From 34min to 29min in cross in just one year 🤣okayyyy
From 34min to 29min in cross in just one year 🤣okayyyy
Rojo is proof that in America anyone can become anything.
Talked to him after Acxc and he said he gets a lot of fitness from wacking in the sauna. Would kinda explain the low mileage but he said you really gotta go hard and get the heart rate up, told me he’s doing it so frequently he feels like graham the way he’s been shooting blanks
This is misleading. It's not someone who only started to run last year. He had track background.
This is sub-30 on a real xc course with serious hills, so it converts to much better than 23:44 on an NCAA 8k course. The opening picture of the article shows Talbot (ahead of Mo Ahmed!) cresting a hill that is so steep the runners just behind look like they are at the level of his feet.
Talent beats training.
Uncle Bosie wrote:
This is misleading. It's not someone who only started to run last year. He had track background.
Yeah, just kinda weird (but not surprising) for Rojo to run with the clickbaitey headline and drop this thread, even though he read the article and pulled quotes from it, which indicate he was previously a runner.
Impressive, nonetheless. So-so HS athlete, who continues to run casually, gets serious about training and drops down to 34min 10km and then takes his base into becoming a collegiate XC runner while getting his MBA at 29. He responds well to the training and ends up running pretty solid times and really improving.
Talent
Uncle Bosie wrote:
This is misleading. It's not someone who only started to run last year. He had track background.
Most of his threads are misleading.
Uncle Bosie wrote:
This is misleading. It's not someone who only started to run last year. He had track background.
Actually, I'd say the track background makes his rise even more surprising. The guy ran 4:27 in high school! That's (with all due respect) really slow.
I would have found it less surprisingly if he was a super talent who had never tried running before (maybe because he was playing another sport or something), then picks it up in his mid 20s and becomes fast really quickly. But apparently he had tried running in high school and simply wasn't very good, which makes his rapid progress more remarkable.
RPL wrote:
The guy ran 4:27 in high school! That's (with all due respect) really slow *for someone representing Canada at World XC"
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He's born in 1999, so his 4:27 was from when he was 15-16, probably grade 10. It's not an awful time for a (presumably) lightly-trained kid in grade 10, but it doesn't imply a ton of talent. Didn't AJ Acosta run like 4:20 for the mile in basketball shoes his first time out?
Breaking 14 minutes for 5000m in your first track season, on the other hand, is pretty ridiculous.
babaganosh wrote:
He's born in 1999, so his 4:27 was from when he was 15-16, probably grade 10. It's not an awful time for a (presumably) lightly-trained kid in grade 10, but it doesn't imply a ton of talent. Didn't AJ Acosta run like 4:20 for the mile in basketball shoes his first time out?
Breaking 14 minutes for 5000m in your first track season, on the other hand, is pretty ridiculous.
Yes, that's basically what I was trying to say. Of course 4:27 for 1500 isn't terrible for the average person, but most of the people I know who ended up running sub-14:00 (usually after quite a few years of training) were able to run a lot faster than 4:27 for 1,500 pretty much as soon as they started any form of training in high school.
This converts to world record pace with super shoes, BU track, back massage, 2 kids, at sea level with tail wind.
This dude is the second coming of Trevor Hofbauer. TH was also a CCAA guy, but even less accomplished when he was in college in the early 2010s. TH ran 2:09 and repped Can in the 2021 Olympics.
CCAA = D3 quality.
Just started running, but ran in high school. Gotcha
Yet so many american pros ran so well at usa nationals xc... maybe that says something about the sorry states of xc in america rn. Soft.