steve magness workout video

Alan Webb is Derek Jeter and Magness is a talented AA player trying to make it to the majors. Does Magness even have the NCAA qualifying time?

I hate Letsrun and I hate all of you!!!! I'm never coming back to this site again!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Focus only on runners that matter. Hmm. That would be none of us. That doesn't sound like much fun.

We all matter. Anyone running from 4 to 6 minutes for the mile matters.

delete this thread. i hope your not reading this anymore steve, cause it is definetily not a confidence booster.

Nobody is busting on Steve. Steve's PR is 25 seconds faster than mine. I am a cancerous pig testicle compared to him. Compared to Lukezic Magness is merely mediocre

Why don't YOU let it rest, Swof! You people really are pathetic. You come on here and talk smack, when you know good and well you'd be kissing his ass if you ever met him in person. Just let the guy train in peace. What difference does it make to you what he does?

To all of you guys defending magness with the 'he's faster than you' argument, where did mags rank on the national list last year? In my experience with this board, a good number of the people posting are DI runners or formerly DI guys. I know I was. I beat the pants off magness while in college, and I bet many a runner on this board has too.

It wasn't that hard, the guy was running in the 3:50-3:55 range most of his races. Most DI schools have scores of runners in that range. 58(400), 2:01(800), 3:07(1200), 3:53. That's how his 1500 races went. Leading, and fading hard late. It seemed like the pace was making him labor too much, like he was sprinting all out the first 800.

Like swofford said, I dont know why we're still talking about this guy. It's like he needs the attention.

Also, the workout was weak. Any 3:50 1500 guy could do that workout, which is about everyone at the DI level. I would have been excited had he dropped a 1:52 on the end of it.

and yet the bashing continues.

Whose bashing????

If you read what I wrote I said we should all praise him when he runs a good time, one that is better than his high school PR. Till then we shouldn't even be talking about him because his current times are barely in the top 50 if that (just guessing) in college performance.

No smack talking no bashing just the simple fact that he isn't good enough to be talked about at all not even as an up and comer.

But as always Steve is his biggest fan and he likes to pronounce what he is doing all over the internet. Then his dystate buddies come on and praise him even though he does not deserve it.

If you post your training online, make video's of yourself, talk about yourself on message boards, then you better expect that people are going to analyze your training and criticize it especially if you are not performing up to your potential because of the training.

If you can't handle the criticizim then don't post your trianing logs, videos, and talk about yourself on message boards all the time.

I really do hope he runs good. But its a shame that he is still living off of past glories.

The hype would mean something if his times were around 3:37-3:40, and that would just mean he is another Olympic trial qualfier. Why does Josh Spiker post his workouts online. He at least finished in the top ten nationally.

Well, I read what you wrote and say you're missing the point. What do you even know about Steve? Have you ever even been to his site? Even if you have, you obviously missed the point there as well. From his main page:

"Reason for this site:

The reason that I have started this site is that I feel there is a severe lack of information on elite training out there. Do I consider myself elite? Well not exactly, but I aspire to be, so I created this site to chronicle my attempt at being the best runner I can be and hopefully break into that elite category. The site is extremely simple, because I really don't care much about appearance. It is the content that is of value on this site. I plan on sharing all of my training info which I have learned through study and trial and error in hopes that it will help others. Included in the site will be my logs, so that others can analyze them and see what led to my success and to my failures. When coming up with a training plan, knowing the science of training is very important, but I think a lot of people overlook trial and error and seeing what works that way. That is why I am supplying my training to anyone who wants to see it. In hopes that you can learn from my trial and errors. Enjoy."

You see that last word there? "Enjoy." Why don't you try that, and then decide how much you want to criticize him. We know, we know, you're not bashing him *wink, wink, nudge, nudge*, so we'll just say you're criticizing and leave it at that.

He's a hard-working young buck, just trying to find his way. Who knows, he may ultimately just not be a miler down the road. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. I'm not going to pretend to know. I will say, however, that he obviously has the range to keep his options open to other distances.

Ryan Hall pretty much ran around 4:00 in high school, but eventually found his way to the longer distances that suit him better. That's great. No one would've guessed that he would not develop his mile talents more than he did, but he tried new things and new approaches, and look where he is now. No, I'm not comparing Steve to Ryan, but hopefully you at least get this point.

And please stop it with the "If you can't handle the criticism, don't post stuff online" bull. I'm sure he knows full-well that there will always be critics out there. A lot of people happen to appreciate that he shares his training and thoughts on training the way that he does. He has a better grasp of training and physiology than probably 99% of kids his age. Does he know everything? No. Does he pretend to? No. He's just trying to make a contribution to the running community in a way that he feels might help others. How about you try doing the same.

Well said. I'm well beyond the age where I might mimic the training of a fast guy in his early twenties. But my oldest son is a high school miler with some aspirations of doing well. I sort of oversee what he does and have found SM's website interesting and useful in terms of thinking about my son's running.

Not knowing the guy at all, I can't say how much of what he puts there is ego driven and how much is there because of a genuine desire to help others. But what's there is a contributuon to the sport, even if only becuase it allows you to say, "That isn't working. I guess I won't do it," (not that I think that.)

Not knowing the guy at all, I can't say how much of what he puts there is ego driven and how much is there because of a genuine desire to help others. But what's there is a contributuon to the sport, even if only becuase it allows you to say, "That isn't working. I guess I won't do it," (not that I think that.)

I think this a good point. A lot of people missconstrue passion for the sport as "ego driven." I don't claim to know Steve very well, but have talked to him on several occasions. He's just passionate about the sport. Sometimes, to people who have never met him, it comes off as an arrogance or as stroking his ego or something to that effect. But it is far from it. As I said, I don't know him that well, but I tend to think it's genuine. For example, very few people know that he has helped coached High School kids for absolutely nothing for a couple years now. He spends his summers meeting and training them for free. Maybe that's what partially is holding him back in his own running? But at least he's giving back to the sport.

magness sister wrote:

In my experience with this board, a good number of the people posting are DI runners or formerly DI guys. I know I was. I beat the pants off magness while in college, and I bet many a runner on this board has too. till talking about this guy.

Uh, WRONG! Most of us are former Olympians, remember?

Many of us have broken a 5 minute mile.