[Music] well known as a marathoner mm marathoner --this as Alberto is I think a 27:40 would be a fine effort in this wind today you know that has taken its toll without this wind I mean we would have had I think the potential maybe of some new American records or fastest times ever run in American soil that type of competition there is mr. Salazar and who takes the lead but the man in the first Lane when you're standing on the pole and you have this larger field the person in first or second Lane is almost forced to get out in first a second place or he will never emerge in the middle of that pack it's like falling into a mine and and you must get yourself out after you're in first a second place if Alberto wants to fall back in the pack he can control what he wants to do but his destiny is almost sealed at least temporarily if he doesn't take the lead when you're in the pole when you've got 19 other people all surrounding you with thirty-eight elbows right and Alberto is showing his determination here by taking the lead he's not even waiting for someone else to run a lap or two he's taking it right out and setting the pace last year meet director that gives the whip effect that the discus throwers get it's the same principle tom we're going to split two minutes 13 to 13 there right now on a 426 mile pace that's excellent time here is we go through the early stages of the 10,000 that throw three hundred and two feet the man just keeps climbing can you imagine throwing a javelin over a hundred yards the length of a football field the instrument planes the wind is coming directly on them maybe if I can go back to the clock analogy it comes it's coming at you at one o'clock and it is blowing at about maybe 15 miles an hour you want to throw that javelin lower than you would if there was no wind its sails and you want to get that gliding effect Ron cab in the lead in the 10,000 in front of Alberto Salazar that Porter is in third place and the two Gomez's were not related running in third and fourth Jose is in third Rodolfo isn't fourth someone to watch in this race is Pat Porter in third he's to the tack cross country champion has run very well this year at 10,000 meters and he's an extremely strong kid I think he could give Alberto a little run for his money later on tab has recently been coached by bill Dellinger and has been pleased with the success he had seems to have new confidence and as was a 210 marathoner and went to Boston and ran 2 hours 9 minutes and 32 seconds outstanding time for the marathon and has recovered fully it sometimes takes a month or so to come back from a quality marathon and this is his first serious race into the Boston Marathon on April 18th and he says he's ready for his all-time best to 10,000 meters Ron wants to get a good 10,000 meter time get some good speed work in because he will be running the marathon in the World Championships in Helsinki this summer and this is the best way to do it get out there force the pace and hopefully improve on his personal bests of 28 37 89 the time through the first mile right there in your screen four minutes 27 seconds even excellent pacing a nice easy even pace for these runners again notice how many runners are up there on your screen it's tab followed by Salazar Pat Porter Jose Gomez Rodolfo Gomez back in the pack and the blue shirt he sinks to oh he's running t-shirts young little Danny Grimes from Humboldt State the training for this distance of 10,000 meters Tom I'd like to let our viewers at home know we increasingly see more and more marathons on television well the people who make the best marathoners that they see in marathon racing are these gentlemen on your screen the training for 10000 meters is a perfect catalyst to run a great marathon but 10,000 meters you must do more interval training and repeat half miles and miles and you keep the speed that's important for this event but you also need the distance training that's necessary to conquer the marathon successfully Alberto Salazar in second almost without exception the best marathoners in the world stay on the track as long as possible in order to get keep that good speed workout they need that speed it helps them out and when they come down to the last couple of miles in the marathon they've got that speed and strength Ron tabs still leading Alberto Salazar second good shot of the athletes out there the Gomez's are 213 marathoners in the right of Jose Gomez and behind him Rodolfo has run 209 five runners as they approach the mile and a quarter mark this is an easy comfortable pace for Salazar but an important race to prepare him for the national championships which are upcoming in just two weeks and then his quest for 10,000 meters success over in Helsinki in August still in the lead Ron tab by Salazar Pat Porter Jose Gomez Rodolfo Gomez and build Donna Kowski Alberto beginning to make a move here he minced his steps 200 metres ago there we are the mile and a half split 641 they're running 67 second for two miles and it's even tab let up a little bit in the backstretch I saw Alberto I'm in two steps Alberto launched none of that he wants the pace even and he's going to push it if he has to one thing I've noticed about about Alberto is they seems to be putting on a little bit of muscle I think he's doing the intensive weight training he's trying to get that extra strength that he's gonna need in the marathon and also in the 10,000 increasingly distance runners are not just athletes that go out and run a lot of mileage they're in a Nautilus training they're in a weight training they're into aerobic training sit-ups the whole bit their entire bodies are something and I think consequently are able to take better quality workouts Tom John Boyd is a classic example of that all five feet six 103 pounds of her and Joan monoid took on serious heavy road training weight training she did this all concurrently and I think the benefits have been apparent here with her sensational new world record at Boston mile and three quarters were reached in seven minutes 49 seconds that was a 68 second quarter mile pace they are on pace for a 28-minute 10,000 meter race here at the Prefontaine Classic we'll be right back it's not the javelin that makes the difference it's the man but back to the 10,000 meter these runners are running a 2745 pace for 10,000 meters and that is under 4 minutes and 27 seconds per mile as what they've been averaging when we left you we were at the mile and a quarter mark and the runners at that distance here we have the three and three quarters two miles has gone by they've been averaging in the 67 second range four minutes and 28 seconds during that two miles that we were away the gruetli group as they say in that the words of the song the September song is dwindled down to a precious few Jose Gomez in second place Rodolfo in third and Pat Porter losing contact at this stage of the race with about two and a quarter miles to go running a gallant race that man trains its 7600 feet in the town of Alamosa Colorado altitude training is considered beneficial by most runners and I don't think anybody trains higher that's an American you know of anybody no I don't but that altitude is tricky in that you have to time coming down to low altitude at the correct time if you don't allow enough period to adjust it won't do you much good Salazar has had some experience training at altitude once went to Kenya didn't feel very accepted felt really isolated by the runners he's running very comfortably right now he knows who's behind him he's aware of how many runners are and it's I would think it's going to resemble here over the next mile at two the same tactics that these two runners in first and third place employed against each other 18 minutes they're right on four minutes and 30 seconds now a mile pace despite that backstretch win that Alberto has chosen to fight and the tactics I'm talking about is surging Alberto may start to soften up Jose Gomez who's a better 10,000 meter runner then is Rodolfo who is now in third place and struggling a bit to hold onto those two in front of him but the tactics they will employ will be to run a faster quarter and then ease back and run another faster quarter marathon runners do it 10,000 meter runners do it as well what we just saw there was one of Alberto's surgeons Rodolfo Gomez didn't slow down Alberto sped up it must seem to Alberto something like a road race here he's got to go on its tail again just like at New York but the different Gomez yet it's interesting here's two men that live in different countries and these two really last locked horns about a year and a half ago in the 1981 New York City Marathon when Jose Gomez was the last person to let Alberto go and Alberto coming up at the 16 mile mark up first Avenue where the crowds were thickest Jose surged past him and started running a four minute 38 seconds I'll pace after 16 miles learning about 4:55 Alberto let him search for that mile table and after that mile he picked up the pace to a 433 it was really amazing and he broke Jose Gomez littered him all over really the Bronx area and Jose died so to speak him and ambled in and around 2 hours and 21 minutes I could get the exact time but he fell apart Jose looks good and relaxed here he's tucked in behind Alberto he handled that last surge Alberto picked it up to a 68 second pace on that lap and I don't think it's going to be quite as easy to break Jose this time the longer he can stay without the pace steady and then start to fly and breaking over the laughs I think when Alberto makes a move it will be decisive at this point I don't think he's gonna try and soften we're up with 1/4 mile I think they'll keep a surge on Tom and try and really move and then see what happens to Jose the stands almost completely full the breeze a little less strong now than it was at the start of the meet two and a half hours earlier the crowd with rhythmic applause in the back stretch as the athletes I'm talking about Gomes and Salazar past the respective stands but the applause picks up and it dies down and as they come by the runners again they're greeted with more applause going through Alberto's mind right now is where do I make the move how do I feel he's asking himself all kinds of questions and a little mini computer that we have his brain and he's trying to husband his resources for one final surge at this point to see if he can try and break the will of a man whose confidence continues to grow as we have two to three laps to go and the 10,000 meter race the runner's world 10,000 meters one of the things that will have to be going through his computer now Larry is that they're starting to catch the lapped runners there's gonna be some traffic up ahead and it may be that he'll want to use some of that traffic in order to try to lose Jose Tom that's a good point [Applause] nice shot look at those very device only Alberto knows how much is hurting right now as a distance runner myself a mile or steeplechase today you see the five and a half mile split 24:52 these runners again are holding on to about a four minute 35 second mile pace as they go into their sixth mile as they head forward as I was saying Salazar at this point has got to pick his point where he's gonna make his move and he's known despite having a 401 mile as a man that cannot accelerate well dome as that is considered has more speed I think Moses chances are looking better and better as each lap goes by because he does have that quick change that quick shift but Alberto doesn't have we're coming up on two laps to go and Alberto no one [Applause] I'm wondering if disappointment is is being felt by him from his lack of success in the Rotterdam marathon and pointed to that didn't run well in that race and I'm this today is not what I would consider Salizar performance totally the time is not really that fast it's not bad time either but he looks like he's having a bit of a tough day to me he has said that he's put Rotterdam behind him he's accepted that he knows now that he has to do harder work than he has been doing and I think this today is a real test for it the runners are spread out but it's Salazar in first Jose Gomez in second Pat Porter in third John Marino and sixth and sandwiched in between in fifth place is Ron tab belly bevy heir from Syracuse moving to the outside to let the runners by we're coming up with one lap to go that last quarter mile was run in 67 seconds Alberto doesn't seem to have much kick left let's see what's left down gomez looks good that stretch I hope that he does not try and go by them running a third place because Jose [Applause] who can kick like crazy [Applause] the leg action of Alberto it just can just can't turn over the wheels that fancy has not got that ability to excel [Applause] Mexico's national 10,000 meter champion [Applause] rodolfo said he could do he doesn't new lifetime best Jose gonna [Applause] and away Tom I feel badly for Alberto because the athlete that lacks the Rossby the sprint speed must suffer the additional strain and difficulty apportion the pace and taking the lead but Alberto's goal has become so tough so callous that he can go out and break anybody so it doesn't come down to that last hundred meters I don't think it will do that in the 1984 Olympic Games and it didn't do it here today I just think the world is too good I admire this man's courage in your screen he's tough he's tenacious he's very proud and he's gotten where he is not under our ability so much as on his tremendous determination but don't forget Larry he's also American record holder of 5,000 meters he has enough speed to go down to 5,000 he can run a faster 10,000 than he has run I understand what you're saying I'm still pregnant of those athletes like Ron Clark who didn't win I left the gold because of the lack of speed taking his victory lap with a Mexican flag in his hand Jose Gomez his last 40 mile 58 and 4/10 of a second our congratulations to this young man who trained so hard with Rodolfo down there in Mexico they both live in Mexico City and they journey about 60 miles outside of town to do their training we're on the back stretch now Charlie beby are hanging on he is a lap runner in third place look at the move put on when he made up his mind to go he looked like a man running a 220 yard sprint that's the story right there he's got that extra gear that Alberto doesn't have at this point Alberto can get faster strength can translate into speed look at gomez fly around that turn his last 200 meters had to be somewhere around 27 seconds that's just terrific pretty 10,000 meter runner in a marathon or the type of speed that puts you in the Olympic final there he is savoring the victory in front of some 14,000 plus runners [Applause] on a beautiful but blustery day in Eugene Oregon Jose Gomez first Alberto Salazar second at the 10,000 meter run that Porter took a career [Music]
