Darren Worlock promotes sub-4 dream on own site
If Darren Worlock comes close to running a sub-4 mile at 40, he can thank his own Web site for helping push him out the door to training. Gotta fan the flames! Darren writes on the site: “Easier said than done? Well, yes, especially as like most people I have a full time job, family, friends and social commitments to maintain. However, with effort I think it’s possible and I have set up this website in the hope that it will: (1) Encourage anyone who is interested to join in and beat that magic number. (2) Over time give information on my progress, training techniques and provide an outlet for some of the “pain” I am sure to experience (3) Provide useful links, information and a contact point for veteran athletes.”
Darren also writes:
Joking aside, I am very well aware of the mountain that I have to climb to achieve my goal, but I think a lot of people are missing the point. Whether I can do it or not (and I still think I can) it’s a great life challenge, a heck of a journey and if I can inspire just one other person to get out there and have a try, well then it was all worth it.
I just can’t help but think that some of the coaches and other runners out there should perhaps concentrate on their own training and goals rather than criticising mine. You never know, they may be looking the wrong way one day one when some 40+ year old man comes running past.
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Now, as they say, if it smells like a fish, it probably is a fish. I don’t recall a letter from this guy to Athletics Weekly in the UK. I certainly don’t recall seeing any subsequent letters or comments in the magazine. There is nothing about him or his quest on the Athletics Weekly forums. He’s not listed in the UK information from 2006 or 2007 to date on Athletics Data.
Reading his web site, I am very struck by the lack of specifics. Nothing save a remark about 3 miles in 16 minutes in training.
Can anyone point me at the debate this bloke is supposed to have generated?
I’m not knocking his attempt at inspiration, but I’m finding myself just a bit suspicious that this is genuine aspiration.
Does Sub-5 at 50 sound more realistic?
There’s a group of us training with coach Bobby McGee to achieve that this year around August time, either in the Boulder Runners Club track meets or in the Pearl Street Mile.
We were all 5:10/5:15 or thereabouts last year. We’ve been posting regular progress reports on a special section of the forum on http://www.YourRunning.com and you can also read about the initial inspiration (Henry Rono) and my own long-term world record hopes on my personal site at http://www.recordrun.blogspot.com
Thanks for the posts.
I can fully understand the scepticism but there really is nothing fishy
here. I don’t appear in any of the formal stats simply because I haven’t run any recent trials or kept up my membership of a running club (although I was with the Westbury Harriers for several years). Pre Internet, thats why there is no new information on me on the internet. I was in the Westbury A team which was full of Internationals when we won the Midland 6 and 12 stage road relays in the same year and had my picture in the athletics weekly both times.
As it stands I have 3 years of training ahead of me and I am simply
concentrating on strength and stamina building right now. That coupled with
the fact that most of the local tracks are currently closed means that it
will be mid to late summer before I attempt any trials.
I fully take the point that my website currently lacks specifics but this
will be rectified over the coming months as I build on my training and start
to log some serious track hours. I guess I had to start the website
somewhere, so I started it at the very beginning…
If anyone would like further information on what I am up to, who I am or would simply like to express their views (whatever they are), then please feel to write to me via my website contact form
or direct to the email address shown on this post. Where possible (and if you are happy for me to do so), I will include the feedback on the site
itself.
Darren.
Whoops – serves me right for rushing that post! My contact form is here.
My email address is DW@Sub4at40.com.
As I have already said – all comments are very welcome.
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