Another "distance running will kill you" article.

Chronic cardio?

Yeah, smoking could kill you too.

From the replies -

"Yestreday I ran my first race ever, the Rose Bowl 1/2 Marathon. I’m 42M and finished in the top 25% of my age group. I do Crossfit WoDs 5 days a week, which sometimes include 400/800 meter runs an occasionally (2 times a month) include 1 mile runs. I did no other running training.

Bottom line, you do not have to train long distances to run long distances!"

Mark really didn't say running will kill you sooner...in this article. His other articles on the chronic cardio do talk about how the damage by far outweighs the benefit, especially when you can run a few sprints a few times per week and run even faster distance races (in his mind).

It's not how fast you can go

The force goes into the flow

If you pick up the beat

You can forget about the heat

You say "article" like this guy has any merit whatsoever.

What a douche, this guy.

And too there were questions: What did he eat? Did he believe in isometrics? Isotonics? Ice and heat? How about aerobics, est, ESP, STP? What did he have to say about yoga, yogurt, Yogi Berra? What was his pulse rate, his blood pressure, his time for the 100-yard dash? What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials.

Anyone know Mark Sisson's PBs?

And to think of all the thousands of miles I needlessly ran and free time I would have if I had only stuck to doing a few sprints and crossfit my entire life.

Paleo schmaleo wrote:

Anyone know Mark Sisson's PBs?

a 40-minute 10k was about the best I could find for anyone named "Mark Sisson"

'Sprint training consisted of thrice weekly, four to six rep sessions of 30 second sprints'

If you give an unfit person that they will most likely get injured

Everyone is trying to peddle something

fasdfsadf wrote:

a 40-minute 10k was about the best I could find for anyone named "Mark Sisson"

Try before-internet-results. 2h16m Marathon. That guy is a legend.

RIPPED and SHREDDED. 60 years old. Nuff said.

Syrinxian wrote:

It's not how fast you can go

The force goes into the flow

If you pick up the beat

You can forget about the heat

Got to pick up the pace

If you want to stay in the race

really dude? wrote:

From the replies -

"Yestreday I ran my first race ever, the Rose Bowl 1/2 Marathon. I’m 42M and finished in the top 25% of my age group. I do Crossfit WoDs 5 days a week, which sometimes include 400/800 meter runs an occasionally (2 times a month) include 1 mile runs. I did no other running training.

Bottom line, you do not have to train long distances to run long distances!"

Looking at the results for that ace we have:

Drew Larsen, 42M - 17 of 63 ( not quite top 25% but still )

1:54:53

I could eat 7 jelly doughnuts for every meal for two months, while doing burpees after every 3rd one, and beat this guy by at least 10 minutes.

Maybe I should write a book on how to break 30 minutes for 5k. It seems like there are thousands of people ready to eat this stuff up.

Stop posting this crap...all you've done is make his site traffic go up like 8000% today.

Of course this jackwagon went to Williams...

So in a half marathon where only 138 of the 458 male runners finished in under 2 hours you finished in the top 25% for your age group? You must be very proud.

really dude? wrote:

From the replies -

"Yestreday I ran my first race ever, the Rose Bowl 1/2 Marathon. I’m 42M and finished in the top 25% of my age group. I do Crossfit WoDs 5 days a week, which sometimes include 400/800 meter runs an occasionally (2 times a month) include 1 mile runs. I did no other running training.

Bottom line, you do not have to train long distances to run long distances!"

I cannot find any site with an official result showing 2h16m Marathon. In fact, I searched archives and can't find his name in a marathon result anywhere. He ran a 16 mile race in Maine one time and ran a 6:05 minute mile pace. I've run that. That's not even close to a pace that's a minute faster per mile over a marathon. Anyone that ran a 2:16 marathon would pop up in a few archived results ...at a minimum. Frank Shorter is a legend. This guy was an above average distance runner.

If loneliness, seen as eccentric, and looking like an auschwitz captive do, then yes.