Soren Knudsen is back baby!!!!

I don't think he ever says that he's living the life. He's been pretty open about some of his struggles and stuff on his channel. Even talked about why he dropped out of college (depression)

Huh ok wrote:

I think Soren self promotes by starting some if these threads. I am already sick of the guy. He is s good runner but nothing like the hype.

I can assure u I'm not Soren. I've been posting here for a while. You can see my training in the high school training and racing threads. I really am not Soren bruh

aidawg wrote:

I don't think he ever says that he's living the life. He's been pretty open about some of his struggles and stuff on his channel. Even talked about why he dropped out of college (depression)

Yeah, that wasn't really a critique of Soren but of the OP enthusiasm that he is living the life we all wish we could. The grass is rarely greener it just looks that way.

epicTCK wrote:

13:54 at 18 years old. Self trained. Youtube channel. Living the dream in flagstaff.

He's living the life we wish we could. And he's our biggest hope for a worldbeater once Rupp retires. At least, he and King Ches.

Discus.

Chris Derrick ran like 13:41 at 18 if I'm not mistaken.

There needs to be a rule against putting this kid’s name in a thread title. Someone starts a new thread about him at least once a week, and the premise is always just, “I love Soren. He’s really great.” Maybe he’s starting these himself; maybe not. But we don’t need 20 threads about him. Just pick one and bump it every time you want to repeat your declaration of fondness for him.

Ehso wrote:

There needs to be a rule against putting this kid’s name in a thread title. Someone starts a new thread about him at least once a week, and the premise is always just, “I love Soren. He’s really great.” Maybe he’s starting these himself; maybe not. But we don’t need 20 threads about him. Just pick one and bump it every time you want to repeat your declaration of fondness for him.

The same rule should be applied to Rupp and Gwen Jorgensen at this point.

I'm glad the kid is running well, but the self-promotion is a bit much. And Evan already did the look. Just saying.

seems sad wrote:

aidawg wrote:

I don't think he ever says that he's living the life. He's been pretty open about some of his struggles and stuff on his channel. Even talked about why he dropped out of college (depression)

Yeah, that wasn't really a critique of Soren but of the OP enthusiasm that he is living the life we all wish we could. The grass is rarely greener it just looks that way.

He is most certainly not 'living the dream.' He's definitely a badass--even if he gets a bit annoying at times--but in one of his recent videos he mentioned that he is living off of his ~ $400/month income from YouTube and is down to something like $1500. Additionally, he was in a mental hospital a few months ago and essentially had to drop out of college.

I have enormous respect for the guy and I drew a lot of inspiration from him while I was in high school, but his life has gotten pretty rough and I'm not sure that anyone would consider his current living situation to be 'the dream.'

I don't doubt that he has the potential to make olympic/WC teams in the future, but he's doing it the hard way. Best of luck to him.

It's 2018, a gigantic portion of our population can't look away from their phones, and:

"living off of his ~ $400/month income from YouTube and is down to something like $1500. Additionally, he was in a mental hospital a few months ago and essentially had to drop out of college"

Carry on.

The potential is there. He definitely has a supporter here. As he gets better and better, it's going to

be interesting to see what path he goes down in regards to sponsorship and coaching. Those elements

are very key in order to attain world class success.

The attention and pressure will increase, so, hopefully, he has people around him who he

can trust.

epicTCK wrote:

Huh ok wrote:

I think Soren self promotes by starting some if these threads. I am already sick of the guy. He is s good runner but nothing like the hype.

I can assure u I'm not Soren. I've been posting here for a while. You can see my training in the high school training and racing threads. I really am not Soren bruh

we are all soren

FFF wrote:

I'm glad the kid is running well, but the self-promotion is a bit much. And Evan already did the look. Just saying.

Define self-promotion and explain why this is undesirable in the context of making a living as a professional athlete.

John Utah wrote:

FFF wrote:

I'm glad the kid is running well, but the self-promotion is a bit much. And Evan already did the look. Just saying.

Define self-promotion and explain why this is undesirable in the context of making a living as a professional athlete.

hashtag soren adventure bro. he is out here doing him and what he loves. I don't understand the haters. and what does this guy mean Evan already did it? the long blond hair? evan jager didn't invent that bro....

#sorenadventure

soren sore soren

reed wrote:

epicTCK wrote:

13:54 at 18 years old. Self trained. Youtube channel. Living the dream in flagstaff.

He's living the life we wish we could. And he's our biggest hope for a worldbeater once Rupp retires. At least, he and King Ches.

Discus.

Chris Derrick ran like 13:41 at 18 if I'm not mistaken.

13:29 and that was the AJR. Derrick had already run 13:55 in high school so Soren is "behind" by a year at this point (though he has a shot at 13:3x in my book)

Note: Derrick didn't improve substantially on that mark for four years until his late-college breakthrough. These things don't go like a ticking clock unless you are Galen Rupp.

Soren seems to be Derrick-like in terms of running potential; the question is whether he can keep the overall situation intact and progressing.

FFF wrote:

It's 2018, a gigantic portion of our population can't look away from their phones, and:

"living off of his ~ $400/month income from YouTube and is down to something like $1500. Additionally, he was in a mental hospital a few months ago and essentially had to drop out of college"

Carry on.

damn that kid could be making more money just by winning local road races. run two 15:30 tempos per weekend picking up $50-300 per race. post follow up vids to youtube and more people will watch (people like to watch people winning races). Get $500/mo by winning every local race within driving distance, and another $500 via youtube and you've got yourself a way less desperate situation.

keep doing that for awhile and start pimping gear from sponsers and next thing you know your making a not horrible living.

also if you're reading this, SK, post your training to strava, you'll start picking up a crap ton of followers.

he'd prob have to move out of flagstaff tho.

I mean at some random 5K race in the VA area I ran, 3rd place picked up $100 for a measly 16:33, and first took home $300 with a 15:31.

Given the video on this thread, I see he gets up at 6:05, puts his feet on the floor, brushes teeth, etc., etc.

Is there a camera crew living in his place? Or did he actually get up at 6:01, stage the shot, stage the feet shot, stage the tooth shot.

We are honestly in the future as shown in Idiocracy. We somehow survived as a species without smart phones and filming our lives for all to enjoy. I guess not anymore.

Incidentally, I raced bikes for a while there, and:

Did one "workout" a week. It was "tempo."

Raced every weekend.

Pocketed more cash than this kid pockets. Way more.

Got all my gear handed to me by sponsors.

No, I couldn't promote the crap out of myself because the current means of doing so didn't exist.

No matter. I made bank. And did only one workout a week. And it was tempo. And all my stuff was free. I'm still using some of it (bikes). Many of your heads just exploded. You're welcome.