Given how muscular he is, I think it is pretty impressive. It looks like he did it in a pair of pink Next%.
194 is not that heavy. My son ran a 4:28 1500m (~4:49 mile) at 230 lbs at the end of a decathlon without doing any distance training. I would think a guy 36 lbs lighter doing distance training could run under 5.
Given how muscular he is, I think it is pretty impressive. It looks like he did it in a pair of pink Next%.
194 is not that heavy. My son ran a 4:28 1500m (~4:49 mile) at 230 lbs at the end of a decathlon without doing any distance training. I would think a guy 36 lbs lighter doing distance training could run under 5.
There is nothing remotely normal about a 230lbs guy doing ‘no distance training’ and running a 4:49 mile. The vast majority of folks on this forum and even letsrun who train exclusively for fast running can’t even do that even with maximal training and 150lbs or less body weight.
Given how muscular he is, I think it is pretty impressive. It looks like he did it in a pair of pink Next%.
194 is not that heavy. My son ran a 4:28 1500m (~4:49 mile) at 230 lbs at the end of a decathlon without doing any distance training. I would think a guy 36 lbs lighter doing distance training could run under 5.
There is nothing remotely normal about a 230lbs guy doing ‘no distance training’ and running a 4:49 mile. The vast majority of folks on this forum and even letsrun who train exclusively for fast running can’t even do that even with maximal training and 150lbs or less body weight.
Imagine what Slowtwitch would have been like when Armstrong landed on the moon… “its really not that special, I know a guy who flew to Mars on a hang glider, and held his breath the whole way”…
Imagine what Slowtwitch would have been like when Armstrong landed on the moon… “its really not that special, I know a guy who flew to Mars on a hang glider, and held his breath the whole way”…
Why do people think triathletes are so elitist and pretentious???
This thread. This freaking thread right here is why no one wants to start this sport. Bunch of pointy end assholes tearing down someone down for no reason other than they can.
Imagine what Slowtwitch would have been like when Armstrong landed on the moon… “its really not that special, I know a guy who flew to Mars on a hang glider, and held his breath the whole way”…
I was pretty surprised and impressed with his sub 5 mile.
However, go back and watch his 5 KM video on the track, look at where he starts and then look at where he stops, I caught this immediately when watching. He measured his distance based on his Garmin, but clearly stops probably 50 meters short of running a full 5 KM as he was somewhere down the back straight.
It doesn’t change his time that consequentially, so those that are impressed with 18:28 would likely be equally impressed if it was actually 10 seconds slower, I guess my beef is that he refers to this as a PR as it isn’t accurate.
If he runs a sub 3 marathon at 195 lbs, I’d be impressed, as fit as he looks, he’s still carrying a ton of extra upper body weight that isn’t making life easier for him as a runner.
Ok. You are impressing me. You came back with irrefutable evidence. Was he 230 pounds there?
If so, imagine the time he could pull off by dropping a ton of weight and becoming a runners build? He would be world class.
2 seconds per mile savings for every pound lost has always seemed accurate from my perspective. Naturally that would place him under the world record, but at that level the algorithm breaks down. But clearly he would be world class.
I am 226 pounds and my best 10k was 32’13†when I was 168 pounds. At 226 pounds, I move very pedestrian speed.
Imagine what Slowtwitch would have been like when Armstrong landed on the moon… “its really not that special, I know a guy who flew to Mars on a hang glider, and held his breath the whole way”…
My point wasn’t that it wasn’t impressive. I was always impressed by what some of my guys and guys like him could do. My only point is there are a lot more guys like him in Army. That’s why I called him a freak, he’s exactly the type of guy physically and genetically the Army needs in leadership. But he chose to be entrepreneur which is cool too.
Ok. You are impressing me. You came back with irrefutable evidence. Was he 230 pounds there?
If so, imagine the time he could pull off by dropping a ton of weight and becoming a runners build? He would be world class.
2 seconds per mile savings for every pound lost has always seemed accurate from my perspective. Naturally that would place him under the world record, but at that level the algorithm breaks down. But clearly he would be world class.
I am 226 pounds and my best 10k was 32’13†when I was 168 pounds. At 226 pounds, I move very pedestrian speed.
Yes, he said he weighed 230 the next day, which he thought was a bit heavy. By nationals a month later, he said he was closer to 220.
He had no interest in distance running. That body worked well for him in the decathlon even though he was much bigger than most.
We had several freaks in my Cavalry squadron that were his size or bigger that could run under 11-minutes on the Two-mile run for the APFT.
My roommate at the FBI Academy was a big guy. 6’3†220+ kind of guy. Also 33 or 34 years old at the time.
We did our first PT test on day two, which included a two mile run. I just figured I’d run with him. He takes off like a maniac. I kept pace with him for two laps. Then I need to walk for a lap, and I had to slow jog the rest of the way in for like a 14:30. He finished in 10:03. Turns out he was a former D1 cross country runner for a well known Big 10 school. Then became a USMC sniper, and weapons expert. He was also the two best shots in our class. Him left handed was the best shot, him right handed was the second best. He was a better shot than any of our firearms instructors and some of them were high level competitive shooters, including an Olympian.
Yeah when you said 230, my first thought was that he had to be 6’5" or more. He was carrying a lot of muscle in that race. The ending was awesome! He was booking it - great race.
*Skips forward to 3:40: “That dude (in the white) is in no way 230lbs”
*Skips forward to 4:55: “My god that dude (in the orange) is a tank!!”
Story:
At an indoor meet, coach had him running a 1000 or 600 or something. He was in there with a bunch of middle distance runners. I’m in the crowd gathered around the track. The crowd of course is 99% athletes from other teams. Anyway, as they’re lining up, someone says “that guy looks like Shrek”. Everyone laughs. The race starts start and I start hearing “look at Shrek!” and by the end as he’s winning his heat (not the fast heat) lots of guys going nuts and screaming “Go Shrek, Go Shrek!”.
