Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training.
His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.
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Can we be sure he's really 16? He looks at least 20.
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birth cert wrote:
Can we be sure he's really 16? He looks at least 20.
Some 16 year olds look like they’re 20. Oh and yes, we can be sure.
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Also, he looks 16.
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larana wrote:
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training.
His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.You’d better stay away from watching 1:42 800 whiz kid Cooper Lutkenhaus’ training vids. 😝
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larana wrote:
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training.
His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.And that’s cool
Let’s all just be our best selves
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birth cert wrote:
Can we be sure he's really 16? He looks at least 20.
Here’s an actual age cheat, fella claimed to be 18:
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They both look older than they claim to be. Let's see their birth certificates!
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larana wrote:
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training.
His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.Well, it's what I always have preached on the LRC . If you have a runner supertalented there is no problems to run world top times on relatively very little volume. 🇸🇪🧙♂️🇸🇪
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birth cert wrote:
They both look older than they claim to be. Let's see their birth certificates!
yeah, they both look like they're in 20s already, same goes to Cooper Lutkenhaus . The only teen that looks like one is Quincy Wilson.
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The late Bruce Tulloh wrote running is 85% talent, 10% mental and 5% training in his book Running in 40s, 50s, 60s.
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fish backwards wrote:
birth cert wrote:
Can we be sure he's really 16? He looks at least 20.
Some 16 year olds look like they’re 20. Oh and yes, we can be sure.
At 22 I didn't look as old as him. So what? You play the cards you're dealt not the one you want.
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BetterHaveTalent wrote:
birth cert wrote:
Can we be sure he's really 16? He looks at least 20.
Here’s an actual age cheat, fella claimed to be 18:
I don’t understand why posts on Sam Ruthe get deleted but then this guy gets to make any post he wants on Phanuel Koech.
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kidsthesedays wrote:
birth cert wrote:
They both look older than they claim to be. Let's see their birth certificates!
yeah, they both look like they're in 20s already, same goes to Cooper Lutkenhaus . The only teen that looks like one is Quincy Wilson.
Nah. You Crown Heights Boiler Room types simply hate white kids who do well. Just admit it.
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Double standard wrote:
BetterHaveTalent wrote:
Here’s an actual age cheat, fella claimed to be 18:
I don’t understand why posts on Sam Ruthe get deleted but then this guy gets to make any post he wants on Phanuel Koech.
Why do the same brigade posters constantly say guys like Ruthe and Cooper look “old” but then turn around and tell us a guy who is an obvious liar about his age, Koech, is a kid? Puh-leez!
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kidsthesedays wrote:
birth cert wrote:
They both look older than they claim to be. Let's see their birth certificates!
yeah, they both look like they're in 20s already, same goes to Cooper Lutkenhaus . The only teen that looks like one is Quincy Wilson.
You guys never had any success on the track. That’s why you hate seeing young guys do well.
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Teena From Krypton wrote:
kidsthesedays wrote:
yeah, they both look like they're in 20s already, same goes to Cooper Lutkenhaus . The only teen that looks like one is Quincy Wilson.
You guys never had any success on the track. That’s why you hate seeing young guys do well.
Yes. There’s a lot of that jealousy on this board. Strange people.
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Weird. I saw this exact post on Reddit a week ago.
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larana wrote:
Sam Ruthe, a 16 year old from New Zealand, ran a 3:53.83 mile on a windy day and 3:48.88 the very next week at his first indoor race. The fastest in the world under 18 and already fastest New Zealander in the mile. The time itself is mind-boggling and causes an existential crisis, but what’s crazier to me is his training.
His dad said in the interview that he only runs 80-90km (50-56 mile) per week and never does doubles. When Jakob dominated the field as a teen or Kiptum ran crazy marathons back-to-back-to-back despite his young age, it kinda made sense because they’d been training like a machine since they were like 12 or something. They put in insane time and effort on top of their phenomenal talent and environment. But this Kiwi kid right here trains like a normal high schooler and is crushing the aerobic game (he also ran his first 5k in 13:40 about a month ago while focusing on the 800m-mile). There are literally tons of high school or collegiate runners all around the world who run way more than he does and never touch a 4:00 mile, let alone 3:50.You won't be the only one having an existential crisis. Ovett and Coe will be. They both ran 3:48 when they were breaking the world record, but not on schoolboy training and recovering from jet lag.
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