Ben True Ran No Slower Than 13:12 for SEVEN Years Consecutively

Banana Nut Crunch Fan wrote:

B Franklin wrote:

Lol Ben True is nowhere near podium level at the Olympics, so who cares. Woody earned his spots and True didn't.

Woody Kincaid was probably on drugs, but I sincerely doubt Ben True isn't as clean as they come.

Kinda hard to get your hands on the good burritos when living in backwoods New Hampshire.

Woody Kincaid and Grant Fisher earned their double event spots on the USA Olympic team. Ben True is a fantastic runner, old school type of training guy which I admire. Nevertheless, and thankfully, the sport of track in the USA and making an Olympic spot - is based on results at the trials. It’s merit based that day.

Stop with the drug accusations you fool.

HRE wrote:

What makes you think he's bragging when he says he's doing just mileage?. Seems to me like he's just telling people who are interested what he's doing. But you think doing "just mileage" isn't enough which is to say you think you know more about running than a guy who has performances that only the tiniest handful of us can even come close to doing. That's arrogant stupidity, "Just mileage" worked very well for guys like Ron Clarke and Mark Nenow, both of whom settled on that approach after doing other things earlier in their careers.

If it worked very well for Clarke and Nenow, good for them. Apparently, it has not worked well enough for True. Unless finishing 4th in the Trial and missing the Olympic teams qualifies as success for him.

Would love to see Ben debut strong today in New York. 2:08 is probably too optimistic, but conditions will be ideal and he's been training well. 2:08/2:09 isn't crazy though. Realistically, he posts 2:10 and change, learns a lot in his marathon debut, and doubles back for Boston in April. Or, he nails down a spot on our World Champs team in Eugene next summer. I'd say that's his chief objective. Given his age and just missing multiple Olympic teams, he'd love to round out his career at Worlds.

GETTING to the Trials is success. Missing the team is disappointment, not failure.

Runners still wear jockstraps?

I cannot believe he could deserve a thread when I didn’t realize that he was not as good as Bekele. My bad. You got me.

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You wasted our time and drained our emotions for no good reason. Ben True's 2021 NYC Marathon performance of 2:12:53 is equal to 5000m performance of 13:45.11 Five pages. Why am I the first one to give sober facts? All talk of Ben True's consecutive 5000m ... . 13:45.11

GO AWAY ...!!! wrote:

You wasted our time and drained our emotions for no good reason. Ben True's 2021 NYC Marathon performance of 2:12:53 is equal to 5000m performance of 13:45.11 Five pages. Why am I the first one to give sober facts? All talk of Ben True's consecutive 5000m ... . 13:45.11

You can't translate track times to a hilly course like that, boss.

Ho Hum wrote:

GO AWAY ...!!! wrote:

You wasted our time and drained our emotions for no good reason. Ben True's 2021 NYC Marathon performance of 2:12:53 is equal to 5000m performance of 13:45.11 Five pages. Why am I the first one to give sober facts? All talk of Ben True's consecutive 5000m ... . 13:45.11

You can't translate track times to a hilly course like that, boss.

This thread was based on O.P.'s analysis of Ben True's track 5000m performances pre-2021 NYC Marathon. Post-race, you claim now it is unfair to tie Ben True's Marathon performance to his 5000m track performances. We had posters debating for 4 pages pre-Marathon what Ben True was going to race solely based on 5000m track performances.

GO AWAY ...!!! wrote:

Ho Hum wrote:

You can't translate track times to a hilly course like that, boss.

This thread was based on O.P.'s analysis of Ben True's track 5000m performances pre-2021 NYC Marathon. Post-race, you claim now it is unfair to tie Ben True's Marathon performance to his 5000m track performances. We had posters debating for 4 pages pre-Marathon what Ben True was going to race solely based on 5000m track performances.

No, you aren't listening. I'll try again: a running calculator is not going to give you an accurate result on this course without an adjustment for course difficulty. That has nothing to do with what other people were debating, it's just a fact that hills are slower than mondo.