I am not a Dean lover either, but damn... 3:00 at New York after running 49 days of 26.2. Pretty freakin' impressive to me. And if you disagree with me, suck it.
I am not a Dean lover either, but damn... 3:00 at New York after running 49 days of 26.2. Pretty freakin' impressive to me. And if you disagree with me, suck it.
One the one hand his 3:00 marathon is more impressive to me than running 50 marathons a year at 4:15. On the other hand I couldn't imagine mentally enduring all that running and Back in the 80's I knew a half dozen guys in that focused on one race only-Boston. Most of them were GM factory workers, former smokers, big drinkers and big guys, 165-180 pounds and somehow these guys year in and year out would break 2:50 and qualify for Boston.
So I guess considering what Karnazes is doing is pretty impressive but I've always admired the guys who aim higher. Kind of like Doug Kurtis the 2:13 marathoner who ran like 80 sub 2:20's. I always wondered if the guy would have trained and focused for 2-4 races a year only, he could hav erun 2:09. Now I no that running a sub 2:20 marathon 2 times a month all year round is something that a very select few can accomplish, and I totally respect that, but I don't see it as great as one great race.
Did you travel from each state to state in between those runs or did you rest at home majority of nights?Even if others have done more impressive things, Dean has done well in something that not many other people could/would do.
Hmmm wrote:
I for one have run a few 150 mile weeks at a pace faster than this guy runs his marathons.
Sir Timex wrote:
I am not a Dean lover either, but damn... 3:00 at New York after running 49 days of 26.2. Pretty freakin' impressive to me. And if you disagree with me, suck it.
OK, if I must.
Could I run 49 days of marathons? No, not at my training pace, but I'm pretty damn sure I could at Dean's paces.
I'm sorry, but I'm simply not impressed with 180 9+ minute miles in a week, even if he capped the last week with a 7:00 pace marathon.
It sounds to me like he just did a bunch of LSD training and ran a hard marathon at the end of a 7 week training cycle. Not impressive, especially considering it's basically his profession.
He's basically working 4 hours a day. I currently can put in 100 mile weeks at between 6:00 and 6:30 miles before and after working 9-10 hours a day. Dean doing 26 miels a day at a crawl is moronic and simply a pathetic publicity stunt.
sunny side up wrote:
I currently put in 100 mile weeks at between 6:00 and 6:30 miles
this is poor training...
sunny side up wrote:
Could I run 49 days of marathons? No, not at my training pace, but I'm pretty damn sure I could at Dean's paces.
How old are you? If you're younger than 43, wait and see if you can do it at the same age as Dean!
sunny side up wrote:
I currently can put in 100 mile weeks at between 6:00 and 6:30 miles before and after working 9-10 hours a day.
nobody cares
Of all the celebs / hyped-up athletes this unfortunetly was the best performance of the day.
Hmmm wrote:
I for one have run a few 150 mile weeks at a pace faster than this guy runs his marathons.
I had a couple years where I did 120-140 mile weeks pretty much every week (lower week here and there to recover a bit). What he's done is SLIGHTLY interesting, but I agree not worthy of coverage. I also agree that many of us could do this given the time and the money. I see this more as a feat for a retired person. Really not all that spectacular at all. My former boss (Doug Latimer, former Western States 100 champ) used to run 20+ miles a day, and he did it WAY faster than Dean. When I was working for him, he went to Portugal to run a 100 mile race (invited) after three months of not running at all due to injury. He finished 3rd in a competitive field and was 54 years old at the time. THAT is impressive. Dean is not impressive.
I do. I think that\\\'s more impressive than Dean\\\'s weak ass crap.
Lance stole Dean's spotlight.
For that reason alone, Lance deserves our undying gratitude.
Explain? what has that guy done? running a lot of fast miles in practice dosn't get you anywhere. I'm not trying to defend deano, I think he's an ass. But the bottom line is that while people here are arguing over what they can do in practice, dean is out proving it in front of cameras and the press. They're slow-ass times, that's for sure, and it's all a freak show (not racing for sure), but as bowerman said "you've got to give them a reason to care" and obviously dean has while all the "practice all-stars" on here haven't.
up all night wrote:
Lance stole Dean's spotlight.
For that reason alone, Lance deserves our undying gratitude.
You're right there.
What's Dean's marathon PR?? Is it good enough to think he could still be real good at it if he actually trained for it (cutting like 300 off his mpw)??
ummmmmm................... wrote:
sunny side up wrote:I currently put in 100 mile weeks at between 6:00 and 6:30 miles
this is poor training...
Did you misquote me on purpose so that you could say this? My quote was "I currently CAN put in 100 mile weeks at between 6:00 and 6:30 miles". You obviously went and deleted that word.
I never said that's exactly what I do nor did I give extensive details about my training. I gave an example of something I know I'm capable of(which is why I used the word CAN)to back up why I think Dean is not as impressive as people make him out to be.
Don't misquote me to make a point or to try to make me look foolish.