Who?!? and How!? Dreams Become Reality: Trevor Hofbauer goes from 2:16 to 2:09:25 to win Canadian Champs

Wanted to play in the NBA originally. Now he is going to the Olympics

https://runningmagazine.ca/stwm-2017/trevor-hofbauer-stwm-athlete-profile/

What other Western journeyman (I mean that in a good way) runners have come out of nowhere recently to run sub 2:10?

He raced in a NB pro kit yet he ran in vaporflys. I guess his club is NB sponsored but he's not under any obligation to use their stuff.

Is he the heaviest guy ever to go under 2:10??

I mean the guy must weigh as much as a Kenyan family

ShilohDoesntCare wrote:

He raced in a NB pro kit yet he ran in vaporflys. I guess his club is NB sponsored but he's not under any obligation to use their stuff.

It looks like covered up any logos so maybe he recently lost sponsorship.

They said on the broadcast he's like 6'4 and I'm guessing he weighs at least 170. I would put this rise to this elite level equivalent to when Bill Rodgers breakthrough at Boston w/ a 2:09. Look at his PBs before that and compare it to this young man's success today.

Or is it reality becoming dreams? The reality is this guy is like a 2:15 guy. The dream is a bit harder to believe...but as Van Halen proclaimed:

Run run run away

Like a train runnin off the track

Got the truth gets left behind

Falls between the cracks

Dreams do become reality for sum wrote:

They said on the broadcast he's like 6'4 and I'm guessing he weighs at least 170. I would put this rise to this elite level equivalent to when Bill Rodgers breakthrough at Boston w/ a 2:09. Look at his PBs before that and compare it to this young man's success today.

Rodgers had finished third in the World Cross Country Championships the month before Boston 1975 which was a foreshadowing of his Boston win. (He was also a former smoker who had quit running in college and was fairly new on the scene in 1975.)

Hofbauer seems to be a guy that lingered for years as a sub-elite journeyman and then had a huge breakthrough. If I heard correctly during the broadcast, one of the commentators said that they originally mistook him for an American running with the Canadian leaders. (I may have misheard this because I got up at 3:00 a.m. to follow Amsterdam and was a little tired).

Bill Rodgers went from 2:19 ..to 2:09:55 in one year back in 1975 ... without the cheater shoes and epo. He ran more than 5700 miles that year ...

Weather was really nice today.

Dude's been a stud all year in big races.

Though even I was surprised but he looked so smooth on the course.

Did he lose time again for slowing down and high fiving everyone? Hopefully he didn't lose the Canadian record because of that. What is the bonus for the Canadian record anyway?

Peter Maher, reincarnated and faster (with Vaporfly’s, swoosh).

stop losing time wrote:

Did he lose time again for slowing down and high fiving everyone? Hopefully he didn't lose the Canadian record because of that. What is the bonus for the Canadian record anyway?

No idea what, if any, bonus was available for breaking Cam Levin's mark from a year ago but he didn't do any type of celebration this time before crossing the finish line. Had to do most of it solo. V impressive. Looks like he's going to Tokyo as Toronto has Gold status. Course is pretty dismal though for an elite marathon.

kmaclam wrote:

stop losing time wrote:

Did he lose time again for slowing down and high fiving everyone? Hopefully he didn't lose the Canadian record because of that. What is the bonus for the Canadian record anyway?

No idea what, if any, bonus was available for breaking Cam Levin's mark from a year ago but he didn't do any type of celebration this time before crossing the finish line. Had to do most of it solo. V impressive. Looks like he's going to Tokyo as Toronto has Gold status. Course is pretty dismal though for an elite marathon.

Looking at the splits, Cam was actually with him pretty far (30k?) and then cratered.

Jzs wrote:

Bill Rodgers went from 2:19 ..to 2:09:55 in one year back in 1975 ... without the cheater shoes and epo. He ran more than 5700 miles that year ...

I believe it was a somewhat wind-assisted year. Bill went 2:09 a few more times but mostly was super-consistent with the 2:0s and 2:11s back when that would win most races.

Did this guy ever run track? Was he in the CIS?

This is truly weird

Faster than all Americans this year except for Korir

Pretty obvious this guy is on the Kosgei combo. Ridiculous progression.

Jjjjkk wrote:

Did this guy ever run track? Was he in the CIS?

This is truly weird

Faster than all Americans this year except for Korir

Fauble and Ward both ran faster this year. Where do you come up with this crap?