- See Less -After a few standout performaces as an underclassmen in high school, German came to prominence in his senior year when he broke Marc Davis' course record by 14 seconds at the 2007 CIF Cross Country State meet. He then won the Foot Locker West Regional and placed third at the finals. A few months later he won US Junior Nationals in Corss Country and earned a trip to the World XC Champs where he lead Team USA with a 25th place finish. At the end of 2009, German was named to the ESPN Rise All-Decade Team as one of the best 7 HS XC runners from 2000-2009. In track, he really turned heads with two amazing performances. At the CIF State Meet, German ran 4:00.29 to break Ryan Hall's meet record and then came back 3 hours later to win the 3,200m in a blistering 8:34.23. This is widely considered the best HS distance double of all time. A few weeks later he broke Jeff Nelson's HS Two Mile record at the Nike Outdoor Championships, winning in 8:34.40. He also borke Galen Rupp's 3,000m HSR running an en-route 7:59.82.
As a freshman at Oklahoma State, German won the Big 12 Cross Country title, but a mid-race injury left him a disappointing DNF. He came back strong in indoor track by breaking the World Indoor Junior mile record twice, with 3:55.02 being his fastest. That time is also an NCAA record. He skipped the NCAA Championships to focus on the World Cross Country Championships after he defended his US Junior Cross Country title. At Junior Worlds, he lead Team USA with an 11th place finish. During outdoor track, German won his first NCAA title, winning the 1,500m in 3:39.00. At the USA Championships, German broke Chris Derrick's weeks old US Junior 5,000m record when he placed 5th in the nation with a 13:25.46. He was a finalist for the first ever Bowerman Award for his stellar freshman year on the track.
During his sophomore season, German struggled with injury, but still helped his team win Big 12, Mid-West Regional, and NCAA National team titles.
Edit: I SPY THE DH
though if your being interviewed it would seem polite to turn them off for a second or two
http://www.myspace.com/thwhitemusic
Anyone know the song at the start?
Pdx: how is these roads crap?
"long run after a day of recovery", finally someone that understands the concept of recovery, I agree with the pace you mentioned, my only concern was the OSU guys running that pace for a long run the day after a race, if they had taken Sun as an easy recovery day and then ran their long run at sub 6min pace it would have made more sense to me
they'll learn.
for your sake I hope your measurements on your long run routes are short (obviously they are!!!) or why were you not in Beijing competing because only an elite/world class runner would consider running 6min pace on a training run, come on get real
i didnt say i disliked ok state,
i didnt say anything bad.
alli asked was to get more in depth behind the scene
coverage on some other up and coming teams. like portland, alabama, etc.
we all know oregon and ok state are dominant, and we see a lot of them.
but to call me B**** cause i asked, isnt that a little overboard?
my point was for a sub 13/sub 27 guy recovery is around 6:00-6:20 pace and correct me if I am wrong but the OSU runners are nowhere near these times so therefore they are running too fast for a recovery run, why not one or two real easy runs on Sun and then do the longer steady run on Mon
Portland by the way is a legit contender, they're currently ranked fourth right now and Kinsella and Kipchumba are leading a good team. Also there's not a lot on Portland either.
p.s. Nice freaking i-pod German.
Great Job you and Flotrack are doing! Keep it up.
Bill
second, who cares if they run with music. they are running upwards of 2 hours, maybe they like to jam out. is it really that big of a deal.
third, at some track meets they play music while races are being run...look at all the meets from europe that flotrack covered. those were awesome with the music