BCR: Ian Butler starts his workout at 4:45 am before his day job starts at 7 am

Blue Collar Running wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT2HxXOYNUI

Works at a real job rather than working at a running store or living off a cush trust fund, doesn't live in a Boulder flophouse with five roomies, doesn't tool around in a Tesla or Range Rover, doesn't post selfies from Mags, doesn't complain on SM about not having a better sponsorship, just gets up in the dark and does the damn work. It's fitting that he's the face of Steve Jones's group, runs counter to all the glam Strava workout heroes in that town. Hope he goes beast mode on all the tools in Chicago.

I have to ask how mentally draining is it be so incredibly salty toward runners/teams that will literally always be faster than you?

lke_4:25 wrote:

Blue Collar Running wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT2HxXOYNUI

Works at a real job rather than working at a running store or living off a cush trust fund, doesn't live in a Boulder flophouse with five roomies, doesn't tool around in a Tesla or Range Rover, doesn't post selfies from Mags, doesn't complain on SM about not having a better sponsorship, just gets up in the dark and does the damn work. It's fitting that he's the face of Steve Jones's group, runs counter to all the glam Strava workout heroes in that town. Hope he goes beast mode on all the tools in Chicago.

I have to ask how mentally draining is it be so incredibly salty toward runners/teams that will literally always be faster than you?

I can see that it appears to be mentally draining for you when other people express thoughts and opinions that differ from your own.

lke_4:25 wrote:

Blue Collar Running wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT2HxXOYNUI

Works at a real job rather than working at a running store or living off a cush trust fund, doesn't live in a Boulder flophouse with five roomies, doesn't tool around in a Tesla or Range Rover, doesn't post selfies from Mags, doesn't complain on SM about not having a better sponsorship, just gets up in the dark and does the damn work. It's fitting that he's the face of Steve Jones's group, runs counter to all the glam Strava workout heroes in that town. Hope he goes beast mode on all the tools in Chicago.

I have to ask how mentally draining is it be so incredibly salty toward runners/teams that will literally always be faster than you?

It's all about you, isn't it? Mommy still says you're perfect, so don't listen to the meanies on LRC.

Isn't this his first year doing it? wrote:

Isn't this his first year working like this though?

I'm pretty sure you are right. According to his online bios, since graduation he's worked in a shoe store and for the local parks & rec (and as a pro-runner). At some point, he went back to school and got his teaching certificate.

This thread just shows why we can't have nice things. How hard is it?

On letsrun, it's impossible.

From The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner:

"Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man on the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say."

I still think it's baller that he broke his HM PB during the Marathon Project. You have to have balls of steel to go out that hard. People used to do that in the past, Steve Jones and Ron Hill, I'd love to see it again in the marathon.

my bad, the second half was directed towards you

I live in the desert in SoCal, and I run or ride outside over 300 days each year, only taking days off to lift weights or swim.

You're a big hero for tolerating such extreme heat.

Running 2:09 with those biomechanics indicates an ENORMOUS amount of aerobic talent and structural durability.

lke_4:25 wrote:

Blue Collar Running wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT2HxXOYNUI

Works at a real job rather than working at a running store or living off a cush trust fund, doesn't live in a Boulder flophouse with five roomies, doesn't tool around in a Tesla or Range Rover, doesn't post selfies from Mags, doesn't complain on SM about not having a better sponsorship, just gets up in the dark and does the damn work. It's fitting that he's the face of Steve Jones's group, runs counter to all the glam Strava workout heroes in that town. Hope he goes beast mode on all the tools in Chicago.

I have to ask how mentally draining is it be so incredibly salty toward runners/teams that will literally always be faster than you?

It would be draining if I were a mental giant like you, but I'm not.

Kid is tapped out. His form is atrocious. Amazing he ran 2:08 reminds me of the 1980 and 1990 Japanese runners working hard to overcome talent just like a poster said.

He won’t run faster other than new shoes.

I like it, but he says something like this or that will "make you tough" about 10 times.

There is more to running than just being tough, and the toughest runners are not necessarily the best or fastest,

He could run in combat boots wearing double cotton sweats if he wanted to develop more toughness.

He should really get a watch with a programmable countdown timer that beeps, unless spending time and energy glancing at your watch in the dark is an important addition to the toughness of this workout.

one of the Irish guys on the Olympic marathon team is a high school principal. 2.10.00 marathoner. I bet working in a school takes up more time than we think

Lol, I'm not looking for pats on the back, just saying the early morning is the only reasonable time to run in some places. If you want to turn this into some d!ck measuring contest, go ahead.

washeduprunnr wrote:

Define "Blue Collar"

Someone who works in a steel mill. You know; like a real man who helped build the world that allows you to hobby jog. Always a pleasure to see you people get so triggered ;)

Does Ian have asbergers? I get the vide from the video

Go for Ed Chambers wrote:

hoowie wrote:

There is nothing blue collar about having a teaching job and being able to run a 2:09 marathon.

You are likely autistic or on the spectrum.

I’ll help you out with this. Sometimes in normal human interaction, the language used is nuanced. It’s not always literal. Some words and phrases can have different meanings depending on context and things like that. I hope that helps.

You seem angry.

"Blue collar runners" around here are guys who had to run 50-60 mpw to break 4:30. It's just masquerading their lack of talent.