This sounds like a very good way to kill yourself dead.
Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
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Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#32Picture of him here: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/41438476/ns/sports-other_sport...
Is it just me or does the photo in the article have a time of 9:48? 9 hours,48 minutes.
That race has to be a rarity since he's supposed to average 4hrs.
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#33Picture of him here: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/41438476/ns/sports-other_sport...
Is it just me or does the photo in the article have a time of 9:48? 9 hours,48 minutes. That race has to be a rarity since he's supposed to average 4hrs.
I'd guess that's a HH:MM:SS display, and we're not seeing the whole thing.
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#34Yeah, ultra runners like this guy are pretty awesome. There are others doing amazing things too. Scott Jurek broke the 24-hour run record last year by running 165.7 miles in 24-hours. Anton Krupicka averages 200 miles a week in training. These guys race 100 mile races through the mountains. How long does that take? Geoff Roes won the Western States last year in 15:07:04. That's averaging 9:04 miles over rough terrain…
The europeans are on a complete different level. The Tour du Mont Blanc is insane, a lot of mountain/ultra runners go there and can't finish it. I've done it in 5 days and was exhausted (had a bad fever one day, heel problems, you name it.) But the elite guys do it under 22hs!
UTMB is cool, and then right next door there's the Tor de Geants: http://www.tordesgeants.it/ The Europeans are kinda nutz.
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#35Yeah, ultra runners like this guy are pretty awesome. There are others doing amazing things too. Scott Jurek broke the 24-hour run record last year by running 165.7 miles in 24-hours. Anton Krupicka averages 200 miles a week in training. These guys race 100 mile races through the mountains. How long does that take? Geoff Roes won the Western States last year in 15:07:04. That's averaging 9:04 miles over rough terrain…
Scott set the American record, Yiannis Kouros still holds the world 24 hr records (180 miles on the road, 188 on the track).
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#36This is literally unfathomable to me. This guy has to be some sort of serious genetic freak. I workout regularly, but I think I just got chin splints just from reading that article. When you consider how even the most elite athletes fall victim to overtraining, I can't even imagine how his body was able to hold up to this. Truly amazing.
chin splints presumably from your jaw dropping?
So much better than the typical spelling/grammar correction ;-)
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#37Picture of him here: http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/41438476/ns/sports-other_sport...
Is it just me or does the photo in the article have a time of 9:48? 9 hours,48 minutes. That race has to be a rarity since he's supposed to average 4hrs.
That's supposed to be a picture of his last race, which he finished in 4h21m59sec according to this (Dutch) article: http://sport.be.msn.com/running/nl/nieuws/?Article_ID=492504
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#38It's even more impressive than this. He actually started on Januari 1st 2010, but got injured and kept doing marathons with a handbike. If you don't discount his injury period (during which he still was doing marathons, but not running), he did 401 marathons in a row!
Re: Belgian man completes 365 marathons in 365 consecutive days
#39" He said the key was a slow pace over the 26.2-miles. " " He ran every race, he never walked. He ran at a rate of 10 kilometers per hour " The man ran 6:13 miles[1]...in a marathon...each day, for 365 days in a row. And he calls that a slow pace ! [1] Update: It's actually 6.2 miles per hour (the equivalent of a 9:40 mile), - still not too slow. I apologize for confusing miles per hour with mile times].
At 9:40/mile my heartrate won't go below 180, I'm 27...
Try working on your briething. I've never run very far let alone a marathon(though I have played football non-stop for several hours many times when I was younger)... but 've found that by taking deep breathes while I run/jog means I can go for longer and without discumfort(until I stop) as opposed to when almost panting like a dog, it's as-if it has physchological effect and my body just refuses to work.