Magness - great attitude - great runner

[Guest]

Magness' performance at Pre was great and his description of the experiance is even better. It can be read in his on-line log.

http://www.joffroirunning.com/SteveLog.html

So when does he break 4?

Is anybody else looking forward to the Adidas meet? Should be a great race with many great kids running.

[dl]

Re: Magness - great attitude - great runner

As promised, I broke the no-cheering-in-the-press-box rule once again and yelled myself hoarse for Magness. He did the smart thing. He set himself up, splitting just over 3:00 with 440 to go, but just didn't have it on that day.

I look forward to seeing him race at USATF Juniors (I assume he'll be there?).

[Guest]

Re: Magness - great attitude - great runner

we always hear about magness. isn't chris solinsky, of stevens point, wisconsin, the best runner who no one has ever heard about? he won footlocker last fall, but nobody hypes him.

[Marquis]

Re: Magness - great attitude - great runner

There was plenty of hype for Chris this year. It died down a bit when he didn't qualify for Junior World XC and came back up after his great performance at Arcadia. But he is certainly one of the big 3 on dyestat along with Magness and Felix.

[Guest]

Re: Magness - great attitude - great runner

Solinski is awesome, but I was hearing about him over a year ago and he has had as much hype as any high school distance runner since Webb. I really enjoy getting to read about these kids (probably because high school was the last time I was even remotely competitive in running times).

These guys are great. I just get to hear more about Magness because he posts his log and posts on this board. Also, I live in Houston and there is at least a little press here (very little really).

I think Magness and Solinski are both running the outdoor c/s mile along with many many other very talanted runners. Should be a great race. Eric Stanley will also be running and he got second to Magness in the District meet where Magness broke out (4:01+ 1600 meeters - Stanley 4:03+ I think). Stanley is a junior with another year of high school running to go.

Oh well, enough rambling by me.