Triathlete Kristian Blummenfelt is 5'6" / 165 lbs, runs 29:34 10k after swim/bike

I mean he is probably training 30-35 hours a week including hundreds of miles of cycling, so I'm not sure that it's fair to say he doesn't do high mileage. And I'm sure he does strides / speedwork.

I saw him for a minute on TV and the woman I was with guessed he was 42. I said he looks 32. He is 27.

He runs about 70 miles a week.

Didn't know he was that short, damn

He is 177 cm ~ slightly under 5'10"

jamin wrote:

This oxen would dust 99.99% of LetsRunners and I doubt he does high mileage or strides or anything like that. This really calls into question what we do as distance runners, being 1-dimensionally fit and skinny and our arms get sore if we have to move furniture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3g-nuUrXo&ab_channel=NBCSports

This is a troll but I'll bite.

Your comparisons and conclusions you have drawn from this are both completely wrong and idiotic.

He trains 30+ hours a week, probably 3-4 times a day across the pool, running and bike. He does incredibly hard track sessions as well as tons of volume. He will spend more time each week doing endurance exercise than any elite runner including the marathon.

And comparing him to a Letsrunner is genuinely moronic. He is the most elite of the triathletes, the best at his sport. Despite that, in a flat rested 10k he would likely be around 2 minutes slower than the elite track athletes. So that is the fair comparison.

person who is one inch taller wrote:

Didn't know he was that short, damn

Its not just HE that is short. Tri courses are often rough estimates.

These tri guys are no joke. I’ve run the 10K run relay portion in an international Triathlon and the pros crushed my time. I’m not that fast, but the course wasn’t short, it wasn’t a PR for me.

I watched the race live and I was very surprised that he pulled away from Yee. He does not look like a distance runner.

The guy has a crazy training regimen and the cross training on the bike and pool are likely beneficial to his run time. That was a great performance.

I'd just like to say that triathletes are great athletes. Period.

Back in my running snob days I used to think that triathletes were those who couldn't do any of the three sports well and were narcissistic arrogant bastards.

Boy, was I wrong.

Many years ago, a top pro American triathlete lived at my house.

His daily training routine:

Wake up and go to the pool for an hour or more.

Come home, eat, then go for a 100+ mile bike ride.

Come home, eat, take a nap and then go for a 10 mile run.

Come home, eat, sleep, wake up, repeat. Every day. Easily trained 8 hrs. a day.

Dude was a BEAST. He was like 6'2" and around 180.

He asked me once to pace him on a 10-miler and I couldn't hang with him. 5:00 pace.

Nicest guy in the world but he humiliated me.

At the time I was the local Albuquerque running stud, winning just about everything on the roads.

He was top American at Hawaii Ironman that year.

Yeah, triathletes are real athletes.

Don't get why the lie that he's 5'6" keeps getting spread. He's 5'10"

A great 10K ; with 4 crazy hairpin turns ! The guy was awesome !

Hobbyjoggga wrote:

Don't get why the lie that he's 5'6" keeps getting spread. He's 5'10"

His Wiki said 5'6''.

also runs with his phone

He's at least 10cm taller than me, so around 175-177 when you line him up against others, will check.

When I looked at the race , I predicted the winner will come from the eventual top three, based on running form. Yee's is the best, almost ideal, but Blumenfelt's is ok. he has big thighs, which do not hurt running economy as much as big calves, but enough of the backlift, pendulum swing. Yee almost touches his backside, and appered to be 'just cruising' even when Blumenfelt went off, he didn't appear to sprint, maybe trying to protect 2nd??

jamin wrote:

This oxen would dust 99.99% of LetsRunners and I doubt he does high mileage or strides or anything like that. This really calls into question what we do as distance runners, being 1-dimensionally fit and skinny and our arms get sore if we have to move furniture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3g-nuUrXo&ab_channel=NBCSports

Why do you doubt he runs mileage or does strides? He is a professional athlete in a sport that includes running long distances....

Jamin, you really are a funny little fellow sometimes.

Hmm...baffled again wrote:

jamin wrote:

This oxen would dust 99.99% of LetsRunners and I doubt he does high mileage or strides or anything like that. This really calls into question what we do as distance runners, being 1-dimensionally fit and skinny and our arms get sore if we have to move furniture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3g-nuUrXo&ab_channel=NBCSports

Why do you doubt he runs mileage or does strides? He is a professional athlete in a sport that includes running long distances....

Jamin, you really are a funny little fellow sometimes.

But remember. Jamin is NOT watching the Olympics.

For those who only watched the snippets on tv, find the entire triathlon and watch the last 10 minutes or so of the run.

Blummenfelt seems to just be hanging on and then he goes hard impossibly far from the finish. Then, he just held it. It was an amazing performance. I expected him to tie up and Yee would come by. What a run! It was truly an Olympian effort.

King, stop pretending you're relevant.

The Norwegian was great but you were just a wayward Portland Pilot who ran a sub 15 once.

You're not a we.

You're not even a you.

You're just a falsified anime of yourself at this point.

You're too old to be this immature.