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Every thumbnail photo I see of seth, he looks like a teenager or early-20s. Is this how he attracts his core audience? I thought that was his age when I first encountered him, before watching a video and realizing he was a tiny benjamin button man in some weird uncanny valley between a child and a tired old man
Based on the comments section, some new age/pseudo-religious BS lamenting aging plus an advertisement for Bobo Bars. Sounds like he knows that failure in Tampa and at Rotterdam (and probably Pike's Peak since the race is a world championship selection event - better field, no COVID restrictions, etc.) is a given and now is trying out a new "guru" character for his flock.
I think anyone expecting too much under 70:00 in the upcoming half are going to be disappointed. I 'GASP" watch many of his videos. I am not a 'hater'. He is throwing out hints like crazy that he is not where he needs to be at in his training. He even talks about transitioning into being an older runner in this last video. This is my speculation, but I could see where maybe he is a bit 'burnt out'. He probably needs to take a step back, but feels he can't as he needs something to drive content, but maybe that is what he is setting the tone for in his videos over the last couple of months. Finally, my prediction is 72:30.
I think anyone expecting too much under 70:00 in the upcoming half are going to be disappointed. I 'GASP" watch many of his videos. I am not a 'hater'. He is throwing out hints like crazy that he is not where he needs to be at in his training. He even talks about transitioning into being an older runner in this last video. This is my speculation, but I could see where maybe he is a bit 'burnt out'. He probably needs to take a step back, but feels he can't as he needs something to drive content, but maybe that is what he is setting the tone for in his videos over the last couple of months. Finally, my prediction is 72:30.
He ran 70 minute half pace for a 20k in training last week. He should have an easy path to something around 67 minutes. That's a great half marathon time in the grand scheme of things. But it's nowhere close to OTQ fitness, and it's pretty mediocre for someone who has been training full-time and ran 65 minutes at the Naples half last year.
It's getting to be about that time.... to predict our favorite youtubers time at Gasparilla Half Marathon. The guy says he feels good, I'm calling BS on that. I think he mentally is trying to bring himself around but physically exhausted. Gonna go with 1:10:45, burns up in the heat and humidity.
Serious question: WHY does SJD avoid speedwork? Has he figured out something that every other elite marathon doing intervals is getting wrong? I just don't get it. I really just don't get it. I thought NYC 2021 would've been the wake up call of his career, but he continues to do more of the same for Rotterdam. Maybe with a hint of more "tempo" or "threshold" (and the way he does it is questionable)
Speedwork doesn't film. You can't do speedwork holding a camera, and a drone doesn't capture it. And he's not a good enough filmmaker to accurately convey it on a screen.
He's literally choosing the gloss of the finished product over the work and the process.
He doesn't film every run AFAIK. Could he really not squeeze in a weekly 5x1mile interval session?? Hell even Jamil Coury just put out a nice speedwork video where he does some mile repeats:
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He ran 70 minute half pace for a 20k in training last week. He should have an easy path to something around 67 minutes. That's a great half marathon time in the grand scheme of things. But it's nowhere close to OTQ fitness, and it's pretty mediocre for someone who has been training full-time and ran 65 minutes at the Naples half last year.
Derrr…except it was at altitude. Go back and read my posts in this thread, as I’m one of the few that seems to get it.
He may very well have done it, by I think he possibly went to the well to close to race time. But in the bigger picture, that’s okay because his goal race is Rotterdam.
I think anyone expecting too much under 70:00 in the upcoming half are going to be disappointed. I 'GASP" watch many of his videos. I am not a 'hater'. He is throwing out hints like crazy that he is not where he needs to be at in his training. He even talks about transitioning into being an older runner in this last video. This is my speculation, but I could see where maybe he is a bit 'burnt out'. He probably needs to take a step back, but feels he can't as he needs something to drive content, but maybe that is what he is setting the tone for in his videos over the last couple of months. Finally, my prediction is 72:30.
Credit where credit is due. It just sounds so hard to continue to crank out 110 mile weeks when you're overtrained and severely doubting your ability to achieve your race goal to the point of basically throwing it out. It's admirable in the same way as LateRunnerPhil's training, where although his body and mind tell him it might be more prudent to back off the training, he refuses, even when the writing is on the wall and ends up crapping himself during a track workout. It's a very specific type of boneheaded endurance that is needed to keep the foot on the gas when you know you're headed into a wall.
He may very well have done it, by I think he possibly went to the well to close to race time. But in the bigger picture, that’s okay because his goal race is Rotterdam.
That's a very smart strategy to supply himself with excuse material. Minimal speedwork throughout the training block when it would have helped him, but he does a maximal workout at the end of his overtraining when he's burnt to a crisp. I wonder if he has already filmed his post-race breakdown/explanation video and included footage from that run. "Yknow I just think the body wasn't ready after XX mi at X:XX pace. I'll say it. Yknow I think that last workout was, a little, I mean aliiiiiittle too much." [pulls out sharpie and 4' x 5' posterboard and starts drawing a new volume progression]
Renato's special blocks are well known for being tough.44km of volume; all between 2:55/km and 3:05/km, this one sure as hell was.This video covers the morni...
I do not watch all his videos. I somehow missed the 20k time trial at altitude adjusted race pace. I know he has been doing some treadmill work. Has he been doing significant, hard workouts on the treadmill? If not he may have some difficulty with the altitude of the South...heat! 64 degrees at race time, full sun. That might not sound like much, but when your hard workouts are in the 'cold'. That could present somewhat of a problem. He knows this, of course, but just interested in what he has done to prepare for this.
He doesn't use the treadmill for any significant hard workouts. He doesn't do any significant hard workouts. He does steady easy long volume miles. He is allergic to speed work. He doesn't know how to train for half marathon and marathon. He is so unprepared for this race he should be embarrassed. This guy wants to be a coach? Please.
I totally laughed at that video! Literally shuffling through those 400s in the latest Brooks spikes carrying his GoPro on a selfie stick. Dressed up in so many layers that he resembled a toddler in a snow suit.
Get those credit cards ready DGR family! He is going to coach you to greatness!!!
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