Will Leer Ran Stupid

Will got beat by guy's better than him. Lopez ran freaking STUPID.

I disagree. This is indoors. Many of the other guys race little indoors and certainly don't peak for it. Leer showed earlier that he is in good form this indoors.

Also, the OP was talking about his tactics. If you run like that, you'll never get into the sub 3:30 league. If he got himself in position and couldn't kick fine, but when you've been kicking well all year, get in a position where you can use it.

Will will continue to get fitter, but continue with exact same strategies he ALWAYS races with. Every once in a blue moon, it'll work (millrose 2014), but for the most part, he will come up short (every outdoor USATF meet he has ever attended).

I think he is almost as good as Centro, Manazano, etc.

The problem is, Will does not.

Thanks to this thread, I now realize that the reason I finished 400 m behind Tim Broe in high school was bad tactics. I should have just hung right behind him and outkicked him. Glad to finally understand.

I love Leer but right now, he just isn't as good as the top 3 in that race. I agree he could have ran better, but he would have had to have the race of his life to have had a chance at a medal.

Truth hurts wrote:

Will will continue to get fitter, but continue with exact same strategies he ALWAYS races with. Every once in a blue moon, it'll work (millrose 2014), but for the most part, he will come up short (every outdoor USATF meet he has ever attended).

I think he is almost as good as Centro, Manazano, etc.

The problem is, Will does not.

Don't I remember reading after Millrose that Leer would never make a US team because he was stupid? Or was that just because he was bush league?

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RE: Will MF Leer! 2/15/2014 6:49PM - in reply to spade detector Reply | Return to Index | Report Post

spade detector wrote:

Great run by Leer. However, it's looking like every other year recently. He'll peak too soon, miss every World team by 1 or 2 places, and blame it on someone else.

This.

Dude never peaks when it counts. He'll run a hobby-jogger race at nationals and never make a Worlds team.

Read more:

Hey will Leer, Pre called and demands you shave your stache, cut your hair and get your resume together.

1 2 3 Coaching wrote:

Will Leer ran as stupid as you possibly can. You cannot make up 2 seconds over 200m in a race of this calibre. you need to be near the front. He blasted the last 150m to go from last to 3rd last.

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Obvious

Alamo wrote:

Dude never peaks when it counts. He'll run a hobby-jogger race at nationals and never make a Worlds team.

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5640172&page=0#ixzz2vThfdwrK

Leer is one of the best at peakIng at Nationals and beating faster people in tactical races.

800m Coach wrote:

If you run like that, you'll never get into the sub 3:30 league.

And yet here he is finishing 6th in a global final, right around "3:30 league," where he used to finish at US championships. He is still consistently improving, had the best few weeks of racing in his life, and whatever he is doing is obviously working. He has reasonable goals to do even better next time, but no reason to be ashamed of what he accomplished this weekend.

800m Coach

You shouldn't be allowed to coach.

toro wrote:

Alamo wrote:

Dude never peaks when it counts. He'll run a hobby-jogger race at nationals and never make a Worlds team.

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5640172&page=0#ixzz2vThfdwrK

Leer is one of the best at peakIng at Nationals and beating faster people in tactical races.

It's not my opinion. It's from the linked thread.

he should have moved in to the top mix of runners at 400 to go (2 Laps) and just sat until 150 then let the big move come, that way hed leave the track knowing he left nothing out there, not finishing with another 50 meters left in him.

I don't know, this guy looks scary strange. I doubt he will be sponsoring commercial products anytime soon. Perhaps he realizes that.

Guys like Paavo Nurmi, Emil Zatopek and Galen Rupp probably didn't care about cereal boxes or TV sitcoms, but they were the best in their field for many, many years.

toro wrote:

Leer is one of the best at peaking at Nationals and beating faster people in tactical races.

Then why has he never made an outdoor national team? Indoor doesn't count because obviously the top guys don't peak for indoors.

berryman wrote:

toro wrote:

Leer is one of the best at peaking at Nationals and beating faster people in tactical races.

Then why has he never made an outdoor national team? Indoor doesn't count because obviously the top guys don't peak for indoors.

Probably because there were at least 3 other better milers in the United States than him. I could time my peak perfectly and never make a US team.