a Dvck wrote:
jjjjjj wrote:Actually, I'm more impressed by the succinct writing.
Why?
Call BS on the 1:54 800 and the mpw total, but the guy can obviously write. There was a 60 minutes piece on him a few years ago where he talks about not being able to sleep because of potential lyrics "haunting" him, waking him up and driving him to write at all hours. That, I believe. Talented cat that is not gifted with much social grace and does not need to be.
yourmom.com wrote:
TrackRunner1 wrote: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?
There is a huge difference between:
a) running 17 miles a day, sustaining it, and benefitting from it versus
b) running 17 miles a day and breaking down before too long from an overuse injury.
"b)" is not all that hard to do, or imagine. It is funny that you can't even accept that it is possible, let alone likely.
I know a guy (3:30 marathoner) who typically ran 40-50 mpw who came back from injury and a long layoff 4 weeks before Boston. I asked him how his running was going and was shocked when he told me he'd run 120+ mpw the last 2 weeks. He wasn't joking, and others in our group confirmed it was true. Not long after that he was injured again. But he did run 120+ mpw for "a while".
It's possible. Likely. And stupid.
No he didn't.
We can all "say" we did something. Unless I see it myself, I don't believe it
Piano_Man87 wrote:
Corroborates what he said here in 2009. But it sounds like he only did the high mileage for a very short time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJvBrmOFdsM#t=8m23s
Like 1 day
RIP: D3 All-American Frank Csorba - who ran 13:56 in March - dead
RENATO can you talk about the preparation of Emile Cairess 2:06
Running for Bowerman Track Club used to be cool now its embarrassing
Great interview with Steve Cram - says Jakob has no chance of WRs this year
Hats off to my dad. He just ran a 1:42 Half Marathon and turns 75 in 2 months!
2017 World 800 champ Pierre-Ambroise Bosse banned 1 year for whereabouts failures