Can Vinny Mauri break the American record in Chicago?
A guy who did most of his training on Planet Fitness treadmills ran 2:05 in his marathon debut in Toledo. Brady Holmer thinks he or Charles Hicks takes the American record in Chicago next week.
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Holmer picks Hicks or Mauri for the American record at Chicago
Brady Holmer says the men's American marathon record falls at Chicago next week, and that it will be Charles Hicks or Vinny Mauri, with a 2:04:17 attached.
Somebody’s going to set the men’s American record in the marathon at Chicago.
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Ross Tucker joins the heart rate pile-on: use it less
Ross Tucker says that using heart rate properly means using it less rigidly, less often and with other metrics given more priority. Zach Bitter pushed back on the strawman version, saying nobody claims heart rate is useless, just that it is not as valuable as purists want for guiding workouts and races.
One one side, you have elite-level coaches/high level marathoners/national champs/PhD's.... and on the other, you have a hybrid athlete who has a cartoon as his avatar