TAS 3:55

Context

Spencer Brown (The Athlete Special) raced a 1500 at the Trials of Miles in NYC tonight.

Sorry but Ari is a terrible coach. You can’t have a non sub 4 miler coach you.

Damn I thought this was a full mile based on the time. I was hoping he would get back to PRing this season but it doesn't look likely.

can you run a 3:55? just wondering.

If you gave me an athlete who's run 3:39 I could coach him to run faster than 3:55 guaranteed

Ditto.

45.2

61.78

62.71

66.07

He’s running 5:35 pace for threshold reps(watch last video). Any decent HSer can do that. That is a significant step down from what he was doing last year with his dad when he was running sub 5 reps for his threshold. He looked weak as hell out there.

Lets GOOOOOOOO

Time to say hello to the ‘Thon or Ultras. Proof that the YouTuber training life is a detriment to running fast.

He obviously went out too fast, but his opening 300 was only about 3:46 pace. I would have thought he could still run 3:46-3:48, even with 5:30/mile tempos and 60 miles a week.

Maybe he'll start to realize that not everyone criticizing his training is a deranged hater.

Ummm… why doesn’t he do the training he did in college?

Dude needs to hook up with Bobby Kersee and Athing Mu with them times!

It was more fun to watch, it didn't beat him up, it facilitated a lot of indoor and outdoor racing, he was threatening his PRs for 6 months of the year every year for 4 years, he ran faster, it did not seem as difficult as his dad's mile repeats, and it was far more relevant to 800-Mile racing then Ari's LT1/LT2 stuff.

I genuinely believe he could have stacked 2 more years of that Georgetown training, with East coast elite/sub elite indoor and outdoor track opportunities, and and been a 1:47, 3:36 guy. But he wanted to be the King of Boulder and went screaming downhill at the age of 23.

Was he dressed as Mario?

Dang. That's D3 slow.

5:35 would be ok. If he had upped the mileage to 90 and was doing like 8 of them. That workout was just weird with these slow miles, like 3-8k paced intervals, and then some 400s. I would almost understand if the workout didn't have the 50s rest but as written it just seems odd.

Dude just needs to pick a system and stick with it for 2 years. Could have built off dads system last year and added strength. Got Norwegian and take 2 years to build to 80mpw and get used to doing ton of tempo. Heck do tinman or Daniels.

Instead he will pick something, do for 8 weeks and then switch things up....

How can he be this slow...I looked it up. That's like a 4:14 mile.

He was pretty much a sub 4 miler , his 3k pB is like 8:48 - 8:50

Brown is focusing on the 800 now and he’s ran like a 1:52, better than his 1500 time.