Aleksandr is very gifted genetically, he ran a marathon after one week of training while being overweight (100kg). It only took him 50 days to train for 100 km after the marathon. He is also 40 years old.
Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
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#112He's also 40 years old, impressive for that age!
About to turn 41. Amazing how old you can be as a runner and still be world class in some metric.
I didn't know who he was and after reading about the pace in the article I decided to search YouTube for a video of him running, just to see how fast he's going, and instead found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSLyzAH9Y0A
Apparently he weighted 100kg, was a smoker and a drinker, quit both and started running in 2012, only 10 years ago in his 30s. Amazing.
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#113This type of distance / pace is hard for some people to even grasp. This line helps sum it up nicely: > That’s 7:15 per mile or 4:30 per kilometer for 24 straight hours. Incredible
Anyone who can run 5 miles at 7:15 pace is a pretty well conditioned athlete. If you can keep that pace for an hour, that shows some determination. Multiple hours is an incredible feat. 24 hours is just suprahuman.
It's truly incredible. Even most pretty in shape people could not run a 7:15 pace for more than 2 or 3 miles.
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#114This type of distance / pace is hard for some people to even grasp. This line helps sum it up nicely: > That’s 7:15 per mile or 4:30 per kilometer for 24 straight hours. Incredible
Anyone who can run 5 miles at 7:15 pace is a pretty well conditioned athlete. If you can keep that pace for an hour, that shows some determination. Multiple hours is an incredible feat. 24 hours is just suprahuman.
I was 35 when I was able to run 10k in 47m on my first season after I lost 26 kg the previous year. This is about about 7:30 minutes per mile. I was also able to run 5k in 21:03 (about 6:47) and at the end of the season a marathon in 4:12:00 (~9:35).
I wouldn't consider myself athletic and definitely not "conditioned athlete". I had no prior history of running or taking up any sports of any kind. Actually, I would be spending very few days doing anything else than sitting straight by the computer, lying down to read a book or standing in the kitchen cooking something.
But I quickly learned to like running and I would push myself to run faster, harder, longer and further and I ran about 900 miles between March and October of my first running season with most of the volume in second half as I was ramping up on distance. At the peak I was doing say three 10k days in the middle of the week and then a 20-24k on the weekend every two weeks.
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#115I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.
This is one of the major benefits of LSD (long, slow, distance) running, especially for people who have (a slight) ADHD (like me). It allows you to have solitude. I can't sit down and think quietly for an hour, because I .. just can't cope with the lack of stimuli. Running provides some baseline stimulus at least (plus I always set a specific goal, either a distance or a time goal so that I don't give it up), so I ju…
I've never done super long runs (anything over 20 miles) but I just find it too boring. I can listen to a podcast or something but unless I'm running in a new area its just moving kinda slowly through spaces I've already seen.
I've switched to biking now which tends to help my restless mind much more. I'm moving faster, I have to lock in more because when I'm going 15 mph or higher I cant zone out like I do when I'm running, and I can see more/new places if I want to.
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#116Re: Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run
#117I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.
Gosh I find it takes a lot of mental effort to monitor the body while running. I spend a lot of mental effort balancing exertion among muscles (left-right, calf-quad-glut, legs-arms), tuning pace, "shifting gears" in terms of breaths per stride when terrain slope varies.
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#118I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.
I listen to techno/EDM-- which in any other context I can't stand context-- and that was the discovery which helped a lot with the boredom issue. I've tried listening to podcasts/audiobooks, but I either lose focus on running or the words.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eight gallons of gasoline
Humans are much more energy efficient than cars, so it was less than 3/4 of a gallon (100 kcal/mile * 200 miles = 20,000 calories = 0.7 gallons of gas or about 6 pounds of body fat). He's probably much more efficient than 100 kcal/mile though.
Energy efficiency per distance of running improves very little with training. According to the book “Burn” by Herman Pontzer we are talking about few percents, not even 10%.
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#120I've started running and an unexpected challenge is boredom. The running is challenging as is, but doing it for ~1h30m has been, for me, well, tedious. I guess that's a byproduct of always being within arm's reach of a phone.
That's why I can't do running. I can't get over the fact that it's a painful way to get from A to A. Some optimizing party of me is always screaming WE COULD JUST HAVE STAYED AT A! Now, if they're is a ball to chase and a game to win, I can run until I fall over...
I love long bike rides, I do 40 miles most weekends. Then when I occasionally try running, all I can think is how incredibly slow it is. It's all the pain of exercising without the fun of actually going anywhere!