100 Marathons in 100 days
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Forrest Gump can easily outdo all of the above......
Who else can be running with no coat on, and then suddenly have one without stopping to buy one (or having carried one)?
And then do it repeatedly over several scenes.
Forrest Gump can easily outdo all of the above......
Who else can be running with no coat on, and then suddenly have one without stopping to buy one (or having carried one)?
And then do it repeatedly over several scenes.
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My experience of choosing marathons to enter is that there aren't actually events taking place every day for 100 days. it may just be that this was the most practical way to run them.
Perhaps it's not as difficult running them in the gym than running them outside - but then, if he'd climbed K2, would people be saying "well, he didn't do Everest!"?
Hats off to someone who's willing to do this and raise money for charity.
Perhaps it's not as difficult running them in the gym than running them outside - but then, if he'd climbed K2, would people be saying "well, he didn't do Everest!"?
Hats off to someone who's willing to do this and raise money for charity.
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I've entered the ballot for next year's London Marathon, which will be my first. For anyone who's not tried it, the training alone is bl**dy hard work. It doesn't matter whether it was on the road or in the gym, hats off to both of them for one hell of an achievement.
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Sometimes, us couch potatoes have an opinion.
As a Couch Potato, one that has just come back from a Marathon somewhere in Continental Europe, I would like to add that there is a huge difference between a marathon on a treadmill and a marathon on a road.
No crowds to join getting to the event, no queues for the toilets, no needing to go again and going in bushes, no huddled like cattle in the rain 30 minutes before start time before having to wait a further 20 minute after the elite's set off before you cross the start line yourself.
No need to worry if you are carrying enough gels or isotonic drink as someone could pop off and get you some.
No dodging between people that are setting up their iPods, chatting or insisting in staying with their group of 4 or more spread across the road.
No bottlenecks where the crowds want to get better views by going onto the course, or at water stations where walking is considered the norm by the group runners having a little chat.
No roadways littered by plastic cups, gel wrappers, discarded fruit and bottles. No cambers in the road to unsettle the balance or puddles of water too deep to simply splash through, not too mention the constant wet feet topped up by the splashes from your fellow runner.
No cold and wet conditions before, during and after the event and the prospect of not seeing your own supporters during the event, friends/family that you know will be waiting in the rain to see you, and will still be waiting as you possibly pass by unnoticed.
However the feeling of completion would be the same, road or treadmill.
The sense of achievement, the support of friends and family the tales of woe. Only the runners themselves know what they had been through and how they felt passing the finish line or when the display finally reads 26m 385y/42.195 km.
Only one of them however, can truly say they are a marathon 'runner'.
This couch potato is now readying for this weekends triathlon and then for a half marathon next month. Sometimes us couch potatoes are allowed to have an opinion and mine echoes those from the earlier posts.
No crowds to join getting to the event, no queues for the toilets, no needing to go again and going in bushes, no huddled like cattle in the rain 30 minutes before start time before having to wait a further 20 minute after the elite's set off before you cross the start line yourself.
No need to worry if you are carrying enough gels or isotonic drink as someone could pop off and get you some.
No dodging between people that are setting up their iPods, chatting or insisting in staying with their group of 4 or more spread across the road.
No bottlenecks where the crowds want to get better views by going onto the course, or at water stations where walking is considered the norm by the group runners having a little chat.
No roadways littered by plastic cups, gel wrappers, discarded fruit and bottles. No cambers in the road to unsettle the balance or puddles of water too deep to simply splash through, not too mention the constant wet feet topped up by the splashes from your fellow runner.
No cold and wet conditions before, during and after the event and the prospect of not seeing your own supporters during the event, friends/family that you know will be waiting in the rain to see you, and will still be waiting as you possibly pass by unnoticed.
However the feeling of completion would be the same, road or treadmill.
The sense of achievement, the support of friends and family the tales of woe. Only the runners themselves know what they had been through and how they felt passing the finish line or when the display finally reads 26m 385y/42.195 km.
Only one of them however, can truly say they are a marathon 'runner'.
This couch potato is now readying for this weekends triathlon and then for a half marathon next month. Sometimes us couch potatoes are allowed to have an opinion and mine echoes those from the earlier posts.
Last edited by SilsoeSid; 29th Sep 2010 at 11:29. Reason: to add: Ive heard of people using a treadmill to train for a marathon, but not of people using a road run to train for a treadmill event!
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I live in "sunny" Michigan where we have periods of 2 months or more where running outside is not feasible due to extreme cold so I bought a treadmill for those periods. I run 3-4 times a week and I run 4-5 miles per outing, (or "inning" I suppose ). The region I live in is pretty much absolutely flat with probably no more that 40' of total climb over a 4 mile run. I have done this for the last five years so I have some perspective with regard to "ease" of running both outdoors and indoors.
I have never experienced any issues during the transition from outdoors to treadmill but the transition from treadmill to outdoors is most painful if one tries to match the pace outdoors that you have been running on the treadmill right off the bat. Specifically the front of the thighs will be like rocks the morning after the first run or three. Extremely painful.
Also, if I run four miles on a level treadmill at the same pace as I have been running outdoors my weight will start to creep upwards. If I begin to add in some, (not insignificant), incline I can bring my weight back to equilibrium thus indicating that the work done on the treadmill is slightly less than on the road.
The point about "only keeping up with the belt" is, (in my opinion), the reason for both of the above.
). The region I live in is pretty much absolutely flat with probably no more that 40' of total climb over a 4 mile run. I have done this for the last five years so I have some perspective with regard to "ease" of running both outdoors and indoors.I have never experienced any issues during the transition from outdoors to treadmill but the transition from treadmill to outdoors is most painful if one tries to match the pace outdoors that you have been running on the treadmill right off the bat. Specifically the front of the thighs will be like rocks the morning after the first run or three. Extremely painful.
Also, if I run four miles on a level treadmill at the same pace as I have been running outdoors my weight will start to creep upwards. If I begin to add in some, (not insignificant), incline I can bring my weight back to equilibrium thus indicating that the work done on the treadmill is slightly less than on the road.
The point about "only keeping up with the belt" is, (in my opinion), the reason for both of the above.
