Sham 69 wrote:
A friend I compete against is a 4:40 and sub 10 dude. We reached out and we agreed to do a run. He was like, "Are you sure? It'll be pretty long." And I just chuckled because I know I can stick with this dude who's slower than me.
I got there and expected 6 miles or somethin'. At mile 5 I started getting worried.
"Dude, did we get lost?" he was like, "No. I got this." and gave me a nod of insurance. 8 miles passed and I was like, "Dude, many miles are we in?" He said, "8."
Wow. I thought. That was the most miles I've ever ran in my lifetime. So I was pretty sure we were going to cap it at 10, but we keep going and I'm in so much pain that I wanna cry. But I hold it together just for my bro.
We are at 9 minute pace at this point and he just tells me to jump on his back for a piggy back ride at the worst time! Because the school football players (who I used to play with) were there and caught me lackin' GOOFY AF! They caught us on film and called us homophobic slurs 😞.
He tells me to get off his shoulders because he's really embarrassed , so I was like, fine.
We kept running, still at 9 minute pace. I'm crawling. To negate the leg burnin' im hot lava I start to run backwards. I ran backwards into a stupid speed bump and I'm still bleeding from the fall.
I get back up on my feet and at this point he's given up on me and he'sover 100 yards in front of me, so I just start walking. I go into a store without a mask and use their water fountain. I'm pretty sure they called the cops on me for not wearing a mask, so I had to keep running.
I take off my shirt to reveal my precious abdominals and pectorals because it's HOT AF and I'm 12 miles in! My feet are cramping like crazy and I run barefoot. The people on the street must've thought I was retarded.
15 miles pass and I'm still going until my friend picks me up in his car. He calls me a p***y and tells me that he's never doing a long run with me again. I tell him that doing long runs is a waste of time. "Renato Canova says that only marathoners need to do long runs." and is the reason why he's slower than me in the mile. He apparently went for 18 miles. Is this dude out of his mind??? He could easily be 4:10 if he didn't wreck his legs like this. Remember that you CAN NOT change slow twitch muscle to FAST twitch muscles.
I go home and hop in the shower and make it really cold and drink a lot of water. I was too tired to eat and too tired to do anything so I went to sleep and had a nightmare about Nancy Pelosi forcing me to run the Tokyo Olympic marathon.
Any of you ever had a similar experience to this?
I am 38 years old with a heart condition and could have done this run. I think you should call it a day after high school. In college I did 18 mile long runs and closed the last 10 at 50 minutes and sometimes under. 9 minute pace is still so slow that it hurts my joints. Your friend is right you need to man up and stop being a p:::y.