Goucher is too heavy!!!

Herb Lindsey was 5'9", 150.

I'm 5'6", 155.

Miruts Yifter was 4'10", 219.

We all seem to do okay. Don't worry about weight. Just do the miles adn you're body will hit it's natural weight.

I might be wrong, but I don't think Yifter weighed 219.

He might of been 210, fluctuated alot because of that Ethiopian bread that expands in your stomach. Point is, he wasn't getting on a scale everyday worrying about his weight. He was doing the miles and letting his body find it's sweet spot.

Greg Myers was 5'3", 190. Look at his training. He did the miles and the strength helped him not get injured and beat skinny Bill Rogers everytime they raced.

Sorry but Meyer isn't nor was he ever 190 when he was racing. Goucher's problem is most likely the thyroid medication he is on. These medicines can cause dramatic swings up and down in weight. However, as I mentioned on another thread, he(Goucher)did look heavy last night. Too bad injuries/illness have wreaked such problems for him. He looked like a world beater a couple of years ago.

Miruts Yifter was 4'10", 219

Greg Myers was 5'3", 190

WTF, are you saying these guys were brick walls? That's funny, I myself have run 28:40 for 10k, and I am 4'11", 287.

SWEDES wrote:

Sorry but Meyer isn't nor was he ever 190 when he was racing. Goucher's problem is most likely the thyroid medication he is on. These medicines can cause dramatic swings up and down in weight. However, as I mentioned on another thread, he(Goucher)did look heavy last night. Too bad injuries/illness have wreaked such problems for him. He looked like a world beater a couple of years ago.

Well you'll have to ask Myers about that. My stats come from Rolande Davide a 2;14 guy back in the day when that was an average tmie because people just did the miles and didn't obstess about they're wieght like they do today. Roland wasnt as strong as Meyers but he was 5'4", 170, still a little stockier than bashers like you would allow him to be today. No wonder we can't compete with the Kenyans. You think their weighing themselfs every monring?

Hell, I'm 7'5 and weigh a good deuce and a half, but I can still run sub 14 for 5k running in lane 6 the whole way while wearing board shorts!!!

you think they weigh more than 150? Do you mean in kilograms or lbs? No way that Yifter was over 200.

skinny runner dude wrote:

you think they weigh more than 150? Do you mean in kilograms or lbs? No way that Yifter was over 200.

Muscle weighs more than fat. Picutres can be decpetive. I remember reading this in Track and field News, that Yifter was heavier than you would think he is. Weather he weighed 100 or 300, point is he did the training and let his body find it's sweet spot and didn't worry about what the scale said. Look at someone like Paul McMullen a big guy who gets the job done and that's with him not having all his toes, he'd weight even more if he stepped on that land mine.

I'm 8' 10" (in trainers) and have run 23:22 for 10K (in trainers) and if any of you shits say I'm too heavy I'll bite your nuts off. (I'll be wearing my spikes when I do that.)

Weaight is not that much of an issue! if your training hard your body will find it level.

Two examples of runners and weaight,

Hille G, 5'4'' 121.

D Koman 5'7 121.

As far as weaight and hight go Koman hand a clear edge, but in raceing Hille beat koman more often then not. And as the race dis got longer, Hile got better!

Snell and Rono where both very big men build wise for there bodys. But that did not stop them from running fast when they where fit.

Goucher is experincing problems that come from SSRI's, they mess up your metabolic rate. Compouneded with having some quack prescribe thyroid hormone. If your running anywhere near a sub 4 mile, as Goucher was. Only about 8 sec away from his all time best. Then it is pritty safe to say that your thiroid is working fine. He was likely to have been running faster, after getting the new med. Due to the fact that it lifted some of his depression. All's he needs to do, is take it nice and easy for 12-24 weeks. Run relaxed let his body and mind rebuild, start doing some Cognotive Mindwork. And then come at running fresh again.

Pinch Hitter:

Hahahahaha.

Sol - you are right on about the SSRI's and their effects. Note, however, that it may not be the right thing to go off of them...there are things more important in life than running, and mental and bodily health is one of them...

how heavy was jason rexing?

320 lbs., if memory serves me.

are you hispanic Sol?

no way in hell.

1337hax0r wrote:

Pinch Hitter:

Hahahahaha.

You can laugh all you want but facts are facts, not all runners are made to look like Allen Culpepper even if they do they big miles. Reember Rod Dixon? He was 6'2", 205 and seemed to do okay if I rmember correctly, bronze in the steeple and then won New York City a few years later. He didn't get injured becuse he had more muscles to absorb the shock, then you look at a guy like Ritzenheimer who weights maybe 110 in the shower and you look at how much he's injured, because his caoch makes him weigh in every day on a scale.

Bet you feel stupid now, dontcha? Hee Hee!