Alan Webb Runs 1:49, 3:42, Brings Keg to Race

Just take a look at that prefontaine guy. never amounted to anything because he drank.

dude man wrote:

I don't believe everything I read but if that story is true then it's sad and I predict that Webb has no future as an elite runner. Do you think Geb or El G were concerned about getting their drink on after a race? Even Ritz wouldn't do that. Webb is a chump.

First of all, I am not much of a Webb fan. I do not agree with some of his decisions and I think at times he has acted like a stuck up snob.

However, let's give the kid a chance. When he was a senior and ran 3:53, many people were proclaiming him as the savior of USA miling. He leaves college to become a pro (like the decision or not) and struggles his first year. Many of his strongest supporters become his loudest critics. He has not fully developed and needs some time to get used to being a pro. Give the 21-year old a chance to grow up and mature before freaking out and saying he has no chance to be a contender against other elite milers.

With regards to his post racing extracurricular activities:

Magic Johnson sat on the bench during Lakers games and picked out the girls from the stands he was going to ask out. Yes, he got HIV from it, BUT it did not change how awesome he was on the court.

Pre drank a ton at post race parties, but that never stopped him from electrifying the crowds at Eugene during his races.

It does not matter what you do before or after the race, so long as you get it done while you race (and, for the record, I would say Webb had a mediocre day if he were racing balls out, but a good day if he were just working out).

Pre ran very well while drinking. I wonder how much faster he would have run if he didn't drink so much.

Timmy wrote:Pre drank a ton at post race parties, but that never stopped him from electrifying the crowds at Eugene during his races.

Very true.

But it did stop him from breathing and having a pulse.

Guess who the Big Red Truck belonged too....

MIKE FOX!!!

no shit

If you want to be technical, the car accident did that, but did the booze cause the accident? I think it did. Did it slow him down, I doubt it. It was part of his routine, and that routine worked for him.

Pre v. Webb

Pre = drank hard because he did everything hard

Webb = show up to meet with keg to look hard

Pre = never entered a race without the intent of winning (of course i base that solely on my perception and with no actual facts, so i'm sure some die hard will dig up a race that pre rabbitted)

Webb = clearly isn't bothered by losing.

last, and most important

Pre = Great hair!

Webb = Hair?

"slap"

Pre did not care when he lost. It is crap to think that he did care. He hated loosing when he was in America but clearly quit many of his races when the going got tough in the last 200m in Europe. In reading accounts of many of his european races he would descibe his late race antics as not caring. Wishing that he wouldnt have baged it as he could have run faster. That he didnt know he was running so fast..all that crap. Let us not mistake Pre in America and Pre against the world. Against the world (not including the Olympics) he didnt mind loosing races.

I disagree with this statement: "it does not matter what you do before or after the race, so long as you get it done while you race." I think the best athletes in running make a commitment 24/7. In order to be a champion you have to live like a champion. Champions don't celebrate a sub-par 800 with a freakin keg party. Webb's an ass-clown. Ritz at least is serious about running.

idiotsssss wrote:

bautista...really, you are a huge piece of shit with a crappy website. No one likes your comments.

I like Mike.

I've been around. Over the years I've come to realize that most of the hypocrites are of the religious persuasion or the "I don't drink, I'm above it, them," ETC. On and on it goes about Pre. I've known several people roll cars, Suv's whatever and get their ass killed because they were more a sorry driver and hadn't knocked back anything harder than a diet coke. To any of the guys that were around for the explosion of road races in the late 70's to mid 80's they were sponsored by beer companies. I'd don't recall many elite that didn't tip a few. What is the big effing deal? And to all you preachers that come on here talking about the kids that might be influenced. Get over it. I'm always reminded of the people that put their kids in private schools or home school them because the boogy man is in and runs public schools. Right wait till they join the real world.

I will never go away so your wasting your times with insults. I will continue to reply to your posts and make my comments on topics that I am interested in. You better get used to it because I'm staying. For every person that is annoyed by me another dozen like my comments

I live in the real world and I am man enough to realize that anyone that needs to speak up as an alcohol advocate is not a real man. Alcohol ended Rono's career and ended Pre's life. That sucks. If a serial killer shot and wounded Rono and killed Pre we would all want the serial killer put to death. If alcohol does the same thing we find something else to blame. Be a man and admit the truth. You drink because you are trying to be a man (just not quite there yet). Best of luck in your ventures.

I'm disappointed

I figured Webb to be more of a wine type of guy. I mean you make 6 digits, act like it. We don't need you showing up with a keg of coors light. What he needs to do is show up with a bottle of old french wine, or maybe even a bottle of Cris, cause if you're going to drink after running you might as well throw away all that money you're making.

Drinking is not bad, but it does open a chest of possible bad situations. You don't see El G waking up and crawling over to a red-eye to cure his morrocan hang over. Living healthy, and running healthy have something in common. I think the important thing here is he brought a keg, not a 6 pack. That's not sending out a mature image, and he's not running very mature. If you want him to grow up into this holy mile king that everyone seems to believe, you might try to get him to grow up. I don't see a very confident runner. I see a cocky, scared shitless kid, that knows nothing about what's ahead of him or what role he plays in american sports. It might not be the actual case, but that's what the preception is.

Maybe if all you closet drinkers started tipping back a few you would run faster. Don't criticize a guy you can't touch on the track.

I can't decide who I dislike more: vengeful trolls who post pictures of others simply because they dislike their POV -or- uptight health Nazis that believe a little social drinking will automatically cause death and mediocrity?

I am ashamed of both. Humorless, intolerant, and self righteous. Thanks to both types of posters for reinforcing negative stereotypes about runners.

just postin' fer the t-shirt, dude

A few drinks wouldn't be too bad, although it might mess up his training for that day and the next. Even El G has drank, BBC had an article last fall by Steve Cram in which he said that he saw El G go into a bar and they talked, this was the day after the Paris 5k. I think Steve Cram wrote the article but I'm not 100%

bleek wrote:

actually, he was RACING the 800. Okay so he didn't run very good. But his 3:42 isn't such a bad way to cap off the day, which in face he was rabitting Lukezic.

No. If you had seen the race, you would realize that it was a time trial, he was shooting for whatever times he and his coach were looking for. He was the rabbit for Lukezic. A few guys here don't realize Lukezic was top prep four lapper a couple of years ago.

Webb looked like he had at least a couple of seconds in him for the 800 if he had had to run for time.