Can this guy be banned? He just turned a cool story from one of the most positive posters into an inquisition/accusation. This is not uncommon behavior from him. Not saying it's the worst thing a poster can do, but it just shreds any aspect of community we still have on here.
I just looked and saw that the prize purse for the Pgh. Marathon Woman's field in '93 was $72,000. So why is this snot nosed kid calling out a veteran high quality woman marathoner about her relating a memory of winning $2000?
I hadn’t seen your post for some reason. Thank you.
Why can't I start at 12:01 am and go until 11:59 pm?
I'd shoot for 100 miles. I think it's a lock that I'd get to 50, probably 80-85% chance I get to 75-80 range. Maybe 50/50 on doing the full hundo.
You people really amaze me. Like some people struggle to cover 75 miles on foot in a week and for many of you to do it in a day sounds extremely doable as long as you’re getting paid handsomely for it. Again I wonder if those who could cover 75 miles, would they be struggling to walk the next day? I mean maybe really beat up?
I'm a 30-60 mile-per-week runner and ran a 100 miler in about 24 hours this past fall. I didn't really even feel that tired when I finished (a bit hungry and sleepy - nothing that a snack and nap couldn't fix) and the next day I barely had any sore muscles.
100-milers are hard mentally and difficult to execute well (even when slow like me) but are much easier on your muscles than say running a 3 hour marathon. I used to shuffle like a zombie in the days following a marathon as the repeated eccentric force from running 7 minute miles destroyed my quads. The landing force from each step in an ultra is way lower - I was alternating ~11 min/mile "running" with walk breaks and 5 minute stops every 5 miles to re-fuel and get ice (it was 85 degrees out). With this, it's physically reasonable to run an ultra every month, whereas doing more than 3 marathons a year is difficult to pull at full race pace.
If I could go for 24 hours, averaging 4 min miles, so 15 miles an hour, that's 24*15=360,
so 360 miles, I'd wear a diaper and dope up for a few months, but pretty easy $360 imo
Yes but you wouldn’t be on a bicycle, and I am not even sure you could do it on a bicycle. By that I mean you, I know some could. But probably the vast majority couldn’t do that on a bicycle.
Gotta think at least 40 when healthy ( currently on crutches patella tendon rupture) In 2020 I did the Pemi loop- 32 ish miles in white mts under 16 hours.. very little running.. only last couple miles a slight jog
so 17 hours, flat walking gotta think 40 would be doable.
I wanna know how you ruptured your patellar tendon
I wish I had a cooler story but... literally walking into school at 7:05 in the morning getting ready for the day ( 55 year old phys ed/health teacher and coach) had 20 year old ll bean boots on slightly wet because of a coating of snow outside.... walking on a dry typical old school cheap smooth tile hallway floor. slipped and it ruptured.... painful as hell.. knew it was something bad right away... ambulance to ER. surgery 4 days later.. Really sucks.
Walking would add up to 3 x 17 = 51, maybe 50 miles with minimal breaks.
I would probably add 10-minute miles (avg) for half until it started to bother me. Probably a good 65 miles without feeling beat up.
I am not questioning whether you guys can do this but it is impressive to me that even many of you who probably have never covered even 30 miles in a day are confident you can do much more. But you may indeed be correct.
I thought out my strategy (I would do cycles of running for an hour and then walk for three), but the thing I want to know is:
What would be your fueling strategy?
Would you stop to eat, or would you eat while moving? Eat a little bit every hour, or space three meals over the course of the day? Foods that you eat on an everyday basis, or would it be gels and liquid calories?
Nerd out! How would you eat for your 17 hours of locomotion?
Enough to pay off my student debt, so something like 40-45 miles. If I somehow feel great after that then I would entertain shuffling along till the day was over.
So let us say starting at 7 am until maybe midnight? Could you make it 10 miles? 20 miles? 30 miles? Maybe less than 10? Would you try for a lot of miles? Walking counts too. No offense intended if you are paralyzed or somehow immobile.
As someone who is both paralyzed and immobile, I was really offended until I read the last sentence.
I think an interesting thing to consider is whether or not to just walk the whole time. Like most, I know I'm not capable of running for 17 hours (7am to midnight) but I think I could probably walk that long or close to it. Then there's thinking about running and walking at times. Do you try to run when you can, take walking breaks, and just kinda wing it? Or do you try to calculate what kind of shape you're in and how much recovery you need, and maybe run a long way at first, walk an hour or two, then run again? If I ran some, would I be able to cover more ground overall, or would I wear myself out so that my walking would hurt more and I'd slow down overall? Probably most trained people could get away with some running.
As someone who just last year did a 14.5 hour run/mountaineering event, I would suggest running the flats and moderate downhills. Running the road sections (if they aren't steep) and just power walking the rest. In the beginning, I tried to run everything but after like 5 hours, I was pretty cooked. Granted, my longest training run was 5 hours (for a trail 50km).
So yes, you are onto something with your do-what-you-can-do approach. That is what all of us who are not trained for a 24 hour race would have to do.
People who think they can just go out and "run it" are crazy. If they tried it, they'd see that being in 15 flat 5K shape doesn't really mean anything after like 6 hours.
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