- See Less -Alan Webb jumped into the national scene in high school with his success at the Footlocker National Cross Country Championships and more notably with his success in the mile. He smashed Jim Ryun's HSR of 3:55.3 at the Prefontaine Classic with a time of 3:53.43. Webb is also the first high schooler ever to run a sub 4:00 mile indoors.
After a year of running at the University of Michigan, Webb turned pro and started running for Nike under high school coach, Scott Raczko. He broke the American Record in the Two Mile at Nike Prefontaine Classic in 2005 in 8:11.48. Webb has since broke Steve Scott's American Mile Record (3:47.69) in Brasschaat, Belgium in a time of 3:46.91 and has also racked up personal bests of 1:43.84 in the 800m and 3:30.54 in the 1500m.
“Webb is old news, plus a choker. German and Dorian are the new faces of American Mile running.”
Please stop impersonating me and ruining my good name!
How do you define a "real race"? No pacers? If so, those are the races that Webb has proven he doesn't know how to run.
just mull that over
I'm as big a Webb fan as anyone else, but German has not been training for months, nor specifically for indoor track. German, first of all, took about four weeks off after XC Nationals to let his Achilles heal. Secondly, German--while not redshirting this indoor season--is more focused on USA XC than he is on indoor track. He said both of these in the interview held with Flotrack.
Webb cruised and looked controlled and easy running that mile.
There is NO way that German would have the wheels to take down Webb in a "real" race. You can quote me on that.
good for him for repping his native third world country who justh appnes to be the poorest country in the western hemisphere.