Hardloper wrote:
lollerama wrote:
I checked out the site, and he mentions that he ran the Paris Half Marathon last year.... so I checked the results and he ran a 2:05:22.
Now, there's nothing wrong with being a really slow professional runner (it appears he does this for a living, and has sponsors), but in looking a little further at his site, it appears this guy is running close to 100-mile weeks, sometimes more. I find it hard to imagine running for the amount of time per day that it would take to run mileage like that, if you were slow enough to not be able to break two hours for a HM at race pace.
These are his PBs from his website:
5KM - 17:24
10KM - 36:35
10 Miles - 57:18
Half Marathon - 01:22:45
Marathon - 02:55:11
100KM - 09:32
100 Miles - 20:52
24 Hour - 138 Miles
48 Hour - 221 Miles
Well, either he jogged the Paris HM really slowly, or something isn't matching up here. When I was a 17:30-ish guy, I couldn't imagine traveling to another country and paying what is probably a fairly decent amount of entry fee cash to run a 2:05 HM.