Which One Of You Idiots Is This Kids Father?

You're all anti-semites for making remarks about this kid or his parents, no matter what those remarks were.

What kind of interval workouts is he doing?

4 pages into this thread and no one has asked the most important question: if he sets the record, does he know he has to be drug tested for it to count?

let them run wrote:

My issue with aggressively pushing running/mileage is that it could screw with the kid physically.

WTF. Every child should be physically active at least 2-3 hours daily. Running for one hour is definitely not harmful in any way. There's something seriously wrong with the modern civilized world, as 1 hour of running is considered dangerous for children but sitting for 10 hours on their fat asses playing on iPad is OK.

In many less developed countries daily distance running is the norm for children, and it doesn't "screw" the physically, but keeps them lean and healthy and makes them fit adults.

Running is natural behaviour for a Homo sapiens, sitting is not.

They should be playing doing running games and doing a variety of sports to develop overall. Kids running to school in Kenya run easy pace on soft surfaces and are not training on concrete like this kid will be. Most kids who do a lot too young give up- if they are going to another sport fair enough, If they end up doing nothing from mid teens then thats no good for them

Too many people assume that since his foot is dorsiflexed that he is heel striking. His foot hasn't hit the ground yet. It's disingenuous when people look at a photo of marathoners and think they're all heel striking because their feet are dorsiflexed. You have to see when the foot hits the ground, and then it's still inconclusive. A shoe heel can make contact first even when the impact point, where the weight lands, is mid or forefoot. So here it is definitely inconclusive if he is heel striking.

Did anyone see this story of the 12 year old who is about to set a record by running a marathon in all 7 continents?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/blanca-ramirez-12-set-record-7-marathons-7-continents-n305361

hussle wrote:

4 pages into this thread and no one has asked the most important question: if he sets the record, does he know he has to be drug tested for it to count?

With any WR for kids under 16, both the athlete and the PARENTS should be drug tested.

Its only a world record because they haven't timed Kenya's 9 yr olds. A Kenyan 9 yr old has probably broken 18 already. And its really not that outlandish for him to run that fast. When I was that age they threw us out on the track to run the gym class mile and with never running a step in my life I ran close to 6:00 so with some minor training, there is no reason a talented 9 yr old wouldn't run 18:30. I don't think it would take a ton of miles to get there.

My kid is 11 and has been swimming up to 11 hours a week for the past two years. Not really sure how that is any different from what this kid is doing. Agree with people who say at least he has something he is passionate about and is not sitting on his butt all day playing video games. Maybe he will keep his talent through college maybe not. Who cares?

CCB wrote:

My kid is 11 and has been swimming up to 11 hours a week for the past two years. Not really sure how that is any different from what this kid is doing. Agree with people who say at least he has something he is passionate about and is not sitting on his butt all day playing video games. Maybe he will keep his talent through college maybe not. Who cares?

Swimming doesn't impact the body like running, that's why when we get injured we go to the pool. Basically we use the sport of swimming as a rest when our bodies can't take the pounding any longer.

Inconclusive wrote:

It's disingenuous when people look at a photo of marathoners and think they're all heel striking

True. Saw a video of Bikila. Looked like a heel striker but in slow motion was really a flat footed landing.

This thread is Freakin' AWESOME!!!! A bunch of slow loser hacks bitching because a 9 year old is faster then them!!! LOL!! Zach can kick your ass and so can my 10 year old named Jett. And so can I! :-D And none of us ran half as much as the candy asses that are bitching because a 9 year old can take them out behind the woodshed in running!

Go Zach, keep making slow losers cry!

"Hi I'm Rob Lowe and I have DirecTV," "And I'm Super slow Rob Lowe that gets beat by 9 year olds and I have cable."

"Don't be like 'Super Slow I get beat by 9 year olds', and upgrade to DirecTV!"

To those that supported me, thank you, and to those that didn’t, I proved all you wrong. I definitely didn’t burn out by 13 and now that I’m 18 and done with high school, I’m still improving running a 4:17 mile and 9:16 2 mile. I hope every single one of the trolls realize you were making fun of a 9 year old kid and how dumb that sounds to do. Also, Thank you to all the internet trolls for the motivation to invalidate your comments.

Glad that it worked out for you! That is great.

As for all of the other comments, I do believe that WR should start at 12 though. Where will it end? Four year olds going around the track? And with regard to all of the Kenyan comments, I'm pretty sure that running is mostly used as a form of transport, i.e. if you live 8km from school you get yourself there and back and running is the best way to do that. That isn't the same as organised training and racing.

Thank you. I’m sure my “world record” at the time was nowhere close to the actual age group record because I’m sure there were many undocumented times not sent in to that 5k world record publisher that were much faster than me. You just have to take it with a grain of salt and not make a lets run thread bashing my dad and me.

I would actually say the opposite is true. The father (or mother) is a hobby jogger living vicariously through their child who has talent.

Maybe the father and mother had talent but wasted their time playing high school football and the mom played soccer.

Congrats dude! What're your plans going forward?

Dude, I just don't think that running that fast at that age bodes well. dude.

There is someone in my local running community who runs 11:00-12:00 per mile no matter what the distance.

She posts more about her 8 year old daughter who is closing in on a 6:00 minute mile (she's at like 8:00) than she does about her own running.

They were envious, wishing they could run that kind of time at any point in their lives.

Anyway, congratulations, and good luck as you go on to bigger and better things.