loss was to two russians at 10k one of whom was last years world champ the other was in the top 5 at the games. It is especially note worthy that RK was considered a 50k specialist before this year. In any case it's a great year for any athlete. Remember too that no one ever thought anyone would win the 2050 in one Olympics. On like MJ's double which required considerable changes to the schedule RK did his on the normal schedule. It was akin to Zatopek's feet. Feb 13 POL Ch. Spala 5000m 1st 19:00.53Feb 19 FRA Ch. Liévin 5000m 1st 18:53.71Mar 5 Ponte de Sôr 50km 1st 3:41:50May 7 Villeneuve d'Ascq 5000m 1st 19:16.30Jun 3 Kraków 10km 3rd 38:48(1 Ilya Markov 38:42, 2 Vladimir Andreyev 38:47)Jun 10 Spala 5000m 1st 18:48.92Jul 17 Eur Cup Eisenhüttenstadt 20km 1st 18:18.29Jun 24 Warsaw 5000m 1st 19:02.88Jul 9 Hildesheim 20km 1st 1:18:22Aug 5 POL Ch Kraków 20km 1st 1:20:52Sep 22 OG Sydney 20km 1st 1:18:59Sep 29 OGSydney 50km 1st 3:42:22
Re: t-and-f: RK's Season
on 17/1/01 8:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RK did his on the normal schedule. It was akin to Zatopek's feet. Alright. I give in. Randall Northam
Re: t-and-f: RK's Season
Netters Ryan, normally witty, and informed came up with this one liner: So, I say do the apples to apples thing, in which case there are lots of 18-19 minute 5k folks (men and women) who are not world ranked, so the RK fella should be thankful. Ryan, by the light, I hope you are joking because this has to be the second most stupid thing I have ever seen written about the walks. Right behind that horse's but's, P.N. from New Zealand who thought it would be ok to try to relegate what he doesn't like to an Island. On the upside I think Conway's essay on the founding fathers of the rankings was the best so far in the discussion. I know GH said he wasn't going to write any more about this but I would like to see a response to that because it seems that Conway has crystallized the point of the discussion at the same time pinning down the defenders of the rankings. The horse isn't dead yet I'd like to see an expansion from what Conway wrote.
