After 14 years, and 40 million parkrun races around the world, Britain's 20 year old triathlete and occasional 10000m runner Alex Yee became only the second ever man to break 14 minutes.
After 14 years, and 40 million parkrun races around the world, Britain's 20 year old triathlete and occasional 10000m runner Alex Yee became only the second ever man to break 14 minutes.
Is Yee half-Asian? I don't know any white people with that last time.
This is quite funny. We're at the in-laws for the hols and I decided not to run the local parkrun as the usual winner is ~ 20 mins+ so I thought it would look daft / be unethical to the local hobbyjogging community.
But this guy's gone and taken that to a whole other level!
Instead of discussing his time, the very first reply brings up his ethnicity. Not surprised.
Coevett wrote:
After 14 years, and 40 million parkrun races around the world, Britain's 20 year old triathlete and occasional 10000m runner Alex Yee became only the second ever man to break 14 minutes.
https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/alex-yee-runs-second-fastest-parkrun-5k-in-parkrun-history/
13:57?
yawn
Julien Wanders has just run 10k in 27:25. That's 2x13:42.5
e-on wrote:
Coevett wrote:
After 14 years, and 40 million parkrun races around the world, Britain's 20 year old triathlete and occasional 10000m runner Alex Yee became only the second ever man to break 14 minutes.
https://runningmagazine.ca/sections/runs-races/alex-yee-runs-second-fastest-parkrun-5k-in-parkrun-history/13:57?
yawn
Julien Wanders has just run 10k in 27:25. That's 2x13:42.5
Since you havent done one you have no idea how difficult is to run a fast time in one of those, which come in all shapes and sizes, where courses are not closed to the public and often, when with loops, you have to lap guys and zig zag pretty much from half race. Plus Parkruns are usully an extra session in the week for most of the "regulars", no tapering no particular prep, no nothing.
So Yee's time is mighthy impressive - he improved ten seconds from March and he ran 13'34" during the summer, so we are talking of a 13'20" guy right now.
How fast can you run math GENIUS.....
Yawn....
Hobbyjogger Shamer wrote:
This is quite funny. We're at the in-laws for the hols and I decided not to run the local parkrun as the usual winner is ~ 20 mins+ so I thought it would look daft / be unethical to the local hobbyjogging community.
But this guy's gone and taken that to a whole other level!
I would love to turn up at a local parkrun and see an elite runner at the starting line. I know it's easy to say you've 'ran against' elite runners if you enter a big marathon, but a parkrun only has on average 200-400 runners and you can be literally alongside him at the starting line (if not for very long once the race starts).
Jake Wightman does one or two every year as well.
e-on wrote:
13:57?
yawn
Julien Wanders has just run 10k in 27:25. That's 2x13:42.5
Yeah in a road race, not a parkrun
Genius in the house.... wrote:
e-on wrote:
13:57?
yawn
Julien Wanders has just run 10k in 27:25. That's 2x13:42.5
Since you havent done one you have no idea how difficult is to run a fast time in one of those, which come in all shapes and sizes, where courses are not closed to the public and often, when with loops, you have to lap guys and zig zag pretty much from half race. Plus Parkruns are usully an extra session in the week for most of the "regulars", no tapering no particular prep, no nothing.
So Yee's time is mighthy impressive - he improved ten seconds from March and he ran 13'34" during the summer, so we are talking of a 13'20" guy right now.
How fast can you run math GENIUS.....
Yawn....
Deer moran,
I have done more than 150 Parkruns, most of them at my local one in the Midlands, but a bit throughout the country, and I have experienced all types of courses.
Now about Alex. I am directly involved in athletics in Britain and I have followed Alex's career. So no need to be a patronising turd.
I didn't belittle Alex's performance in any way.
I didn't see the full race results but I guess he soloed it which is a mighty good workout for an athlete of his caliber.
How fast I can run is irrelevant and it's the question people ask when they want to make others feel inferior.
How fast did Sebastian Coe run the 5? Ta.
My post was aimed at the OP because I find it entertaining how he is so obsessed with performances by British athletes while totally disregarding (or belittling with age-cheating or doping allegations) performances by others - as is the case with Wanders' new European record.
Have a nice day and maybe consider becoming less judgmental and patronising.
e-on wrote:
My post was aimed at the OP because I find it entertaining how he is so obsessed with performances by British athletes while totally disregarding (or belittling with age-cheating or doping allegations) performances by others - as is the case with Wanders' new European record.
Have a nice day and maybe consider becoming less judgmental and patronising.
I posted this thread because as far as I know nobody posted Yee's run. There are two posts on the front page on Wander's new European record (which of course is far superior to a parkrun performance, however good).
You know, it is disturbing that the trolls constantly accusing me of being 'obsessed with doping' are apparently either elite runners, coaches, or in someway heavily involved in athletics. Maybe my language can be crude and perhaps I show a bit too much bias towards British runners (I am British after all), but anyone who gives a hoot about stamping out the poison of doping that is killing athletics would not see me as a net minus on this site, let alone display the obsessive stalking and vitriol of a number of trolls here.
I was the first person on an English language site to post that Beyer/Herald/Straub's coach was later convicted in re-unified Germany for strong arming child athletes into taking potentially lethal drugs to improve their performance. I was the first person on an English language site to post that Said Aouita's Belgian doctor ('Doctor Syringe') was arrested for supplying dozens of athletes and cyclists with peds.
That's providing a service to anyone who cares about this sport. But to somebody 'heavily involved in British athletics' it's of more concern that I post that a young British star solo runs a training workout in a Parkrun of under 14 minutes in the middle of winter rather than create a third thread on a Swiss guy breaking the European 10K record?
And am I showing British bias when I talk about Jakob and his potential as I have since I started coming to this forum? One day I'm a white nationalist racist, the next day I'm simply a British chauvinist. Make your minds up.
e-on wrote:
How fast I can run is irrelevant and it's the question people ask when they want to make others feel inferior.
How fast did Sebastian Coe run the 5? Ta.
... I do agree with this.
It's hilarious that some on this site think you can only call out poor performance if YOU personally could have topped that performance. Can you imagine if a soccer fan criticized a particular performance of Messi on a message board and another fan chipped in with "yeah, but how many champions leagues have you won?" or suchlike? Obviously that wouldn't actually happen as it'd sound ridiculous, and any fan would know that, yet on here that's par for the course.
mixed? wrote:
Is Yee half-Asian? I don't know any white people with that last time.
Yee-haw. Letsrun and its obsession with race yet again.
It is absolutely not uncommon for white people to have an asian last name:-
Is from China I believe...
Coevett said: And am I showing British bias when I talk about Jakob and his potential as I have since I started coming to this forum? One day I'm a white nationalist racist, the next day I'm simply a British chauvinist. Make your minds up.
I wish a few more of your posts could show this level of rationality and reason, this kind of tone and demeanour. most of the time you come across as a paranoid psychopath with delusions of grandeur and very little contact with reality. there is virtually nothing in your post-history to suggest that anything you have to say is rational, reasonable, or even well-argued or cogently or coherently explained. any sense that your posts have gets buried under the vitriol and barely suppressed anger you bring to bear. if folk on here don't "get," you it's probably because most of the time what you say is incomprehensible, but this particular post shows you in a different light and maybe it would help if you thought about that for a bit.
as to the actual content of your post: I share your dislike of the way that drugs have taken over our sport, I just happen to think that whining about it on LRC is not the way to get anything done about it. do you think Seb Coe or any those pettyfogging time wasters at WADA read LetsRun, or would give a hoot what any message board poster thinks? the world of sport is a commercial exercise and the only folk with a seat at the table are ones with wads of cash in their hands. drugs will not disappear from athletics until shoe companies, tv companies and sports wear companies are shoved off the table, which means, basically, not any time soon. all they care about is advertising revenue, sponsorship deals, tv contract money and how many $300 bums on seats they can get at their pointless Diamond League.
there is a reason all the athletes at those DL meets wear the same vests, and it isn't that they forgot to bring their club vest with them to Zurich.
and as for Alex Yee: my understanding is that he is primarily a triathlete. that he is also the fastest 10,000m runner in Britain this year is just beyond sad, it is a resounding indictment of the pathetic state of British distance running at the moment that only 3 men broke 28:00 this year, all in the same race, and led home by a guy who didn't even want to go to Berlin and run in the European Championships. I'm not surprised that any British fans on this forum are keeping a low profile because we have nothing to crow about from 2018.
and, incidentally, there is, logically, no reason you can't be both a chauvinist and a racist.
Happy New Year.
13:57 is a very good parkrun time. Probably worth sub 13:30 on the track and he (i presume) ran by himself for the last 2+ miles. Let's just celebrate a good performance here...
i predict 13:15 in 2019.
Yee-haw wrote:
mixed? wrote:
Is Yee half-Asian? I don't know any white people with that last time.
Yee-haw. Letsrun and its obsession with race yet again.
Why is this a taboo subject? Feeling insecure? Or, are you a soy boy beta c u c k who has white guilt?
Why a taboo subject? wrote:
Yee-haw wrote:
Yee-haw. Letsrun and its obsession with race yet again.
Why is this a taboo subject? Feeling insecure? Or, are you a soy boy beta c u c k who has white guilt?
lol Coevett, this is so typical of you.
I lol'd
Lols wrote:
13:57 is a very good parkrun time. Probably worth sub 13:30 on the track and he (i presume) ran by himself for the last 2+ miles. Let's just celebrate a good performance here...
i predict 13:15 in 2019.
Dulwich Parkrun is a very fast course. I reckon it is faster than any road 5k course you could find. It is totally flat and has no sharp turns. If you run tangents I think it may even come up short (it's Parkrun, so not that it matters).
And yes, Yee's Dad is Asian.
My local parkruns are regularly won in 15/16 minutes,nobody would really care if you showed up and beat the usual first placer.