No way I lose the the joke of a human being that is Tim Walz. If he challenges me to any race - even a nude match race, I’ll take it.
How old are you? 50-51? A 70% age graded 10K would be about 7-flat.
Let's meet tomorrow morning 8:30 in Central Park at the Columbus Circle entrance and I will run a loop with you. If you can break 42 I'll give you 100 dollars. Deal?
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz decided to run the Saint Paul Turkey Trot. He won the M60-64 age group and ran a 46:47 time, which is an age graded score of 70. On what appeared to be a legit, maybe even slightly long, course too! Tim Walz is faster than many people here. Who wants to see Rojo travel to Minnesota to race Walz next year. I think Walz would win!
The commie is my age. He can outrun me now after a 50 year, 105,000 mile training career
I was in the Army for 20 years, I ran the Army 10 mile run for 8 years, was he there? Where was he when it really mattered and why do people make a big deal out of his fresh legged older performance now?
What were his times when we were at the competitive age when it really mattered? Who cares?
It was the 10k. Who knows what his actual PR is because he was running most of his races in Mankato, where I'm sure not all of them end up on Athlinks, but his best on there were 21:43 for a 5k and 45:32 for a 10k around 50-51 ten years ago. He age grades best in the mile, where he ran 6:17 at 52. Given he probably doesn't have the time (or have the time then when he was a Member of Congress) to run more than 30 miles a week or so, impressive times.
This is why I question the Turkey Trot time. His times in his early 50s are respectable but they're not great. But 46:xx at age 61 is outstanding. It's the kind of time Bill Rogers ran at that age. I would have easily beaten him in his 50s but I couldn't touch 46:xx now (62).
I don't think you younger guys understand what getting older does to your speed.
I agree with you in concept.But this is what you're missing: he is fairly new to running and really only picked up running ten or twelve years ago. So early in that journey, you would expect him to be slower and as he got more serious, to get faster, even though he was getting older. I've seen it time and time and time again- Where a runner who picks up running later in life is the one who surprisingly does quite well in their late fifties or sixties or even seventy, often better than the lifelong runner who was quite good, when in their twenties or thirties.
There is absolutely something to the notion of fresher, less beaten up legs, with less chronic injuries for the older runner who is fairly new to it compared to the older runner who has been at it for forty years.
But don't worry- now that he's been at it for a decade, Injuries and age will finally start catching up to him too! 👏 😉
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz decided to run the Saint Paul Turkey Trot. He won the M60-64 age group and ran a 46:47 time, which is an age graded score of 70. On what appeared to be a legit, maybe even slightly long, course too! Tim Walz is faster than many people here. Who wants to see Rojo travel to Minnesota to race Walz next year. I think Walz would win!
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz decided to run the Saint Paul Turkey Trot. He won the M60-64 age group and ran a 46:47 time, which is an age graded score of 70. On what appeared to be a legit, maybe even slightly long, course too! Tim Walz is faster than many people here. Who wants to see Rojo travel to Minnesota to race Walz next year. I think Walz would win!
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz decided to run the Saint Paul Turkey Trot. He won the M60-64 age group and ran a 46:47 time, which is an age graded score of 70. On what appeared to be a legit, maybe even slightly long, course too! Tim Walz is faster than many people here. Who wants to see Rojo travel to Minnesota to race Walz next year. I think Walz would win!
Its sad that on a running board when an older man runs a really decent time for a 10k there are more hateful posts than words of praise.
How about asking what his training looked like?
This place is really broken.
Particularly when the site co-owner jumps into the fray and says said hateful stuff and says he could be that time when we know that is highly doubtful.
Only on letsrun would you see stupid stuff like this.