Jim Walmsley gets big feature in New York Times Magazine (and a RW and SI feature on same day)

He's a lock for top 3.

Galen is too spindly and will pull a hammy.

Walmsley

Droddy

Fauble

in that order

I read this on tracktalk the other day. Decent chronicle of his life and big races.

https://tracktalk.net/t/the-jim-walmsley-guide/24710/1

Article is paywalled. Doesn't NY Times do a couple of freebies per month anymore?

Raggedman wrote:

Article is paywalled. Doesn't NY Times do a couple of freebies per month anymore?

They just closed it off for Walmsley fanboys, since ridiculous comments are already pouring in for this article.

"Some people in the distance-running community derisively refer to ultra­runners as “hobby joggers” or “glorified fast-walkers.”

To wit: the LRC has a reputation for being puritanical a-holes.

Ultra or Die wrote:

He's a lock for top 3.

Galen is too spindly and will pull a hammy.

Walmsley

Droddy

Fauble

in that order

Droddy isn’t running the trials. Injury troubles

The article stated The Oly Trials Marathon will be "the first marathon he has ever run". Is that true? He really has never run a road marathon?!?

No Walmsley fanboy wrote:

They just closed it off for Walmsley fanboys, since ridiculous comments are already pouring in for this article.

For those without access to the comments, care to share examples of some of these "ridiculous comments... already pouring in"?

over and under wrote:

The article stated The Oly Trials Marathon will be "the first marathon he has ever run". Is that true? He really has never run a road marathon?!?

As far as we know Walmsley has never run a road marathon ever.

But NYT readers point out that he has passed the Marathon distance mark many times over.

Not that anybody on letsrun would have not known that.

in this article do they touch on the use of L-M-S-L one after another? cause it's disgusting and beyond moronic

No Walmsley fanboy wrote:

As far as we know Walmsley has never run a road marathon ever.

But NYT readers point out that he has passed the Marathon distance mark many times over.

Not that anybody on letsrun would have not known that.

Thanks for the reply.

It is hard to imagine he has never entered a road marathon. Maybe 'finished' a road marathon is more realistic, and the lore was spun. Or maybe, even with his years of long-distance running, he actually has never toed the starting line of any road marathon.

over and under wrote:

It is hard to imagine he has never entered a road marathon. Maybe 'finished' a road marathon is more realistic, and the lore was spun. Or maybe, even with his years of long-distance running, he actually has never toed the starting line of any road marathon.

"Or maybe, even with his years of *competitive* long-distance running, he actually has never toed the starting line of any road marathon."

Key word here is that he has competed in a lot of long-distance races (i.e., he is not just some average non-competitive jogger exercise enthusiast).

over and under wrote:

It is hard to imagine he has never entered a road marathon. Maybe 'finished' a road marathon is more realistic, and the lore was spun. Or maybe, even with his years of long-distance running, he actually has never toed the starting line of any road marathon.

Actually it is.

Walmsley went from track racing to the Military and after that he started trail running and had a huge success there.

If you have a look at ultrasignup you see that he did a 30k and 50k trail races in Montana in 2014. The JFK 50 mile win in the same year was his first big ultrarunning success.

Why does the New York Times hate runners so much? They were behind all of the Born to Run stuff, too. I feel like all they do is attack runners.

Can someone cut and paste it here? It is paywalled

Who is this Phillipedes the author mentions running the original marathon?

Those of us in Atlanta get a good laugh out of all the concern around the hills of this course. Painstaking detail was made to ensure the flattest possible route...hence the 3+ loops instead of the usual courses we run throughout the year down here.

hardpass wrote:

Who is this Phillipedes the author mentions running the original marathon?

Those of us in Atlanta get a good laugh out of all the concern around the hills of this course. Painstaking detail was made to ensure the flattest possible route...hence the 3+ loops instead of the usual courses we run throughout the year down here.

The 3+ loops is done for spectator convenience.

hardpass wrote:

Who is this Phillipedes the author mentions running the original marathon?

Pheidippides is the "inventor" of the Marathon and the Spartathlon.

hardpass wrote:

Who is this Phillipedes the author mentions running the original marathon?

I think he meant Phillip Edes.