Profile of Yann Schrub, 3rd Euro 10,000, 27:47

Some interesting points from the article: by the way this article was written well before the European championships in which she finished third tonight in the 10,000 m with a timer for 2747 a personal best by two seconds as he had achieved a timer for 2749 last year in 2021, on a training machine with 60 to 75 km per week which is around 50 miles per week for Americans.

Yann Schrub is in his seventh year of studying medicine so the advantage is that in his seventh year he does not have exams but he has a lot of attendance to do in the hospitals comprising days of 10 hours straight and nights of 14 hours straight. He is also working in conjunction with two general medical doctors in the city of Metz, and “shadowing” them as that is a practice for future doctors.

Yann Schrub has a future objective of working in sports medicine but he claims in the article that getting a post in sports medicine is extremely competitive and very difficult and you need a very good CV and reputation to do so.

Further, , in the article he states that oftentimes especially in the evening he had no motivation to train and that he would cut it short and the fact that he was also training alone without companionship made the task even harder.

Dr Schrub (future) was interviewed on French channel 2 after his bronze medal in the 10,000 m tonight and he mentioned that he came into the race with the 15th best time in the 10,000 m and that the objective with his coach was to finish in the top eight.

Jimmy Gressier, was also interviewed after the race and was very gracious and offered a lot of praise publicly on French TV to the future doctor telling the TV cameras that he was very happy for Dr.Schrub and that he was now ready to go on holiday.

Ghost addendum: It’s been a very long year for Jimmy Gressier because he started off with a full cross country season, then indoor season and then track season. I’m thinking that by the time he arrived here for the European championships he was really tired and it showed tonight when he was not able to respond when the Norwegian (Mezngi) made the move with about two laps to go. In normal circumstances I believe that the Frenchman would’ve been well ahead of the Norwegian, but full respect to the Norwegian for his performance tonight.

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Dr Yann Schrub.

He is the great great great grandson of Alf Shrubb.

The family eventually decided to drop the second b as it got annoying.

They dropped the c too as they found its silence to be deafening.

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Le Français Yann Schrub a pris la médaille de bronze du 10 000 m, dimanche, aux Championnats d'Europe à Munich. Il termine derrière l'Italien Yemaneberhan Crippa et le Norvégien Zerei Kbrom Mezngi. Parmi les favoris, Jimmy Gr...

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Dr Schrub makes the headlines in today’s French sports newspaper, le journal l’équipe.

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Depuis des années, Yann Schrub concilie études de médecine et sport de haut niveau. L'Équipe était allée à sa rencontre l'année dernière alors qu'il venait d'être vice-champion de France en salle du 3 000 m et travaillait aux...

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More on the future doctor here in this article from last year which portrays, at the time a medical student, Schrub, who is doing his medical internship in northeastern France working at least 50 hours a week including nights and training six days a week once a day. His total mileage for the week is lucky to total 70 km per week which is around 6 miles per day and just short of 50 miles a week. He has to be the most lightly trained sub 28 minute runner in the world. The only other guy that I can think of who is similar to this chap was, ironically, Dr. Tony Sandoval in the United States, back in the late 70s or 80s also ran under 28 minutes and two hours 11 minutes for the marathon on around 50 miles a week. If those figures are incorrect regarding the American, please chime in somebody to correct them.

Does a high IQ help one to run fast? Well it certainly can’t hurt you and it seems that in running, it is a sport for thinkers and many high IQ people. Where does this information come from? Typically in the USA track and cc athletes have the highest grade point averages at university. This is well documented. Does not mean that other sports people are stupid or dumb but simply that track/ cc tends to attract very focused intelligent people. A large number of distance runners tend to gravitate towards the stem subjects, science math and engineering. Conner Mantz from Brigham Young University Goodland Bluestone major in mechanical engineering.

What he is doing is so impressive I have always felt being a pro athlete on its own would be boring . Also really like these things you do on the French athletes and north Africans keep it up my man

I dont want no scrub

You may not have any choice because Dr Schrub often wears Scrubs. In life, doing things that we do not like to do often pays dividends.

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I was reading a thread about sub 30' 10km training the other day and really enjoyed the profiles of athletes who had done it. It's cool to see how they trained but also how that training fit into their "real" lives.

And this guy running 27' on 70km/week is incredible. It'll be interesting to see where the improvements come from over the next few years.

Once he qualifies as a doctor in a year or two presumably he will have more time to train and flourish as an international runner. In addition, I hear that he will be choosing sports medicine so that will also be advantageous in the sense that he will be in an environment propitious to running.

Many doctors in France these days are going online and doing most of their consultations online. Obviously, not everybody is happy about that situation but for doctors themselves, this will give them more time to organize their day and training if they wish to run or engage in other activities.

Thanks Ghost.

Amazing that YS achieved this against so many FT pros. I was surprised that Gressier wasn;t 1st Frenchman and arguably he was past his season's peak - he dominated the Euro Challenge 10,000, solo from about half way. Your comments about distance runners' 'intelligence' (or what we may rather lazily take this to mean) is interesting. Even just looking at your native country one can see many cases that support this theory but also many who, from what they have shown the world, undermine it. One very obvious recent incomparably successful example not unconnected with european 10,000m gold medals in fact.

Marty Hehir is now a doctor in the USA. He, Justyn Knight and Syracuse University teammates won the NCAA Division 1 Cross Country title in 2015. Marty ran 2:08:59 for the marathon, 13:29.94 for 5,000m and 27:57.52 for 10,000m.