I'd get the guy to "kip" the course.
I'd get the guy to "kip" the course.
One, I'm the only one who offered money. Two if the runner runs 15:01 you lose 8 million dollars. Bill Aris ought to thank me for giving him the chance to earn 8 million in 3 months. So what if I make close to 4 billion?I'm a jobs producer. What are you a democrat? We would both pay the same percentage on income tax too.
genuine random a hole wrote:
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What a cheap arse! 8 mill to do the impossible and you get 4 billion? If i was the coach I would train him to run a 15:01 just to fvck you over.
Nowt
is it sub 15 mins or 15:xx?
Since there's no legal limits for this, I would first start getting him running a good 25-30mpw base for the first week or two while ramping it up while he's on some EPO and some sort of tendon/muscle/ligament strengthening drug to prevent injuries, and also doing tons of injury prevention. I would try to get him up to 70mpw in the first month, month and a half, and then go to mammoth lakes to do altititude training. He would start at around 50mpw, and within a few weeks, get back up to 70. He would be doing many strength excersizes, x-training, tempo runs, Alter-G, speedwork, etc. we would do a few indicator workouts, maybe 3xmile and see if he can hit 5:30 ish with 1:30 rest by a month out. Then just do what is necessary from there, like tapering and stuff. He would be doing the 5k with world-class pacers and the best nike gear, on the fastest track in the world, with a stadium of fans to cheer him on for adrenaline; don't forget the caffeine either!
If he does the above i think hes also going to need roids
I'd skip the vast majority of the training and focus on marketing the event.
Have Good Morning America, Anderson Copper and someone on ESPN pick up the story. Try to get it turned into its own reality TV show (the Biggest Loser Style). We could then start accepting appearance fees for various 5k's around that nation as we train, while having the athlete provide inspirational talks to weight lose groups, YMCA and youth organizations. I'd then make sure the story is run in Money magazine, Forbes and the New Yorker. The race its self could be television live and w/ 4 billion dollars on the line and I can all but guarantee good viewership. Finally, and probably before the race as I expect failure, I'd sell the movie rights and set up some sort of TV/speaking tour for after the race.
Myself and the athlete could turn that very very small chance of 4 billion dollars into an extremely likely opportunity to make 100's, or at least 10's, of thousands of guaranteed money during our 15 minutes of fame.
I'd make the bet, rent a space shuttle from SpaceX or some hard-up eastern bloc government for a few hundred mil, fly up to 5k in altitude, push the 32 minute guy out the door, wait til he splats in something far under 15 minutes, collect the cool 4 bil, pay the few hundred mil for rented Shuttle, and then buy my own small tropical island/country with the change and live like a king for the rest of my life as a refugee from murder charges..... or maybe I'll just pass on the bet and stick with my life as a middle-class, but life-loving free citizen and spare the poor 32-minute guy's life. Cause there's no way a 32 minute guy is getting down to 15 minutes for a 5K in 3 months unless he's pushed out of a shuttle at 5k altitude.
Race for place wrote:
Buy an alter g and underwater mill to allow crazy volume without stress fractures.
Yeah and Jesus Christ comes walking down the mall. What are you kidding me? No god damn underwater treadmill is going to make any difference when the aerobic engine is so insufficient. These machines are for athletes with already huge aerobic engines, and are used to enhance running economy and volume.
He's going to need an industrial one of these http://amzn.to/1iqmfYd
I think that there are so many talented runners that perspective is lost sometimes. I trained hard my entire life and my PR is 16:38. I'm not convinced most people can even break 15 min no matter how hard they trained so there is no chance in hell that a 32 min 5K guy can break 15 min in 3 months.
Keep my day job.
I would like to know what Renato, Epsetin ,Vigil and Wetmore would have to say about this..
I would negotiate down to 1 billion, 1 year and 18:00
Give him Vibrums, that's all you need
Conundrum wrote:
One, I'm the only one who offered money. Two if the runner runs 15:01 you lose 8 million dollars.
Bill Aris ought to thank me for giving him the chance to earn 8 million in 3 months. So what if I make close to 4 billion?
I'm a jobs producer. What are you a democrat? We would both pay the same percentage on income tax too.
genuine random a hole wrote:/quote]
What a cheap arse! 8 mill to do the impossible and you get 4 billion? If i was the coach I would train him to run a 15:01 just to fvck you over.
Your post:
(2) Find the right coach, maybe a Bill Aris type. Offer him 8 million if he is successful. Then let him get him ready.
You make the sap work for months knowing full well it is impossible. (Granted that in this scenario he would know this and laugh in your face) You stated he gets 8 million IF successful. So you are not taking any risk at all and if he pulls of the impossible, the guy that does a huge amount of the actual work (2nd only to the runner) gets less than 1% of the reward.
Jobs producer my arse. Giving the guy the opportunity to work like a fool for the huge likelihood of no compensation at all.
TAA wrote:
I'd get the guy to "kip" the course.
+1
If this topic was about getting a 32min 10k guy to a 15min 5k I think it could actually be a good topic.
I think this actually brings up a interesting ethical question. Is it right to pump someone full of drugs, run them into the ground, and risk their health and life if the reward you could get from doing it could be used to help lots of other people? How would you use the money if the person dies vs is perfectly fine afterwards?
1. Get the money in advance.
2. Pick my own "32 min 5k guy."
3. Ask, what's the penalty for failure?