More U.S. 2:07 marathoners

Gotta get more 2:09 marathoners first.

A big reason is that, for Americans, we encounter a psychological block at 5:00/mile. So when runners start seeing splits in the 4:xxs, they back off.

Every other country doesn't run into a barrier like that until 3:00/km (4:48/mile).

That's the difference between 2:11 and 2:07.

olyrun wrote:

Erik Titus ran 2:07 off a 2:15 pr. He was training with 2:05 marathoners which gave him the physical and psychological confidence to run that fast. If more U.S. men trained in Iten, Kenya with those groups, they would get the same benefit. If you train with the best , you run fast.

The last 20 years hundreds of runners have gone to Kenya to train with the Kenyans. The result?

That's why there are so many 2:07 runners in Europe!

May be, but when your body isn't at 4:58 level you blow up anyway.

The problem with any comparisons and mental hijinks is that you don't know what chemicals your comparison target is on.

Baby steps wrote:

Gotta get more 2:09 marathoners first.

A big reason is that, for Americans, we encounter a psychological block at 5:00/mile. So when runners start seeing splits in the 4:xxs, they back off.

Every other country doesn't run into a barrier like that until 3:00/km (4:48/mile).

That's the difference between 2:11 and 2:07.

Dumbest post of the day.

The one thing that the UK is/was doing was handing over cash for altitude training camps.

How many 2:11 guys in the U.S. are getting cash from US Athletics to go train in Flagstaff for 4 months. Ef the U.S. Olympic committee and all the other jackoff organizations siphoning off dollars.

Well,. wrote:

olyrun wrote:

Erik Titus ran 2:07 off a 2:15 pr. He was training with 2:05 marathoners which gave him the physical and psychological confidence to run that fast. If more U.S. men trained in Iten, Kenya with those groups, they would get the same benefit. If you train with the best , you run fast.

The last 20 years hundreds of runners have gone to Kenya to train with the Kenyans. The result?

Wiki:

"Zane Robertson (born 14 November 1989) is a New Zealand middle and long-distance runner. He lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. At the age of 17 he and his twin brother Jake moved from New Zealand to Kenya... At the 2016 Rio Olympics Robertson finished 12th in the men's 10000 metres with a time of 27:33.67"

TrackBot! VDOT 27:33 10000m

Ryan Hall has proved regular old Americans can run 2:04 without going to Africa to dope and train. Americans have nothing further to prove.

With the way the U.S. Is importing Kenyans, we'll have a bunch of 2:07 men in no time.

VDOT for 27:33 10.0km: 80.5

Equivalent race times based on VDOT:

Marathon: 02:06:53

Half marathon: 01:00:33

15K: 00:42:10

10K: 00:27:32

5K: 00:13:13

3Mi: 00:12:44

2Mi: 00:08:12

3200m: 00:08:09

3K: 00:07:35

1Mi: 00:03:50

1600m: 00:03:49

1500m: 00:03:33

I am a bot. Info: habs.sdf.org/trackbot

What is Hall's 2:04 equal on a flat course with no wind. 2:06:xx

Zane's 27:33 = 2:06:53

Billy Fap wrote:

What is Hall's 2:04 equal on a flat course with no wind. 2:06:xx

Zane's 27:33 = 2:06:53

I know you are not saying that 27:33 is as good as Hall's Boston 2:04. You can't be that ignorant.

Barabbas wrote:

With the way the U.S. Is importing Kenyans, we'll have a bunch of 2:07 men in no time.

Not if I can help it.

Hall was a legit 2:06 guy which is an awesome time for a clean athlete. There is no definitive proof that all of these runners in the 2:03-2:04 realm are clean. Some may be, however not sure they all are as many have no track credentials to back up the corresponding marathon times they run.

Rump, like him or not should be able to run 2:05-2:06 on a course like Berlin or London.

broken arrow wrote:

There is no definitive proof that all of these runners in the 2:03-2:04 realm are clean.

Can you ever have definitive proof on something like that? It's very difficult to prove a negative.

Do we have definitive proof Hall was clean?

this.

No we don't, and we have been lied to so many times that if it ever came out that he used PEDs it would not surprise me or upset me as I am over it now. I watch for T&F for fun and try not to scrutinize every performance that seems to be an outlier.