Eminem ran 117 miles a week!

1:54 with those duck feet?

[quote]Track Coach.. wrote:

1:54.7 as a junior. Discussed here, FB, Milesplit, and elsewhere. I was not at the meet although he beat one of my runners soundly.

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Hilarious! A few years ago someone going by the name Detroit Track coach posted these results to letsrun

Greater Detroit Regional

May 22, 1990

Event #31 Boys 800m Run

Heat 3

1. Saunders, Jeremy (Grosse Point South) 1:52.31

2. Jackson, Curtis (Cass Tech) 1:53.87

3. Buchanan, Keith (Kings) 1:54.75

4. Mathers, Marhshall (Lincoln) 1:54.76

5. Williams, Jamaal (Northwestern High) 1:57.89

6. Njapa, Charles (Western International) 2:01.01

7. Martin, Kelvin (Dearborn) 2:05.76

8. Douthit, Pat (Detroit Jesuit) DNF

Evidently, no one picked up on the fact that all of the names in that list (not just Curtis Jackson and Marshall Mathers) are the real names of rappers.

in the morning he hit his treadmill, and probably other cardio equipment in his home gym, and he burned 1000 calories. Then, he would do the same in the afternoon. Motivated to lose all that weight, with his obvious issues and public life, I'm sure he did it. He dropped from over 200 to runner weight. He was obviously doing some running.

Didn't skip leg day. Nice.

Wow, I did not realize all those guys ran track

Hilarious! A few years ago someone going by the name Detroit Track coach posted these results to letsrun

Greater Detroit Regional

May 22, 1990

Event #31 Boys 800m Run

Heat 3

1. Saunders, Jeremy (Grosse Point South) 1:52.31

2. Jackson, Curtis (Cass Tech) 1:53.87

3. Buchanan, Keith (Kings) 1:54.75

4. Mathers, Marhshall (Lincoln) 1:54.76

5. Williams, Jamaal (Northwestern High) 1:57.89

6. Njapa, Charles (Western International) 2:01.01

7. Martin, Kelvin (Dearborn) 2:05.76

8. Douthit, Pat (Detroit Jesuit) DNF

Evidently, no one picked up on the fact that all of the names in that list (not just Curtis Jackson and Marshall Mathers) are the real names of rappers.

That's actually pretty hilarious. And I can't believe that 9th Wonder was a DNF.

Kenkaniff wrote:

Eminem......best rapper

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Stuff you like to pee out wrote:

No way in hell he was ever running near 119 miles per week. Many top college athletes and pros arnt touching 119 weeks and you think this former drug abusing, alcoholic with no responsibility was putting in this kind of mileage? He was probably putting in 30 miles, if that.

Ah, but he could LOSE himself in the MUsic the MOment he could OWN it and never let it GOHOoo....

I have a 57 year old brother in-law who is obese. He is always telling anyone who will listen, he can hit a home run off a MLB pitcher. He also says he can do 50 fingertip pushups. He goes on and on. Blah, blah, blah. How is this story any different?

Any witnesses?

I have a 57 year old brother in-law who is obese. He is always telling anyone who will listen, he can hit a home run off a MLB pitcher. He also says he can do 50 fingertip pushups. He goes on and on. Blah, blah, blah. How is this story any different?

Any witnesses?

I was the track coach at Dearborn from 1985-1994. I was at that meet and Kelvin Martin ran the 800 for me. That was a great race as Mathers led most of the way until the last 200 when Jeremy Saunders took him on the turn. After Curtis Jackson was on his heels he just ran out of gas and Keith Buchanan beat him by a nose hair. Marshall Mathers was a great runner. He also ran the 1600m, 3200m, and 1600m relay.

It is odd that all of their names are names of artists but that is a coincidence.

There was also a kid by the name of DeWayne Carter who ran the 800 for Lincoln. I do not know if he missed this race or was DQ

And if anyone wants to check the history books at Lincoln my name is Coach Thomas DeCarlo Callaway. Back then they called me "Coach D-Car"

Where I live there is a program called addicts to athletes, and it is not at all uncommon for people who have addictions to go hard core into exercising / working out (some revert back to drugs, others stay clean). Unfortunately when you abuse drugs, your body loses it's ability to reward itself naturally through the Endocanibinoid system. Distance running is particularly attractive because it replaces the artificial high they would get from drugs with the natural endorphin high you get when you run for extended periods of time (functioning on the same pathways as the drugs used to). As such, I could definately see someone with that personality running the sort of mileage he was running. All the people on the board who are getting offended by the idea that running that type of mileage is some great accompishment need to get over themselves. There are plenty of people who are not great athletes who run lots of miles a week, I think 90% of ULTRA runners would fall into that category.

These comments are the main reason why I hate letsrun.

Talented people are talented; they will have the dedication and motivation to do what they enjoy. If Eminem loved running for a bit, and went hard to fight his addiction, great for him. Nothing is going to stop someone with an addictive personality.

Also, why would he lie about running 17 miles a day? What will he gain by lying?

Be happy he's loved running like we all do.

Does anybody care that he said it was on a treadmill?

8.5 mph on a treadmill @ what incline?

Two hours of running a day is a lot for your average joe, but 2 hours on treadmill is not necessarily 117mpw.

The MF Chronic wrote:

These comments are the main reason why I hate letsrun.

Talented people are talented; they will have the dedication and motivation to do what they enjoy. If Eminem loved running for a bit, and went hard to fight his addiction, great for him. Nothing is going to stop someone with an addictive personality.

Also, why would he lie about running 17 miles a day? What will he gain by lying?

Be happy he's loved running like we all do.

I am so with you on this. People character bashing when he has done something great. Regardless of what you want to say he is one of the most selling music artists of any genre of all time. As well fought a drug addiction and of all things found RUNNING to be his outlet. That is pretty cool.

TrackRunner1 wrote:

The MF Chronic wrote:

These comments are the main reason why I hate letsrun.

Talented people are talented; they will have the dedication and motivation to do what they enjoy. If Eminem loved running for a bit, and went hard to fight his addiction, great for him. Nothing is going to stop someone with an addictive personality.

Also, why would he lie about running 17 miles a day? What will he gain by lying?

Be happy he's loved running like we all do.

I am so with you on this. People character bashing when he has done something great. Regardless of what you want to say he is one of the most selling music artists of any genre of all time. As well fought a drug addiction and of all things found RUNNING to be his outlet. That is pretty cool.

Of course he is talented and good for him for taking up running.

On a separate note, it's totally acceptable to call someone out who exaggerated the truth trying to tell a better story.

It would be interesting if a famous celebrity were able to put in world class weekly mileage... but EXTREMELY unlikely. End of story. Are we done here? Can we move on to more doping accusations somewhere?

I believe it. Have you heard his lyrics? His music is great.