Forums >General Running>NYT: Modern Marathoners Have Fewer Miles on Them
Good Bad & The Monkey
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Michelle
What does that say about the various marathon training programs? “It says that they all work,” Ms. Bakoulis said.
Runners run
madness baby
I for one am tired of hearing crap like this. I've seen the same type of discussions on other forums on how the "non-elite" runners are ruining the sport.
You'll ruin your knees!
Where does it say that? Why do people get so worked about about this? There's a big difference between training to race and training to finish, and most of the growth in marathons has been with people who just want to finish. What's the problem with that?
""...the truth that someday, you will go for your last run. But not today—today you got to run." - Matt Crownover (after Western States)
I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
esq.
... modified to add: I realize this isn't what the article is about,
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Hmmm... training to race vs. training to finish. Seems to me there is a huge gap between these two that most of us actually fall into...training to PR!
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
To me, going for a PR IS racing. Personally, any time you toe the line in an event called a race, I'd say you're racing. You're racing the people around you, yourself, the clock. A race is different than a training run in that it's something that you use as a goal, and you go out with the intention of giving it your all, your best effort possible on that day. That's what racing is. It's not something done by a select few. It's something done by everyone who pays their fee and crosses that starting line.
Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." - Joe Henderson
That's simply not the case. I would bet that 99% of the runners, whether they finish in 3 hours or 6 hours, are "hellbent on crossing the finish line in the fastest time possible."