Excellent front-page piece on the USA's top-800m runner - and the fourth-fastest all-time, Elijah Greer.
If he puts that piece of the puzzle together, could he take down Granville's HSR? Is the kid made for 800m running or 1.500m running (he's run 3.50 this season and ran 3.57 as a grade-10 athlete)?
While Greer realized he could be pretty good at this running thing, he didn’t know if he wanted to be.
“Running was really hard,” he recalls about those early days, “and I remember telling myself that I do not want to be doing this when I get older. People would always make jokes, saying ‘You’re going to be the next Pre,’ and I was like, ‘That is the worst career I could possibly imagine.’”
“Running was really hard,” he recalls about those early days, “and I remember telling myself that I do not want to be doing this when I get older. People would always make jokes, saying ‘You’re going to be the next Pre,’ and I was like, ‘That is the worst career I could possibly imagine.’”
He has all the other components which make him formidable in races from 400- to 3000-meters—the aerobic engine, the competitiveness, the core strength, the variable leg turnover allowing him to shift gears on the final backstretch and drop his competition with alarming alacrity. The one thing missing, according to Williams, is the powerful arm drive and open hips of the sprinter. That’s what today is all about—starting to add that final piece of the puzzle.
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