I used to hate on Kilian, I admit it but after watching him these past two years or so I have to hand it to him, the boy can outright fucking run. Period.
Watching Kilian run, or seeing him in interviews it is easy to see the reason for his success. He runs out of pure joy and love for the sake of running. He has a purity that has yet to be soiled. It could just be his youth but I think that it is just overall genuine.
I do fear though that Kilian and his com-padres from Team Salomon are not even close to being finished kicking the shit out of the U.S. in the big races whether in the states or abroad. I mean really, do we have any strong American ultra runners left? As ironic as it seems, even maybe the best ultra men on American soil are Brits so they don't count unless G.B. is now an American colony which last I checked it wasn't.
No, the biggies that we have or used to have are either getting too old or have suffered way too many repetitive stress injuries, or yet another one is plauged from as I can best tell Bipolar II, or some funky nutritional deficiency that prevents him from running more than two good weeks at a time. Our youngest and possibly strongest future ultra runner is so young that he is still in puberty and more than likely uneducated in the ways of women thus far. I imagine that even as he gets a little older you will see his star twinkle out just as quickly as it had began to show.
No, the U.S. is probably doomed for a while and won't be seeing any big wins in the future. Maybe it it time to bring the Tarahumara back? Maybe they can represent N. America as whole? That might be our only chance.
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