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| My new goal: beat Bryan Clay's Olympic Decathlon gold medal winning time in the 1500 (Read 379 times) |
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posted: 8/26/2008 at 11:02 PM |
| Quote from jscovill on 8/26/2008 at 10:57 PM: the decathlon 1500 seems to always have the highway effect. you watch the graceful 1500/5k/10k machines and the decathletes look sluggish, no matter what the final clock says.
Yet another fine point.
Remind me to not start the Monkey next to you. I don't want anyone to get an idea of how slow I'm actually running. |
Drew
Road to the Monkey
Just run, baby.
So much for my brilliance. |
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posted: 8/26/2008 at 11:04 PM |
| Quote from DrewEOB on 8/26/2008 at 11:02 PM: Yet another fine point.
Remind me to not start the Monkey next to you. I don't want anyone to get an idea of how slow I'm actually running.
that would be a bad idea. i'll be the one carrying the beer. |
| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. |
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posted: 8/26/2008 at 11:09 PM |
| Quote from jscovill on 8/26/2008 at 11:04 PM: that would be a bad idea. i'll be the one carrying the beer.
hope you have a smooth stride or that's going to be some foamy stuff. |
Drew
Road to the Monkey
Just run, baby.
So much for my brilliance. |
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posted: 8/27/2008 at 12:48 AM |
| Quote from RunNSurf on 8/26/2008 at 9:56 PM: did it win the gold ?
I see Clay ran a 4:50 in the US trials back in June...and wasn't even close to winning that...so I doubt the 5:09 was the fastest time. |
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posted: 8/27/2008 at 12:50 AM |
| But it won gold... |
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posted: 8/27/2008 at 6:00 AM |
| and if course he could run MUCH faster if the only event he was doing was the 1500. I'm sure he could run a sub-5 mile (<= 4:37 1500). |
Masters PR's:
40's - 5k 16:39; 10k 33:48, 10m 56:25, HM 1:15:27, Marathon 2:43:12
50's - couch potato
60's - 5k 19:00, 10k 38:35, 10m 1:05:30, HM 1:24:09, 30k 2:04:33 |
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posted: 8/27/2008 at 6:02 AM |
| Quote from MichiganFlyer on 8/27/2008 at 12:48 AM: I see Clay ran a 4:50 in the US trials back in June...and wasn't even close to winning that...so I doubt the 5:09 was the fastest time.
We covered that. 4:27 was the fastest.
But 5:09, combined with his score in the other 9 events, was as good as gold. |
20th Century: 800m: 2:04 |1600m: 4:37 |3200m: 10:06 |5k: 16:23 |10k: 35:38 |15k: 54:20
25k: 1:35:59
21st Century: 5k: 19:42 |10k: 43:00
"Do not allow children to mix drinks. It is unseemly, and they use too much vermouth."
Steve Allen |
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posted: 8/28/2008 at 9:48 PM
modified: 8/28/2008 at 9:55 PM |
Quote from Dakota RR on 8/26/2008 at 7:43 PM:
Is it about 5:10? Even slow pokes like me might have a chance.
I also think he could have run a much faster 1500 but probably not at the end of a grueling 10 event final. |
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