A thread, a question for the bigger body marathoners; what was your experience? When did you turn to the marathon from the contact sports, how large are you or what position did you play, how old are you and how fast did you ultimately run?
A thread, a question for the bigger body marathoners; what was your experience? When did you turn to the marathon from the contact sports, how large are you or what position did you play, how old are you and how fast did you ultimately run?
College football 1AA, running back. 5-11, 185. Graduated in 1973. Got fat. Started running in "78. Got down to 150, and 2:40. Still at it. Just won my state AG 5k. Soon to be 67 at 175 lbs now. Way more running injuries/surgeries for sure but that is over 40 years of pounding.
Never-was hobbyjogger who used running first as fitness for hockey and football.
5ft, 11in; 163-190 lb during high school playing days. Went to a small, rural school and was a football lineman & a hockey player with little scoring touch. Ran a 5-miler in 33:32 at age 17. "Fighting weight" during my best running days (mid-late 30s) was 170-175. Best marathon was 3:10:high50s at age 36.
Now-- mid-50s, weight range of 168 +/- 3 lb and performances dropping like a stone over last 5 years; lucky if I can run sub-45 for 10k and sub-1:40 for half-marathon. No longer desire to do marathons; last one was at age 50; pleased with a 3:22 @ 5,000 ft elevation, so quit on a good-- for me-- note.
crazy old wrote:
College football 1AA, running back. 5-11, 185. Graduated in 1973. Got fat. Started running in "78. Got down to 150, and 2:40. Still at it. Just won my state AG 5k. Soon to be 67 at 175 lbs now. Way more running injuries/surgeries for sure but that is over 40 years of pounding.
How old were you when you ran 2:40?
Not Johah Lomu wrote:
crazy old wrote:
College football 1AA, running back. 5-11, 185. Graduated in 1973. Got fat. Started running in "78. Got down to 150, and 2:40. Still at it. Just won my state AG 5k. Soon to be 67 at 175 lbs now. Way more running injuries/surgeries for sure but that is over 40 years of pounding.
How old were you when you ran 2:40?
Ran my first marathon in fall, 1978 after 6 months of training in 2:52; Boston in '79 at 2:43; one more and then the 2:40 so I think that was in '81. Age 31 or 32. Coming from the football world, I totally underestimated the running injury factor so continued to have injury after injury. Otherwise, my shorter distance times and training indicated at least a mid-2:30's. Gave up marathons for almost 20 years but ran a 2:58 at age 52. Ran Boston in 2006 in 3:12 for the experience only. Haven't run one since or 1/2. Mostly just 5k's now on 30-35 miles/week but those beat me up now too. Haha.
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