We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
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Not even a race, but a stunt run with pacers.
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Another Stunt Run wrote:
Not even a race, but a stunt run with pacers.
Just like that stunt run I did a while ago. -
Another Stunt Run wrote:
Not even a race, but a stunt run with pacers.
Yeah but it's a marathon on a track + 5 extra miles.
Originally I think others were going to be in the race or at least I know the event was publicized. I have no idea if others are running it but not going for WR. Didn't specifically ask. -
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price? -
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme. -
Apophis99 wrote:
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
19 would have a very good chance but until they try it's just speculation. -
Another Stunt Run wrote:
Not even a race, but a stunt run with pacers.
A story about a guy who couldn't break 18 minutes for the 5k in high school attempting to run 5: 16 mile pace for 31 miles, and the first response is "DUURRRRR ITSA STUHNT RUN!!!"
That's an almost unheard of progression. He certainly seems to be a beneficiary of consistent high mileage. Funny how that works... -
Great podcast!
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He overtrains and is too thin. The best 50K runner is 2-time World Champion Tony Migliozzi.
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FrenchDawg wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme.
How strong could an event possibly be where an 18-minute 5k guy could EVER progress to a point where he could content for the world record? This is a feel-good inspirations piece for shitty joggers.
The idiocy of the event is self-evident given these facts.
Why isn’t he trying to contend for the marathon world record? Oh that’s right, because it’s a real event that draws real competitors.
He may as well go for the backward run 20k world record while he’s at it. -
Apophis99 wrote:
FrenchDawg wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme.
How strong could an event possibly be where an 18-minute 5k guy could EVER progress to a point where he could content for the world record? This is a feel-good inspirations piece for shitty joggers.
The idiocy of the event is self-evident given these facts.
Why isn’t he trying to contend for the marathon world record? Oh that’s right, because it’s a real event that draws real competitors.
He may as well go for the backward run 20k world record while he’s at it.
Why don't you go for the record? -
what's your 50k PR? wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
FrenchDawg wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme.
How strong could an event possibly be where an 18-minute 5k guy could EVER progress to a point where he could content for the world record? This is a feel-good inspirations piece for shitty joggers.
The idiocy of the event is self-evident given these facts.
Why isn’t he trying to contend for the marathon world record? Oh that’s right, because it’s a real event that draws real competitors.
He may as well go for the backward run 20k world record while he’s at it.
Why don't you go for the record?
I propose a middle ground of feeling like this is a random and insignificant story about somebody whois pursuing his dream and finding his definition of success, based on three points we should all stipulate to:
1) the 50k is clearly a soft record. It is 30 seconds per mile slower than a race only 18% shorter
2) 18+ 5k in hs to 5:15 pace for a marathon or longer event is a massive progression and shows a huge amount of work, plus probably some untapped talent in high school.
3) Rojo clearly doesnt understand the difference between "blue collar" and "college graduate pursuing life of self imposed poverty" aka hippy. -
what's your 50k PR? wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
FrenchDawg wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme.
How strong could an event possibly be where an 18-minute 5k guy could EVER progress to a point where he could content for the world record? This is a feel-good inspirations piece for shitty joggers.
The idiocy of the event is self-evident given these facts.
Why isn’t he trying to contend for the marathon world record? Oh that’s right, because it’s a real event that draws real competitors.
He may as well go for the backward run 20k world record while he’s at it.
Why don't you go for the record?
May as well go for the backward mile run world record. Anyone know off-hand what that is?
I’ll take an en route 880y WR in route if I can really pull things together. -
Another Stunt Run wrote:
Not even a race, but a stunt run with pacers.
If I've learned anything about TA's training and racing over the past few years, then it's likely that he's going to have a few pacers jump in and out of the first twenty miles, run the next 10 on an extreme downhill without noting it, and finish the last mile on the track. He'll use GPS, but fail to upload the data. If he gets this bs WR, then he'll scream his own name from the mountain tops for all to hear. If he misses it, he'll glaze over the fact in a random cat-photo instagram post, go into hiding for six weeks then come back out the other side with some other bs stunt to overtrain for. #TimeToLie -
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
That's pure ignorance and an insecure sub elite comment -
and your time is...? wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
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Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
That's pure ignorance and an insecure sub elite comment
But it's not. The record would be sub 2:28 if one of the top marathon runners decided to go for it.
That said, 5:15 for 50k is legit running for sure. -
Oh Please wrote:
How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
It depends.
When was their last doping cycle? -
Apophis99 wrote:
what's your 50k PR? wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
FrenchDawg wrote:
Apophis99 wrote:
wejo wrote:
We did a podcast with Tyler today before he attempts to break 50k world record on Friday.
He's definitely a blue collar runner. Got out of college and was cleaning the toilets in a hostel in Ecuador while trying to live the life as a runner. We've got some textual highlights as well from the podcast if you don't want to listen as well.
Just a few quick quotes (more in article):
On training in Quito right out of school: "I was living in the windowless basement of this hostel with three 3 other guys in this tiny space. I was working 25 hours a week for essentially room and board and I thought ‘This is great.’ I work 5 hours a day and this gives me time to train and my weekends to race and I get food and I get a place so sleep. What more do I need than that?” "
On high school: "t wasn’t until my senior year where we got a new coach who really connected with me John Waldron, who really instilled with me this idea that running is something you can better at (with hard work and training). This is how naive I was about the sport. I essentially thought fast runners were fast and slow runners were slow and that was it and I was a slow runner and there was nothing I could do about that. It was this very basic idea he instilled in me that ‘hey if you train you can get better at this’. To me that was a really powerful idea."
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2018/04/dreams-become-reality-tyler-andrews-18-minutes-5k-high-school-50k-world-record/
Every distance longer than the marathon is a snowflake event for hacks. 5:15 mile pace? How many East Africans could smash this on 12 hours notice for the right price?
Such a tired and lazy meme.
How strong could an event possibly be where an 18-minute 5k guy could EVER progress to a point where he could content for the world record? This is a feel-good inspirations piece for shitty joggers.
The idiocy of the event is self-evident given these facts.
Why isn’t he trying to contend for the marathon world record? Oh that’s right, because it’s a real event that draws real competitors.
He may as well go for the backward run 20k world record while he’s at it.
Why don't you go for the record?
May as well go for the backward mile run world record. Anyone know off-hand what that is?
I’ll take an en route 880y WR in route if I can really pull things together.
"en route 880y WR in route"
lolwat -
Will there be live coverage of this 50k stun... I mean, race?
