Spencer Brown claims he can run a 2:18 Marathon

i mean the context is that his dad ran 2:18 or something so it's sorta banter. like if my dad ran that fast i'd probably talk a little crap too even if i didn't have a chance in hell.

He ran 7:58 last year. It wouldn’t take much for him to run 2:18

Super Spencer Shoes

Dude has run a 8:00 3000m. And if memory serves ran a pretty decent XC regional. With 6 months of prep work I expect he would be close. Supershoes will prevent his legs from cramping up at mile 20.... 2:18 just isn't that fast.

Granted the odds him every putting in 6 months of focused training is about zero.

Spencer has the physical talent to run a fast marathon with training but I don’t know about his mental talent for it. I think he’d psyche himself out midway through the race

I take it you haven’t ran a marathon before? Running a 3k or XC is very different from running a marathon on the roads. He definitely had the talent to run 2:18 and much faster but there’s no way his body would hold up by only doing those 60 mile weeks. Take a guy like kyle merber. Dude is way more talented than Spencer, did some good marathon specific workouts and decent mileage 70 mpw for a few months and shat the bed at NYC (albeit tough conditions) and only managed to produce a sub 2:30 at CIM.

Spencer could 100% run 2:18. Anyone that says otherwise is just a hater.

Now granted, he would need to actually train for it, but if the question is whether or not 2:18 is possible for Spencer, the answer is obvious.

Kyle Merber the Dad ran this

I think the point he’s trying to make is that performances at shorter distances like 3k/5k usually don’t translate to the marathon without the heavy duty mileage which both Spencer and Merber neglect in their training. I’m not sure if Merber is the best example for comparison though given that his days of taking running super seriously are well behind him. Regardless it is a valid point to raise.

Love to see him try to crack a fast half would be good content. He getting kind of old to appeal to high school kids time to hit the roads the ship has sailed on the track stuff

Also, I'd like to clarify my initial post by saying that I do believe Spencer has the potential to run 2:18 and faster with proper training. My only issue is that in the video, he seemingly claims to be able to do it now with his current training. In the comments he did expand on that by saying he could do it with 6 months of marathon training in which he considers 80 mpw to be sufficient. I disagree.

He should train with VNTC, but he'd never make a jump like that.

I think Empire Elite might be a good set up for him.

Dude is jealous of the Seth thread so he’s gonna start talking sh1t

I’m gonna say it, and I’m gonna get flak for it, but the oly trials standard for the marathon is relative trash compared to any other running event. It’s like 1:54 800m 4:15 mile territory. It’s an event where you can make the trials and not even be able to hold with the winners for a third of it in all out effort. I’d genuinely bet money Spence could do it on proper training. There are people that were significantly slower than spencer in college that regularly qualify for the trials.

That too, little closer to his Northeast roots.

Really anything with a proven coach that can whoop him into doing right

Yes which is why he is running 2:18 instead of the 2:14 that would expect from a sub 8 guy.

Yet another thread where LRers take a dump on a guy that was much faster than 99% of us on the site.

Yes he is goofy, yes he would actually have to train, no it would not be easy, but a 2:18, even sub 2:20 is not out of his wheelhouse by any means. As others have mentioned, a 2:18 is fast, but not a world-beater time at all.

Our sport moans all the time that we get no attention yet we attack those that attempt to bring attention (notwithstanding SJD, that guys stinks).