Parker Stinson Fails and Gets Reamed. Parker Stinson Succeeds at Houston and Crickets...

Pleased to hear he ran well, what was his time and place?

Parker is the man! Way to Go Parker!

Parker ran 1:02:11 in Houston

What was his best before this?

He proved LRC right by pacing properly and running fast... I think Ritz is coaching him off of our advice!

I ran a training run "with" him in the summertime when he was in HS near his home, which has plenty of big hills. He ran awesome, and I was left far far behind. I thought, "how can this kid not be state xc champion?", but then, his subsequent xc season was kind of crappy (relatively). However the following track season he ran like 8:52 or 54, something like that. Then he went to Oregon and succeeded there. Now, he has run 62-low. The dude deserves major props. Nothing comes easy. Congrats, Parker! (If you see this.) Any "real" runner knows that you've had to persevere and work like crazy, and I hope for the very best for you.

Hi Brad! How are you and Allie doing? You're really salty about Parker leaving, aren't you?

Somebody feel free to correct me, but I'm pretty sure it was 63:02...Damn near a minute mang.

Hi Parker! Big fan!!!

Can you give us the inside scoop why Brad ditched you and team and if him and Allie are smushing?

1) you were welcome to start a thread propping him up anytime you wanted. You didnt after his bad race last fall and it took you 2 days after his decent HM this last weekend

2) nobody was denying he has some solid marathon potential, they were saying he ran a pair of very poorly paced marathons (CIM and then Chicago). This is just objectively true.

I'd love to see him succeed. Houston was a moderate PR in the half marathon, it wasnt abreakthrough, I'd say his potential is still around a 2:10 to 2:12 marathon. He has to run smart, though and force others to do as much work for him as possible.

If he wants to make the Olympic team, his best chance isnt to go for broke from the start. Instead, try to use the pack to do all the work. At trials, he will be one of a dozen guys who all have a legitimate shot at 2:10 to 2:12 range (some will already have run those times to qualify). Only probably 2 of them will advance. To be one of the ones making it on, you've got to really conserve any energy you can, or the other guys who ran smart will eat you up.

He has proven he can run smart for a HM (he has shown good racing on the track as well), but his two marathons havent shown that yet, for some reason he has run those two races differently, much more aggressively.

The issue is that there was a Letsrun article last week about him competing with Ritz for a spot on the Olympic Marathon team, a new thread every day about him, his self promoting Instagram account and his fancy shoe contract meanwhile he looses to Fischer who is without a contract and narrowly beats Mock who is without a contract and wasn't even invited into the elite field. We should be talking about Fischer and Mock as potential great American marathoners not Stinson who hasn't shown much ability to make a mark in the marathon.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

The issue is that there was a Letsrun article last week about him competing with Ritz for a spot on the Olympic Marathon team, a new thread every day about him, his self promoting Instagram account and his fancy shoe contract meanwhile he looses to Fischer who is without a contract and narrowly beats Mock who is without a contract and wasn't even invited into the elite field. We should be talking about Fischer and Mock as potential great American marathoners not Stinson who hasn't shown much ability to make a mark in the marathon.

He has ran under 28 minutes for 10000m. Why doesn't he focus on that? He could make the team for 10000m if he focuses on that and get down to sub 27:30 ability. Other than Leonard Korir, who else in the US can go in that 27:30-27:00 range for 10000m?

not just 62, didn't use vaporflys, double impressed (but what shoe is that?)

https://i.imgur.com/59vj5j9.jpg

Sub 28 minute 10000m wrote:

Sesamoiditis wrote:

The issue is that there was a Letsrun article last week about him competing with Ritz for a spot on the Olympic Marathon team, a new thread every day about him, his self promoting Instagram account and his fancy shoe contract meanwhile he looses to Fischer who is without a contract and narrowly beats Mock who is without a contract and wasn't even invited into the elite field. We should be talking about Fischer and Mock as potential great American marathoners not Stinson who hasn't shown much ability to make a mark in the marathon.

He has ran under 28 minutes for 10000m. Why doesn't he focus on that? He could make the team for 10000m if he focuses on that and get down to sub 27:30 ability. Other than Leonard Korir, who else in the US can go in that 27:30-27:00 range for 10000m?

shadrack kipchirchir almost broke 27 at worlds in '17

Hi Parker! If you had manned up and admitted that you blew the race in Chicago by going out too hard, maybe you'd be forgiven. Instead, you blew it and tried to reverse it on others saying to train you if they know so much. You were trained fine, you blew your wad in the first 5-10k of that race so you weren't a big enough person to admit it.

Next time, stop with the excuses. Brad trained you fine and so will Dathan, but you are in total control when the gun goes off, not either of them.

Grow a pair dude, see you in Atlanta!

turbo-man wrote:

Sub 28 minute 10000m wrote:

He has ran under 28 minutes for 10000m. Why doesn't he focus on that? He could make the team for 10000m if he focuses on that and get down to sub 27:30 ability. Other than Leonard Korir, who else in the US can go in that 27:30-27:00 range for 10000m?

shadrack kipchirchir almost broke 27 at worlds in '17

27:07 is his PB.

Hey, that's cute.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

The issue is that there was a Letsrun article last week about him competing with Ritz for a spot on the Olympic Marathon team

Maybe I missed it but I don't know how there hasn't been major other over what a pro idea this is for both of them.

Sesamoiditis wrote:

The issue is that there was a Letsrun article last week about him competing with Ritz for a spot on the Olympic Marathon team, a new thread every day about him, his self promoting Instagram account and his fancy shoe contract meanwhile he looses to Fischer who is without a contract and narrowly beats Mock who is without a contract and wasn't even invited into the elite field. We should be talking about Fischer and Mock as potential great American marathoners not Stinson who hasn't shown much ability to make a mark in the marathon.

You should copy your post and email it to Fischer and Mock (whoever Mock is), and maybe they can learn something. 85% of a "fancy shoe contract" and gaining sponsorships is MARKETING and the ability to make yourself known and relevant. Shoe companies are in business to MAKE MONEY; if you're not relevant on the world stage (currently only Rupp is in this category) then you have to market yourself and self promote. Parker understands the business of professional running; these other clowns don't therefore they're still punching the clock at their 9-5 dayjob and will continue to do so.

Leave this guy alone! He’s a good runner. 62:11 is a sick mark and he would have entered the sub 62 club had any of the other PROFESSIONAL runners done anything to help the race; Puskedra, Biwott, Estrada, Droddy...all sponsored and all worthless.

Props to the unsponsored guys for killing it but props to parker who has killed it at every level of the sport and continues to do so as a professional. All these other pros just sit on their contracts...it’s easy to be fired up when you have nothing but it says a lot about a guy whose fire hasn’t change since high school as the earlier poster pointed out