Can someone keep an eye on this guy (run across America)

You think that a bicycle champ can't go out and run? I give to you one word. And that Word is Lance Armstrong, winner of the Tour de' France 7 times.After he stopped cycling he ran a sub-3:00 marathon, and he was fat when he did it. So there.

Dumb and dumber wrote:

Have you actually read ANY of the posts to you?

You think running three days in a row of 40 - 50 miles is easy?

Considering he's NOT even a runner???

Even those three days would be impossible, and remember he was boasting he would do this for weeks.

He couldn't do ONE day at 50 miles.

Running and cycling are totally different.

You could be a world champion cyclist at 50 mile distance, but still be unable to run even ten miles, if you didn't TRAIN to RUN.

And Darren doesn't run at all.

So these 50 mile training run boasts are BS.

"Someone said" "Someone said". I think unicorns live on the moon.

There, I said it on Lets Run. Doesn't mean it's TRUE.

No, running 40 miles is NOT the same as cycling 80.

What you say makes sense. In fact he found that out didn't he! Running fifty miles a day is not something he succeeded in doing and switched to a method of getting across America that he can do bicycle.

He stated that publicly himself, he was not exposed. So why you keep on stating the obvious when it is already known makes no sense.

You have said nothing here that has not been said by him first and others after many many times. Do you have anything new to add? No you do not. This whole subject is like watching a mouse on a wheel it just goes round and round and nothing different ever happens. Boring.

Darren does ultramarathons to check out his wikilinks.

Is he injured again? I have not read that or heard that. How do you know?

Ozzie your'e the most boring person posting here. Everyone thinks (knows) you're with the crew and your schtick is repetitive and paranoid.

Ozzie9472 wrote:

Yawn, so boring provide proof. There must be someone who can meet him as he gets closer to heavily populated areas. But wait of you do that there will nothing more to say

Lol, capturing the hearts of twitter bots everywhere.

Hobby 100 wrote:

You sounds like one of those academics who's overly concerned with "facts" and "research" and "expert opinion". That's all irrelevant. Darren is capturing the hearts and minds of regular Americans. He shows them that the impossible is possible. He gives them something to believe in. No, he doesn't solve the opioid crisis, and he doesn't stop terrorism. But he makes people good about themselves. And that's what's important.

Please go back to your ivory tower before you embarrass yourself more.

My coach just told me about this thread, and how you people don't believe a non-runner can finish an ultra. I'm here to say that I've done it. When I was an ironman triathalete I only ran 15-20 miles a week. And then when ironman got boring I decided to do an ultra, so I picked a charity 100 miler on the track. I finished in just under 24 hours. And I'm fat. Not like Darren.I'm sure Darren could do half of that day after day.

Now I do major ultras not on a track, and I have a coach (he posts here). He emails me plans and I barely do any of them (LOL, don't tell him), and I still manage to finish them.

You'd think people on a site called Let's Run would know more about running.

Hobby 100 wrote:

You sounds like one of those academics who's overly concerned with "facts" and "research" and "expert opinion". That's all irrelevant. Darren is capturing the hearts and minds of regular Americans. He shows them that the impossible is possible. He gives them something to believe in. No, he doesn't solve the opioid crisis, and he doesn't stop terrorism. But he makes people good about themselves. And that's what's important.

Please go back to your ivory tower before you embarrass yourself more.

Irrelevant! Irrelevant that a total non runner was planning on faking on running 50 miles a day non stop for weeks on end, when this is totally impossible!

He's scamming, lying and cheating - and gullible Americans deserve to know the truth.

He isn't showing anybody anything. He's a cheat.

Why would anyone feel good about themselves being tricked into believing a scam?

Doing a bit of a cycle then riding in an RV isn't remotely incredible or inspiring.

People can be suckers and they like to believe in fairytales.

We need to make them wake up and see they are being lied to.

Looking at this the way a civil court would - Examining everything contained in this whole thread, the balance of probability is that he is NOT cycling all the way, and that he always planned to fake a RUN, and that he never trained to RUN across America.

He's nothing but a sad narcissist who is relying on some nice people believing his crap. It's just wrong. Deluding and tricking people to feed your own out of control ego is just wrong.

And Darren himself can be getting no real personal satisfaction from this, as HE knows he's not covering the distance legit.

PROVE he is a runner!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Kavinoky

proof

Poor Darren.

Now he sits somewhere near Knoxville waiting for his injury to heal.

He needs to finish his adventure.

He needs to keep his promises to his sponsors.

All what matters now is to keep his face.

The new face of 50. A broken body which is not able to run 50 miles a day, A body which is not able to ride a bicycle on a day to day basis through the country.

The new face of 50. Darren Kavinoky, the hero of the RVers who have enough time to watch his show "Deadly sins" on Discovery channel.

The new face of 50. Nobody ever said it would be easy.

One word. Lance. wrote:

You think that a bicycle champ can't go out and run? I give to you one word. And that Word is Lance Armstrong, winner of the Tour de' France 7 times.

After he stopped cycling he ran a sub-3:00 marathon, and he was fat when he did it.

So there.

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Someone who is a cyclist COULD train to be a runner, yes.

But what is being said here is that if you can cycle 80 miles, then you must AUTOMATICALLY be able to run 40 miles. That's not true unless you train to do so.

Darren cannot run 40 miles.

He can because he does ultra marathons and those are that long. Look at the wikilink!

ugh

That guy was right about the thread turning gloomy as soon as the east coasters woke up. Why are you all such a sour lot? Maybe you should move somewhere nice and then you wouldn't feel the need to kick a man while he's down.

Sympathy for the Darren wrote:

Poor Darren.

Now he sits somewhere near Knoxville waiting for his injury to heal.

He needs to finish his adventure.

He needs to keep his promises to his sponsors.

All what matters now is to keep his face.

The new face of 50. A broken body which is not able to run 50 miles a day, A body which is not able to ride a bicycle on a day to day basis through the country.

The new face of 50. Darren Kavinoky, the hero of the RVers who have enough time to watch his show "Deadly sins" on Discovery channel.

The new face of 50. Nobody ever said it would be easy.

Is anyone gonna add a 'Run across America' section to that wikipedia page?

Leave Darren Alone! wrote:

PROVE he is a runner!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Kavinoky

So now you're moving the goalposts. We were talking about someone riding 75 miles could WALK 25 at 4 mph. And nobody said AUTOMATICALLY. It would still be as hard as riding for 75 miles. And Darren's training has been hard, so I'm sure he's prepared for all sort of hard things. Once you've encountered one hard thing you're much more ready to accommodate more hard things that come your way.

Logic, please wrote:

Someone who is a cyclist COULD train to be a runner, yes.

But what is being said here is that if you can cycle 80 miles, then you must AUTOMATICALLY be able to run 40 miles. That's not true unless you train to do so.

Darren cannot run 40 miles.

Ozzie9472 wrote:

What you say makes sense. In fact he found that out didn't he! Running fifty miles a day is not something he succeeded in doing and switched to a method of getting across America that he can do bicycle.

He stated that publicly himself, he was not exposed. So why you keep on stating the obvious when it is already known makes no sense.

You have said nothing here that has not been said by him first and others after many many times. Do you have anything new to add? No you do not. This whole subject is like watching a mouse on a wheel it just goes round and round and nothing different ever happens. Boring.

Come on! You boast you are going to run 50 miles a day for weeks, yet do NO long distance training at all.

Would anyone seriously do that?

He knew he had absolutely no chance. He never got further than 25 miles!

No-one would underestimate an undertaking like that to the point they couldn't even do half a day of the boasted mileage.

It's obvious to everyone he was always planning on faking the entire thing!

Imagine I boasted to the world I was going to swim the Channel and back. I got loads of tv exposure, sponsors, free stuff, etc. Then I got in the sea, did a few strokes and gave up. You'd be a bit suspicious, right?

Then if you saw me down the local pool struggling to swim one length, you'd know I'd been scamming, right?

Well that's Darren for you! He just never expected US to be on his back.

He thought he could fake the whole thing as a run, and get credit for that.

He was never injured. And now says he's no longer injured anyway, so why isn't he now doing his 50 miles a day RUNNING??

You know, like it says on that huge RV he scammed for free??

Lagos ultra runner wrote:

My coach just told me about this thread, and how you people don't believe a non-runner can finish an ultra. I'm here to say that I've done it. When I was an ironman triathalete I only ran 15-20 miles a week. And then when ironman got boring I decided to do an ultra, so I picked a charity 100 miler on the track. I finished in just under 24 hours. And I'm fat. Not like Darren.I'm sure Darren could do half of that day after day.

Now I do major ultras not on a track, and I have a coach (he posts here). He emails me plans and I barely do any of them (LOL, don't tell him), and I still manage to finish them.

You'd think people on a site called Let's Run would know more about running.

If true, then doing a 100 miler in that time on only 15 - 20 miles a week is very unusual, but that's still only one race on one day.

Some people have a natural talent for endurance and do okay on not too many miles a week. But Darren's training was all about the gym.

What you say you do is not in any way comparable to running 50 miles a day for many weeks.

If you haven't trained for that, your body just couldn't cope.

You certainly couldn't run back to back 50 milers for weeks on end, and neither could Darren.