Is Levins pro now? If he doesn't have school and real work to worry about then running 190 miles per week isn't that hard.
Is Levins pro now? If he doesn't have school and real work to worry about then running 190 miles per week isn't that hard.
thats crazy, Im curious as to why, maybe a huge base training period?
Why is everyone so surprised?
You guys obviously haven't read the "Nate Jenkins 12 day Festival of Hammer"
...12 days
......325 miles
..... .5 big long workouts
http://www.flotrack.org/blog/3751-Twelve-day-Festival-of-Hammers
It's only 27 miles a day no big deal. Don't all serious distance runners run that much?
anyone have any idea what kind of surfaces he is running on? trail/gravel? beach? 'crete? 'mill? mooncheese?
Haters gonna hate! Fact of the matter is.... hard work equal success.
There is something that I do not understand in these Levins threads: I keep reading that he sucked at the Olympics.
He made the 5000 final feeling ill, and the illness robbed him in that final.
In the earlier 10000, he finished 11th, running 27:40, after an opening 2000 in excess of 6min.
Do people understand what that means?
Fvck me.
Novan wrote:
Some of the stuff in the Bill Rodgers log is pretty funny.
"4 - Tue 11 miles @ noon - OK pace, flat, 16° Cold as a farty New England dog sht day can be! 9° at 7:30 AM and 16° went(sic) I ran at noon for 1 hr 15 mins - about 11 miles at OK pace over flat course - have chest cold & hacking cough so did not run in the PM! Shit!
5 - Wed 0 Snowed like shit - 1 foot of the slime. Naturally the asholes didn't cancel school! cold became much worse and 101° temp. is good to have a few days before racing..."
Funny. There's similar random comments in Steve Scott's log that's been posted on here as well. Like on Thanksgiving he wrote he couldn't go run because he ate too much turkey.
ITT: A bunch 70 MPW college nobodies trying to advice Cam Levins on how to train
Cam ran very well in the Olympic 10k. He stayed in the lead pack until the end.
"We ran twice a day, sometimes three times. Twenty miles a day, sometimes more. There were a couple of 170-mile weeks... All we did was run - run, eat, and sleep." - Frank Shorter detailing his training with Jack Bacheler and Jeff Galloway prior to the 1972 Olympics
I wonder if this means a move to marathons.
Advice him? If you aren't sure read it aloud
If high mileage equalled sucking at the Olympics, it also equalled getting to the Olympics in two events. That's a pretty elite level of sucking. Even if he eventually gets a "horrific injury" he's already accomplished much more than all but tiny handful of runners ever do.
not surprised wrote:
Why is everyone so surprised?
You guys obviously haven't read the "Nate Jenkins 12 day Festival of Hammer"
...12 days
......325 miles
..... .5 big long workouts
http://www.flotrack.org/blog/3751-Twelve-day-Festival-of-Hammers
That guy is pretty sick.
However, how many really top performances has Nate had in the last few years?
More than I run in a month. I love this guy, he's just an absolute gent. Hope he has a monster 2013.
You're an idiot
Dennis Reynolds wrote:
Waster of time wrote:No, that's Pre.
Pre was 4th in the Olympics as a 21 year old. Cam finished where again? OVERRATED
Levins was the 2nd place non-African in London in the 10k. Pre was the 4th place non-African...
Dude's gonna get injured.
1) Pointless argument about Africans.
2) Since when is Tunisia is not an African country?