Centro starved for our sins.
I will run his amount in kilograms to miles this week.
RIP.
Centro starved for our sins.
I will run his amount in kilograms to miles this week.
RIP.
Jefe in the CO wrote:
malmo wrote:
I didn't say you implied anything wrong. I just said that being skinny is a sign of being fit. He's fit. Nothing to report there.
Eating disorders are non-starter at the professional level. If you have an eating disorder (which is a severe mental illness btw) you won't be at the professional level.
At ease sailor.
I'm with Malmo and Rojo on this one - for the most part. This is just an end of season pic of some professional runners moving towards their peak. Now if this was a pic of a high school or college aged runner then it would be a different story.
So all the haters are jumping on Rojo because they or their athletes are taking what Rojo implied out of context. Their agenda seeming to be; sweep the discussion of weight and distance running back under the carpet where it belongs.
While Rojo probably bumbled the context of his post it is still a valuable public service announcement to all aspiring runners everywhere, male and female. Weight is something to have out in the light of day. HS and College coaches should be discussing it with their athletes on a regular basis. It's as much a part of the sport as is dynamic stretching.
If you're afraid of talking about weight, or are waiting for the issue of weight to reach the level of needing trained professionals, then you've failed the athlete. I know this is unfair but so is sweeping the issue under the rug.
Running, in general, will always have its fair share of hippos, wildebeests, and gazelles. At the competitive HS level they will mostly be wildebeests, and a few gazelles. At the collegiate level there will be some wildebeests but mostly gazelles. At the pro level they are all gazelles. There really is nothing wrong with this thinning of the heard all the way along the line. Where the problems start is when a coach tries to squeeze a hippo into a wildebeest or a wildebeest into a gazelle. This happens more often with women than men because of the lack of depth in women's sport - the temptation is too strong to leave any athlete behind.
I agree with you that at all levels of the sport, weight ought to be discussed more openly (although at the collegiate level the crucial missing component is more dialogue focused on positive body image and reasons NOT to lose weight in unhealthy fashions, as opposed to motivating the 'hippos' you crudely labeled). However, the problem here is not that Rojo pointed out that Centro is skinny and opened the discussion.
The issue is that he did it thoughtlessly, and now he and you are trying to justify it by saying his post has been taken out of context. There are doubtlessly hundreds of young, impressionable, highly motivated runners (both genders) that read this site. They are not all going to properly understand the 'context' of Rojo's post - in fact, nobody could probably understand the context if they only read that horrid title. Young runners aren't fully knowledgeable about how elites cycle their weight throughout the year, nor could you reasonably expect them to be. They aren't 'lazy' and looking for a quick fix to the top, but they are desperate for success. Using language that implies weight=success is dangerous and further proliferates the plague of eating disorders that exist in the sport.
This picture does not "explain" Centro's recent 3:31 and W in London - I would hope that most with knowledge about high level running understands that. But by claiming that his gleaming ribcage is, in fact, what matters, Rojo has spread dangerous misinformation and the risk now is that some skinny kids out there are going to think they're fat... when they're not.
The worst part of this whole thread is so few people asking who the rest of those Oregon Duck runners are.
I’m a legit hobby jogger who never ran in HS or College but even I know who Rogers and Prandini are. I mean Prandini is even wearing her sponsored clothing.
It’s summer time. Enjoy life. FYI I cooked that bacon a few hours ago as my snack.
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I mean pale skin on a woman is hot...
But this...
Makes me puke!
Can't Believe What I'm Seeing wrote:
Devil Dog wrote:
He can gain weight when he retires. First he needs to run 3:29
Those speedy guys running 3:29s in the 80s never looked like that.
Achoo! Clenbuterol, sorry it's dusty here.
CoachO wrote:
As a coach of a high school girls cross country and track team it really disappointed me to see this thread title and the associated picture.
CoachO,
I am not sure what you are saying; are you saying he looks unhealthy?
All endurance athletes have a business phase to their season, during that period they will be at an unhealthy BMI. That phase usually only last a month and usually has nothing do do with restricting food or some type of disorder. It is the result of hard training and being at their fighting weight. With that said, you usually don't see guys being pickup is such a way that makes them look thin and with their shirt off. Centro is naturally pretty cut and I bet you that if all of his competitors were placed in the same situation they would look about the same. Plain a simple, a world-class endurance athlete is thin, obviously thinner than what some people on this board realize.
Looks like the mods deleted the link to the picture of Michael Rasmussen the cyclist with the pale white skin and skinnier than Centro. You guys couldn't handle the picture?
Not knocking Cento but all 4 of them look like they are taking a weight loss pill.
just sayingg wrote:
vivalarepublica wrote:
That honestly doesn't look healthy.
Is running 100 mpw healthy?
Exactly. What's the old Dr. Cooper quote? Anyone running over 15 miles per week is doing so for reasons other than their health.
qw9r89 wrote:
Not knocking Cento but all 4 of them look like they are taking a weight loss pill.
You seriously think Prandini - a 200m sprinter - is on weight loss pills?
She’s crazy fit and of course leaning out some can help? but being rail skinny isn’t exactly a goal for her. She carries quite a bit of muscle mass.
How much do y’all think Centro weighs? I’m 5’9 or 5’10/125 and do not look anywhere near this thin (at least I don’t think so). I’m fairly certain that Centro is around 5’9.
Yea, but he's got one of the bigger dongs in the industry.
I think Shelby Houlihan can take him a UFC match.
At a running camp which I went to for 3 summer sessions in the mid 1980s Arthur Lydiard said that a distance runner (male) should look like a "plucked chicken." He believed that it was strength in one's legs that was important and that the arms were only for balance!
OklahomaGuy wrote:
How much do y’all think Centro weighs? I’m 5’9 or 5’10/125 and do not look anywhere near this thin (at least I don’t think so). I’m fairly certain that Centro is around 5’9.
Being a 5'9" retired runner, who at the lowest was 137 pounds, I'm curious how you get to 125 in a healthy manner.
In fact, now I'd love to get in the mid 140s again. What is a healthy way to go about doing this?
Michaelanjello wrote:
Looks like the mods deleted the link to the picture of Michael Rasmussen the cyclist with the pale white skin and skinnier than Centro. You guys couldn't handle the picture?
Seems to be as skinny as Centro.
Maybe it was a mistake. This was a professional athlete.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cra_GUbWAAADfst.jpgCentro is not faster than Solinksy and Garrett Heath. I know he ain't faster than Solinsky.
My tongue says yes. My heart says no...
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