Aidan Ryan ran 3:56/7:54 at Williams. He's improved 3 seconds in the mile and 1 second in the 3k. I don't know if that shows Washington has helped. After all, he has had another year of maturity. Still, having all those high quality guys to train with is pretty great, compared to athletes well below his level, though it might increase injury chances from pushing harder in practice.
Grad transfers do it partially for the resume-boosting degree. Wilson cannot get that many places when almost anywhere besides Stanford would be a downgrade. That's where I see him going.
Or does he milk a pro contract while he's hot. Right now he has the D3 persona going, spending a year at a D1 school and running mediocre could be a risk.
Or does Wilson become a hobby jogger and move to Silicon Valley to work for Apple. Not everyone wants to run for there career.
Grad transfers do it partially for the resume-boosting degree. Wilson cannot get that many places when almost anywhere besides Stanford would be a downgrade. That's where I see him going.
Or does he milk a pro contract while he's hot. Right now he has the D3 persona going, spending a year at a D1 school and running mediocre could be a risk.
Or does Wilson become a hobby jogger and move to Silicon Valley to work for Apple. Not everyone wants to run for there career.
1:46.61! That presumably gives him D3 records at 800 and mile. He should be getting pro offers after graduation. That gives him some seriously good potential when he trains with pros. I would not be surprised to see him running low 3:50s next year.
Lol
A Pro running contract for an MIT grad student
Yaa…. That’s what he is aiming for
I work with a number of MIT graduates they are brilliant but just like anyone else they are human and enjoy things other than just reading and studying! Why would you assume R. Wilson could not potentially work a successful career and run at the same time? The problem with most post college runners that go professional is they fail to understand the NCAA's moto which is most of us will go pro in something other than sports. I think this means you can be a pro runner and have a career at the same time so when your pro running days are done you are successful off the field. I am 40 right now and am elgible to retire from my job just shy of 50 with roughly an $8,000 a month pension if choose to.
The difference between 1.46 and 1.51 is tremendous.
The difference between 1.41 and 1.46 is much more than tremendous.
We all know that. What is it supposed to mean? Is anybody saying he will run 1:41? For that matter, do you even know how many people in the world have ever run 1:41? If you are not worth talking about if you haven't done it, then no American in the 800 ever is worth talking about. And, in any case, how many of those have run 1:41 without first barely running 1:46 at some point? Is he done?
The kid has run 1:46 while getting a degree at MIT, coached by somebody who a couple of years ago was a volunteer coach. In the meantime, in Division I, out of hundreds of athletes taking Micky Mouse courses at run of the mill universities and with first class coaching and athletic opportunities, barely 6 kids have done it this year. Some respect.
The difference between 1.46 and 1.51 is tremendous.
The difference between 1.41 and 1.46 is much more than tremendous.
We all know that. What is it supposed to mean? Is anybody saying he will run 1:41? For that matter, do you even know how many people in the world have ever run 1:41? If you are not worth talking about if you haven't done it, then no American in the 800 ever is worth talking about. And, in any case, how many of those have run 1:41 without first barely running 1:46 at some point? Is he done?
The kid has run 1:46 while getting a degree at MIT, coached by somebody who a couple of years ago was a volunteer coach. In the meantime, in Division I, out of hundreds of athletes taking Micky Mouse courses at run of the mill universities and with first class coaching and athletic opportunities, barely 6 kids have done it this year. Some respect.
I think what we are seeing with Wilson along with the rest of the MIT group is that they are realizing their full potential as the big name school they are.
Their old coach was rumored to be a complete hard ass with training running the athletes into the ground. MIT has historically had D1 level recruiting and their new coach seems to actually know what he’s doing. Now they have elevated to be the best D3 school by far, and their star Wilson got even better too. Wilson ran 1:52 his junior year in HS (6 years ago) and Sam Aquaviva, Matthew Kearny, Andrew Mah (NBN 5k champ), etc were also excellent HS prospects who must have gone to MIT for the academics and are now flourishing under new coaching. To me, the missing link from MIT performing similar to Harvard, Princeton, Yale etc was the coaching and that has since changed. So yes Wilson ran 1:46 with a very new coach but looking at the trend of the entire MIT program one would have to guess that coach(Riley Macon) is no novice
I don't get what the controversy is. Good for him for running an amazing time when it doesn't really matter.
I also don't think he'll win both at Nationals.
Won the Mile and ran 8:05 in the 3k for 3rd. Not bad at all.
So: I was right.
And I see the BroJos deleted my post. Great.
MIT choked. They didn't have the trampoline to run on anymore, and they choked. They should be embarrassed, and the poster who called them "the best D3 program by far" should be banned from posting.
Nobody predicted he’d win both the 800 and the mile. Even if they did, he opted for the mile and 3k. People here were impressed with his mile and 800 and expected him to back it up with a title which he did. 3rd place with a double in 90 minutes isn’t bad, going against guys who had a full day to recover. The schedule provides an advantage for DMR/3K doubles or 3K/5K doubles. In D1 we saw the athletes who could do the mile/3k double scratch for the most part.
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Nobody predicted he’d win both the 800 and the mile. Even if they did, he opted for the mile and 3k. People here were impressed with his mile and 800 and expected him to back it up with a title which he did. 3rd place with a double in 90 minutes isn’t bad, going against guys who had a full day to recover. The schedule provides an advantage for DMR/3K doubles or 3K/5K doubles. In D1 we saw the athletes who could do the mile/3k double scratch for the most part.
Cope more.
Great stuff from their DMR, too. Really impressive.
Nobody predicted he’d win both the 800 and the mile. Even if they did, he opted for the mile and 3k. People here were impressed with his mile and 800 and expected him to back it up with a title which he did. 3rd place with a double in 90 minutes isn’t bad, going against guys who had a full day to recover. The schedule provides an advantage for DMR/3K doubles or 3K/5K doubles. In D1 we saw the athletes who could do the mile/3k double scratch for the most part.
Cope more.
Great stuff from their DMR, too. Really impressive.
And you seem like you live a happy life. Really compassionate.