A good video with Gwen Jorgensen. Uplifting and yet raw, brutal honesty.

things like this make it easy to be a fan and cheer for gwen

He's not allowed to do things by himself?

He's not allowed to do anything but tend to all of her needs?

There are plenty of elite athletes that will be contenders at olympic trials marathon that are either single and working their

own jobs on top of training, or they're married and their spouse has their own job and they as well have their own job

and they still do their training.

Just one crazy example is Martin Hehir who is in medical school and has a kid and is still in my mind an outside shot at the olympic team even though his debut was only like 2:13 or 2:14 which is way more likely than Gwen is at this point for the marathon. Lots of other women running around 2:30 or 70 in a half (way better than Gwen's 2:36) that have jobs like teachers or nurses or other things. I'm just hearing a lot of excuses in this video.

Time to use her speed & stamina to dominate ultrarunning, ha ha.

seems like she's ultra type A and has experienced nothing but success in her life so far, including school/accounting/cpa

now she's failing, which is new territory

It was his choice. He voluntarily quit his racing career to support her. He realised she had a MUCH higher chance of getting Olympic gold than he ever would and if she had more time to focus on her training, and he takes care of everything else. Something like one race she ended up missing out on winning a world championship as she got a flat in her bike as a triathlete. It seems very clear that that is their relationship and he knows what it's like to be an athlete, he allows himself to be used by her, and slowly over their relationship she took advantage of that - though she didn't ask it of him. And that's fine. I'm sure she'd still manage to get gold or be an olympian if he didn't make that sacrifice, but she is clearly a much happier athlete for it. Though there I can imagine she has a higher pressure to perform to honour the 'sacrifice' he makes. And what can I say it worked, she got a gold medal. It takes a village to make a athlete.

Sure in terms of running she is in a more competitive field--but she came into the scene after having a baby and as someone who would run 30 miles a week and she managed in that short time to win races against some full-time lifetime runners, I'd say it's not a bad formula she has there.

He's regretting his decision to not be a man

Funny because I remember reading a piece on the True's and Ben's wife (triathlete) making a comment about how much easier it would be for her if she had a husband like Gwen's who cooked, cleaned, worked out with her etc. From what I've read this guy is essentially her keeper.

Her video from the Pittsburgh half last year showed him riding alongside her on her warmup, with a water bottle. She can't go jog a couple miles by herself?

Couples should do what they want, but come on, their set-up seems unnecessary and even unhealthy now that she's a national-class runner, not a world-class triathlete. She's 8 minutes slower in the marathon than Roberta Groner, who ran 2:29 and placed 6th at Worlds while working full-time and being a single mother of three. (I mention her kids only because Jorgensen's one kid figures so heavily in her mythos.)

I bet the video won't last long and will be pulled down. It sounds like the video was his idea and since it seems to be fueling a negative reaction towards her, I would bet that she will blow a gasket and want it pulled. She was already commenting about how the video was all about him, if she reads these comments or someone tells her about them she isn't going to be very happy with him. I see a frying pan to the head in his future, or more like a medicine ball to the head since I doubt she knows what a frying pan is.

It appears they turned comments on.

I watched this a second time because YT autoplays suggested vids and it came up.

She does come across as a bit ice queen and her husband seems legit nice but very deferential to her. But I'm sure she's still a good person inside, so I'm not knocking her overall character. I just knew females in HS and college that were awesome athletically but not friendly at all.

Entitled much? wrote:

Wow, she seems like a b!tch.

I dated an elite athlete, and the problem is that with success everything becomes more and more focused on them - it’s pretty much 24 hours a day all about them - training, eating, sleeping. They can be easy going around friends etc. but try living with one. I don’t blame them, I get it, their job is them creating a high performance body, its all about self focus and self interest - but it’s tough. I’m sure there are exceptions, but I would never date another elite athlete again. There’s just an inherent lack of balance as it’s about them and what they need to perform.

In quite a few of her other vids the comments are off for some reason.

She loves her hip hop soundtracks.

Yeah, I thought that was pretty $hitty as well. Talk about entitled. Yuck.

They are hard work wrote:

Entitled much? wrote:

Wow, she seems like a b!tch.

I dated an elite athlete, and the problem is that with success everything becomes more and more focused on them - it’s pretty much 24 hours a day all about them - training, eating, sleeping. They can be easy going around friends etc. but try living with one. I don’t blame them, I get it, their job is them creating a high performance body, its all about self focus and self interest - but it’s tough. I’m sure there are exceptions, but I would never date another elite athlete again. There’s just an inherent lack of balance as it’s about them and what they need to perform.

I agree with this. I have been married to a former elite athlete for over 20 years, and been around quite a few who have been national champions and Olympic medal winners. The personalities of those people almost always are what I call very self-centered in a healthy way. To reach that level of success they have to have a singular focus on what they need to get done to reach their goals. That doesn't mean they can't be easy going and charming, but it does mean that they think mostly about the things they need to get done to structure their lives to get their training done and do all the ancillary things needed to support their training. My wife is a wonderful, attractive, interesting person and supportive spouse with an incredible work ethic. In addition to their elite physical talent, the mainly self-centered approach is a critical part of the total personality package that gets these people the success they achieve.

bleu wrote:

Funny because I remember reading a piece on the True's and Ben's wife (triathlete) making a comment about how much easier it would be for her if she had a husband like Gwen's who cooked, cleaned, worked out with her etc. From what I've read this guy is essentially her keeper.

This. Gwen essentially isn’t excelling because she is ungrateful. If you read Deena Kastor’s novel she talks about how her success started to come from her practicing gratitude everyday of her life. Gwen now just expects her husband to do everything for her and their kid. Instead she talks about how if her husband does something it throws off her training. I’m sorry but I’ve lost respect for Gwen.

This is the thread where we rip on a successful athlete to make ourselves feel better, right? Good, I'm in the right spot. Great work fellas.

Nice . How could you not cheer for her . I enjoyed the squirrel sequence in the edit .

The best part of the video was the footage of the other BTC members jogging around the Nike campus.