My question is...WHY? What is the goal here? What void in your life are you trying to fill doing this? It's PURE torture, and in my opinion a bit self-sadistic. I'm a JS fan and have nothing but respect for her running accomplishments. I'm guessing she must feel pretty good about her storied career and is brimming with self-esteem and confidence or is she still trying to prove something to either herself or other people.
Part of being a successful world class-professional athlete is knowing when to STOP! Taking the next step in life and challenging yourself in another arena is a true test of character and achieving self-fulfillment.
Others have said this and I'll pipe in too, its completely unacceptable that shes flying all over the place, without any concern for the environment for this vanity project.
Its just not cool, not any more, we should all be better about things like this.
As mentioned, it was a last minute invite from the group that puts these races together. It was only a couple weeks after her 2:31 at the NYC marathon. She had planned to retire and travel the US for a year (by RV I think). The plane was going whether or not she was running.
You may not be flying all over the globe, but chances are if you buy fruit at the grocery store or order anything off of Amazon, you have a sizable carbon footprint.
Up until the last race, it was pretty impressive. Yes, a lot of people can do 7 marathons in 7 days, but not many can do 6 of them 3:31 or faster. The conditions didn't look great for any of them.
I actually think a ton of people could run 7 marathons in a row in 3:30 or faster (Even with all the international travel). For a former elite (or even a 2:30 marathoner) that is probably not that hard actually. What is hard for that event is the high financial price tag (isn't it like $40,000?) and taking a week long vacation to fly around the world.
It's certainly an "easier feat" for ultra runners and "slow twitch marathoners" probably compared to a World Class 1500m runner though.
As far as carbon footprint goes (and I say this as a vegan who does too much international flying myself and realizes my carbon footprint is quite high because of it), the "buying fruit at the grocery store" is actually a very, very negligible part of one's carbon footprint. People totally over-estimate the impact of getting exotic Avocados or fruit flown in from New Zealand (or some distant country) vs getting a 1lb of locally farmed beef (or a "local" greenhouse farmed avocado) when it comes to carbon footprint. The content and product of the food maters when it comes to looking at life cycle analysis: processing, packaging, transport and waste. Local is not always better and "grass fed" is certainly not more energy efficient often.
International flying is obviously a huge polluter (no doubt), but let's not be comparing it to eating certain food items or something simple like recycling as it's all relative. Heck the size of the house you live in and the number of biological kids you have are going to be much, much bigger impacts on an individual's carbon footprint....
The question would be why would someone waste the money / energy on something like this? You’re looking at about $40k per person for flights and not spending real time at any of those destinations. Not to mention the huge carbon footprint.
Totally agree, though people spend much more for much less... like those idiots paying $200,000+ to fly at the stratosphere for a few minutes.
wasn't "carbon footprint" made up by the oil companies? to shift focus from industries to individuals? Maybe it drove demand for something good, but idk. doesn't seem to have made a big change, and I think the ineffectiveness was the point.
As mentioned, it was a last minute invite from the group that puts these races together. It was only a couple weeks after her 2:31 at the NYC marathon. She had planned to retire and travel the US for a year (by RV I think). The plane was going whether or not she was running.
You may not be flying all over the globe, but chances are if you buy fruit at the grocery store or order anything off of Amazon, you have a sizable carbon footprint.
Up until the last race, it was pretty impressive. Yes, a lot of people can do 7 marathons in 7 days, but not many can do 6 of them 3:31 or faster. The conditions didn't look great for any of them.
I actually think a ton of people could run 7 marathons in a row in 3:30 or faster (Even with all the international travel). For a former elite (or even a 2:30 marathoner) that is probably not that hard actually. What is hard for that event is the high financial price tag (isn't it like $40,000?) and taking a week long vacation to fly around the world.
It's certainly an "easier feat" for ultra runners and "slow twitch marathoners" probably compared to a World Class 1500m runner though.
As far as carbon footprint goes (and I say this as a vegan who does too much international flying myself and realizes my carbon footprint is quite high because of it), the "buying fruit at the grocery store" is actually a very, very negligible part of one's carbon footprint. People totally over-estimate the impact of getting exotic Avocados or fruit flown in from New Zealand (or some distant country) vs getting a 1lb of locally farmed beef (or a "local" greenhouse farmed avocado) when it comes to carbon footprint. The content and product of the food maters when it comes to looking at life cycle analysis: processing, packaging, transport and waste. Local is not always better and "grass fed" is certainly not more energy efficient often.
International flying is obviously a huge polluter (no doubt), but let's not be comparing it to eating certain food items or something simple like recycling as it's all relative. Heck the size of the house you live in and the number of biological kids you have are going to be much, much bigger impacts on an individual's carbon footprint....
Sage, I know you think climate change is "real," but relax and enjoy your life. Your individual "carbon footprint" is tiny compared to Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Gates, and the rest of the WEF leaders trying to control our lives.
"Climate change" will be "fixed" by gradually adapting to clean energy at scale, planting trees, and sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. There's even a company now that converts sequestered carbon back into liquid hydrocarbon fuel, so in the future one could burn fossil fuels and be carbon-neutral.
I know it triggers people to say climate change is fake but it is, in spirit, basically a fake problem at this point. Just keep doing your thing and don't feel guilty about it.
I actually think a ton of people could run 7 marathons in a row in 3:30 or faster (Even with all the international travel). For a former elite (or even a 2:30 marathoner) that is probably not that hard actually. What is hard for that event is the high financial price tag (isn't it like $40,000?) and taking a week long vacation to fly around the world.
It's certainly an "easier feat" for ultra runners and "slow twitch marathoners" probably compared to a World Class 1500m runner though.
As far as carbon footprint goes (and I say this as a vegan who does too much international flying myself and realizes my carbon footprint is quite high because of it), the "buying fruit at the grocery store" is actually a very, very negligible part of one's carbon footprint. People totally over-estimate the impact of getting exotic Avocados or fruit flown in from New Zealand (or some distant country) vs getting a 1lb of locally farmed beef (or a "local" greenhouse farmed avocado) when it comes to carbon footprint. The content and product of the food maters when it comes to looking at life cycle analysis: processing, packaging, transport and waste. Local is not always better and "grass fed" is certainly not more energy efficient often.
International flying is obviously a huge polluter (no doubt), but let's not be comparing it to eating certain food items or something simple like recycling as it's all relative. Heck the size of the house you live in and the number of biological kids you have are going to be much, much bigger impacts on an individual's carbon footprint....
Sage, I know you think climate change is "real," but relax and enjoy your life. Your individual "carbon footprint" is tiny compared to Al Gore, John Kerry, Bill Gates, and the rest of the WEF leaders trying to control our lives.
"Climate change" will be "fixed" by gradually adapting to clean energy at scale, planting trees, and sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. There's even a company now that converts sequestered carbon back into liquid hydrocarbon fuel, so in the future one could burn fossil fuels and be carbon-neutral.
I know it triggers people to say climate change is fake but it is, in spirit, basically a fake problem at this point. Just keep doing your thing and don't feel guilty about it.
Don’t worry be happy. That is good advice but don’t speak to the highly intelligent about subjects you are ignorant about, as you sound inexcusably foolish.
What were her times? That's all I can manage to give a sheet about this 'accomplishment' ..
Her times were decent (better than I would have expected) until the last one
3:31 in Antarctica
3:15 in Cape Town
3:12 in Perth
3:11 in Turkey (European side)
3:15 in Istanbul (Asian side)
3:16 in Colombia
5:15 in Miami with a bunch of walking breaks
if Jenny was aware that the earth is completely flat and that Antarctica is not a real continent, she would have stopped after 6 marathons and finished with a respectable sub 3:20 marathon. This just shows how flawed our education is
Her times were decent (better than I would have expected) until the last one
3:31 in Antarctica
3:15 in Cape Town
3:12 in Perth
3:11 in Turkey (European side)
3:15 in Istanbul (Asian side)
3:16 in Colombia
5:15 in Miami with a bunch of walking breaks
if Jenny was aware that the earth is completely flat and that Antarctica is not a real continent, she would have stopped after 6 marathons and finished with a respectable sub 3:20 marathon. This just shows how flawed our education is
Yeah, and on the other side of the spinning flat disc is another Jenny doing another seven continents in reverse order
Did she run in actual races or was this some touring group she did it with or she just ran 26.2 on her GPS?
It's organised by some travel mob with their own criteria, i.e. races must have say 25 finishers, but they can be spread over several distances ...those are not actually 'race' limits then but 'event' limits. Also if organiser says it is 42.2km and it then turns out to be short, it still counts beacsue the entrant wasn't aware of it being short.
I measured (and Certified through USATF & World Athletics) the Miami Course + I was there to make sure the course was set up correctly. In addition, the organizers hired an excellent local timing company that recorded lap splits - 10 lap course. I think this was the case with most of the other cities.
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