YO BRO wrote:
I love a good bashing thread more than anyone.. when it's due. This is ridiculous.
No, a 2:12 guy who is one of the top US marathoners in recent years calling himself a pro is not stretching it.
Can we get back to targeting instagram "pros" running 4 hour marathons?
YO BRO wrote:
I love a good bashing thread more than anyone.. when it's due. This is ridiculous.
No, a 2:12 guy who is one of the top US marathoners in recent years calling himself a pro is not stretching it.
Can we get back to targeting instagram "pros" running 4 hour marathons?
honest abe..... wrote:
YO BRO wrote:
I love a good bashing thread more than anyone.. when it's due. This is ridiculous.
No, a 2:12 guy who is one of the top US marathoners in recent years calling himself a pro is not stretching it.
Can we get back to targeting instagram "pros" running 4 hour marathons?
Is he making a living with his running income?
Your profession is what you do to make a living, not your hobby. yes, 2:12 is good, but what does that get you?
back woods wrote:
Like A Bosshard wrote:
He's clearly a brilliant guy, you don't get degrees from Penn State as well as a PhD in sciences if you're a dummy.
Penn State is nothing special. Their typical alum learned next to nothing in whatever b.s. degree program.
As a professional scientist I wish it were true that morons, charlatans, thieves, and other lowlifes and fools were unable to get PhDs and become professors, but it ain't.
Like A Bosshard wrote:
I know it's been debated in other threads on here and other boards before. Maybe we'll never find consensus agreement on "more than X% of your income has to come from running sponsorship, appearance fees, and winnings" or "you have to place in the top Y of your specialty distance at least Z times in your career."
The case in question is that of one Tyler McCandless. He's clearly a brilliant guy, you don't get degrees from Penn State as well as a PhD in sciences if you're a dummy. And sure, right out of college he could have had a Mizuno deal that got him travel and gear plus a modest stipend which represented an outlay of more than 10, 15 or 25% of his annual income. At this point, though, it's a tough sell. He's slipped from Mizuno to Brooks (iD?) to Newton to Altra/Rabbit.
https://www.instagram.com/trackty/
No problem at all with having a gear deal, get whatever you can from the open market and it's good that companies still see value in his performance and image. It's not that anyone's saying "oh he acts like a pro runner" because he has slim sponsorship deals, he goes around telling people that he's a pro runner:
https://youtu.be/r2NTT6wpoFU
He's a damn good runner, better than almost all on this board are or ever were. It seems rather disingenuous, in the way that strippers claim to "only be doing it to pay for law school." Just take his most recent race, a half in Florida where he won by a minute yet while avoiding the competition in Houston on the same weekend. Maybe the Florida race offered a better appearance package than Houston would offer to the runner-up at US marathon champs two years ago. He plays the SM game really well, his loves to talk about himself and his selfies are on point, gotta give him that.
GBohannon wrote:
Is a 2:12:28 marathoner “stretching it” by referring to himself as a pro? No.
Next question.
Nothing ToJokeAbout wrote:
Tyler,
Word of advice when you Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde a message board by posting under a bunch of different names it makes you look mentally insane.
No not college wrote:
You are the first person to call a college runner a pro. That is just incorrect. The use of the word pro in the running community is to signify that the runner is not in college regardless if they are really solely living off of the running income.
Of course you do, Ty. Tell you Mom I said what up, k?
psyentist wrote:
This dude is the 5th fastest US male in the last couple years? I think he's legit.
And he ran a 2:12 in what, altras? lol imagine if he ran in 4%. I'd be surprised if he didn't since he's got a very legit shot at making the olympic team.