Is there software that makes it easy to put together a presentation / design like this? (e.g. wysiwyg / point-and-click)
What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
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Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
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What will drugs give them though? As the article says, the perfect runner will be light, short, have long legs, insane VO2 max, good heat dissipation, low oxygen requirements. Apart from blood doping to increase VO2 max, what can one do to improve those other things?
Basically what drugs allow you to do is recover faster and better - which allows you to train far harder than your clean competition and build all of these superhuman stats you enumerated. A famous cycling reporter took drugs for a month to see just want the effect was and apparently it was like being superman. He would go out and ride 100 miles (something that normally leaves you in couch mode the next day) and be r…
That reporter was an idiot. His entire experiment was qualitative instead of quantitative. How did he know that his performance improved? Because he reported that he felt like he was going faster. Useless.
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#73I'm consistently surprised by what the human body is able to achieve. If you've never heard of ultra marathon runners, you should check out this episode of radiolab. This lady runs for days on end in ultramarathons. http://www.radiolab.org/story/122291-in-running/ It's intriguing that she suffered brain trauma and there's a part of her brain that doesn't function as expected. I expect there will be a marathon runner…
If you find ultras interesting, watch a documentary called _Running on the Sun_ (trailer [1]). It's about the badwater 135: a 135 mi course run in 120F weather through Death Valley with 13k cumulative feet of elevation gain [2]. The runners are insane. Current course records are just below 23 hours.
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
That sounds like a great idea for a bookmarklet.
No, it should be part of HTML. A dimension or unit tag. It seems like a perfect continuation of semantic tags and the direction of XHTML 2 before the presentation-focused monstrosity that is HTML 5.
As long as we're trying to devise a standard for presenting units, i suggest this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#75So much thought was put into the design and yet nobody bothered to add an option on whether you want to see units in standard or american measures. It's 2014, can't you people just detect I'm not american and put up normal Centigrade, km, kg, etc?
"What will it take to run a 7.2 kilosecond marathon?"
That's a straw man. Nobody argued against using minutes and hours.
This is not about blindly using plain SI units wherever possible. This is about writing for an international audience. Most people in the world don't use miles but kilometres in their everyday life. This especially important when reporting about an international event such as the marathon.
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#76Here's the hypothetical scenario that the report describes in the end. I've found reading the analysis after this story makes it an even better read: The road is so flat and straight, you can see them coming from a mile away. Six runners flow in arrowhead formation around the Canadian city of Saskatoon. The early November air is still and dry, the sky overcast, and the temperature hovers a bit above freezing, just as…
The whole article is beyond stupid. It's impossible to seriously discuss athletic records in 2014 and not mention drugs. No discussion of steroids, blood doping, hgh, nothing. For context, the major marathons just increased their drug penalties [1]. The second they get serious about testing they'll discover they have the exact same problem as bicycle racing. [1] http://www.bmw-berlin-marathon.com/en/news-and-media/ne…
The article did mention drugs, specifically EPO which is used to increase VO2 Max. Steroids would be less useful in a runner since they add muscle mass and dragging any excess weight around a 26.2 mile course is counterproductive. The article mentioned that EPO could be behind either the recent world record times or the eventual sub 2-minute time.
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are HN posts so pedantic? Bruce Lee has a great quote for this
I think that if you use the metric system you should develop a ten hour day - and a 100 minute hour - and a 100 second minute. Without that, Imperial units are best - right?
At least, you can easily divide an hour and a minute by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 15. Which is a little more annoying with a pint (...but who would divide a pint anyway).
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#78Marathon and other endurance sports are interesting. It takes a toll on the body. It catabolizes it. Compare a marathon runner with a 100m runner. Also, as expected, temperature plays a big factor in it, which makes me wonder why so many people "love when it's a nice day" (read: sunny and hot) to exercise.
I'm nowhere near the level where these people compete, and my thing is road biking, not running, but I did notice the best day for a ride up and down the hills is: low temperature, dense clouds, maybe even light intermittent rain (barring any traction issues in corners). BTW, strength-based sports also take a toll on the body. Maybe even more than long distance running. You can keep doing long races well into advance…
> whereas weight lifting after 40 is a bit sketchy.
At a competitive level, probably yes. As an exercise, very good for muscle mass, bone mass, cardio health, etc.
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
"What will it take to run a 7.2 kilosecond marathon?"
That's a straw man. Nobody argued against using minutes and hours. This is not about blindly using plain SI units wherever possible. This is about writing for an international audience. Most people in the world don't use miles but kilometres in their everyday life. This especially important when reporting about an international event such as the marathon.
I'll admit that my comment was tongue-in-cheek and alludes to the fact that units are harder than they seem.
I suspect that Runner's World (an American magazine) knows their audience, and that they are mostly Americans (they do have some international sites [1], but I didn't see this article in a glance at the UK site).
Personally, I wish the US would just go with the metric system already, but that's another discussion.
[1] http://www.runnersworld.com/about-runners-world/internationa...
Re: What will it take to run a 2-hour marathon?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it should be part of HTML. A dimension or unit tag. It seems like a perfect continuation of semantic tags and the direction of XHTML 2 before the presentation-focused monstrosity that is HTML 5.
Units are harder than you might think. If I write 1 pint do I mean an imperial pint, a US liquid pint, or a US dry pint? The foot is equally tricky. This requires that the person writing the page gets it right, whereas with plain text we can rely on context to make a good guess at the unit that was meant.
> If I write 1 pint do I mean an imperial pint, a US liquid pint, or a US dry pint?
Since you are writing it you must know it and you can choose the correct tag or attribute for your html