Sub 1:30 Half Marathon in 2020 (Read 618 times)

I've got an idea to invent a device that you can run on inside with some sort of moving belt.. what do you guys think 

I’d rather get the coronavirus than have to train on a treadmill for the next few months.

DW - it’s almost impossible to maintain the distance, but it’s generally just passing people in the street. The only way I get the virus at this point is grocery store (unlikely) or being in the elevator after someone with it coughs in there. Otherwise, I can’t see how.

Also for you DW - my motivation for Grandma’s is so low given I don’t see how anything is resolved in 3 months, but on the other hand, if that race goes through and I didn’t train right, I wont’ forgive myself. So hopefully the latter motivates me. If it all fails, I can try a 10K time trial on the track I guess.

If Grandma’s does fall through, I do see needing to run here and there just to keep the sanity in check given there is nothing else going on. I guess I needed a crisis to show how important running is for my mental health.

Mark I got that Parkrun email this morning. No great surprise.

 

Watson you were right about the Wellington cases.

 

After reading Flavios post this morning I had an image of myself running laps around my house.....

 

I'm trying to stay upbeat but have that little bit of anxiety eating at me that I'm sure we all share.

I have a marathon load of anxiety.  And I highly unlikely to die from it.  And I have a significant amount of rainy day reserves.  For some people, they must an ultra marathon load of anxiety.

Next Sunday's West Wind Xterra is postponed.

LedLincoln - It’s just that there is a risk even if small. Say you fall and scrape your elbows and that in turn gets infected by bacteria.

Who’s to say there will be doctors or even antibiotics to treat you.

And even if there is, would I be willing to use those antibiotics knowing that there are 30 thousand people in much more need than me.

Knowing that anybody over 80 is being left to die regardless if you have COVID or not.

Especially in Italy there are a lot of elders and they are mostly healthy elders, else how can we explain so many centenarians coming from Italy.

Brew - exactly, for some reason the decree stated that it was possible to run. I was talking to our consultant yesterday and he told me it’s possible

They did that cause it could be challenged in the Supreme Court or something like that.

Considering they have the army on the streets telling runners to go home….

Steve/Mark - If you have community spread it’s a matter of days now.

Piwi - just oil the ground the move your feet forward and backwards haha.

Marco - in China, after 2 months they're relaxing the lockdowns outside Hubei. Some people have developed mental health problems for being locked up so long. I agree it will take a long time, but not necessarily until a vaccine is developed.

It will be as long as it's necessary to flatten the curve (or herd immunity). Or they find a way to treat the virus, cause currently they're mostly treating the symptoms.

me - I think I'll go back to having language lessons via Skype to kill the boredom. Maybe it's time to learn Mandarin, given they might be our overlords in the future (this is half joke half serious). I might also buy a 5kg pack of rice and count the grains. Hell I might weigh each grain and sum them to see if it's really 5kg.

 

 

Piwi - just oil the ground the move your feet forward and backwards haha.

 

I've been working on this and thinking of calling it the moon walk ? It could become a new type of dance.... 

^{update: more sustainable treatment are tested... maybe you are right Flavio}

To all - I see this as a Tsunami wave. The wave might be bigger some places and smaller other places. It will take whatever is on its path. But it will pass. Protect yourselves and your family. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I agree with this.  I think it is a public health crisis, but also a panic (with the panic being a consequence of all the media coverage combined with a lot of zombie movies and tv shows in our recent past).  And the panic will play out for another 10 days or so in the US, and then ease (though the financial effects will linger).

One of the tricky things is that this is a societal risk, but not necessarily an individual risk for many of us.  It's really a situation where we have to act together to inconvenience and limit and financially hurt ourselves for the benefits of others.  And that's a hard sell to many.  Made harder by so much conflicting information out there on what is the right thing to do.  [I was reading last night in the Washington Post that closing down the schools was apparently NOT popular with the public health community - much more risk from having those kids stay home and be watched over by their grandparents.]

That's also why I like to emphasize that even those who may think that they are risk-free are not - either because of potential long term damage to one's lungs, or because of unavailability of the ER for other reasons.    We act more forcefully when there is a perceived risk to ourselves - it's just human nature.

I also keep thinking that if we can just implement large scale testing in the US (and yes, there are all sorts of technical AND cultural obstacles to that), that will change the picture dramatically.  Both because it will change how we can act to contain this bug, and also because there may be a mass realization that it's already much further spread than we understood (which means, paradoxically, that we might be closer to the other side of it than we realize).

I'm signed up for Grandma's so if it is run, I'm going to hang on you for as long as possible.

 

I’d rather get the coronavirus than have to train on a treadmill for the next few months.

 

DW - it’s almost impossible to maintain the distance, but it’s generally just passing people in the street. The only way I get the virus at this point is grocery store (unlikely) or being in the elevator after someone with it coughs in there. Otherwise, I can’t see how.

 

Also for you DW - my motivation for Grandma’s is so low given I don’t see how anything is resolved in 3 months, but on the other hand, if that race goes through and I didn’t train right, I wont’ forgive myself. So hopefully the latter motivates me. If it all fails, I can try a 10K time trial on the track I guess.

 

If Grandma’s does fall through, I do see needing to run here and there just to keep the sanity in check given there is nothing else going on. I guess I needed a crisis to show how important running is for my mental health.