Buzzfeed employee runs 3:30 marathon after "10 weeks training"

Is Tim Ferriss ever going to do that Ultra? He was supposed to do it on 12 weeks of training, but that was 5 years ago.

I hate buzzfeed wrote:

ekw wrote:

She is/was a professional cyclist.

She is not going from "couch to marathon", she is going from "well trained aerobic pro athlete to marathon"... It's still a very very impressive feat (no pun intended) to run a 3:30 off of 10 weeks of training even if she was in very good aerobic shape.

I still don't get how she didn't get injured though. That sort of buildup is really agressive for someone with no experience doing training with that sort of impact.

I believe this helps to show just how much cycling can translate into running. A lot of people poo poo cycling on this forum and say it wont help at all with running but here is a real life example of a person with ZERO running experience but a TON of cycling experience who was able to ramp up VERY quickly and stay injury free and run a pretty darn fast time in a marathon!

ekw wrote:

I believe this helps to show just how much cycling can translate into running. A lot of people poo poo cycling on this forum and say it wont help at all with running but here is a real life example of a person with ZERO running experience but a TON of cycling experience who was able to ramp up VERY quickly and stay injury free and run a pretty darn fast time in a marathon!

What really helps is being very young. She looks like she is 25.

Here's her pro cyclist results. She has raced A LOT:

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=394186

This is the type of hyperbolic bs you get on Bozofeed! Oh hey let's get a well trained athlete and pitch her as the minimal marathon training ever for an OMG feel good story.

Serious Thon Runner wrote:

Here's her pro cyclist results. She has raced A LOT:

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=394186

This is the type of hyperbolic bs you get on Bozofeed! Oh hey let's get a well trained athlete and pitch her as the minimal marathon training ever for an OMG feel good story.

Prsobally I think Bamboozlefeed is more like it haha

Serious Thon Runner wrote:

Here's her pro cyclist results. She has raced A LOT:

http://www.usacycling.org/results/index.php?compid=394186

This is the type of hyperbolic bs you get on Bozofeed! Oh hey let's get a well trained athlete and pitch her as the minimal marathon training ever for an OMG feel good story.

This is the problem with runners these days. They think racing 13 weekends in a year is a lot.

If she's crying on the first 18 miler, how's she gonna get through the other 4?

I hate how much drama there was in this. She hypes it so much it makes me want to vomit.

"10 weeks training" with a ton of cross training. Great marathon time, but like all stunts, they're not reproducible.

Still, I'd do coke off her abs.

It's buzzfeed....if you don't cry about triggering, your weight, men, CIS males and now running, you're not a woman.

5x18mi: workout of champs wrote:

If she's crying on the first 18 miler, how's she gonna get through the other 4?

I don't think 3:30 is a big deal. Probably achievable by a lot of young fit athletic types with good training.I was about 40 when I decided to run a marathon. Less than 10 weeks training which included a half marathon race (sub 1:40) 3 weeks before the marathon(sub 3:30). I wasn't really fit but I wasn't fat. I jogged 4 times a week averaging about 30-40 miles a week. The first 20 miles felt easy but the last bit not so much. I'm not a talented runner but I'm not unfit like the majority of people "doing" marathons. I'd say most young people ( under 30) with some running talent could run 3:30 with 10 weeks training. 3:30 is a decent time but it's just a long slow jog for anyone with talent.

I hate buzzfeed wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm7OtVr7yCE

I don't buy it.

I don't know how she didn't get injured either. She was conditioned aerobically and psychologically from cycling, but probably ran low mileage during training to save her legs and feet from injury.

For a 24 y/o without solid base mileage, the sudden impact from a strenuous training plan would damage the ligaments/tendons in her feet. My guess is that she ran base mileage to prep her feet, and then cycled for tempo, strength, and speed. Notice BuzzFeed had little training footage from her running "6 days per week."