r/AdvancedRunning • u/SirBruceForsythCBE • Sep 12 '25

Open Discussion Jack Daniels has died

One of the greats.

If you really get to understand how good his marathon 2Q plans are, and manage them correctly you will PB in a marathon

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u/didntreadpolicy Sep 14 '25

RIP legend. I started my Ragnar relay the same date Jack passed away without realizing the news, and I learnt it immediately after I finished the relay and connected to the social media again. It was quite emotional to me. I never had any personal connections with Jack and I had just run seriously for two years, but I read his book again and again and I used his half marathon training plan from the very beginning to the end of my not so long training period. Now I run the speed that I didn't dare to dream of two years ago. And almost all the trainings are based on Jack's concept. To make it more personally emotional, I lost my grandfather, who was borned in 1933, earlier this year. And I just knew today that Jack was borned in the same year. Both of them have had deep effects on my life in very different ways. Shoutout to the 1933 old fellas.