Holy sh**. Meet Paul Pollock aka the guy who ran a 17:20 5k 4 weeks b4 his marathon, bought a pair of Next% and ran 2:10!!

And people wonder why letsrun is a cesspool. It all flows down from “leadership”. Can we ban this Rojo shoe troll?

WTF is wrong with Rojo? Serious question...

josh1988 wrote:

WTF is wrong with Rojo? Serious question...

He's still wondering who won the ladies 5km the other day...and he was commentating

This comment by rojo is a prime example why it's barely worth clicking in here anymore. A clearly talented guy jogged a 5K. FFS.

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Great to hear but hardly the most amazing story. For example, limiting it solely to "active but ex-Olympian Northern Irish male marathon runners running in VaporFlys", not as amazing as Tommy Hughes.

Also, this is a recent article, but not a recent race - Valencia 2019 is a while ago now, and Stephen Scullion pulled off a 2:09:48 in London to finish 11th so it is no longer an NI record anyway.

Stephen himself has had an interesting journey - nearly quitting running completely before losing 10kg in 13 weeks back in 2017 to race London. Has broken records since - including the half in a respectable 61:08.

Clearly the shoes helped stress on the legs though - and definitely an impressive run relative to where Paul was.

I would be hesitant to believe everything you read. Pollock is infamous for half truths. In 2015 qualifying for the Olympics he said he has a '15 cm' tear in his quad and ran the marathon. I know a number of athletes who have run with him and his 41 miles is a fabrication. His group run blocks of 35-40 miles in one day. It's hard to establish a motive as to why he said it , but 41 miles per week definitely is not true

I guess it was said that he averaged 40 over a 4 month span with some weeks completely off. So he did log some bigger weeks and also some weeks without much mileage. Either way it's ludicrous to post like this in the fashion that it was done. A 17:20 guy didn't put on shoes and pop a 2:10. This guy ran a road 28:59 10k in April before the December 2:10. He said he had poor sleep, went out hard for the 5k, and jogged it in. It happens.

Lifetime mileage matters in the marathon. I've gone through some injuries and managed PBs after just 8 weeks of running back after 4-6 weeks off. I was nowhere near peak mileage but had been at peak mileage and peak fitness when I got injured. He got to a start line healthy with a 1:02 half marathon pb. He ran 1:04 a couple of times the previous spring.

Weather was solid that day too -- mid-50s, no wind. Plenty of people to run with. The CR went down that day.

But I'm sure everybody else just threw on the shoes and were 16 minute 5k runners or something.

Yeah, all sounds great until you know that Pollock ran 2:15 with a torn quad and no running in the previous 5 weeks leading into his Berlin PR. Going into a marathon unprepared is nothing new to him... he barely ever is actually fit. Anyone who knows Paul or is in the same community as him always knew how much potential he had at the marathon and that 2:15 was extremely soft for him.

Anyone who knows Paul knows that was a lie too!

Do you think he just dogged the 5K so he could have a story? Weird.