The legend grows- Cade Flatt ready to break high school national 800m record on 5 miles per week

Flamboyant is the better word, like early 20th century a-a boxers

You really think he only runs 5 miles a week? Just to do one speed workout would be at the very minimum a 1.5 mile warmup - the actual workout - and maybe another 1.5 mile warmdown. That is at least 5 miles right there. Kind of crazy that you would believe he only does 5 miles a week. Just crazy. He only runs one day a week?

He's in a catch-22 situation.

If he upped is milage to 10-miles per week, he would go sub-1:40 and then people who accuse him of doping.

It sucks being that talented.

Big false. I think 5MPW is a lie, but, plenty of pure-MD kids like Cade might run 400–800m as their warmup/cooldown jog. Then lots of drills. Not totally uncommon.

When he ups his mileage to Brazier levels, (what’s that 25-30/week?) will Flatt run 1:42 or 1:52?

This shows that many/most runners are overtraining...

Pro 100-400m runners run more than 5 miles a week don’t they?

This is either some weird BS, or Flatt could move up to 35 mpw and be a 1:43 3:50 guy. If the 800m is 40-60% aerobic this man is sabotaging his potential. I don’t imagine he’d do that.

For this reason I think his 5-10 mpw claim is a hot steaming load.

A runner that is far better than you and you're giving him advice...lol

Mu btw ran less than 20 mpw in HS…..

Sidd Finch.

I like Cade and am rooting for him to break the record but lets be real here, there is zero chance that he is only running 5 miles a week. You could tell by his answers that he doesn't really track his training and is just making this stuff up as he gets asked. He's trying to hype himself up obviously but he's working out 5 or 6 days a week and only running a mile in a workout? Gimme a break

he runs a 22.01 200m. Almost no distance runners have that speed, let alone out of blocks. Some runners (those with tremendous amounts of natural speed - like him) can run 400-800 well on very low mileage

He’s not as good as sumner and I call bs on the mileage.

1:46.51 is faster than 1:46.53

1. He’s not far better than me. He has me by roughly 2.5-3 seconds in the 800m, and if he’s running 5-10 miles a week and his PBs are accurate, I am DOMINATING him in the 1500m and up.

2. Where do you see me giving him advice? My post is calling his claim BS. There is no advice being given in that post. Read it a time or two again.

Oh, c’mon. Yes, it’s faster, but Flatt was pulled to that time. Sumner was not. And since you brought up Flatt’s 200, Sumner has about a half second on him there. Sumner also has a faster 100 and sumner is a lot faster at 400 than Flatt is. Sumner has a much bigger upside. Flatt is almost at his top level. As someone said in the Sumner > Flatt thread, it took Sumner until the 10th grade to run the times that Flatt was running in the 8th grade. Sumner is just getting started, my friend…

For me the biggest tell is the difference in physique. Sumner doesn’t look look fully developed while Flatt has the physique of a pro 800m runner. They are even right now, but I’m guessing sumner ends up with the better lifetime PB.

Back in the day Samson Kimobwa said the reason why he runs the way he does is because of a lion back in Kenya. The lion used to nap on a branch of a tree next a road that he ran. Everytime Samson ran by the lion swatted at his head causing him to duck.

The reporters bought into that story hook, line and sinker.

I can believe this is possible, but doesn’t mean it’s true in this situation.

Anecdotally know people who’ve gone sub two on two sessions a week and nothing else. Which is probably between 5-10 miles a week.