London: this guy won the 50-54 age group

Coevett wrote:

Isn't there going to be a bit of a selection towards more muscularity when it comes to the leading Masters runners?

I mean, this guy's strength and muscles might have given him the ability to pound out 100 weekly miles into his fifties.

He also appears to be sponsored and able to do this full time (he's just completed a five week training camp in the Balearic Islands where he ran over 550 miles according to his Instagram).

Does anyone have his Strava link, btw.? He mentioned in one of his posts that he is on there but I can't find him.

You racist piece of crap. Now you are defending an apparent steroid user when you want to hang Kenyans at the stake for beating whites.

Jiooo wrote:

You racist piece of crap. Now you are defending an apparent steroid user when you want to hang Kenyans at the stake for beating whites.

You mean I want Kenya to be banned or clean up its act after 60 positive tests including some of the biggest stars such as Kiprop?

Sadly, looks like Graham will be missing London this year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwWlFTMge3X/

Must admit this is super fishy to me. Goes out to Mallorca (of all places?!) for months to train. Tons of Spanish cyclists train out there, not the cleanest group I can think of. Massive weight loss.

Comes back and suddenly falls mysteriously ill?

And some of the workouts he was doing...

AM - 13.1 mile tempo is 1:17

PM - 5 miles easy

And the NEXT day

AM - 4 x 5k off 1k float in 17:40 avg.

Then a double day of 1:18 HM in the AM and 58min 10 miler in the PM. All this in the middle of 120 mile weeks in his 50s.

Colour me skeptical.

Definitely not running this year, not showing up in the tracker. Hopefully he'll be back next year

He is back and still looking amazing and running fantastic times approaching his 60's. Just ran 16:10 5K after missing a lot of training through covid.

TRT is a wonderful thing.

It's funny, but if you notice the guy standing watching in the right corner, with his hand covering his mouth as though he's sceptical...

That's Armstronglivs.

He appears to have less muscle mass than the pic from 4 years ago (not surprising), athough his legs aren't weightbearing with muscles in contraction,

Ken Rideout would kick his ass.

His dosage is double what this guy's is.

How in the f-ck is this guy getting through testing, or shall I assume he hasn't been tested? As a naturally-aging mid-50s runner who has lost much speed and endurance but has simply let age set in, guys like this bother the h-ll out of me. It's so obvious that he isn't clean and hasn't been for a number of years. Ridiculous.

Not cool.

He's wearing a lot of "Runthrough" shirts. (for non locals "Run Through" organise races over various distances in and around London)

I wondered if he was sponsored by them. But turns out his son co-founded runthrough. Cant imagine his son is going to be asking him to submit to UKAD...

This whole post is hilarious I've known Graham for almost 55 years since we started infant school together what Graham is apart from being an amazing runner is modest...what it doesn't mention in any of these posts was that he was the world record holder for the 12 year old age group in 1978 hes also a retired firefighter...so has been fit all his life his older brother Andy is a former Great Britain international and 2:12 marathon runner both of them have been top of their age group rankings on and off for the last 10 years or so....both work incredibly hard at their training and are totally clean good genetics maybe but honest, classy performances

This should have course said world record holder for the 1500m in 4:29:20

He had just retired at that point and took time in Spain to train because he could there is no way there is anything dodgy with Graham I've been friends with him since the day we stated infant school in 1969 he's a class runner has been since he was 11 (he was a 1500m world record holder at 12) I know thats true I was at the race!

genetically his brother was a 2:12 marathon runner and set a age 52 world record for 10K of 31:33 in 2015 so it is definitely in the genes I have known these to for almost 55 years so I know they are both clean and good runners

he has always been clean a world record holder for 1500 at 12, a firefighter for 30 years and tested for all drugs randomly very very regularly as is the norm for that occupation hes always been extremely fit works hard and has good genetics considering his older brother was a 2;12 marathon runner and GB international....How do you think I feel Graham is running times now (1:14 for 1/2M) that are fractionally quicker than I ran aged 22! when we were both in the same training group!