marathon cut off times need to change to increase good health (Read 424 times)

Indeed. And sometimes a verve pipe is a literal pipe made out of literal verve.

This has been my all time favorite....trolls, penis's, shitty songs, it's got it all.  I've been laughing all week.

 
At an ultra? Full meal deal, booze, and nekkid chicks. Man, it's the best.

First rule of Ultra

what happens at Ultra, stays at UItra

On Running and health-  its a J-curve with higher risk at either end. Too little or too much may be unhealthy.

The fellow who wants to reduce cutoff times to foster health would also need to limit some faster people if that were the goal!

On Trolls- what does it say about me that these are always my favorite threads...

On beloved SJ:no this does not fit with SJ’s work which has a nice helping of comparative anatomy.

On running 26.2.  Future interstellar archeologists will find all these inexplicable medals with 26.2 after global warming has destroyed us and all record as to why that particular number was worshipped by earth’s long extinct bipeds.  It should be obvious to anyone, they will remark, that moving a distance of 15.7 zorks by psuedopod locomotion is the true measure of an endurance feat (Excluding of course antigravity doping).

Boston- you mean after years of training and finally becoming a qualifier I would still have to run it to humble brag? Im out...

This is kind of related to the topic at hand and is probably of interest to many runners regardless...

Racing Heart: How Running Affects The Heart

Interesting, thanks,  good article and reassuring.   Knowing cpr and checking race for aed seems prudent.  Or running as she did with an emergency physician! I always think of these large marathons have so many participants that surely if a similar population sitting on the couch watching a football game would have a number of cardiac arrests.

 

There are a lot of gems in this thread, but this one may be my favorite. I mean (a) Hitler, and (b) how exactly are we measuring fitness?

(A) It was “hitler” the dimnuitive form, I read it as affectionate...

(B)  Usain Bolt of course!  Master of the fast twitch.

I saw a similar thread in RA not too long ago along those lines. As someone who tends toward the slower/longer side of things, the answer is obvious to me, actually training/running a 5k scares the crap out of me.  I’m gauranteed 20+ minutes of pure suffering.  Running 5 hours is something I can wrap my head around and sign up for no problem.

I was thinking about that thread a few weeks ago.

I actually had to clean the "laugh-spit" off my screen while reading this thread.  Thank you.  But man, 20 minutes of my life just went by.  I could have been watching Netflix.