James Wildman seems to be quite talented. Check out this:
The Telegraph wrote:
“I came to running quite late,” admits Wildman on a Zoom call from his home office. “I ran for the first time at 50, but I’ve been enjoying it a lot: I’ve done the London marathon, New York and Berlin. I plan to tick them all off.
“It all started when I worked at the local newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror. Their news brand the Newcastle Chronicle sponsored the Great North Run and we got 20 VIP places to start at the front of the race.
“I was rubbing shoulders with the likes of Mo Farah, but I hadn’t even run a bath up until that point. I turned up totally unprepared and ran a half marathon in an hour and 32 minutes. They all thought I had gone round on a motorbike.”
I can see why people thought he cheated. 1:32 at age 50 off of hardly any training. That is some impressive talent. I guess I better start training. I'm 47 and there is zero chance I could do that without training. The beauty of finding the sport late is you often are more motivated to train as it's fun to run faster and set PRs.
The question I have is how little was he training when he ran 1:32. What does "run a bath up" exactly mean?
Article says he's already run 3 marathons. Anyone know what his times are?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2020/12/10/marathon-man-racing-modernise-magazine-empire/