You won't be the only one having an existential crisis. Ovett and Coe will be. They both ran 3:48 when they were breaking the world record, but not on schoolboy training and recovering from jet lag.
You don't get to speak for Ovett and Coe. You, on the others hand, are clearly having an exiatencial crisis, as you tall poppy syndrome shows.
You won't be the only one having an existential crisis. Ovett and Coe will be. They both ran 3:48 when they were breaking the world record, but not on schoolboy training and recovering from jet lag.
You don't get to speak for Ovett and Coe. You, on the others hand, are clearly having an exiatencial crisis, as you tall poppy syndrome shows.
You don't find it interesting that a child is now running the same times those former world record holders were achieving in their prime - and he's doing it on far less training?
The sessions on his dad's instagram and coach Kirkwood are not easy junior sessions.
He's doing hard training.
I also don't believe the 80-90k per week line.
The 5k time is not believable off that little volume. The rest could be done off talent and a lot of very hard quality sessions. Which it looks like he does.
The sessions on his dad's instagram and coach Kirkwood are not easy junior sessions.
He's doing hard training.
I also don't believe the 80-90k per week line.
The 5k time is not believable off that little volume. The rest could be done off talent and a lot of very hard quality sessions. Which it looks like he does.
His longest training run is reportedly no further than 10 miles. So what is the "hard training" for a conditioning base? Or doesn't he bother with that?
The sessions on his dad's instagram and coach Kirkwood are not easy junior sessions.
He's doing hard training.
I also don't believe the 80-90k per week line.
The 5k time is not believable off that little volume. The rest could be done off talent and a lot of very hard quality sessions. Which it looks like he does.
His longest training run is reportedly no further than 10 miles. So what is the "hard training" for a conditioning base? Or doesn't he bother with that?
He's 16. He doesn't need an adult training load because.... well because he's 16.
And because he's 16, he has adapted more quickly to the training he has been doing. That is training appropriate to a 16 year old.
Your obsessive feelings of insignificance can't be allayed by posting incessantly.
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training. His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.
You won't be the only one having an existential crisis. Ovett and Coe will be. They both ran 3:48 when they were breaking the world record, but not on schoolboy training and recovering from jet lag.
Neither of us can speak for Ovett and Coe but both John Walker and Rod Dixon have been nothing but complimentary in their comments about Ruthe.
You don't get to speak for Ovett and Coe. You, on the others hand, are clearly having an exiatencial crisis, as you tall poppy syndrome shows.
You don't find it interesting that a child is now running the same times those former world record holders were achieving in their prime - and he's doing it on far less training?
Ill be curious how fast his 1500 will be,outdoors.
And? It's all about talent. Training barely matters when it comes to becoming elite. If your ceiling is subelite, you can train all you want and never be elite.
Also, if your ceiling is truly elite, you can train haphazardly and be the top of your country.
The sessions on his dad's instagram and coach Kirkwood are not easy junior sessions.
He's doing hard training.
I also don't believe the 80-90k per week line.
The 5k time is not believable off that little volume. The rest could be done off talent and a lot of very hard quality sessions. Which it looks like he does.
His longest training run is reportedly no further than 10 miles. So what is the "hard training" for a conditioning base? Or doesn't he bother with that?
16 year old training in total weekly kms, yes. Track session make up not so much - unless Tanner is doing track sessions that are for 16 year olds.
His longest training run is reportedly no further than 10 miles. So what is the "hard training" for a conditioning base? Or doesn't he bother with that?
16 year old training in total weekly kms, yes. Track session make up not so much - unless Tanner is doing track sessions that are for 16 year olds.
and I don't mean the flotrack session, that was a light tapering one close to a big race, so not indicative of the rest of the year
The sessions on his dad's instagram and coach Kirkwood are not easy junior sessions.
He's doing hard training.
I also don't believe the 80-90k per week line.
The 5k time is not believable off that little volume. The rest could be done off talent and a lot of very hard quality sessions. Which it looks like he does.
It might shock some people but that are high level pros in the 1500/mile who rarely exceed 80-90KM. Jake Wightman is one. Ruthe seems more in the mold of a phenom like Laros than Jakob or Myers who are aerobic beasts. That’s good though he’ll have room to improve aerobically, even if posters are right that physically he’s pretty fully-developed. You saw Laros last year with his aerobic improvement could kick in 3:29-30 races instead of being maxed out.
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Some 16 year olds look like they’re 20. Oh and yes, we can be sure.
For what it's worth, if Ruthe was African there would already be a dozen threads proclaiming him to be an age cheat.
But surely that’s understandable given the recent history? Documentation/birth certification in Africa especially rural areas was not as robust as other parts of the world.