Who allowed Aaron Sahlman to run Hoka?

He is a moron.

Do we know that he actually tore it though? Or are we taking his word for it?

Really stupid to race.

You only YOLO once

Or as the modernized remake of the Bond classic says YOLT.

Does he have a coach?

tears IT Band a week ago (normally a 6 week recovery)

a week later decides to run in Hoka Festival of Miles wearing leg band, hoping he can somehow limp to a sub-4 minute mile

runs 1 lap, predictably grabs his leg and stops, realizing that wearing a leg band around a torn IT band is the equivalent to putting a bandaid around a broken leg.

Mike Smith unhappy

i mean he's a child regardless. it's not like he personally bought a plane ticket and a hotel room etc

some moronic adult(s) cosigned this dumbfkery

on the bright side, Mike Smith's other prized recruit Clay Shivley runs a 4:01 and looked really good.

I think he’s entered in case it feels better come race time. If not, he will DNS

who wants to tell him

Makes me question whether it was really a tear, because it would be pretty reckless to run with that. Maybe more like a strain. Also it's really hard to tear your IT band.

Man flew all the way across the nation to do a couple of strides

spoiler alert: he DNF

Privileged AF

Look at 8:30 on the video. He is basically dragging his leg

There’s a kid like this on every team. Gets injured and makes it as dramatic as possible for attention.

"I didn't fracture my leg, I broke it!"

That's what I thought of when I read his exclamation of "tearing" his IT Band. He doesn't have a clue! ... He probably has ITBS but thinks that means it's actually "torn"

Going to risk his future for a free trip and some publicity. He's all ego and very little smarts.

Predicting it now: washes out of the sport by age 21, goes home and becomes a cop like daddy.

Not good.