Strava King CJ at it Again

It's also the Derek Clayton style of training and that worked well.

Yes but those total miles came very differently. Panning is starting to taper and CJ is hitting his highest mileage yet 2 weeks from a marathon. Context matters buddy!

How does he run that fast around his neighbourhood?

If I do even 6:00 pace I get dogs lunging and barking at me, people looking pi ssed and everything generally becomes more dangerous.

First of all, he ran 2:10 at the trials. Flat course, but hot and humid. Second of all, in that race he was 10 seconds off bronze and closing hard. He has never made a US team, true. But to count him out with certainty after coming that close just seems silly

Just ran 18 miles at 4:55 in his week prior taper. I can only conclude that Chicago isn’t really his target race or he is ready to attempt something like 2:06 in Chicago.

The biggest thing holding back CJ from 2:06 is CJ himself. C'mon man, 18 at race pace 1 week out?? You might recover enough to feel good in a week, but you are not fully recovering in a week. You are definitely not "supercompensating" in a week.

I think CJ is an amazing athlete, but I get the sneaking suspicion that this pattern of behavior is sandbagging. I wonder if he is unconsciously stacking difficulties so that if he doesn't hit his sky high expectations, he has an excuse to fall back on, thereby preserving his self-image.

CJ, PLEASE get a coach. Do a block or two at altitude. Pick one target race. Get yourself a good pair of shoes. Recover enough. Then go out and attack that AR.

I am sick of the many athletes who are regularly "in AR shape".

Don't post on strava if you can't handle being called a retard for doing retarded things in training.

Imagine why he could do if he got Ryan Hall out of retirement.

He's faking the data. It's all PR.

While wearing Brooks! Alphaflys would have got him to the games.

Maybe that’s his strategy, train like a beast and get a contract from Nike in 2025 to take on the East Africans

Ok, boomer. No one under the age of 65 says 'loose women'. LOL go away.

So you're saying he should go Full Stinson?

That guy is on drugs and is a stravajo warrior

He should be able to run 2:05 or better