You make a good point,Mike. If he is in fact making a payday out of his speed work days, he is thousands of dollars smarter than the runners watching the meet on TV. I heard Marion interview Rotich after the Wanamaker Mile, but didn't understand a word that he said, maybe Lagat will interpret. Harold
>From: Mike Prizy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Harold Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: t-and-f: Human Hydroplane >Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:43:36 -0600 > >But, we don't know that Rotich isn't also running a cazillion miles. He >could be doing 20 milers on >most of his other days and running 3:57s for time trials/speed work. Will >any writers here be at >Saturday's meet? If you get the chance, can you ask Rotich what his winter >workout schedule is like? >I think he's turning his speed work into paydays. > >Harold Richards wrote: > > > I think that you missed the point.Rotich ran 3" all out" races in a >short > > time, unless you think that he eased up. He'll run another one on >Saturday. > > The way some coaches think, this is a whole season inside of 3 weeks. I > > think that a runner learns to compete by competing not running a >cazillion > > miles and entering one race. > > Harold > > > > >From: James Dunaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Reply-To: James Dunaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: John Lunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Subject: Re: t-and-f: Human Hydroplane > > >Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:32:52 +0100 > > > > > > > > > > > >Don't we, perhaps, respect the four-minute mile a little > > >too much? After all, a 3:57 mile is somewhat equivalent to > > >a 1:48 800 meters, which wouldn't exactly blow anyone's > > >mind if it were done thrice in 7 or 8 days (in fact, if > > >he were a Kenyan, you might think he had mono). > > > > > >Sometimes I think that the mystique of four minutes is a > > >hindrance to American milers, since they think that once > > >they have broke 4:00 they are world class runners. > > > > > >They ain't. In fact, them days is long gone -- like, maybe, > > >thirty years.... > > > > > >jim dunaway > > > > > > > > > > > >At 07:11 AM 2/6/02 -0700, you wrote: > > > >Those who like to argue (discuss) the topic of racing too much might > > > >want to look at what Rotich has done in the last 2 weeks. > > > >He ran the mile in the Boston indoor meet. Then, less than a week >later, > > > >he ran at Milrose winning the mile in 3:57. > > > >The next day he went to Arkansas and won the mile in 3:57. Next, he >is > > > >scheduled to run the mile at the Nebraska meet on February 9. > > > >John Lunn > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
