Woke "breathwork coach" plans to run a marathon on no training with his mouth taped shut

Runner's World erased any chance I could have prevented this

A man named Anthony Lorubbio (he/him), who has never run more than seven miles at once in his life but is a certified breathwork coach, will attempt to run a marathon without any training besides whatever breathwork is, all while breathing only through his nose.

According to a Recal press release from today, Lorubbio will try this at the Seattle Marathon in less than four weeks.

Great cause; dubious idea, though maybe not the worst I’ve seen. Latoya Shauntay Snell doesn’t do any real running training either, but unlike this guy, she pretends to.

Fun footnote: I wrote an article for Runner’s World in the fall of 2020 about nasal-only-breathing while running in which I derogated the practice as gently as I could get away with. I learned today that I didn’t get away with it for long; the same URL hosting that archived article now hosts an article by Jennifer Acker that is much more friendly to the practice. In fact, it’s ludicrous. I was of course never told about this change, but why would I have been? I promote too much reality at too many of the wrong times.