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Why doesn't somebody here step up to help this guy?

Do you want to know why I can break 2:00 in the marathon? Because I believe I can. And when you're willing to put in the work required to make dreams come true, amazing things can happen. I've been at it since I was 10 years old. That's 25 years, most of them with mediocre success. But you know what, I continued to believe. I have not suddenly become a genetic marvel, I am not better than anyone else, and I'm not just looking to put myself in the limelight. In all my years of studying and trying new things, I believe I've come across a new way to train that will get superior results.

I would copy and paste or try to mock a bit more but the entire article really does deserve a read.

http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/07/09 ... ieCallSub2

Far out. I'll donate a roll of aluminum foil.

When does his eBook come out?

In all seriousness though, strongman competitor Mawr Wallace (PBUH) pioneered this training methodology in the late 90s when he declared that he would forge a 300lb suit of armor and wear it around town to do day to day tasks, and thus win the WSM.

I dont click links

He's not the first to invoke the logic of the 'it intuits well' approach to athletic greatness.....

For the non-link clicking among us, here's the money-paragraph for breaking a sub-2hour marathon:

Step 1: 1 mile, 40 pounds[weight vest], 4:34
Step 2: 5K, 22 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Step 3: 10K, 14 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace
Step 4: Half marathon, 6 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Once I can do that, I'll be able to run the full marathon at 4:34 mile pace.

It should be noted that he hasn't yet achieved step 1.

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:He's not the first to invoke the logic of the 'it intuits well' approach to athletic greatness.....

For the non-link clicking among us, here's the money-paragraph for breaking a sub-2hour marathon:

Step 1: 1 mile, 40 pounds[weight vest], 4:34
Step 2: 5K, 22 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Step 3: 10K, 14 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace
Step 4: Half marathon, 6 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Once I can do that, I'll be able to run the full marathon at 4:34 mile pace.

It should be noted that he hasn't yet achieved step 1.

This should work out splendidly.

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:It should be noted that he hasn't yet achieved step 1.

I sense the hand of BMac..... Be skeeered!

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:He's not the first to invoke the logic of the 'it intuits well' approach to athletic greatness.....

For the non-link clicking among us, here's the money-paragraph for breaking a sub-2hour marathon:

Step 1: 1 mile, 40 pounds[weight vest], 4:34
Step 2: 5K, 22 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Step 3: 10K, 14 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace
Step 4: Half marathon, 6 pounds[weight vest], 4:34 mile pace

Once I can do that, I'll be able to run the full marathon at 4:34 mile pace.

It should be noted that he hasn't yet achieved step 1.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uxk3idI2A8[/youtube]

By that reasoning, it intuits well that Poundstone can run a marathon in about 45 minutes.

I like to read about people who do awesome shit.
Saying you can do something is not awesome.
Asking for money for something you can't do is not awesome.

It's the "Kickstarter Syndrome." Every fuck around is looking for a handout so they can go on a trip across the united states of America and make a documentary about something stupid, or produce their shitty pop punk album or live in and run around a pollution free area with a weighted vest. I guess that is the mindset now..."If only someone would give me the $$$'s to be awesome I would be awesome." Not quite. I hope some 10 year old kid reads his ideas, uses them and makes it work without asking everybody for money and doesn't give him any credit.

So what I'm saying without being negative is: Go do something awesome in spite of circumstances. Or don't. Just don't ask me to participate in paying your allowance.

Gorbachev wrote:

Yes, I'm drunk wrote:It should be noted that he hasn't yet achieved step 1.

I sense the hand of BMac..... Be skeeered!

If you follow the link to their first, initial, shorter interview, you'll notice this:

Call ran his marathon PR in 2007 at the Top of Utah Marathon, which has a net elevation loss of 1,081 feet and an average gradient of -0.8%. That is, it's a downhill, point-to-point course ineligible for record purposes. Call's run there qualified him for the 2008 Olympic Marathon Trials, where he recorded a DNF.

http://news.runnersworld.com/2012/06/14 ... break-200/

It just shows, Gorby, that you literally cannot make this shit up. BMac indeed!

He may not be able to run 42k nearly as fast as the fasted guys but he can do lunges wearing a weighted vest better than any of them!

Like anybody would eat that kind of line up.