Truett Haines 2:38 Boston In jeans

Yeah these influencers hang around others all day who talk about steroids and PEDs because they have too much time on their hands, no real job. Plus, they don't want a real job. So they're willing to do whatever it takes to live the lifestyle of ease they want.

I went to a gym visiting LA, day pass was over 50 bucks and talked to the owner. He quickly started talking about steroids and how he could get me some and that I need to take them. Said all the tik-tokkers/hollywood influencers doing gym stuff were on something. I didn't listen to his advice. Then I joked around and tried to take his hat and he nearly killed me with a fit of rage. I ain't going back to that gym again.

Those aren’t jeans - they are stretchy pants made to look like jeans. Bouncy shoes, and a whole heap of “vitamins.” Absolutely nothing about this is impressive. Hooray for mediocrity!

Not trying to defend the guy at all here, but I'm just wondering what sort of times someone with his build and running resume should be able to put down without "aid." How much faster does one get from doping?

I went and looked at this guy's instagram. The running in jeans thing wasn't just a one-off; It's his whole schtick! He ONLY races in jeans, lol. Also, he cites Rich Piana as a huge inspiration. That's as close to an explicit admission of PED use as you can get.

These guys are such clowns. Willing to do WHATEVER IT TAKES to take their running performance to the limit. Except sacrifice those precious biceps. Or wear shorts.

You sound like the exact kind of indoor-dwelling midpack hobby joggers who peak in some corporate 5K and still think their ancient 2:29 from college makes them an authority on human potential.

Let’s be real — this entire thread reads like a group therapy circle for insecure ex-athletes coping with the fact that a jacked guy who doesn’t worship VO₂ max spreadsheets is casually vaporizing your life’s achievements in jeans.

You're trying to psychoanalyze Truett Hanes like he’s a TikTok gimmick — meanwhile he just ran 2:34 fresh a week after a 2:39 warm-up marathon with a smile on his face and a pull-up world record in his back pocket. You think EPO explains that? You think a few vials of test give you the mental wiring to suffer through 10,000 pullups with blood streaming down your wrists like stigmata?

Nah, that ain’t drugs. That’s divine lunacy. That’s cosmic cockroach-tier willpower. That’s the Tao sprinting down Boylston with veins full of sauna steam and mountain air.
You're all here crying about stretchy jeans and “influencer culture” because you can't fathom someone not needing your approval to do something great.

You know what’s actually embarrassing? Not the man who runs in jeans. It’s the herd of bitter has-beens dissecting his biceps on an anonymous forum like it's some kind of scandal that a non-traditional athlete makes you feel small.

Spoiler: he doesn’t care about your PRs, your Strava logs, or your tragic Gym LA steroid origin story. He’s too busy living in flow — building saunas at altitude, eating like a monk, and casually doing things none of you could do juiced out of your minds.

So yeah. Keep whining about “bouncy shoes” and “vitamins.” Keep pretending that what you did 15 years ago matters. Meanwhile, Truett will keep stacking feats that make your whole worldview obsolete.

Real jeans bro. Dude flew past me and I was like wtf? Where is this dude in these tight @$$ jeans going. He's short though.

One of the more sad letsrun discourses I've read in a while. I'll keep on supporting clean athletes in the sport I love, thank you very much.

Innocent until proven otherwise.

This reads like Truett wrote this with ChatGPT lol.

Same guy also set the Guinness World Record for number of pull ups in 24 hours:

guinnessworldrecords.com

American man performs a remarkable 10,001 pull ups in 24 hours to retake record

One pull up is hard enough!

Open link

Doesn't look like he wore his jeans while doing it.

His Dad is a doper. Had a blog post he's since taken down about getting on steroids to get stronger for hunting, etc. Google Cam Hanes 2008 photo vs now.

I'm guess Truett learned it by watching Dad

Yea exactly, these are the people the casuals notice while completely being unaware of amazing breakthroughs like the LA marathon winner (forgot his name), Ryan Ford, Alex Maier, and Jess Mcclain. Those should be the truly impressive things. Not some dude running jeans and likely using PEDs to boost his social media following.

Ya, i'd be (even more) impressed if he ran in raw unwashed selvedge denim and
1980s Nike Waffles.

Today's stretch fit skinny "jeans" weigh next to nothing and have decent sweat wicking. They also add about 5-10 lbs to my barbell squat.

I have love handles, weigh 170-175, am somewhat more muscular than the average runner, and my half marathon PB (1:14:30) indicates I can run high 2:30s for the marathon based on the vdot calculator (although have only run 2:44). It's possible. In fact, what probably holds me back from running faster at the marathon is too much weight and not enough mileage. I can't imagine maintaining my current muscle mass while upping the mileage.

But what makes it unbelievable is running the time 6 days after Boston and maintaining that kind of muscle mass while doing the necessary high mileage to recover so quickly. He said in one post that his goal weight was 164, which probably is a lot for his height. Keeping up that kind of weight and muscle mass while doing high mileage for multiple marathons per month just doesn't seem possible without PEDs.

Additionally, I also got passed by this guy at Boston between 25k and 30k according to the splits, and he was working hard, not cruising. So to crush another marathon 6 days later with a faster time just seems fishy.

I think a huge problem is that many people think he weighs way more than he does.

And for many, if a guy has visible abs and even a bit of muscle mass, everyone screams PEDs.

I have no clue if he's on anything but I do know that he has put in a lot of miles over the past year and has some very good endurance genetics.

He weighed 168 on race day for Boston.

Is a guy that weighs 168 and runs 80+ mpw running a 2:38 really that insane?

A bit of muscle mass plus being ~8% bodyfat makes a lot of people think people are much bigger/more muscular than they actually are.

500-2000mg EQ (boldenone) a week for some muscle mass, and higher RBC

250-500mg test, same as above, base for cycle

Maybe microdosing tren (5-15mg a day) for its anti-catabolic effects (you wont loose muscle while running a lot) tren hurts cardio so you would take a short half life ester (acetate) and cycle off a week or 2 before your race.

Cardarine, ~10mg+ per day, increases cardio ability. Could cause cancer if you take it for to long though

mk-677 or some other HGH secretagogue to increase repair of muscles, tendons, etc. BCP-157 injection for specific injury's.

You could do other steroids for more power for shorter events (shelby nandoline burrito), or other drugs to cut weight etc, and im sure there is off market designer drugs we don't know about, but the above stack is what i would do to achieve his result.

Seriously—who really knows just how much of a difference it would make? I have to assume you’d adapt so much faster from each workout. I also imagine you’d be able to reach a level of adaptation that just isn’t possible without it. Think of it like running on premium fuel versus 85 octane—you’d simply have a higher performance ceiling.
Take a 2:50 to 3:00 marathoner and load them up with every performance enhancer imaginable—do they suddenly run 2:34 in jeans? I doubt it. My guess is they’re more like a 2:45 runner based on training and genetics. Maybe they push to 2:40. But when you see someone of that size drop back-to-back PRs of 2:38 and 2:34, it just feels off. I couldn’t even walk for a week after my first 2:36.

Whoa bruh! Calm down. It’s just running.

Writing it off as he "just does TRT" underplays what he's doing.

Rogan has normalised TRT usage. People on it don't consider it a performance-enhancing drug even though it's a low-does steroid cycle.

It used to be only people with clinically low testosterone needed TRT. However, now you have influencers in their 20s and 30s (google James Smith) openly jumping on it.

In terms of what people take, I believe in free choice. However, the issue I have with guys like Nick Bare, Ross Edgly and Shirtless Jeans Dude, they are selling a lie: work hard and take BPN supplements, you too can run a sub 2.40 marathon and while being jacked.

The other day, I saw an ad from MyProtein with Ross saying how important nutrition is to him. These guys could not take gear and probably still run/swim fast. However, they would then just be ok(ish) club runners and blend into the crowd.