Meb completed 26 marathons over a period of 15 years. Dane Rauschenberg completed 52 marathons in 1 year.

I agree 100% . Dane is the vastly superior runner.

Take away an Olympic Silver...a win at NYC and a win at Boston and Mebs career is crap....Even crappier when you look at the one season/year Dane produced during his magical 52 in 52 conquest.

Only the great Larry Macon and Parvaneh Moyedi have topped that.

I mean Dane's year has to be considered one if the greatest years in history. Larry and PM are just in a world of their own. That's elite level stuff

Draw the Line wrote:

Although Meb Keflezighi got the media attention and many sponsors over the years, of the two, Rauschenberg has the most impressive marathon numbers.

Average pace of Dane's marathons?

How does he fare in races? Like, say, the Olympics?

In four separate years, I ran 10,000 miles (50 weeks of 200 miles each; 8 mph or 7:30 pace). In other words, I ran 350 training-run marathons a year in four separate years (the first in 1981, the last in 2012). All told, I ran over 262,200 miles (the equivalent of over 10,000 marathons). My PR at an official marathon was 2:39:03 (on a very hot day in San Diego) not missing 6-minute pace by much (only during the last super-hot and uphills miles to the stadium. (Not bad for someone who never came close to breaking 5 minutes for the mile. My best mile was an uphill one in that San Diego Marathon - I was behind pace after coming over the Coronado Bridge, got nervous, and ran a 5:18 - that too cost me late in the race.) My best quarter mile ever was 66 seconds. I.e., I was never really fast; but I DID train massively.

For the week of my 43rd birthday, I ran 301 miles (43 miles day). The last 26.2 miles of it I did in 3 hours.

On my 62nd birthday, I ran 62 km starting at some 10,000 feet and going straight up a mountain (for the first 2 hours), on a solo run that lasted 7 hours. That was my longest run by time; my longest by distance was a 48 miler (at 7:30 pace).

Guess what, nobody cares. This thread isn't about you. Loser.

Granted, Meb was great over a number of years but Rauschenberg's star ascended to heavenly heights during the epic 52 marathon year a decade ago. This cemented his reputation as one of the most extreme athletes America has produced.

clevelandtown wrote:

Granted, Meb was great over a number of years but Rauschenberg's star ascended to heavenly heights during the epic 52 marathon year a decade ago. This cemented his reputation as one of the most extreme athletes America has produced.

So true. It’s such a shame that such a great athlete has to resort to begging to make a living. The government should be funding our most exceptional athletes.

Marathon maniac Larry Macon completed 239 marathons in a year and a total of nearly 1600. He's the GOAT in my eyes.

David S. Pumpkins wrote:

Marathon maniac Larry Macon completed 239 marathons in a year and a total of nearly 1600. He's the GOAT in my eyes.

I DNF'd in my only marathon attempt. I'm the GOAT in my eyes.

Ragen Chastain has spent more time than either participating in 'thons

Meb competed in 26 and Dane competed in none

Rauschenberg is the man.

Most men enter at most 2 marathons per year.

That glorious year, Raushenberg entered and crossed the finish line in a stunning 52 marathons.

He ignored the naysayers who believed this was impossible and redefined what a trained athlete fueled by lean beef can do.

Oh please! Who came up with this comparison, an 8th grader? Rauschenberg ran his 52 consecutive weekly marathons in 2006 with an average time of 3:21:16. At that pace that's no different than doing 52 consecutive long runs. Big frigging deal. I can tell that most people who post this kind of junk are those who are easily impressed by anything (like believing chiropractors are real physicians)

Correction. I meant " At that pace that's no different than doing 52 consecutive weekly 26.2 mile long runs. " (Not apologizing for the chiro comment)

doctorj wrote:

Oh please! Who came up with this comparison, an 8th grader? Rauschenberg ran his 52 consecutive weekly marathons in 2006 with an average time of 3:21:16. At that pace that's no different than doing 52 consecutive long runs. Big frigging deal. I can tell that most people who post this kind of junk are those who are easily impressed by anything (like believing chiropractors are real physicians)

Someone sounds jealous.

The really good runners get enough attention. It’s important and good that a stunt runner gets some recognition now and then. Go Dane!

#SeeDaneBeg

Dane's accomplishment would be raising money for charity.

He should look at his running as a personal accomplishment like us other average beings. Many of us were doing similar things in training (some way faster) without any fanfare during that time.

In 2006 I was running 100-120 per week holding a full time 8-10 hours a day very physically demanding job. 52 marathons in a year at those times would have been easy for me back then. I did a LOT of 20 mile runs around 2:05-2:15 that year. I know that's not impressive but that's really my point.

Again, I admire his commitment to raising money for charity but comparing him to Meb on an athletic level is strange enough to make me believe the OP is Dane.

Meb only completed 25 marathons, not 26. Look it up.

doctorj wrote:

Oh please! Who came up with this comparison, an 8th grader? Rauschenberg ran his 52 consecutive weekly marathons in 2006 with an average time of 3:21:16. At that pace that's no different than doing 52 consecutive long runs. Big frigging deal. I can tell that most people who post this kind of junk are those who are easily impressed by anything (like believing chiropractors are real physicians)

There's always commenters who don't get when a thread is throwing shade on folks!

Dane Rauschenberg is a suspected cheater and a libtartd and I say that as a strong liberal/liberated woman of gender who's done some cheating here and there on small stuff. No one thinks Dane is legendary except him.

Completely agree, Eliud Kipchoge only runs two marathons a year, of course if Dane Rauschenberg did that then she would be able to run 2:00:25.

Jealous much?

Hey, just two posts down, somebody mentioned Macon and his over 200 marathons in a year. How come you haven't complained about that post not being on topic for this thread either? Are you a moderator here; policing the threads or something?

This is a thread about individuals having run lots of marathons. I've run lots of marathons; so I was/am on-topic. I'd bet there's at least some people here who consider my stating what I've run as worthy of hearing about in this thread.

Having run more than the Earth-Moon distance (during a 40-year period of a minimum of 2.5 hours a day); makes me the opposite of a loser. And you are in zero position to claim to know that NOBODY cares about such an achievement.

Besides, if "nobody cares"; what does that say about you who took the time to respond???

btw, it's not my style to use derogatory terms towards other people so I won't "respond in kind".