The Hanson's have developed some elite talent and destroyed many many more careers in the process. Their departure from the sport will save many young athletes.
The Hanson's have developed some elite talent and destroyed many many more careers in the process. Their departure from the sport will save many young athletes.
Banson wrote:
The Hanson's have developed some elite talent
Pluralizing a noun, even a proper noun, doesn't require an apostrophe. It's not hard.
Remembering Brian Sell wrote:
Remember when Brian Sell called out this board and said "If I was interested in what 18 minute 5k runners have to say I'll ask my wife". The board went crazy.
That was in 2008. This board has been irrelevant to elites for years.
That's exactly right. Fans should never argue about elite athletes, especially fans who play the sport. Better for the best to insult those weekend warriors for not being born with elite genes
Tiger Woods, Fat Jack, Lebron and all the others should hate all that interest that makes them famous and rich.
Brian Sell is so smart, especially being big in a sport that has to fight for money and publicity.
Maybe he could be made head of USATF or the USOC. I like him.
Banson wrote:
The Hanson's have developed some elite talent and destroyed many many more careers in the process. Their departure from the sport will save many young athletes.
Feel free to explain how their program destroyed many many careers. I'm all ears.
Idiot alert! Easy to spot, hard to miss, no logic, no reason, no sense, typical lefty liberal commie pinko dogma and hatred for America. Joyless degenerates, so sad!
M.A.G.A.
This is a very solid, fact-filled post. Thank you.
Jake Wilson wrote:
I can see the Hansons' point. Letsrun and Trump have a lot in common, apart from the basic and obvious fact that a lot of the board members and moderators are Trump supporters.
Trump is an idiot who dimly recognizes he's dumb, but has no impetus too change what he's doing. The people who founded this board are, like Trump, Ivy League grads whose connections alone got them in and whose intellectual and academic prowess alone might have earned them a spot in a state school at best.
The Letsrun regulars who are pro-Letsrun in terms of its model and ethics are markedly below average in intelligence, and some are clearly starved of basic sanity. Ditto Trumpists; the mouth-breathing rednecks in incest and moonshine country will be the first and hardest hit by GOP wealth redistribution policies, just like they always have, but they don't care as long as Trump keeps up with the race-baiting and anti-liberal bluster and pretends to praise Jesus.
Trump surrounds himself with fellow thieves, liars, and morons, because these are the only people who can tolerate, let alone support, his approach to governing. The moderating team here allegedly includes at least two high-caliber morons, maybe more, and no one with a conscience would want to be a part of the scheme.
Neither Trump nor the Brojos would deny that they enjoy the clamor and the nonsense and the sheer attention, despite the high level of scorn and derision and even rage leveled at them, although you might have to administer truth serum to get any of the players to admit it.
One difference: Trump is a monster, no question, and hopefully he dies soon so he can be burned in a public landfill and defecated on by seagulls and vermin. The BroJos are probably not bad people at all, and they do great work with the site overall. They're really not guilty of anything more than the sort of negligence most of us would be ashamed to oversee.
Shining Example wrote:
BabysinRenoWithVitaminD wrote:
Seriously? The shills are out in force this morning, trying to push some vague agenda, who knows what, First they resuscitate some old Chris Solinsky/Tegenkamp thread. “Wow, what a prediction fail” except that whole thread was based on a false premise. Those dudes were not fat nor ever had been. Maybe, MAYBE Solinsky had a relatively big frame the fall back in High school after lifting fertilizer bags all summer. Morons had never seen these guys in person. Yeah Bekele has big thighs too, big whoop.
Then “Runn” makes some ( well meaning, maybe?) poorly reasoned posts. Read the nonsense you are writing. What you propose is clearly overboard, almost witch hunt in the opposite direction. Never failed a drug test? Do you know anything about the news and history of doping in endurance sports?
Then you name drop as if we should be impressed. Wow, you met an athlete’s parents! This thread is partly about social media and unless you have your head in the sand or are a liar, you’ll know that everyone and their mother are on Facebook. Peoples’ parents are shamelessly and excessively on it. Social media as far as athletes go is a sheepish, circle jerking echo chamber. Social media also has always been a shameless Godless compromising immoral popularity contest with people collecting as many friends as they can. With almost zero people saying a da** word about it all these years...
Parents are a complicit part of this. Many Parents of famous athletes are omnipresent on social media, at sporting events, etc. Wow! You know one of these athletes, met them and their parents, are friends with them on social media. I am not impressed.
I am astounded at this age of insecure people, banding together in mediocrity. I will be impressed and praise when people do good things for goodness sake, when people will make expressions out of instinct and not wait until it’s safe. Not wait to do something that has been done before. Not constrain one’s actions to an already safe and established category.
What is the essence of running? Dreams, desire, strength, heroism, heroic deeds. These are part of the essence of running. Make your language, your expression, your reasoning HEROIC! Make your social media original and heroic. Make it great, magnificent, genius! Make everything heroic like your running. Why am I calling you all out? You are the hope. You are the weak link. In insecurity, apathy and echo chambers, the repercussions of corruptions and evil forces spread unabated. YOU have a part to play! And running MAKES YOU special, in this PART.
Frickin’ loonies like this guy are the reason why this board has (and deserves) its bad reputation with Hanson and every other decent person in the sport.
Nobody is even reading through these insane essays you’re posting, buddy.
Nobody is reading them? You replied to it? You read it.
Libertarian vegan wrote:
Those are my only positive things in life.
He just hates how we point out how much of a failure that Hanson b.s. is.
+1
Jim Cramer wrote:
Libertarian vegan wrote:
Those are my only positive things in life.
He just hates how we point out how much of a failure that Hanson b.s. is.
+1
Brian Sell. Desi Linden. Besides one or two clubs, who else has runners that got to that level?
Yes, but how many athletes have had real comparable success training under the Hansons? I would be willing to wager that less than 15% of their 80+ athletes have set personal bests in the 10k at 2 years into the program. Sure, they've had marathon success, but few NCAA athletes run marathons while in school.
Name Brand Runner wrote:
Jim Cramer wrote:
+1
Brian Sell. Desi Linden. Besides one or two clubs, who else has runners that got to that level?
Let's compare their results to NOP, BTC, OTC...
The Hansons are losers and should leave the sport immediately.
I certainly wouldn't call them losers. They are millionares and have also convinced the public that they are a charitable organization. Better than old DT...
Hansonsrun,
I think you are making a mistake. I see no negative vibes on this board. haha
Very smart move.
Who else? There are thousands of clubs in America. Hansons is in the top 5 or 6.
rnrrnr wrote:
Let's compare their results to NOP, BTC, OTC...
The Hansons are losers and should leave the sport immediately.
Question for the haters - what did he tweet that was inaccurate?
Mainly the claim that he wouldn't be on these boards in 2018. Knowing the bros, they've been here 10x in the last 2 hours.
Thanks for demonstrating exactly why Hansons said what they did. I agree with them 100%.
Who else wrote:
Who else? There are thousands of clubs in America. Hansons is in the top 5 or 6.
rnrrnr wrote:
Let's compare their results to NOP, BTC, OTC...
The Hansons are losers and should leave the sport immediately.
Exactly, and that's my point. They are easily in the top 5 clubs in the country. Some serious jealousy going on here.
That's entirely sensible of him. I doubt it's a good use of his time or energy.
If you are a coach or athlete being directly talked about I doubt most of them would find it helpful to read through a bunch of hostile and ignorant comments. There are usually worthwhile nuggets but you have to read through a lot of ignorance and abuse to find them. If you're not being directly talked about, it's easy to be detached or just post and read for entertainment, although there's an unhealthy aspect to social media in general that's hard to escape.
Midland Miler wrote:
Mainly the claim that he wouldn't be on these boards in 2018. Knowing the bros, they've been here 10x in the last 2 hours.
You don't know them. Nice try.