CJ Albertson 13:52

Cool. We need more of this.

“Pro”

Strange - Valencia is still a week and a half away. Thought he would do this sort of effort the night prior

CJ may not have taken the normal route in his pro career, but he is an amazing runner and deserves way less hate here.

+1000

Until he can run a smartly paced marathon, he's a joke who blows his load to soon.

It appears the course was short, that should be known. His GPS read 3.07, and we all know that certified courses typically read long on the GPS, like 3.14.

I wouldn't read too much into a 5k road race anyway, doesn't really mean anything for the marathon. It was just a good hard effort to sharpen up a bit and ready to attack at Valencia. Hopefully he can finally run a sub 2:10:00.

All good Strava Warriors know you gotta run thorough those short-course finish lines until the watch shows 3.12. (Because you know strava will steal that last 0.01 on file transfer. Lol)

Second place was his brother-in-law - a 2:14 Marathoner.

Kyle Langford and Isaiah Harris both ran my turkey trot in 15:xx... I think a lot of pros do low key turkey trots actually.

My old man watched Ron Clarke running a local 10k track race in the mid 1960s. Second place finisher ran 31 minutes.

Will he be the first runner to ever break 2:10 wearing Brooks shoes?

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James Hansen sets new parkrun Australia record | parkrun AU Blog

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A mishap with booking flights turned into parkrun glory for Launceston parkrunner James Hansen, who broke the parkrun Australia record today in a time of 13:53. James was supposed to be at the National Cross Country Champions...

Link:blog.parkrun.com/au/2022/08/26/jamesha...

This guy is a 3:37 1500m runner, and has run 13:34 for 5k on the track.

Second place in this race ran 17:13.

Pretty sure someone has already done that

Gah, how annoying to be a 2:14 marathoner and be slower than an in-law.

I dunno...I'm gonna side with all the "haters". No doubting that CJ has some major talent but I think his approach to being a pro is absolutely crap...he goes out for the Strava kudos/IG likes/"look at how fast he ran a treadmill marathon" headlines before showing up for the races that actually matter and then can't follow up with any kind of results on the day.

Exhibit A: treadmill marathon in 2:09 just a few weeks before lining up for the Marathon Project event. He could have outright won the thing but he went in with having done a similar effort a matter of weeks before, leaving not enough time to truly rest and recover.

Exhibit B: 2:12 marathon in Modesto less than three weeks before running Boston. Not enough time to recover, could have been top American on Boylston St.

Exhibit C: Stupid tactics of "trying to run the race the same way Yuki did in 2018" at Boston. Different days 2018 vs 2022. No way the same tactic was going to work by a runner not already able to outright win the race. Yuki won because of the conditions. CJ's result is what would have happened had half the Elite field not dropped out due to the weather.

Summation: talented runner but if he isn't going to keep the focus on the race that matters give the starting line spot to someone who will.

PS...I'm well aware that he set the 50k world record. Again, I'm not dissing his talent, but am completely over wasting any attention or interest in him.

I disagree. CJ actually raced Boston the last two years. He didn't pace it hoping to pick off the carnage after the Newton Hills to finish as Top American.

It seems you've paid more attention to him than any other poster in this thread.

Garrett Heath showed up 2 years in a row to my Turkey Trot in Western Wisconsin in 2016/17. The first year, he ran a 23:17 lmao! Though, I remember hearing from a few of my friends that the course was 150ish meters short. We were cooling down with him for about 10 minutes before we pieced it together that it was him. Such a humble, great guy!