Anton Krupicka Interview where he calls out Dean and high fives the Brojos

Anton will again get injured and pull out just before WS100 when he realizes he'll be 10th or below then go into hiding without blog posts for a couple months

All the ultra guys should love DK, what they get for doing ultras is better than 2/3 of the post-collegiate's and somehow they find the time to work full time and train for 100 mile races...wow!

Duncan Larkin has been grinding an axe with TNF/Dean since before the E50 on his roads/mills/laps site...

Sam Thompson is a nice guy and I'll leave him out of all this

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Anton Krupicka: I ran my first marathon when I was 12...

Through high school, I knew I wanted to do more marathons, but I didn’t do my first marathon until I was a sophomore in college.

Huh?

I noticed that too. Lots of typos in the article so maybe chalk it up as a typo??

Yes it was a typo. And now it's fixed. Neener-neener.

wooly mammoth = north face staff. so busted.

Anton is the slowest runnerer to have a shoe contract so he shouldn;t complain,\.

ruff ruffman wrote:

Anton is the slowest runnerer to have a shoe contract so he shouldn;t complain,.

No that would be Dean

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Anton Krupicka: I ran my first marathon when I was 12...

Through high school, I knew I wanted to do more marathons, but I didn’t do my first marathon until I was a sophomore in college.

Huh?

I caught that also in the article. Wonder if it was just a misquote or he meant his college marathon was the first one he really 'trained' for.

joho wrote:

UsedToBeKnowItAll wrote:

Anton Krupicka: I ran my first marathon when I was 12...

Through high school, I knew I wanted to do more marathons, but I didn’t do my first marathon until I was a sophomore in college.

Huh?

I caught that also in the article. Wonder if it was just a misquote or he meant his college marathon was the first one he really 'trained' for.

Just finished reading the other posts and saw where this was fixed in the article.

what is dean's marathon pr?

relt wrote:

ruff ruffman wrote:

Anton is the slowest runnerer to have a shoe contract so he shouldn;t complain,.

No that would be Dean

He came close to breaking 3, but stopped near the finish to rescue a cat stuck in a tree and put $1 bills on people's windshields (i.e., passing the buck).

http://dean.runnersworld.com/2009/10/passing-the-buck.html

Great article and interesting guy. I guess he's found a niche where he's comfortable but seems like he's wasting those 200 mile weeks on beating a few top level ultra guys when he should, at least once, see where he stacks up in a road marathon. Not because he needs street cred with the letsrun crowd, but so he doesn't ever wander what might have been. A race is a race, whether it's through the woods or on the streets and I think Anton is enough of a competitor to appreciate that.

I don't know but I say Anton is doing just fine, while working on an advanced degree he's managed in the last year to, take 2nd in the Leadville Trail Marathon, win the White river 50mile setting a new CR, Almost crush the Leadville 100 before going down with a injury, recovery from a knee injury, and winning the Miwok 100k this spring with the 2nd fast time ever. Not to bad....

Correct me if I'm wrong but I've not seen either of in the Ultra World Champs

I like how in the article like anton uses the word 'like' to describe like you know like a preteen like would.

He needs to learn to think before he speaks, because using the word 'like' excessively is just as bad as saying 'umm' in a sentence.

I'm guessing that at some point Anton will sit down and read this string and find it very funny.

In particular, I like the posts questioning his mileage and motives. I don't know Anton, but I really doubt he cares what a bunch of anonymous people think of him or if they believe him.

That was pretty much the point of the article.

steam wrote:

There's nothing like calling out one of the guys who actually has made ultrarunning more mainstream and popular.

Heres another one wrote:

Yeah, on false pretenses... That's the way I want to make something popular...

I don't know anything about ultramarathoning...what are Dean's false pretenses?

Running the unpaved wrote:

I don't know but I say Anton is doing just fine, while working on an advanced degree he's managed in the last year to, take 2nd in the Leadville Trail Marathon, win the White river 50mile setting a new CR, Almost crush the Leadville 100 before going down with a injury, recovery from a knee injury, and winning the Miwok 100k this spring with the 2nd fast time ever. Not to bad....

OK, I'm not knocking those accomplishments but I've never heard of any of those races. If he likes chasing ultra records and the whole scene, then that's cool. But why not go try to pop a fast marathon? If I had his mileage and strength, I would at a minimum be curious what I could run a marathon in. If the Miwok 100K motivates him to run 200 miles a week, that's fine too and obviously what separates him from a weekend road warrior like myself.

Billy Jo: I think he just likes to run mountain and trail ultras, more than road marathons. Nothing weird about that. Personal preference.

He talks about shooting for sub-2:30 if he runs a road marathon in the article, but it's not clear if that's just talk or if he intends to make a run at it.