Why don’t sub-Olympic marathoners like Noah Droddy and Parker Stinson become ultramarathoners?

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They should start a youyube and make videos such as marathon in a clown costume and marathon dribbling a basketball.

Because they can't do it.
Marathon runners are not more talented than ultra runners. They just have a different kind of talent. Running for 2+ hours fast is one thing and running for a day or two is a whole different thing.

Just last weekend a famed sub 2:20 Marathoner on this forum had a DNF at UMTB.

They are actually more talented.

there should be an ultra marathon running project: take twelve 2:12 marathoners—who will never qualify for the Olympics but who are very motivated for the prestige and money of having done so—within 1-2 years at least one of them will be CLEANING UP at ultras

This is what Ari Klau should be doing instead of wasting his athletic talent spending years working out five hours a day just to be able to finish an actual tri race . He’d be making money hand over fist in ultras

People like different things. I think triathlon is lame, so I'd never do one even if I was amazing. I imagine it's similar logic for ultras.

The ultra marathon project. We need it. Roche’s Leadville record would go down within 1-2 years guaranteed

Well this is where recruitment would come into play. There are probably at least 12 very talented and frustrated marathoners and triathletes who are used to training hours per day with diminishing returns. Ultra would be a fresh start for them.

And imagine if centro as the lead recruiter by training for ultras himself.

Maybe he wouldn’t excel at it—maybe he doesn’t want to run ultras—but the point would be who could he convince to come on board

Imagine if centro or someone like that was paid $5 million for three year to be the face of ultra. If not centro, then a runner like who who has retired or even an athlete or celebrity who is interested in long distance running

this could be game changing for ultra marathons and could have a huge financial return for the ultra running community and for the states where ultra take place

Need money

While these guys are certainly faster on the roads, I'm not sure that type of talent necessarily translates to single track courses with extreme elevation changes. It's my understanding that there are muscle profile types that translate better to more extreme ultra running.

That’s why you get 12 of them, and that’s why they’re 2:12 marathoners not 2:20. At least one will pop

Without ticket sales and TV revenue, there is no $5M to give to anyone. Ultras are currently as popular as they ever will be.

Centro is an odd choice for ultras. Someone that ran 28:00, would be more competitive.

Because....

Maybe they might as well become race walkers 😜

1. Trail running is a totally different skill. To get good at trail running, you have to train trails which means you get slow at road distances.

2. There aren't a lot of road ultras

3. There is much less money in ultras

4. For some people, running just stops being fun when you get to too slow of a pace or too long of a distance. 22 mile long runs might be fun. 50 mile weekend training runs might not.

Perhaps they don’t want to run for several hours at a time. Perhaps they don’t like running in trails with uneven surfaces with big elevation changes. Perhaps they don’t want to train hard without there being much of a financial reward. I think ultra running requires a big love for running and grinding for hours at a time. Not all pro’s love running after doing it for years as a job…

Detail: Hasn't Stinson recently re-located to Austin?

Give any 2:12 marathoner 6 months to learn how to fuel and deal with blisters etc and they will dominate ultras