Dathan Ritzenhein - Analyzing The Greats

[@jacobbrockert6953]

I met him at Hanson's and I will say he is a great guy and knows what he is talking about. ran 6 miles with him went from a 7;55 first mile to him wanting to see who would stay with him so he dropped a 5:50 the next mile and then stayed at 6:10 until the last mile where he dropped a 5:38. The whole time he was tell about how to improve with running like we were going 7:30 per mile. Great guy

[@TotalRunningProductions]

Jacob Brockert That’s awesome! Yea man he’s a tank (at least from all the races I’ve seen him do.)

[@thomasnobbs1406]

An athlete that should never be forgotten. Amazing production content and a pleasure to watch!

[@TotalRunningProductions]

Thanks Thomas! Glad you enjoyed. Let me know if there's any athletes you're interested in and I'll hopefully make more of these in the future!

[@GregoryVincentHoare]

Thanks He coaches my Son Olli Hoare , Am from Australia so was great to find out about Dathan.

[@BudderB0y2222]

Fastest American miler, 5k, and marathoner all in the same race

[@TotalRunningProductions]

Isn't it cool how you can look back and see these huge stars collide before their careers explode? Same this with El Guerrouj, Bekele, and Kipchoge at the World Championship 5k in 2003. 3 eventual world record holders colliding.

[@LeadershipAlliance]

SUPREME report on a GREAT athlete and good man. Thank you!🙏

[@13oct1992]

That first video shows his commitment 🙏🏼. Just like you said about him and Salazar they literally go to the doors of death and put it all out there. I’m a new subscriber and have been binging on your channel for at least 3 weeks. Sometimes I watch the videos 3,4,5 times. You are great at this. I’m a amateur videographer, editor and colorist, if you ever need help let me know. Keep up the good work.

[@blackwatch_TV]

Incredible Olympian....magnificent breakdown. Keep ‘em coming!

[@aarondavidson907]

And today he coaches an elite team of up and coming runners, and he follows a style that is rapidly proving to produce some of the best and most consistent runners in the world at the 1500 to 10k range (I say that because a similar format is used by the Ingebrigtsen's and Cole Hocker)

[@N0TxSURE]

I participated in the last HS race that he DIDNT win (he was a sophomore, myself a senior) he was such a stand up guy, congratulating each and every one of us that finished behind him in the 1600m state finals. He just ran a 4:12 (again, just a sophomore and in 1999 that was really fast, finished 3rd or 4th) He really took off big time after that. I was always proud to tell people that the Olympian on tv "used to kick my ass in high school"

[@JamesGeshel]

I'm from his hometown of Rockford and it was really cool when I was running cross country to run for a school with that kind of legacy. He's a pretty friend guy as well.

[@lugardo]

great video! You should do an analysis on German Fernandez

[@quinnkunz1409]

I really enjoy this channel, keep it up.

[@joshuasmith1215]

Here because I saw a list of the fastest times on UW-Parkside's cross country course. He holds the 5k record on the course with a time of 14:35 back in 2000. So hard to believe a human being is capable of that.

[@waterproof4403]

It is impressive. But you know what's insane ? Winning 11 world cross country championships. 6 doubles. Race one day and then win the long course the next day for 6 straight years. Or run a 12:37 5k and then a week later run a 26:20. Can you guess who did that?

[@joshuasmith1215]

@@waterproof4403 I'm guessing Dathan did. What a freak.

[@calebshea5665]

@@joshuasmith1215no it’s bekele lmao dathan did not run close to either of those times

[@monkeykeiths]

Ritz rocks! Nice presentation, I enjoyed it (and I even got see my watermark on the Manchester clip.)

[@arichison]

Thanks! He just ran a great time for the half.

[@jordancunningham9514]

If you dig through his career his best races were the ones where he was under control early and moved in the middle and the end of races. both national xc championships he moved forward in the second half, 207 marathon, 1256 5k (broke the american record for like 4 days i think it was lol) The time he ran at kenosha in high school hasn't even been approached by some of the best high school distance kids that have come through in the last 10 or so years. Ritz was unstoppable when he was on.

[@mr.mastermine7083]

I really like this style of video

[@theslightlyrecklesstrailru1546]

Great stuff! Really enjoying your videos. gebs was great too.

[@doom_field]

i disagree with your input about his foot strike in the first race video. He does not strike the ground in front of him. he lowers his foot as it is in front of him, but pulls back before it strikes, as most runners do. you can see in previous parts of the race at a better angle than the one you stopped at.

[@ericmenefee1082]

What is the name of the upbeat song at the beginning of the video?

[@darthsilversith667]

His reaction after winning was like me in high school lol. I threw up after almost every race, as soon as I crossed the line. And I wasn’t even running anywhere near as fast lol

[@LukeStephensCampbell]

OG video

[@hyrumjohnson2162]

Awesome Intro!

[@TotalRunningProductions]

Hyrum Johnson Thanks!

[@flatearthvegans9446]

👍👍

[@garwill2032]

❤❤🔥🔥

[@lewickerman]

This commentary is just horrendous. So much mumbling, stuttering, pausing, jumping around, and general no clue of what to say.

[@AK-gb9rp]

His videos are a lot better now

[@curtisalexander9355]

Where the blacks?

[@doesntmakeadent6033]

Shut it