Is anyone else following the attempt to beat the 2 hour marathon barrier tomorrow at Monza?
I for one find it very exciting and don't give a hoot for all the bleatings about Nike and publicity stunt and pacers etc etc. If they succeed it will be an astonishing feat of human performance, and lest we forget, Roger Bannister used pacers for his 4 minute mile.
Just to put it into perspective, we often tak about the 30 minute 5k here, To do a sub 2 hr marathin they will be doing twice that speed. 5k every 15 minutes for 2 hours. I don't actually know anyone who can run a 15 minute 5k (although our very own Absent Owl apparently did it in 16 in W4 so perhaps s/he has a future as a record breaker), let alone sustain that sort of pace.
It is going to be live streamed on the Runners world website and I shal be watching with avid interest.
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Nope, and I'm not in tomorrow (but may try and find it later) but in a similar vein I listened to a chap on radio 4 the other day who ran 50 miles a day for 6 and a half days, in the lake district. Crazy man.
aha! The 'special' pre-workout. I promise not to dob you in to the testing commitee if you let me have some.
I have actually steered clear of pre-workout since my heart incident, being reckless but not entirely stupid, but there was one occasion last year when we were slated for a particularly brutal Crossft WOD and a maximum 1 rep deadlift attempt, and I had been sent a sachet of an 'eperimental' preworkout by a friend (perhaps the inverted commas should be around friend). It was blue crystals that smelled faintly of ammonia but y'know... gotta show the youngsters that age don't quit.
... the first indication I had that all was not quite rght was during the workout briefing. I suddenly realised I had not heard anything the coach had said, and could only hear a hgh pitched buzzing in my ears and aircraft radio traffic. Then I noticed everyone was staring at me. I was apperntly gurning like a loon. They though I had St Vitus dance. Then it felt like I had fire ants under my skin and i had inadvertently become castrato. Attempting to speak only induced greater hilarity from my box 'buddies'. I briefly toyed with the dea of causing devastation to the entire county and sowing the land with salt. My head felt like a million watt bulb. My teeth made a unilateral decison to annexe Burgundy.
I PR'ed my deadlift by 25kg and couldn't get out of the car unaided for more than a week.
I did read one poster a few weeks back saying they managed 5k in (I think) week 2 which meant that that if s/he walked 2k in 20 minutes (a good fast average walking speed I do believe) then s/he ran the remaining 3k in 8 minutes. Some very talented couchers on this programme.
I have actually done the Monza F1 circuit on foot. Although long before my running days. I worked for a tie in the F1 circus and had a little ritual of walking each track whilst drinking a bottle of champagne. Someties n the dead of night, and not always alone. I generally managed it sub 2hrs but that was just a single lap, not 17 or whatever they are doing.
I've just read "Two Hours. The Quest to Run The Impossible Marathon" so this is very timely! Shame it doesn't count officially but WTF! A run is a run.
Every time I hear or read the word "Monza" I'm reminded of a grotty cinema in Dublin moons ago where a few of us went to see "The Awful Story of the Nun of Monza". And it was. Truly awful.
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