He said he was “launched 100 feet” when he was hit by the car. Did you ever take physics? That’s a delusional statement. But it gets him lots of sympathy. Oh and it make him look tough, and brave and… huzzah
AI answer with a few assumptions, e.g., 45 degree angle to maximize distance, which likely didn't happen, and ignores air resistence. And he was clear that it was 100 feet in the air, but again, he was just excited.
"An object launched at 25 mph at a 45° angle from ground level would travel about 41.76 feet horizontally (ignoring air resistance)."
You need to take into account the Roche to Reality translation coefficient. Applying this to his statement of 'launched 100 feet' you get 'hit the grass embankment pretty hard.' Huzzah!
I am a former SWAPer that’s been following this pretty indifferently. Until I just got blocked by David on instagram. He posted a heat training workout, showing him stripping down to reveal some sort of hazmat suit under multiple other layers , I scroll through the comments to see all these morons asking him which suit it was, where to get it, OMG it’s sold out which one should I get!? This is completely irresponsible. So I replied something to the effect of “oh great now we are gonna have a bunch of idiot hobby joggers getting heat stroke.” I was almost immediately blocked. F you David Roche, be responsible with your platform.
I am a former SWAPer that’s been following this pretty indifferently. Until I just got blocked by David on instagram. He posted a heat training workout, showing him stripping down to reveal some sort of hazmat suit under multiple other layers , I scroll through the comments to see all these morons asking him which suit it was, where to get it, OMG it’s sold out which one should I get!? This is completely irresponsible. So I replied something to the effect of “oh great now we are gonna have a bunch of idiot hobby joggers getting heat stroke.” I was almost immediately blocked. F you David Roche, be responsible with your platform.
It’s easier to live in the magical world of love and unicorns when you delete and block all forms of criticism…
He should at least be advising people to use an ear thermometer if not the more accurate method. Even then, fainting can't be predicted with body temp. The risk goes up with sunlight hitting the skin. The effects on brain and kidneys are also hard to predict, but kidney risk goes up with exertional heat stroke v classical heat stroke (non exercising).
this is why people hate ultra runners. Its a different sport from track or even road running and it needs to be treated as such. They are not elite in the events that award olympic medals, and if they were, they'd be at the olympics instead of trudging away in the forest all day. The egos on display are out of control.
Extrapolating anything that Roche does to ultrarunners in general is moronic.
If David spent less time sitting for interviews and more time actually training, I suspect he wouldn't DNF/DNS every race he's entered so far this year. I think, deep down, he's just gotten lazy and complacent.
If David spent less time sitting for interviews and more time actually training, I suspect he wouldn't DNF/DNS every race he's entered so far this year. I think, deep down, he's just gotten lazy and complacent.
Wait a minute. Your boy just dominated a tiny 50k last weekend, a race with no other elite entrants, a race he won by over an hour.
You saying he should have hopped in at Canyons where he could have gotten some miles on the actual WSER course against a bunch of other elites?
Certainly does not look like the stride or speed/splits of a "sub 4-min Miler"...at altitude or sea level.
At this point David better hope that WS100 "runs more like a track meet." What he should probably be working on more right now is strengthening his ankles on some actual trails so he doesn't "twist" his again.
A very strange workout to do 10 weeks before WS. Western States is a fast course compared to other trail races, but it has some tough climbs in the middle of the race. Why not focus more on uphill and downhill speed on trails?
I'll throw him a bone and say that his form looked more in control than he did during those crazy treadmill mile repeats a few videos ago.
Everything about his public persona is so odd that it's hard to look away. He's a fast runner, but at some point and for one reason or another, this is all going to come crashing down.
I would love for the Roches to address at least one thing that is rather salient: How can you go from last week’s podcast episode saying that, if you get up and go with Shania Twain after she sings “Let’s go, girls,” you’re a girl (full stop; and JK Rowling is objectively evil for wanting to protect biological women’s spaces), but then in the next episode you talk about potential metabolic differences between women and men?????
If you acknowledge there are differences, you cannot possibly say that self-identification is a fair playing field.
From David Roche comment on his recent Strava activity:
I can laugh at it now, but this stuff used to really get to me when I was younger! This comment isn't bad, but I have gotten so many weirdly personal messages over time. I hate how running is so full of a culture of these cowardly boys who think they're big tough--largely in places like Letsrun, but also among some prominent people in the sport (though it's starting to become less common over time, thankfully). We don't have time for that! Running is about love, openness to everyone, and acceptance!
I do miss chatbot David. Where is umm, no for his biweekly check in?
From David Roche comment on his recent Strava activity:
I can laugh at it now, but this stuff used to really get to me when I was younger! This comment isn't bad, but I have gotten so many weirdly personal messages over time. I hate how running is so full of a culture of these cowardly boys who think they're big tough--largely in places like Letsrun, but also among some prominent people in the sport (though it's starting to become less common over time, thankfully). We don't have time for that! Running is about love, openness to everyone, and acceptance!
I do miss chatbot David. Where is umm, no for his biweekly check in?
“When I was younger” as in 3 weeks ago when I was a scathing chat bot desperately trying to save my reputation…
