So are any of you serious runners out there also everyday smokers (cigarettes)? I am curious if it's possible to run sub 18 5k times or equivalent over other distances, with smoking everyday (even if its 1-2 cigs a day)
So are any of you serious runners out there also everyday smokers (cigarettes)? I am curious if it's possible to run sub 18 5k times or equivalent over other distances, with smoking everyday (even if its 1-2 cigs a day)
If bekele had 1 cig today he'd never break 18:01 for a 5k ever again, not even downhill.
Somehow I don't believe that to be true.
One of my friends was a national level swimmer. And he used to socially smoke, though seldom. But of course he wouldn't smoke weeks leading upto competition.
I am curious how much it'd actually affect one's performance.
I'm sub 15 and I throw lips daily. Though not the same as smoking.
Unfortunately I succumb easily to work stress and indulge in a few cigs a day, while still maintaining roughly 30-40 miles a week. It does affect my top end speed, but I can still crank out a sub 18. Sub 17 though would be tough. I've quit smoking so many times =P
What do you with your butts, might I ask, AMRITE?
Back in the 80s there was a local guy who would run 32 - 34min 10ks and would always be smoking afterwards. Pretty funny. Still remember those yellow teeth smiling away as he went to pick up his AG award.
Back in the 80s there was a local guy who would run 32 - 34min 10ks and would always be smoking afterwards. Pretty funny. Still remember those yellow teeth smiling away as he went to pick up his AG award.
this is a true story, back when i was in college one of my dear friends broke 4 in the mile after a couple months of smoking cigarettes. he'd only go through 1-2 packs a week. even smoked three cigarettes the night before he ran it.
crazy talent.
I vape every day. I'm not sure how this compares with smoking. It is still inhaling a substance that's a solid at room temperature into my lungs, but there are few if any combustion byproducts. Furthermore, I use a bubbler which further cools and filters the vapor.
I have never been a full-on smoker though. I can tell a huge difference between vapor and smoke. Sometimes if my vaporizer gets too hot and I start inhaling smoke I can tell right away, and I avoid it.
Herb Elliott, Ivo Van Damme, Bradley Wiggins...all smokers.
Quote from former 5000 world record holder Chris Chataway:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/mf_neuwirth_qa/
There is another quote somewhere (maybe in the book about Roger Bannister) about Chataway not being able to finish a 5 mile cross county race unless someone handed him a lit cigarette at the 3 mile mark so he could take a few puffs!
I smoked weed once or twice a week on average from my senior year of HS through my senior year of college and ended up with 48/1:50/3:50
Guy Drut captured the silver medal in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, finishing behind the American Rodney Milburn.
was a avid smoker
Had a senior on our XC team who smoked like a chimney. Skipped Saturday practices too. He still ran a 17:50 (on a very, very hilly 5k course) at state in his only full year of cross.
Without him we wouldn't have gotten a trophy that year, he was our 5th runner. I was our #6, and the drop off between us was huge.
He lit up in the bathroom of a gas station on the way home.
I, meanwhile, ran for three more years, and never came within 20 seconds of his time on the same course.
Guy Drut won the gold four years later.
Ron Hill
I usually smoke the last lap of every race.
18:03 smoking a pack a day for 10 years running about 20 mpw. Ran low 16's before I started but put in 40 or so mpw. Quit smoking and now I couldn't break 21:00. Haven't been running.
smoked 2-3 cigs a day for two years, stopped briefly when i started running, now smoke 4-5 when drinking (1-2x a week) as well as maybe 3-4 the rest of the week and run a sub 17.
a few cigarettes is nothing compared to the shit you breathe in day in and day out if you live in a heavily populated area with lots of cars/transportation.
i wouldn't worry about it. lots of bad stuff out there.