David Roche GOES HOME DEVASTATED from Western States

Reddit is full of hobby hikers who feel some weird parasocial affection toward David and Megan from watching their cringe content.

Yeah maybe, who knows. He’s not that old. I think we all agree he trained like a moron for this race, and yet still achieves high level results - despite what the more extreme people in this forum will say, wins at Leadville and Javelina are not valueless. If he shuts up, puts his head down, and focuses on the kind of training that is proven to be actually effective for WSER, he obviously has the ability to be a contender. If you don’t think top 5, I won’t argue, but I don’t think it’s out of the question. There’s certainly a lot of good young talent coming for those spots.

Finally ppl talking logic. Of course he's capable of top 5. Someone he beet by like 8 minutes in a 100 last fall placed 4th. He cooked himself with to much heat suit training and to much of everything the week of Western in general. Doesn't matter if you hate him or love him, he's capable of still winning some big races if he gets his crap together.

He’s not capable of winning big races. He’s capable of placing top 10 in big races but his narcissism won’t allow him to

He will never win a top race

“Breakable” YouTube video TLDNR:

* If he is not leading a race after the first third or so, he has a quasi-panic attack and quits.

* Everyone around him knows this, but he won’t admit to it. His pacer is apparently a doctor “Doctor Terry” who tried to tell him everything was fine.

* He wasn’t vomiting - he got a little down the wrong pipe when drinking and it kicked off a reflex to throw it up. He didn’t suffer any lack of energy - his placing and running speed into Forest Hill showed it.

* He didn’t suffer from loss of vision. His speed, form, and placing all along the race confirms this. Likely was a temporary vertigo/haziness that even he said was short and cleared.

So he was basically fine. He was tired, but yeah—it’s a 100 mile race

Breakable. I’m proud of you. You look good. I’m proud of you. You look good. On and on and on

David Poach needs one more video!

He’s too scared to.

he’s a b*tch

wtf, orgasm reference for real? lol wtf

Lol - David is not an elite. He's just a wannabe influencer with an eating disorder. This sport has moved on and David and Megan are OLD and SLOW. Not really relevant since they had a second child and became yesterday's news.

At least he finally found his niche motivating hobby joggers who struggle with their self worth!

Dude won a golden ticket race last October and beat Mogavero by 10 mins. Think what you want, but that makes a guy elite in the world of ultra-running.

I thought David was annoying but Megan was on a whole different level in that video. So much nervous energy. At least she suggested David sit down and take some time at Forest Hill but he'd already mentally checked out at that point. There was absolutely nothing wrong with him physically.

I love you so much. I’m so proud of you.so proud. So much.

David is back to hiding on his treadmill doing workouts. That was one of the key mistakes he made training for Western States. He doesn't run on actual trails very often (there are a few in Boulder!).

Always hiding on his treadmill or in a heat suit or on weak Strava segments up tame roads like Sunshine canyon and Four Mile or around his house by the Boulder Res. And then of course his infamous 400m repeat workouts...

Also still full of himself and detached from reality:

As he wrote in this Strava activity today:

"I'll still be doing heat suit, but in smaller doses like last year (after runs and as shorter sessions). I hope one thing that makes my journey interesting is that things have never come easily for me, and I have to fight and experiment for every little bit. Sometimes that works in glorious fashion. Often it doesn't. But I also think that's why I'm a great coach! In every sport, it's never the athletes with God-given freakish talents who coach best. It's the grinders who had to wring out every ounce of talent from unexpected places. I'm out here trying to find my potential in the couch cushions!"

Oh the privilege and cognitive dissonance!

Honey, just because it it's called a "golden ticket" race doesn't mean sh*t

Yes, I love sex. What's wrong with saying that. I'm sure you do, too. At least people like david and megan and I are honest enough to admit it. I don't like them for many reasons, but I LOVE them for their sex talk