Who the hell is Brogan Austin?

Former Iowa Great wrote:

Go a step further. Shelby Houlihan was named the top female by USATF and Schweizer was arguably the best female runner in the NCAA this year. They are all from unpopulated Iowa. Mike Jay also likes to remind us that the US 2 mile record holder, Jenny Simpson, was born in Iowa.

Since when is Urbandale (Schweizer) unpopulated? It's a northwest suburb of Des Moines and a 4A school even though she went to Dowling.

I said unpopulated Iowa to make a point of how many current great runners are from Iowa which has only 3 million people total. You need to get out more if you don't realize that there are cities that have greater population than the entire state. 3 million is less than 1% of the nation's total.

Former Iowa Great wrote:

I said unpopulated Iowa to make a point of how many current great runners are from Iowa which has only 3 million people total. You need to get out more if you don't realize that there are cities that have greater population than the entire state. 3 million is less than 1% of the nation's total.

Perhaps you need to look up the definition of unpopulated. The way you use it suggests the entire state is uninhabited, which is obviously not the case. It would be slightly more acceptable, although not entirely correct, to suggest parts of the state are unpopulated due to the mostly rural nature of the state.

No, that is accurate. Ask anyone from the coasts and they would tell you that the entire flyover country is unpopulated. They won’t have heard of Des Moines or Urbandale so those are definitely unpopulated. Actually, Urbandale sounds like one of those silly made up towns in a teen comedy.

eeefdfd wrote:

I think he has a decent paying job. Might have chosen that and training alone over running for a team and scraping by on 30,000 per year tops:

https://www.neseliteconsulting.com/brogan-austin

According to Glassdoor it looks like he makes ~$90K, so less than half the average Letsrun poster.

No way he makes that much at his age living in DesMoines. The only richer people in town would be the Schweitzers due to that huge Nike contract.

peekay wrote:

Big win at CIM today. I see he ran 62:xx at the Indy half.

Letsrun what is the story with this guy?

awesome breakthrough.

anyone who ran and struggled has to love it.

2020 Olympic marathon trials predictions:

1. Zach Baker 2:05:37 eeks out American record

2. Brogan Austin 2:09:50

3. Kevin Lewis 2:09:56

4. Abbabiya Simbassa 2:09:57

5. Galen Rupp 2:09:58

1. Katie Flood 2:22:22 (she owned Houlihan in the ‘09-‘10 state meets and the FLOOD will rise again)

2. Shelby Houlihan 2:23:40

3. Karissa Schweizer 2:23:51

4. Jenny Simpson 2:23:52 (too Floridian)

5. Molly Huddle 2:23:55

You couldn't pay me $200K to live in Iowa

Talk about a horrible place to live

Steve Austin 6 mil wrote:

No way he makes that much at his age living in DesMoines. The only richer people in town would be the Schweitzers due to that huge Nike contract.

Why? Because you are butt hurt jealous and say so? Get a life.

Steve Austin 6 mil wrote:

No way he makes that much at his age living in DesMoines. The only richer people in town would be the Schweitzers due to that huge Nike contract.

Yes way. It's a good field to be in. It's hard to find good people. It isn't too hard to find a job with a flexible schedule. If he is in fact an IT project manager he could pay people to do all his house work and shopping so he can focus on training and he'd still make more than some sponsored atheletes.

what they'd say if he was African wrote:

GBohannon wrote:

graduated with PRs of 13:59/29:32 on the track. It looks like his best collegiate race was probably the 30:16 that he ran to claim 6th at the Midwest XC Regional his senior year.

He has taken to the roads very well. Good for him.

EPO is a hell of a drug.

If he was African and running 2:12 they wouldn’t be talking about him at all.

YeahBut wrote:

You couldn't pay me $200K to live in Iowa

Talk about a horrible place to live

I'd take 200k to live in Iowa. I'd spend 40k a year and save the rest. My wife makes 130k or so, so that is 290k per year into retirement. I'll buy some property in the Dominican republic and retire off grid there in 6 or 7 years.

He uses the shroud of Turin as a golf towel

YeahBut wrote:

You couldn't pay me $200K to live in Iowa

Talk about a horrible place to live

It was ranked #1 state to live in last year so there must be some merit to living there.

Largest Iowa cities with national rank and population.

59. Omaha-Council Bluffs 933k

88. Des Moines 646k

140. Quad Cities 382k

178. Cedar Rapids 270k

...

5 more cities with 100k+ population

Jsoendkdndodn wrote:

YeahBut wrote:

You couldn't pay me $200K to live in Iowa

Talk about a horrible place to live

It was ranked #1 state to live in last year so there must be some merit to living there.

Largest Iowa cities with national rank and population.

59. Omaha-Council Bluffs 933k

88. Des Moines 646k

140. Quad Cities 382k

178. Cedar Rapids 270k

...

5 more cities with 100k+ population

The only people who say things about how they couldn't be paid to live in Iowa have actually spent no time here. It's a rather fascinating state with a lot to offer.

I live in an even smaller college town than the ones listed above. We have a robust training group here. I'm always amazed at the posters on here from bigger, and often "cooler," cities that don't have good running groups. I have people to run easy, run long, or hammer workouts with every day if I want to.

He's a stud!

https://www.endurancesportswire.com/brogan-austin-wins-usatf-marathon-championship-capping-triumphant-day-for-california-upstart-rabbit/

His training is all on Strava. Sort of surprisingly low intensity -- lots of fartleks and medium pace long runs, but no crazy 20 mile MP tempos that other Americans seem to do.

I checked it out. Seemed like lots of 20-30 second fartlek intervals. The classic tinman 7x3 CV, 7x30 second hills, 7x20 second strides. The long runs were interesting--building up to 24 miles at 5:40-5:50 pace, which seems pretty hard to me. I think it's about as hard as Kipchoge's 40k tempo runs--hard, but not too difficult. Mileage seemed lower than I expected--only a couple weeks over 100 in the build-up.

Not enough said about how he executed the race! He closed like a madman.