World Masters Champs 2024

Today I ran 15 min easy sustained and finished with faster 5 x 1 min interval. Now sitting at a restaurant in Spain enjoying company with my beautiful Ukrainian Queen and a tasty Pina Colada.La vida loca! Cheers! 🖐🧙🏼‍♂️🖐🥂🍾

For a former national level swimmer, I’m having trouble finding swimming results for Emma. Is she another JS lie?

Hahaha! I have not missed you,Lol))

Anyway Emma is a former USA elite swimmer. She recently won a trail 5 k in 16;03 on a difficult hilly course before a former D1 guy at 17 min . She has run a 9:42 time trial 3000 steeplechase and the main goal to qualify in the summer to run USA Champs at 3000m steeple.

With my magic wand she will be a great surprise next summer. 🖐🧙🏼‍♂️🖐

Those time trials are highly suspect. Please send me one verifiable result from a certified race. Sadly, like Rose, Emma is another one of your lies.

And where did she run a 3000m steeplechase time trial? Tracks don’t keep the water pit filled unless there’s a track meet.

But with her workout times, she should have no trouble qualifying for the USA Indoor Nationals. Let’s get her into an indoor meet so the countries best kept secret can make her debut. There’s no reason not to, unless she’s a lie.

On the world athletics website I found a certain "Emma West" who has a best time of 2:46 in the marathon which is not bad but not international level by far.

Correction: on the world athletics website Emma West, an athlete from Great Britain, is listed as having a time of 3:05 in the marathon, not 2:46. This was run in 2013.

Based on this I guess this is not the Emma West who is coached by The Wizard. It appears to be just a coincidental name but perhaps the Wizard himself could confirm.

Good sleuthing, Ghost. We knew you'd get there eventually.

Regarding the actual Emma that JS brags about -- her times are not real, and JS doesn't actually coach her. She may also be a pathological liar, just like Fat Jan.

I'm just going by her Facebook name, "Emma.West".... that Facebook names are highly inaccurate and often different from the real name to preserve anonymity so it will be difficult to unravel who the "real" Emma West or her duplicate in fact is.

In defence of the coach Wizard, athletes often don't provide accurate information about who they really are, when dealing with them online, so the coach himself may be a victim of misrepresentation of true identity. This is the disadvantage of dealing with people online especially if we have never met them. It is open to all kinds of scams and misrepresentation and or obfuscation of reality.

Back to reality now, may we wish coach J.S. a pleasant time in his vacation in Spain with his current Ukrainian princess.

Interesting that you would write these words in a post about Jan Stensson.

While you are trying to sort out the facts about this fake runner named "Emma", here's another puzzle you might want to work on. Jan said he was "training as an elite until age 40". Can you find any of his race results from age 39 or age 40? They should be readily available on the internet. I was a low/mid 2:40s marathoner at that age, and surely Jan was much better. Unless he was lying?

After searching thru the club records , this is the only result Jan posted and he was 35 years old ish....1994

In 1986 ,87 , 89 he did run a decent 1/2 marathon in 1;08s and 1;09s but he was in his mid 20s then. I have not found any results leading up to his 40s but I am happy to look and see if I find him in any results. Surely you , Jan can help and post some of your veteran times as this would help your validity on what you say here on LRC.

3000m M 35 8.48.02 (i) Jan Stensson 59 Göteborg 94 02 12
M 40 9.35.29 (i) Per Lilja 61 Göteborg 05 02 05
M 45 9.31.61 (i) Björn Hellgren 62 Helsinki/FIN 07 03 23
M 50 9.42.48 (i) Björn Hellgren 62 Jyväskylä/FIN 12 04 06
K 35 10.14.8m (i) Karin Schön 62 Göteborg 00 01 22
K 40 9.59.8m (i) Karin Schön 62 Göteborg 02 02 02
K 45 11.13.61 Ann Hellgren 67 Uddevalla 12 07 28
K 50 10.53.35 (i) Karin Schön 62 Budapest/HUN 14 03 27
K 55 12.48.70 Eleonor Öström

No results anywhere

JS, you’ve said Emma has run three time trials and ran “16:05 in a 5k hilly trail race” in March (which has zero posted results).

If Emma really is the future American Record Holder (as you say), she has two great racing opportunities within an hour of her home.

On January 26th-27th, the University of South Dakota is hosting an indoor meet and on February 9th, South Dakota State University is hosting an indoor meet.

As I said, both of those places are within an hour of where Emma lives. I’ll even pay you and her each $100 if she breaks 17:00 in the 5k in one of those two races. If she can run sub 16:00 solo, sub 17:00 in an actual race will be no problem.

But I predict she will not race because Emma is another one of your many lies.

Hey, did you put so much work to find my results as a veteran ( in my Sweden you are a veteran at age 35) , nice! But my best result as a veteran I became Swedish XC Champ in my native town Gothenburg, think it was 1994 . I will check the year when I"m back in my Sweden on my gold medal. I remember the 8:48 indoor 3000m as I won in a solo running and only about an hour later I ran the 1500m in around 4: 11.I trained still as an elite veteran until age 40 when I ran my last race in Boston Marathon but it didn't go well and had to walk alot in the last parts but finished sub 3 hours, my worst marathon out of around 15 with best time 2:22:09 done exactly at the seconds twice in then difficult Stockholm marathon passing the Western bridge twice.🇸🇪🧙🏼‍♂️🇸🇪

Today I did 14x 1 min medium fast with 1-2 min rests between....had to stop after 14th due to a minor hamstring cramp . I will see tomorrow if I run or take the new years eve off. Happy New Year to everyone here! 🇸🇪🧙🏼‍♂️🇸🇪💥💥💥

JS, please fill us in on Emma! You’ve coached Emma for almost a year and she has run National class times in all of her time trials but for some reason, has not run a single real race.

I’ll add to the pot and send Sammy $100 as well if Emma can break 17:00 in one of those two indoor track races near her home. So, $100 to Emma, $100 to Sammy and $100 to you, which is over a minute slower than her time trial time. I’ll even contact the coach and get her entered into the meet. We can list her affiliation as DANCAN.

If some girl no one has ever heard of breaks 16:00 in a 5k, the boards will light up and it will only make you look very good. You might even get new clients because of it and Emma could get a small shoe deal. There’s only positive things that will happen because of it. What’s holding you back?

I can confirm that the Stockholm course where the Wizard ran 2:22:09 is a tough course because Dave Clarke the British cross country champion and International track runner with best times of 3:39, 13:22, 27:56, won the Stockholm marathon around 1983 in 2:13:00 and he was capable of much faster on a fast course.