Unbelievable: Yuki Kawauchi smashes world record with his 2nd sub-2:10 in 14 days, 5th 2:10:00 or better on year!!

Hahahaha best post I've seen in a while.

Also, glad to see saladbar is still around

You sir can rest assured of one thing for the rest of your entire life...no one will ever accuse you of being intelligent. You got it wrong, dead wrong. What a loser you are "waste of space".

waste of space wrote:

Biggest waste of talent is LetsRun.com. No other community is full of as many with 150+ IQ's, six-figure salaries, and 14:xx 5Ks (a great athletic accomplishment) who still manage to be absolute LOSERS in everyday life. Every time xfitguy says women don't want runners, I'm convinced he's right - not because they find their bodies unattractive, but because who would want to spend time with the delusional men-children of LetsRun? NO ONE, that's who.

Hey, maybe if you post this shit enough times it will get to be like the real man criteria or the "paolo knows where to find me" bit.

Ho Hum wrote:

For all the people who think Africans run sub 2:10 every week: really? How come nobody else is racing as much as Kawauchi, then? You'd think that 2:08 Kenyans would take that monthly paycheck rather than supposedly doing 2:10 marathons for free every week.

You took them serious?

They're either liars or ignorant (and thought others are just as ignorant/gullible as they are). Even Canova's athletes do marathon simulating long runs (not full distance/full speed all way) once in 2 weeks and that's in the specific phase (everything else is to build to the capability of doing it in this late phase). I don't see how the Kenyans do it very week, routinely. Speak of ignorance.

BTW, Kawauchi does not only run marathons. He's got other ultra races on top of those marathons that OP counted for the year.

i know rupp could probably beat kawauchi's times, but i wonder if rupp worked full time, could he still beat kawauchi in every race, if he raced kawauchi's schedule?? http://japanrunningnews.blogspot.com/2013/12/this-one-goes-up-to-eleven.html

No, Rupp does not have the mentality to work fulltime and race hardcore all year long. Runners that can do that are a rare breed. Kawauchi is one of the top dogs in that rare breed.

douglas burke wrote: i know rupp could probably beat kawauchi's times, but i wonder if rupp worked full time, could he still beat kawauchi in every race, if he raced kawauchi's schedule??

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Great lets seem him go for the actual WR he can just run one race!

Good point about American's not doing that time though ours are even worse

Stop using the word stud, studly etc how many years is it since you went to college

American's what?

Thanks Brett. Yuki is really fun to root for, he can just lock into 4:55 pace and grind it out, amazing.

Other posters have said if he rested he might be able to run 2:05. I am not sure about that based on his leg speed over the shorter distances. I do think he can and hopefully will run in the 2:07 range for sure.

I wish him the best in 2014.

How much or how long can a human body bear this level on intensity? I know the Japanese dedication is second to no other, but is this healthy? I have no proof but I don't think even sub-2.06 guys run 2.10s frequently in training.

waste of space wrote:

Biggest waste of talent is LetsRun.com. No other community is full of as many with 150+ IQ's, six-figure salaries, and 14:xx 5Ks (a great athletic accomplishment) who still manage to be absolute LOSERS in everyday life. Every time xfitguy says women don't want runners, I'm convinced he's right - not because they find their bodies unattractive, but because who would want to spend time with the delusional men-children of LetsRun? NO ONE, that's who.

That's mean.

Octa wrote:

How much or how long can a human body bear this level on intensity? I know the Japanese dedication is second to no other, but is this healthy? I have no proof but I don't think even sub-2.06 guys run 2.10s frequently in training.

It would be interesting if he got injured for a some time and then came back. If he runs 2:07 then we would know he simply did not optimize himself running too much instead of trying to peak. If he goes back to churning out 2:10's back to back to back then we would know that he has optimized himself.

and this guy is most probably clean.

phenomenal.

Octa wrote:

How much or how long can a human body bear this level on intensity? I know the Japanese dedication is second to no other, but is this healthy?

"Every time I run, it’s with the mindset that if I die at this race it’s OK.” — Yuki Kawauchi

I don't think he cares. The guy shaved his head after coming in 14th at the toyoko marathon and not making the olympic team.

measure of impressive wrote:

Octa wrote:

How much or how long can a human body bear this level on intensity? I know the Japanese dedication is second to no other, but is this healthy? I have no proof but I don't think even sub-2.06 guys run 2.10s frequently in training.

It would be interesting if he got injured for a some time and then came back. If he runs 2:07 then we would know he simply did not optimize himself running too much instead of trying to peak. If he goes back to churning out 2:10's back to back to back then we would know that he has optimized himself.

Kawauchi and Kjell-Erik Ståhl have one thing in common: relatively low mileage. Ståhl´s average for a year used to be around 140 km/w, so they didn´t beat their bodies up with huge training loads.

BTW: all this Canova BS that running long and fast in training is something new is exactly that: BS. Ståhl used to do very hard 30 km runs on trails every 10th day when he was peaking.

measure of impressive wrote: It would be interesting if he got injured for a some time and then came back.

He did have a minor knee injury after Seoul in March that took a while to work out.

There's a difference between a hard 18.6 and a hard 24.8.

too bad the World champs/ Olympics isn't run two times or he might actually be a factor

Jeff Wigand wrote:

Pride of champion wrote:

please show when the last time a Japanese athlete tested positive, zero !

One year ago.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2013/05/24/more-sports/marathon-runner-yoshida-gets-one-year-doping-ban/

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IDIOT , you didn't even read the article , she was anemic and took a medication not intravenous. She is not a doper.

Next ??

From an interview with Stahl:

If you analyze your own training when you were at your

> best - what was it that made you so great?

>

> Well. I had a very good foundation from my background

> as an orienteerer and a track distance runner when I

> became a marathoner. As a marathoner I ran 170-190 km

> per week, almost all of it on forest paths and gravel

> roads. The pace was 4.00min/km during the morning run,

> usually 10 km, and 3:45min/km during the evening run,

> usually between 10 and 20 km. Apart from the so called

> Brösarp runs of 30-31 km in tough terrain which I did

> 5 times at 10-day intervals before important races, I

> seldom did any long runs. OTOH it could be for

> instance 14 km + 21 km in two sessions on one day. Of

> course, I ran so many marathons and those are the best

> kind of long runs! This kind of training mixture

> suited me well.

>

>

> What were your quality workouts like?

>

> I did 1-2 interval sessions per week, they could be

> 1000-, 700- or 400-meter repeats on a cycle path. I

> had one measured stretch of 430 meters which I would

> do 10 times in an average of 72 seconds, starting

> every 90 seconds, so the (standing) rest was just

> under 20 seconds. I did all quality workouts on

> asphalt, which was only logical when that's what I ran

> all my races on. I don't think I ever ran on a track

> during my marathon career.

>