Only the strong do marathons!

You are right! The guy on CoolRunning is all talk and no walk....he has no PR's.

I'm trying to figure out who thoner is. If he won a high school mile 20 years ago, that would make him about 37 or 38 now. Since he ran his 2:19:02 at age 38, that would have to be this year. No American man of that age has run that time this year.

What country are you from thoner?

I didn't know that high schoolers ran the mile in other countries.

I agree that Thoner intimated he ran it at age 38, but perhaps he meant he is 38 now but ran that time earlier? More than likely though, he's full of crap.

Who is that running cross country last fall???

Oh yeah, its Nicole Teter.

nuff said.

wrong thread...disregard.

Yep, ran PR 8 years ago, but will hopefully run within 4 minutes or so of that at the next LA Marathon.

Have definitely lost a little, probably from posting too much on this site!

Actually I have seen Thoner post his PR's on CoolRunning several months ago and was shocked that he did. can't remenber what they were, but it seems like it was around the same 2:19 or 2:20 mark. I will go back to Kicksports / Coolrunning and see if I can find that thread even though it may be like looking for a needle in a haystack - the guy loves to post and post often.

Also, Coolrunning rebuilt it's entire site a few months ago so it might be impossible to go back far enough if they deleted earlier posts.

205 posts in 13 months.

Hardly prolific.

I guess thats me busted for posting under another name.

casual,

check again

1281 posts since March 2001

Hmmmm, the search engine I'm using only allows for a maximum of 500 returns???? and only goes back to last July.

I also see only 5 posts in the last 30 days.

Where are you doing your search? and did you find any PRs?

Thoner is not 38 and he's not a 2:19 marathoner.

Look at his posts today - he's way too immature to be 38. And a 2:19 marathoner would know enough about running to respect how demanding shorter distances can be. Not to mention he would appreciate the endurance demands of completing a triathlon (see Thoner's other posts).

You're just lying dude. Get off our board.

Mashed taters, here is the link I looked at, but still have come up empty on the PR's

See ya!

http://www.coolrunning.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ubbmisc.cgi?action=getbio

;UserName=thoner

Sorry, but I just noticed that link is not working. If you can find a post of his, click on "profile" and it will give you the 1281 post #.

"I'm just curious as to how fast you run Thoner? Why don't you go back to Coolrunning where you can impress all of the joggers with your fanatstic insight."

So, jello biafra you've been peeking over at the jogger sight ... have you been peeking at me in the shower too?

Incest is best. Put your sister to the test.

Funny! I did the same thing th other day, MT.. embarrassing.

On the topic, I love marathons and think there great, but couldn't disagree more with thoner for obvious reasons. Thoner is a poseur and no way has he run 2:19 because if he has ran as fast as he says, he wouldn't think the same way as he's posting. Or, maybe, he is this fast, but just kind of dumb (just trying to get a reaction by saying something you yourself don't believe). So there you have it...

thoner=poseur

or

thoner=dumb

No need to continue this silly thread.

Whatever but I'll switch gears and see if I can keep this topic going.

Thoner claims the marathon is The Race and others just aren't tough enough unless they move up. Others claim you only move up if you can't compete in your event.

Everyone should run the event they enjoy. I can't say I enjoy the marathon. Those last 5 to 6 miles is an experience that I cringe every time I think of it. But what about 400 and 800 runners? Say you're a small college runner who has gone 51.0 or 1:57 coming out of high school. Also you ran cross country in high school and weren't a sprinter type. Maybe 24 for a 200 pr. Wouldn't the most attractive option be to move up to 1500 or 5000. Or is there not enough time in a 4 year college career to pull this off. Why are there about 50 2:00 guys compared to every 10:00 high school 2 miler? Maybe not but it just seems that way.

Or is a 50/50 type of fast twitch/slow twitch so much more common than a 30/70 for example. Can a 50/50 (if there is such a thing) be trained in a 3 year period to handle the 5000 successfully?

I would think a 51.0 and 1:57 guy who wants to run in college would have better chance as a championship distance runner than a 1:49 or better 800 runner. The odds just seem to be in favor plus I know I sure as hell would have loved to have that kind of respectable 400 speed in my college 5k/10k races.

Not to confuse I meant that a 1:57 kid would have greater odds at developing into a good distance runner than he would a winning 800 runner.

Obvious my alterior motive is to bounce off this idea in hopes of solidifying my beliefs and move everyone up in the distances. But I worry about taking 1:58 guys, training them for 5000 meters and turning out 15:30 guys who can no longer break 2:00.