LV in bike wreck

For those saying he should do Tri's because he will become the best in the world opposed to being the best in the US for running, should he also go to a community college because he will get all As opposed to going to UO and get a few Bs?

By that method, he should probably just only enter small,local Tris and not even waste his time with bigger ones to increase his odds of winning even further.

By saying that you're acknowledging that Tris are less competitive.

Stupid mentality.

TheBornAgain wrote:

By saying that you're acknowledging that Tris are less competitive.

it means that triathlon takes a combination of swimming cycling, and running talent. and LV puts those together on a world class level. Obviously, his running is his strongest. but that does not mean its as good as combining the 3 disciplines.

Does he have the potential to run 12:40s or 26:30s??? bc that's what the equal level is.

I love this guy. Following his passion, he'll light the world on fire whichever sport he chooses to pursue.

TheBornAgain wrote:

By saying that you're acknowledging that Tris are less competitive.

This might actually be the stupidest logic I've seen on Letsrun. You're saying that the fact that one person is better at sport A than sport B means that sport A is necessarily less competitive. Labron James would probably suck at the triathlon. By your logic, this indicates that the NBA is less competitive than triathlons.

It's LeBron not LaBron.

Lukas is as bad ass as it gets

THIS IS WHY HE'S DOING TRIATHLON ->

http://t.co/NPgNrPJ?type=js

you f**ing joggers shut the F up! Real sports are for real man that doesn't fear some bruises :)

The best triathletes in the world on not on par with the top runners. A 12:40 for 5000 meters is the equivalent of something like a 7:30 Ironman. The competition is so weak right now. Maybe in hundred years you could make the comparison.

Quoted from Chicago Tribune's article re: LV's win and bike crash:

"He [Lukas Verzbicas] finished his prep running career in June by breaking the national high school record in the two-mile and becoming the fifth U.S. high schooler to break four minutes in the mile."

In reply to: "who the hell is this LV guy?"

Every city, every show, I got to pack heat

This ain't no f**king rap song, check my rap sheet

I'm one of a kind, turn one into nine

Blow your head of your shoulders, dog, it's nothing but time

Equivalence in that respect is all hypothetical. I don't think you can translate minutes of 3 miles of running into hours and 140 miles of swimming/biking/runnning that accurately.....

tridorkus maximus wrote:

The best triathletes in the world on not on par with the top runners. A 12:40 for 5000 meters is the equivalent of something like a 7:30 Ironman. The competition is so weak right now. Maybe in hundred years you could make the comparison.

I would REALLY love to hear the explanation for how you came to this conclusion...

From watching the triathlon series on Universal, it sounds as if they're trying to get the tri relay concept into the Olympics also. The tri world wants more exposure in the Olympics, but the Olypmics doesn't feel as if it can handle more people by having long and short course tri events. So they're working on having the athletes that compete in the tri at Olympics maybe doing a relay of some sort after their main event.

That's what I believe I heard.

Who cares what he does. He's young and I know must of you would agree that we all made decisions at 18-19 yrs old that may look bad amoung peers. Eventhough his decision to race TRIs in memory of a friend is quite selfless.

Seyta wrote:

tridorkus maximus wrote:

The best triathletes in the world on not on par with the top runners. A 12:40 for 5000 meters is the equivalent of something like a 7:30 Ironman. The competition is so weak right now. Maybe in hundred years you could make the comparison.

I would REALLY love to hear the explanation for how you came to this conclusion...

You're trying to make equivalencies between 5000 meters and a 2.4mile swim, 112 mile ride, and a 26.2 mile run?

As an elite triathlete, I have no qualms whatsoever about stating that in terms of raw aerobic talent, there is more in running than in triathlon. However, being an elite triathlete requires a much wider variety of skillsets. The most important of these is the ability to train very hard. Many runners that I know are not particularly resilient when it comes to high training loads. In fact some triathletes on the ITU circuit run 70-80 mpw in addition to massive amounts of swim training and a lot of cycling as well. This is even more true for Ironman athletes, who put in 40-50 hours of training per week in some training cycles. The sports are different in so many ways that you just can't accurately compare times.

an elite triathlete wrote:

As an elite triathlete, I have no qualms whatsoever about stating that in terms of raw aerobic talent, there is more in running than in triathlon. However, being an elite triathlete requires a much wider variety of skillsets. The most important of these is the ability to train very hard. Many runners that I know are not particularly resilient when it comes to high training loads. In fact some triathletes on the ITU circuit run 70-80 mpw in addition to massive amounts of swim training and a lot of cycling as well. This is even more true for Ironman athletes, who put in 40-50 hours of training per week in some training cycles. The sports are different in so many ways that you just can't accurately compare times.

That is not training hard, that is just training a lot. There is a difference.

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stupid

an elite triathlete wrote:

Many runners that I know are not particularly resilient when it comes to high training loads. In fact some triathletes on the ITU circuit run 70-80 mpw in addition to massive amounts of swim training and a lot of cycling as well.

Swimming and biking are so low impact that you cannot make conclusions about the resilience of an athlete based on the volume of training they do in those disciplines. Especially if their running mileage is a pretty moderate 70 mpw.

he'll be fine! It's just a few stitches.

Besides, Chris McCormick is on the Wheaties box right now, and Hunter Kemper was earlier, and Jarrod Shoemaker in 2007. When was the last time an American (or non-American) distance runner was on the Wheaties box?