Sage Canaday 1:09 Portland Half Marathon. Why??

Not all Hokas are clown shoes. Some are light and fast so I don’t think that is it. I think it’s more with his training and choices of races and not having a coach. Coach Sandi doesn’t count.

What is your race schedule this spring/summer? Are you planning another road marathon?

Comparing half marathon performances of ultra runners means absolutely nothing. Thats like comparing 10,000 runners 400 prs. Sage just ran the 8th fastest time at Moab Red Hot 55k. He is clearly fit. Don't knock someone who is putting in tempo work at 5:20 pace

I can't believe this thread is still going on and is this long.

Wanted to clear up a few facts:

1. My max hr as far as i know is about 186....I actually had a legit Vo2max test done in a lab and got a pretty good reading on it. Most people have no idea what their 100% max HR is (and obviously it changes with age but there are a lot of genetic variations). I don't even know what my Strava profile zones are set at....a lot of that HR data stuff is pure speculation if you haven't had a real Vo2max test done.

2. Yes, I agree my HR monitor (optical wrist strap) was reading super low the 1st mile of the race....after that it kicked in and looked like quite accurate data...so one could say that my ave. HR for this hilly Half Marathon was maybe 165-165 (instead of the 163 listed). Obviously I would have liked to be able to cruise at 2:18 marathon pace with a reading closer to 160.

3. a 1:09:06 is like 5:16 per mile pace.

4. I have no "excuse" for the hills. I specifically said the hills on the course slowed everyone down. Jesse Thomas was climbing really strong (and so was the second place guy). They also ran the downhills really well and pulled away from me by quite a bit. I generally like hills. The fact of the matter is that a hilly course is simply slower than a flat course. For the record the 15km race (that Jordan Hasay ran) is the same as the last 15km of the half marathon course.

5. I wore the HOKA Tracer 2s. It is a fast shoe and I like it a lot....I train a lot of miles in it nowadays and it feels really good. However, I think the HOKA Carbon Rocket is going to be the shoe I will wear at Rotterdam and I think it is even a faster shoe for me personally based on some workouts that I have done in it already. We also know that it has gone 2:09 in the marathon with Cam Levins wearing them I believe...so it is a shoe that is very fast.

6. I'm obvioulsy not a super talented runner. My Vo2max is 68. I get beat by people and I don't always train the best (sometimes I even over-race!). But I'm interested in health and longevity and being competitive at ultras. I'm in this sport for the long haul. I know where I stand when it comes to the track, USATF National Races, marathon majors and half marathons on the roads. I've been in this sport for a long time and done all these events. I've been very fortunate to able to have the time and resources to train and race like this. Some guys can pop a sub 2:19:00 marathon or run an OTQ on less training and more quickly. I've only broken 2:19:00 twice in my career although I've gone sub 2:20 six times (most recently last year). Some guys ran a sub 29:00 for 10km in college or a sub 14:00 for 5km. I was not one of those guys. I ran up to 150 miles a week in college to run the times that I ran. I've been very fortunate to never have an overuse injury from running take me out for more than 2-3 weeks at a time though....that's in 20 years of year-round running-training-racing on a vegetarian diet.

7. Thanks to those of you that have continued to support me. I wish you all the best in your running and health.

Thanks! Knowledgeable, specific info from a competitor IN the arena is extremely rare. You have a gift.

Sorry for the trolls who sometimes chase me around here. Some are professionals from Russia who are just bitter that they don’t have freedom of opinion in their own land, so they come here & try to bring down an American whom I admire. So do many others. It’s quite ironic, actually. Do your thing! Few can appreciate such art.

Thanks Sage. Your view is always appreciated.

jesseriley wrote:

Sorry for the trolls who sometimes chase me around here. Some are professionals from Russia who are just bitter that they don’t have freedom of opinion in their own land, so they come here & try to bring down an American whom I admire.

Says the guy who did the biggest troll job of last year on poor Dave Proctor.

Anonymous Proctor?

Remember a world-class Runner is a productive runner.

They enter lots of races (at many distances) because they don’t have much to worry about with their “Superman” reputation; or injuries; or recovery.

Please, Dave Proctor, enter multidays & show us something!

jesseriley wrote:

Anonymous Proctor?

No, just one of many that ran across that thread that you turned into a dumpster fire last year. Never heard of Dave Proctor or you before that.

“Hi!”:

I’m the person who wrote “Al Howie’s” diary in ‘91. A complete synopsis is available in 3 back issues of UltraRunning Magazine. Not anonymously. Please invest in this, instead of an army of trolls who can’t get this record for you.

They say comedy is hard, but when anonymous trolls take on an infamous race director, it’s actually easy.

If you only had a brain wrote:

Baahahahaha!! You’re actually asserting that “...the most essential dietary items that sustained us and our ancestors for over 2 million years” are meat, eggs, and dairy?!?!

Oh man, that’s rich. I haven’t had a good belly laugh like that in some time.

Try reading literally any book ever written by any competent and thinking person. We, and our ancestors, are f#%king APES bro. Look around you, do you see any apes making meals out of animal products? And don’t give me some bs about chimps eating meat as like

That quirk of evolution is what moved us a step up on other apes. Just like Dogs evolved a carb processing gene that Wolves do not have.

The Russian trolls are back to extract their toll. They helped Al Howie cheat during his 2nd Asian Trans Con and I told them I’d pay them back for their help. And here they are

Genius is hard to imitate. Plus I’m too poor to pay anyone. You’re too poor to hire anyone to stop me.

Quite an accomplishment to make Al Howie more famous after he has passed on! Congrats

If you’re not careful, you might learn something; and since you’re hanging on tooth & nail to an Everest of Ignorance, you may lose your grip. It’s a long way down, and at the bottom is that dumpster fire, we agree on that.

Hard to be famous, when no one knows your name.

jesseriley wrote:

Hard to be famous, when no one knows your name.