Bump for the Big Wave.
I'd love to see it too!
lights, camera, action! wrote:
Running downhill is excellent speed training.
Definitely do some 200's on part a part of the hill which represents the average grade.
Video Tape it. Hape someone ride a bike next to you holding a camera.
We'd love to see you either break 4 or eat it.
"Dude this guy is garbage, take your 4:04 1500 and get out of here."
-CLASSIC!!! welcome to the toolshed that is letsrun.com!
This is one of my top 5 favorite threads of all time on Letsrun. Too bad this place is so hard on elites....more of them might post here it it wasn't.
Not that Big Wave was elite when the thread started.....
it puts on the lotion wrote:
"Dude this guy is garbage, take your 4:04 1500 and get out of here."
-CLASSIC!!! welcome to the toolshed that is letsrun.com!
Hahaha.
Seems like this should be an annual event hosted by David. Maybe when he retires.
Just looked through this post for the first time. Didn't know anything about it or the outcome and holy sh!t when I got to this line: "All in all it was a great time, and again I highly suggest that you make your own 1st annual David Torrence Downhill Invitational Mile." I just went crazy. Did not expect for it to be someone so successful
This is great and needs to be revisited throughout the years. Just read through the thread, and it is probably the best thread. So, classic!!!
Just discovering this glorious thread! Super fun read and always exciting when OP delivers. Long live Big Wave Dave!
Miracle Mile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfPJ-Hh_Bi8
2nd Annual:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT4II4Ajta4
3rd Annual:
No Doubt- GOAT Thread.
The stuff legends are made of.
WAIT!
While racing a downhill mile, could Dibaba break 4?!
I was trying to search for this original thread, but couldn't find it.
I remember reading it back in the day and thinking it was awesome. And now David has gone on to do great things.
Can someone post the link?
I pretty much followed that one from the beginning. Let's run at its best.
Thanks!!
I couldn't find for some reason. Oddly enough, I originally bumped the thread in 2012 claiming it was the best thread ever.
I was trying to figure out which username I was using in 2005. I definitely made congratulatory comments on the attempt, but no idea what name I was using as I probably changed my name for every thread.
Unimpressed. Steve Scott ran 3:30 downhill in Australia. It's on YouTube. Keep an eye out for the Bandit dressed as the greatest American hero.
http://youtu.be/ZMQy824gvv0Downhill Thrill wrote:
Unimpressed. Steve Scott ran 3:30 downhill in Australia. It's on YouTube. Keep an eye out for the Bandit dressed as the greatest American hero.
I can say confidently that no one was trying to impress you.
Big Wave wrote:
Hey everybody. As you can see, I'm attempting to break 4 minutes in the mile... downhill. I've recently run a 4:04 1600 on a flat track, and instead of training harder and working those 6 seconds down...I've decided I want to break it NOW instead of later.
Well, its not really my decision...well sort of, but not really. After a night of trash talking and pasta, I told a teammate of mine that I would break 4 minutes in the mile this year (by the end of 2005...this was in early october). If I accomplished this feat he exclaimed that he would run a naked mile. We shook on it. So the next weekend I went out and did a time trial just to see where I was at...and somehow pulled that 4:04 out of my ass. Well, then the trash talking really got heated, and then it cooled down a lot. Anyway, long story short, I kinda slacked off on my speed training...and well, just training in general. I'm pretty sure I'm still in 4:04 shape for the 1600...but I'm running out of time now. And since we never specified on what surface this mile was to be run on, I'm taking advantage of that and running it downhill.
So while everybody is still in school and can watch to verify, late this Friday night, I will attempt to barrel down a one way street in order to win the above described bet.
But also, to be a man about it, I will attempt a REAL mile on a track later this month after some decent training.
I've used "Google Earth" to measure it out to the hundredth of a foot and will also use a car just to see if there's a huge difference or anything. The elevation difference is almost 200ft...going from 353ft to 157ft pretty steadily, no sudden drop offs...except for maybe the first 20yds.
Now, here's where I ask help from the letsrun community. How many of you have raced a downhill mile? Is this too steep? Should I worry about going out too hard? Is there a different strategy I should employ since this is downhill...such as positive splits vs. negative splits vs. even pacing? What should I do tomorrow in terms of a pre-race workout? Maybe some downhill 200's to get the feel of it? Also...does anybody think I could break 3:50? I think I remember reading that Steve Scott ran a 3:30 downhill mile, which is 17 seconds faster than his pr.
Well Gang, thanks a lot for your help and I'll be sure to keep you all posted on this extremely stupid event.
P.S. I don't want to hear about how, "Ohhh this is so bad for you...blah blah blah." I'm gonna do it. And plus, I regularly recover from stupid stuff pretty well anyways. Thanks again.
RIP you Great Man!
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