Chris Solinsky, 10,000m AR, Speaks, by Flotrack.org, note by Larry Eder

Here is video, courtesy of our friends at Flotrack, on Chris Solinsky and his epic
American Record at 10,000 meters last night!

Here is the scary stuff from this video: ” This is the opening of my season..I wanted to
see where I was…I am still a 5k guy….I had cramps at four miles…this is a team effort,
hearing that Simon and Tim were behind me….Meb has proven to be one of the world’s
best runners, to run under 27 minutes, I was joking, I had no idea what fitness level
I was in..I feel pretty good, I have a blister on my foot…my whole theme for the past
two years was to put my head down and plug away…puts a different perspective, my
mission this season was to be the 5,000 meter American record…I will run the 5k
at Oslo, get the kinks out, mission is to go under 13 minutes on U.S. soil.. I never
chase times, I try to win races….our whole philosophy is to win races, the times will
come…we are doing a lot of strength work….2012 is 5k, 2016 is 10k, and 2020 is
the marathon!.”

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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