Re: t-and-f: Regina and Marathoners--Compare to Joanie...

[Ryan Grote]

Not to knock Jen Rhines here at all, but 2:26 to 2:28 puts her at the top of the heap of American women marathoners, more or less.  Now, consider 2:26 to 2:28 puts her just about a FULL MILE BEHIND Joan Benoit's best marathons.  Wow.  How come she had all of the secrets figured out way back when in the dark ages of the early 80's, when there was only 1 ESPN channel, no VH1, and Roger Clemens was just a young Red Sox hurler?    Grote adiRP   ----- Original Message ----- From: mike fanelli To: Ryan Grote ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 2:04 AM Subject: Re: t-and-f: Regina and Marathoners Rhines with 10 weeks of specific work is a 2:26-2:28 prformer...perfectly suited for the event with mechanics and anaerobic threshold capacity...IMHO   MF     ----- Original Message ----- From: Ryan Grote To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 11:48 AM Subject: t-and-f: Regina and Marathoners I dunno, 2:19?  From what I've seen/heard it seems like Jacobs runs 14:45 on a more speed/anaerobic focused training regimen, no?  Don't hear much about her running 20 mile long runs and stuff.  She doesn't need to, I suppose.    If I had to pick a US woman who realistically looks to have marathon written all over her, I'd say that there are 2 who standout: Drossin Rhines.   Regina has no reason to run a marathon.  Despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of people run them, and the major ones are filling up with fanatics each year, the marathon really is not a whole lot of fun.  In fact, I'd venture to say that the marathon sucks.   Drossin, however, seems to come from a higher mileage (and altitude) based aerobic focused program.  And her build is more marathon fit.   Rhines is so efficient, has that marathon shuffle thing, little bounce or knee lift, and still has surprising spunk at the end of a 10000m, just ask Hickman and Lauck.   However, if it came down to it, my money would still be on McVeigh to beat their collective asses over a marathon.  Grote adiRP