Rappstar wrote:
whoa... blast from the past. I actually did have some pretty good advice in there though that I should have listened to myself.
C'est la vie... The Lance part is fairly ironic though. Reminds me a lot of the whole "marginal gains" nonsense from SKY. Yeah, "marginal gains" ... and corticosteroids.
Love hearing this from the real Jordan Rapp.
In an interview with Mark Zeigler of the San Diego tribune he mentioned a lot of the exotic "recovery" stuff we were fed in the early 2000s about our favorite athletes were just to attempt to cover the drug fueled gains. (Oh we have him on an ice bath for 30 minutes after each session, stretches for an hour, eats 25grahms of brand x protein mix also)
Chrissie is/was a combination of fight to the death work ethic and freaky genetics.
One of Chrissie's very first races was the London Marathon (2002) in 3:08 and didn't know how to train or run one.
Ok, when I was a young local running hotshot - none of my faster friends pulled off a 3:08 marathon, after they finished 1st in local 5ks and 10ks multiple times per year.
How often do you hear, first marathon, first race, didn't know how to train, didn't know what I was doing = 3hr 08minutes.... It's usually 5:08 and they rode in an ambulance :)