What's the actual definition of a PRO RUNNER? Is this guy stretching it?

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?

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?

Some of us will always enjoy seeing Tyler McCandless takedown posts. Just something about that guy.

Remember this when you talk about someone’s running career. A career is wat you do to make a living over a period of time. Very few runners make a living off of it and even less make a living for an extended period of time.

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?

It gets you bashed on threads like these.

Ty is a good guy. He is doing at least things that he loves, his wife, meteorology science, and running. Titles are just spins and it happens in corporate world all the time. I feel Ty has earned a right to call himself a “Professional” runner. Most professional barely make enough to escape poverty, which is part of the problem with the US running as a professional. It is a shame that lowest paid American football teams make more than almost all the US runners combined, and we are going to celebrate the No Fun League tomorrow night. We should have more team running races than just US Club Cross. Please don’t troll good guys like Ty when there are plenty of runnng dopers more deserving of a troll, but that is just my spin.

Tyler pls stop following/unfollowing people.

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.

Even if that were true and you were being serious, college isn't about learning, it's about signaling, and acquiring a large alumni network

There are 2 meanings these days.

The first, more traditional meaning of "pro" would mean you do it "professionally"—as in, that is what you do for one of your primary jobs. I think even someone who runs and has a youtube / social media / sponsorship, and gets enough money to get by, even if they aren't fast, could be considered a "professional runner" under this context.

The more slang version of "pro" means something more along the lines of being very, very good, and isn't necessarily synonymous with getting paid tremendous amounts of money, but has almost entirely everything to do with talent, ability, (speed in this instance, ) and competence. A way to explain how fast a top college athlete is to a younger person would be to say something like "he's a pro".

I thought this was axiomatic, but hey, here you guys are.

Holy Sh%t.

Half the responses in this thread are Tyler. If you're going to talk about yourself under different names, don't make it so obvious.

He is a PRO and you are not...

Clearly this is Tyler writing about himself. Dude you are good you don't need anyone to point it out. As Brooks would say run happy.

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. Easily put it destroys your image. Nobody is going to talk about someones academic level on a post that is geared at running unless it is you talking about your self to get approval.

This is a characteristic of major depression. If this is the case you need to talk to a professional.

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.

GBohannon wrote:

Is a 2:12:28 marathoner “stretching it” by referring to himself as a pro? No.

Next question.

Huge stretch. You cannot feed yourself on 2:12 performances.

There are two criteria to being a pro.

1. Running contributed significantly to your income.

2. Your income is sufficient to support yourself sustainably (without external infusions from family, etc).

For example, the local post-collegiates in my city who run, don't work (or barely work) and get by on their parent's money are not pros, any more so than a Williamsburg trust-bunny with an unhead-of band is a "pro musician."

Local/regional elites who actually make money from running (races and sponsorship) AND fund themselves year-to-year, I would call pros. (I would say this even if they also coach, work in a running shop or have other work contributing to their income.)

So Tyler can call himself a pro.

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.

Why do you think he is posting here at all, let alone posting multiple posts on this thread?

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.

"Pro" in slang terms actually means on the gas, on the juice, taking the spike. Like using winstrol, epo, asthma inhalers, testosterone, thyroid meds, hgh to improve athletic performance.

Or hooker.

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.

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.

Of course you do, Ty. Tell you Mom I said what up, k?