Fernando Cabada-- 2:15 today in Berlin

Not bad. He beat the top woman by three minutes!

He is a professional runner; running is his job. No more impressive than your high school buddies who are still working their 9-5 while some of your peers are now low life chubs with no jobs.

tortilla chips wrote:

He is a professional runner; running is his job. No more impressive than your high school buddies who are still working their 9-5 while some of your peers are now low life chubs with no jobs.

Consistency is a great accomplishment. Great for him.

seriously good wrote:

Not bad. He beat the top woman by three minutes!

Was he given more prize and appearance money for that?

When I saw him cross the line in 2:15 my thought was- run 8k-1/2 marathon road races. Someone of his ability can make good money doing that.

runn wrote:

When I saw him cross the line in 2:15 my thought was- run 8k-1/2 marathon road races. Someone of his ability can make good money doing that.

he does do that, in a very cherry picking fashion. Never have I seen a more random racing schedule from somebody trying to be elite. Also, wasn't he one who got caught up in the "meat doping" stuff a while back?

morning joe wrote:

runn wrote:

When I saw him cross the line in 2:15 my thought was- run 8k-1/2 marathon road races. Someone of his ability can make good money doing that.

he does do that, in a very cherry picking fashion. Never have I seen a more random racing schedule from somebody trying to be elite. Also, wasn't he one who got caught up in the "meat doping" stuff a while back?

This is true. He was very outspoken about it then (Ajee Wilson esque) and is really outspoken now about drug cheats when they line up in the same road races as he does. A month or two ago he had a long FB post encouraging a race to drug test a runner that showed up who was a known doper. Feels like a weird thing to be doing if you're also a doper.

I want to believe him since he's somewhat inspiring in what he writes. 2:15-flat is pretty solid at this stage in his career & he really doesn't have a big name sponsor currently. He had a plain drymax singlet on.

morning joe wrote:

runn wrote:

When I saw him cross the line in 2:15 my thought was- run 8k-1/2 marathon road races. Someone of his ability can make good money doing that.

he does do that, in a very cherry picking fashion. Never have I seen a more random racing schedule from somebody trying to be elite. Also, wasn't he one who got caught up in the "meat doping" stuff a while back?

I mean no marathons- they take a lot out of you. Race more at the shorter distances.

solid performance, he probably has an outside shot of making the olympic team if he can chop off 4-5 mins in the next couple years

Outlaw wrote:

He's shown hes still competitive at a high level even after a rough patches.

I really don't want to come across as criticizing Canada. But is "competitive at a high level" really the right framing?

...tell ya what, you go run a 2:15:00 marathon. It will be then you have the room to make a negative comment like that. I've run a 2:19 and I can tell you that a 2:15:00 marathon takes immense competitiveness and focus to achieve. "Competitive at a high level" is exactly what a 2:15:00 marathon is.

Wow, so he could give Paula Radcliffe a run for the money. Big whoop.

Cabada is a classless douche. If anyone spends a moment speaking with him can he'll prove hes from the barrio.

Chicknlegs wrote:

...tell ya what, you go run a 2:15:00 marathon. It will be then you have the room to make a negative comment like that. I've run a 2:19 and I can tell you that a 2:15:00 marathon takes immense competitiveness and focus to achieve. "Competitive at a high level" is exactly what a 2:15:00 marathon is.

No, it's ability. If you're training at your utmost ability and he's training at his, he's beating you because he's got more ability, not because he's trying harder. Think talent. And I don't believe you are a 2:19 marathoner, hardly.

Running 2:15 is great but unfortunately it won't get anything or very little financially in the big races. You can win smaller marathons, but there's very little to zero prize money in those races.

Decent runner for sure, but unfortunately in 2018 he's in no man's land.

And yet the no man's land he's in is one nearly all of us would kill to join him in.

Surprisingly this is the #2 time in the US this year.

HRE wrote:

And yet the no man's land he's in is one nearly all of us would kill to join him in.

You really think many would kill to be stuck in having zero other career options, having developed nothing from the degree he graduated with from Arkansas, no, Fresno State, no, Minot State, actually the now defunct Virginia Intermont? Running 2:15 isn't worth that bleak future for the next five decades.

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot wrote:

HRE wrote:

And yet the no man's land he's in is one nearly all of us would kill to join him in.

You really think many would kill to be stuck in having zero other career options, having developed nothing from the degree he graduated with from Arkansas, no, Fresno State, no, Minot State, actually the now defunct Virginia Intermont? Running 2:15 isn't worth that bleak future for the next five decades.

What are your PRs?

I think most of us would kill to run 2:15.

morning joe wrote:

runn wrote:

When I saw him cross the line in 2:15 my thought was- run 8k-1/2 marathon road races. Someone of his ability can make good money doing that.

he does do that, in a very cherry picking fashion. Never have I seen a more random racing schedule from somebody trying to be elite. Also, wasn't he one who got caught up in the "meat doping" stuff a while back?

Hesch v2?