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4:50, ~48 hours, 5:53,
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"If you have the fire, run..." -John Climacus
not bad for mile 25
Yeah, I was gonna post this, but you did it so much more eloquently.
So, are any marathon or ultra runners up to the fitness levels of these guys?
I am pretty sure he could dunk on Djokovic, maybe like 3 times. Then he'd be lying flat.
Yeah, I was gonna post this, but you did it so much more eloquently. So, are any marathon or ultra runners up to the fitness levels of these guys?
I think it is a different type of endurance. The ability to continue to stop, go, serve hard and return hard. I saw the last few sets with Murray. The concentration, even that late into the match, was mind-boggling.
Yeah, we runners can be mind-bogglingly stupid at the end of a long run.
Anything past 16 miles and I'm a slap-happy idiot who's lost the ability to do much other than run, drink water, and open Gu.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Your training this year is gangster.
You'll ruin your knees!
... some are mind-boggingly stupid at the START of a run...
""...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 didn't want to say that...
TdF cyclists - 3 weeks, 6~8 hours a day at crazy speeds and some real killer climbs. Couple of "rest" days - when most of them do a few easy hours just to keep their legs ticking over.
To put my original question another way, do you think these tennis players/bb players/cyclists could run an awesome marathon?
If they trained properly for a marathon, I think most any elite tennis player, baller, or cyclist could bust out a BQ, maybe even a sub 3 hr marathon. They have the physiological make up and the mental fortitude necessary to invest in a little pain for 3 hours.
Say they didn't train specifically for the marathon, but just got fitted with running shoes and went for it?
maybe even a sub 3 hr marathon.
I dont think an elite athlete would have much trouble breaking 3.
And we run because we like itThrough the broad bright land