Running Talent

It's all in your head, you're limiting yourself by not believing in yourself. Everyone could be a champion.

How is 40 mpw not training? Regarding Rupp, he was playing soccer. There's a good chance he was doing a lot of running and sprinting there.

Yeah 40 mpw is a nice little base especially if he wasn't taking it seriously, means he wouldn't of overtrained. My bro plays football and his first 5K was 22:53 mins and he never runs.

Ppfk wrote:

How is 40 mpw not training? Regarding Rupp, he was playing soccer. There's a good chance he was doing a lot of running and sprinting there.

Soccer is a great base for runners. Every game is like a warped running workout (30-second burst, followed by two minutes easy, 8-second sprint, then another minute of jogging, etc.).

Re: talent. Yes, some people have more talent than others. A very select few have a LOT more. But running is a game of patience. If you truly want to be great, you will eventually get there in some capacity. It might take five years, it might take 10 years, it might take 20 years. But if you are willing to put in the work over that time frame, your "natural" talent level will become a distance memory.

1degree wrote:

Yeah 40 mpw is a nice little base especially if he wasn't taking it seriously, means he wouldn't of overtrained. My bro plays football and his first 5K was 22:53 mins and he never runs.

A guy in my cross-country teams ran 10k in 40:49. He was drunk and stoned and he is lying at 4 am. The race was at 7 am. He tchoked all of the pratice in the season. Very frustrating for the hard worker runners. That's the nature :p

FelixBC19 wrote:

1degree wrote:

Yeah 40 mpw is a nice little base especially if he wasn't taking it seriously, means he wouldn't of overtrained. My bro plays football and his first 5K was 22:53 mins and he never runs.

A guy in my cross-country teams ran 10k in 40:49. He was drunk and stoned and he is lying at 4 am. The race was at 7 am. He tchoked all of the pratice in the season. Very frustrating for the hard worker runners. That's the nature :p

40:49 is not very impressive even for a high-schooler. You mean to say that the harder-working runners on your team can't run that fast?

rice chex wrote:

FelixBC19 wrote:

A guy in my cross-country teams ran 10k in 40:49. He was drunk and stoned and he is lying at 4 am. The race was at 7 am. He tchoked all of the pratice in the season. Very frustrating for the hard worker runners. That's the nature :p

40:49 is not very impressive even for a high-schooler. You mean to say that the harder-working runners on your team can't run that fast?

I'm living in Chaudière-Appalaches, province of Quebec, Canada. The kids started to running at the age of 15-16 without a club or a great trainer. It's difficult to have beautiful PB if you always train alone. Also, every school, recruted everybody. Lol You can walk all of the 8 km and we keep you. If you run 25 min for a 5 km, you are 50 in 125 best positons. The competition there is never like the US and the rest of Canada.

The real competition begin in Cegep (18-20 years old). We don't have cegep in Chaudière-Appalaches. (: Yeah, we sucks.

I think David Torrence did a mile race that kick started his career. He ran it in 5 flat. (No source... read this on a reddit thread I think)

FelixBC19 wrote:

rice chex wrote:

40:49 is not very impressive even for a high-schooler. You mean to say that the harder-working runners on your team can't run that fast?

I'm living in Chaudière-Appalaches, province of Quebec, Canada. The kids started to running at the age of 15-16 without a club or a great trainer. It's difficult to have beautiful PB if you always train alone. Also, every school, recruted everybody. Lol You can walk all of the 8 km and we keep you. If you run 25 min for a 5 km, you are 50 in 125 best positons. The competition there is never like the US and the rest of Canada.

The real competition begin in Cegep (18-20 years old). We don't have cegep in Chaudière-Appalaches. (: Yeah, we sucks.

Hey, I've driven through there. Looks like nice country. Get out the door and run every day (maybe XC ski in the winter), and you'll be running a lot faster than 40 minutes.

Yes, but how is this not true for everything? The real soldiers NEVER give up. You obviously dig running so stick with it regardless of the genetics you inherited.

I'm far from a talent, but it took me two years of jogging (first year was basically just getting my weight down from 200 to 170), with 1,700 miles during the second year, to run 10k at 5:30.