You look pretty diced in those twitter photos. You natty?
Yes.
This was the longest I've ever maintained that level of leanness (~2 months) and it was rough towards the end.
My goal was to total 1200# (squat + bench+ deadlift) and run a sub 1:30 HM in the same week. I knew if I got much over 195, sub 1:30 would be much harder and if I dropped much under 190, the total would be much harder.
Now I'm going to gain a few pounds because my body did not like being that lean for that long.
However, I don't understand why this kind of training is associated with that girl, Valby. Many thousand of people, especially older ones (read, injury-prone), are training that way for decades (incl. me). E.g. in April '23 at age 65 I made HM at 1:27 after ten runs only in March. No running at all from Nov. thru end Feb., only XC skiing and elliptical. Then started doing intervals and tempos, one of each per week 5 weeks prior to the HM race.
It's just because she's the first one to use it and compete well at the highest levels.
In my opinion, it's the way most amateurs should train, especailly as they age.
Wasn’t this thread on Reddit as well and people were angry at this guy’s ability?
Meanwhile: on LetsRun some people say you’re slow
amusing either way
Yes it was!
Actually had a pretty good reception in r/advancingrunning and had some good discussion going (like here) before the mods deleted the post for "not being suitable to the sub," whatever that means.
And just this morning I got banned for life from r/running for commenting "I wonder how long until the insane mods delete this post" when someone commented about how it was deleted on r/advancedrunning.
I mean, no offense, but an 86-minute half marathon requires almost zero training. Let me know when you can at least crack 75 minutes for God sakes.
What? Why the down votes? I'm not lying. 86 minutes is a solid time....for a 12-year-old girl. For a time like that, you don't have to train using any specific program at all, just jog around a bit and you'll get your goal. Just run baby.
And 75 minutes is all of a sudden magical? I think you have really strong like-me bias. Because someone faster would argue that 75min and 86min aren't all that different.
Wasn’t this thread on Reddit as well and people were angry at this guy’s ability?
Meanwhile: on LetsRun some people say you’re slow
amusing either way
Yes it was!
Actually had a pretty good reception in r/advancingrunning and had some good discussion going (like here) before the mods deleted the post for "not being suitable to the sub," whatever that means.
And just this morning I got banned for life from r/running for commenting "I wonder how long until the insane mods delete this post" when someone commented about how it was deleted on r/advancedrunning.
Banned for life from r/running! You must be gutted.
An 86-minute half marathon requires no specific training methodology whatsoever. Just hobby jog around the block every now and then and BOOM you'll hit your goal.
I mean, am I wrong? No. I'm just telling the TRUTH that YOU PEOPLE do not want to hear.
Hopefully the downvotes were worth it, and it made you feel better about yourself because there may be insecurity issues there (or you're just similar to a 4 year old with no filter who actually should know better assuming you're a grownup). 1:26:19 would've gotten one 757th place out of 13,600 guys in the 2023 Brooklyn Half. Heck, 20:27 (that pace for 5k) would get one 90th out of 1,939 guys at the Sacramento Thanksgiving race, both around 95th percentile.
Given the context of what he was going through, I thought it was awesome what he did as his first half and that he shared it. Doesn't matter how much faster or slower I've run, as it may help someone here, as there are people who are in different situations with age, injury status, etc. An actual running related post as opposed to lots of other crap I see on a regular basis here.
Actually had a pretty good reception in r/advancingrunning and had some good discussion going (like here) before the mods deleted the post for "not being suitable to the sub," whatever that means.
And just this morning I got banned for life from r/running for commenting "I wonder how long until the insane mods delete this post" when someone commented about how it was deleted on r/advancedrunning.
Banned for life from r/running! You must be gutted.
An 86-minute half marathon requires no specific training methodology whatsoever. Just hobby jog around the block every now and then and BOOM you'll hit your goal.
I mean, am I wrong? No. I'm just telling the TRUTH that YOU PEOPLE do not want to hear.
Hopefully the downvotes were worth it, and it made you feel better about yourself because there may be insecurity issues there (or you're just similar to a 4 year old with no filter who actually should know better assuming you're a grownup). 1:26:19 would've gotten one 757th place out of 13,600 guys in the 2023 Brooklyn Half. Heck, 20:27 (that pace for 5k) would get one 90th out of 1,939 guys at the Sacramento Thanksgiving race, both around 95th percentile.
Given the context of what he was going through, I thought it was awesome what he did as his first half and that he shared it. Doesn't matter how much faster or slower I've run, as it may help someone here, as there are people who are in different situations with age, injury status, etc. An actual running related post as opposed to lots of other crap I see on a regular basis here.
Wow, I really appreciate this post.
That's exactly the point of my post: to share what worked for me so that it might help someone else.