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Top Middle distance runners who have given up in the last 10 years!

  • 15-10-2010 1:43pm
    #1
    USERNAME999
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    Who have dirfted from the sport that would be capable of making top 10 in nationals over 800, 1500m and 5k? Surely there are loads.


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  • #2
    Domer
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    I'll start you off....
    Ciaran O'Connell - Glaslough Harriers
    Beat Chamney and Campbell in nationals a few years back


  • #3
    ecoli
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    USERNAME999 wrote: »
    Who have dirfted from the sport that would be capable of making top 10 in nationals over 800, 1500m and 5k? Surely there are loads.

    Doesnt quite make the middle distance criteria but i think one of the biggest losses of talent to another sport would be Curtis Woods the 400m runner who was breaking many of Gregan s juvenile records the year or two after they were set. Not a chance of athletics competing with the money of a Premiership football team

    Regarding middle distance i am not sure where is is these days but Danny Darcy would be one name that springs to mind of someone. I dunno if he is still running or not AFAIK he isnt but the European Juniors in Lithuania where he got silver behind Costello was a sight to behold two Irish battling down the last three hundred for a Global title


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    myflipflops
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    Colin Costello one of the most talented juniors we have ever had. Ecoli got in himself and Darcy ahead of me.

    Colm McClean was an outstanding talent too. World Junior finalist in his youth and Commonwealth games finalist in 2002. He just didn't want to run any more and gave it up. Conor Sweeney was another Malachys boy that never went the distance.

    I used to run against O'Connell. He was a beast of an athlete. Never a great trainer either i think.

    To be honest, there are lots of them.


  • #5
    USERNAME999
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    THat curits woods fella won a 80m title as well as a 200m one year at the schools if i remember correctly beating that young lad from waterfrod also. These are all great. Others surely are Costello, Colm Rooney also. What about other lads that were very talented that trained very little and just gave up. And sinceireland is a small island surely there are nearly a 100 guys who could be running 350 for examle in the 1500m who just have drifted.


  • #6
    myflipflops
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    USERNAME999 wrote: »
    Colm Rooney also..

    In fairness to Rooney, he won a national 1500. He did fulfill a certain amount of his potential.

    Guys who COUD be top 10 over 1500 and 5k is a massive group of lapsed athlete. It took 3.55 and 15.03 this year at nationals to be top 10.

    Guys capable of medalling is a smaller, more interesting group.


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  • #7
    ecoli
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    USERNAME999 wrote: »
    THat curits woods fella won a 80m title as well as a 200m one year at the schools if i remember correctly beating that young lad from waterfrod also. These are all great. Others surely are Costello, Colm Rooney also. What about other lads that were very talented that trained very little and just gave up. And sinceireland is a small island surely there are nearly a 100 guys who could be running 350 for examle in the 1500m who just have drifted.

    The kid ran 47.27 at the age of 15/16

    There would be many running 350 as that time is pretty average for top level middle distance running (even in this country) sure that wouldnt even make top twenty on last years rankings (3.47 was the slowest on that list as far as i recall)


  • #8
    USERNAME999
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    i agree guys capable of medalling is far more interesting. Surely there are loads out there that posted pretty good times off no training basically. There is a big difference between many underage champs. THose that train their asses off for it and those that do it off talent. That Woods fella seemed unreal talented. Surely there is a fella in every county in ireland where people go jesus he was really good and never even trained hard.


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