Dean Karnezes is America's Greatest Runner

seriouslythough i bet if you did a history search you would find him to be the most popular runner on this site...

anyway ouside is a yuppie magazine...and they say stuff like that all the time....they called lance arstrong the greatest athlete ...hell they even had a huge piece on bodie miller before he blew it.

Dean wouldn't even come close to amking the short list for top U.S. female runners. He is the master of mediocrity.

"I Agree"

There were 80 runners (yes, that includes all the girls) in Balboa Park this morning who could all whoop his ass in a 5K.

To maintain the spirit of Letsrun.com I feel obliged to point out to you that a day's worth of 15 minute miles woud provide 96 rather than 100 miles.

Yours smugly,

SWB

He's the greatest if only for his unnaturally superwhite teeth!

What makes him so great? Lance beat him and slcked off with his training. However, lance still manged to beat him--Dean was just an after thought in NY 26.6

The guy says on his Letterman interview that he could competitively run a 2:30 marathon. I think that remains to be seen, but I will give him credit on running every day for 7 weeks and topping it off with a 3 hour marathon. I mean he doesn't completely suck, but before the media starts handing him top 10 American Runner status, he needs to qualify for the OT.

It doesn't matter, Dean has no control on what they put on the cover, take the complaints to Outside..

regardless the only story that matters is the one on the group who recently summited/skiied down Everest...

swb wrote:

To maintain the spirit of Letsrun.com I feel obliged to point out to you that a day's worth of 15 minute miles woud provide 96 rather than 100 miles.

Yours smugly,

SWB

only a guy who actually trains at 15 min mile pace would know this. congrats.

Or just someone who knows math, one of the two. I've never ran 3 miles at 4 minute pace but I know it would take 12 minutes.

i can see it now wrote:

I've never ran

"run"

The guy is a shithead. It's admirable to make a living at something as obscure in America as running, but says a lot about him that he had to make things up in his book and on TV to do it. He'd have most everyone's respect if he weren't a liar.

In response to Dean running more miles than anyone else: There are runners who made the Olympic marathon trials quoted saying they hit 176mpw. Tergat, not American, said in ESPN magazine that prior to his WR he was running 200mpw. Though contraversial, Lindgren said he ran over 300mpw. Dean is fit, but just based on V02max alone, he isn't even in the elite category and if you measured his speed at AT, he would be grouped with HS girl runners. I don't like to bash, but when I saw that cover two days ago, I was not happy.

responder wrote:

Though contraversial

"controversial"

I'd bet money that Tergat meant 200 kpm

I saw that headline in my local Borders and said out loud "You've got to be f**king kidding me!" I got some weird looks.

At the same time, I browsed through the latest Runners World and found myself drawn to the article about Terry Fox. Here's someone with one leg who actually did run a marathon a day, and did it on one leg when cancer was eating away at him for much of the run. And to bring attention to his cause, not to himself.

Times have changed, and not for the better.

Some guy named Sam from Mississippi did the fifty states in fifty dates over the summer. Problem was he did it raise awareness and promote Gulf Coast recovery. I wonder if he would have been America\'s Greatest Runner if would have worked as hard at self promoting.

That is what the magazine promotes is accomplishing feats! For example, it would feature a person who is currently attempting to climb the Top 10 Mountain Peaks in the World.

Dean completed 50 marathons in 50 days and currently has covered 1118 miles in 24 days as he runs across the country. In the middle of his Run Across America he finishes 4th at the US National 24-Hour Run Championship in Grapevine, Texas on November 18-19, 2006. (could have qualified for Worlds with reducing mileage instead of logging all those miles-may still have the opportunity if he decides to get the qualifier with 140 miles) In addition, he has run 350 miles nonstop around the clock.

MEN

1. Alex Swenson, 42, Vashon, WA, 146.40 miles ($1,500*)

2. Roy Pirrung, 58, Sheboygan, WI, 139.68 miles ($1,500*)

3. Philip McCarthy, 38, New York, NY, 138.72 miles ($1,500*)

4. Dean Karnazes, 44, San Francisco, CA, 137.76 miles ($500*)