You look at this guy and think that he is a 6 minute miler because he has so much flabby body fat. If he can shave off a few pounds like Allie and do ELITE training (and a little bit of EPO), do you think he breaks 6?
There are 5280 feet in a mile and 1609.34 meters in a mile. We ran this mile time trial on a 413m indoor track....so it was 3.85 laps. Anyway, this mile time...
I look like him and I run around 4:50 right now. My pb is 4:08 two years ago and that needed very serious training. Maybe i’ll get back to that if I lose 30 pounds and run 100 miles a week.
Not gonna hate on the guy since he is willing to go through the pain, but he is one of the tubbier people I have ever seen under 5:00. My guess is he once was a lot faster.
Not gonna hate on the guy since he is willing to go through the pain, but he is one of the tubbier people I have ever seen under 5:00. My guess is he once was a lot faster.
He said in the video that his PR was 4:54, so no, he was not once a lot faster.
He's definitely a bit tubby for a distance runner. Unclear what he could do if he lost some weight, but it clearly would help him.
You sometimes can't tell someone is fast just by looking at them. He is aerobicilly talented, allowing him to run faster than what most people would think.
You sometimes can't tell someone is fast just by looking at them. He is aerobicilly talented, allowing him to run faster than what most people would think.
Agreed. OPs insistence on a model physique is beyond ignorant. Everyone judging people’s performance capabilities by a mere reference to body shape need only look at legends like Blummenfelt, or Katie Ledecky, to see how wrong they are.
You sometimes can't tell someone is fast just by looking at them. He is aerobicilly talented, allowing him to run faster than what most people would think.
Agreed. OPs insistence on a model physique is beyond ignorant. Everyone judging people’s performance capabilities by a mere reference to body shape need only look at legends like Blummenfelt, or Katie Ledecky, to see how wrong they are.
I know this from the other side. I have always looked more talented than I am (for running anyway). I was always slim and long-legged with good form. In high school kids from other schools assumed I was the #1 runner for our team and I was more like #3 or 4, and the others weren't all that fast. I have some pretty heavy metabolic deficits going back a long ways. In HS I had to work my tail off first to get sub-5, then sub-10:00, with lots of hard miles and lots of setbacks. Having to coach myself didn't help. But the result was I became a much better coach than I was a runner.
I eventually became very high ranked as a master, thanks to not slowing down much with age. I probably have kept going to try to fulfill the potential that was very elusive. But mainly I now enjoy being fit and healthy when most of my compatriots are not; I know profoundly how fickle these things are.
Not gonna hate on the guy since he is willing to go through the pain, but he is one of the tubbier people I have ever seen under 5:00. My guess is he once was a lot faster.
There's one high school XC season (sr)/ and one track track season (jr) listed for him on athletic.net, both from 2010: 18:55, 13.30, 27.42, 2:25, 5:26. He's the JV runner who, 12 years later, is probably now faster than most of his former varsity teammates. Probably doesn't hurt to be married to a former collegiate runner and have a 3x NCAA champion as your sister-in-law.
If the engine is strong enough, it can handle a heavy load. I think he's just a really talented guy inside a "big" body. If he leaned up, he'd run like 4:30 or something... 2 seconds per pound per mile, is the rule. Lose 10 pounds and suddenly he is a 4:35 miler? Maybe.
I used to train with a talented runner who was fat. He had talent (his uncle and cousins ran for UO) and honestly, if he hadn't weighed like 190, he would have destroyed me (160 lbs.) on every run.