Definitely hard to believe there were no circumstances that caused him to miss days.
But I ran the same 7 mile route 5 days a week for 10 years and never got sick of it. I wish I still lived in that area it had a nice steep Hill in it. It just became part of my daily routine.
btw guys over the last few years he ran done a 5 mile loop, not the 8 mile loop that he used to do. the jobros brothers of course too lazy to do their own research once again.
I find it weirder that he has never traveled to another town in 50 years. How do you make it from the dawn of Disco and the Ford administration to today without ever going somewhere for more than 24 hours?
My first thought as well.
I saw a story on television about this guy and his daily 8 mile run on the beach nearly 20 years ago. At the time, the streak was around 30 years or a little more. He is legit.
i’ve seen him in action. TBH its more a walk then a run.
When does a run become a walk?
A few weeks ago, on October 25th, a week after he turned 73 years old, it took Raven four hours and fifteen minutes to run eight miles. For the last three miles, like the last three miles of almost every run, Raven was running in the dark, by himself, for over an hour. He was bending over in pain almost every minute, trying to stretch the ball of nerves that scream in his lower back. His legs were numb. It was miserable. The run, which used to recharge him, was depleting all of his time and energy. “It was like I was running a marathon every day,” he said. “I knew when I hit over four hours, I had to make a decision.” The decision he made was to cut the run back to five miles—
REALLY ???/how many people have run at the same place for decades. PLEASE . Who the F cares ?????????????????????????????????????????????
Well, Sports Illustrated seems to care. So does the Miami newspaper. The thread is well into its third page so evidently quite a few people care. And if you really don't care why have you even looked at the thread let alone posted on it?
What do you think he could do on that one non running day each week that is "significant?"
I don't think one day a week would do it. The point was that breaking free of the restrictions that a streak puts on your life enables you to do other things.
Travel for one. But really, the rub is not about travel. For any of us running 8 miles a day for a few months would have minimal impact on life. Once it becomes a long-term streak it turns into something else. You lose time planning around it. You get injuries and spend unnecessary effort accommodating it for 6 months when it could have healed in 2 weeks. Prep, the 2+ hour run, post cleanup, and daily recovery once you have a pile of issues gets to be all you have time to handle.
It may not be quite as bad as that can imply, but I doubt he has much time for anything else. As much as I love running I would consider streak running to be more of a prison than an enjoyable way to engage in the sport.
They said everyday after each he heads down to the local watering hole, blasts Jimmy Buffett on the juke box and wastes away in Margaritaville.
What do you think he could do on that one non running day each week that is "significant?"
I don't think one day a week would do it. The point was that breaking free of the restrictions that a streak puts on your life enables you to do other things.
Travel for one. But really, the rub is not about travel. For any of us running 8 miles a day for a few months would have minimal impact on life. Once it becomes a long-term streak it turns into something else. You lose time planning around it. You get injuries and spend unnecessary effort accommodating it for 6 months when it could have healed in 2 weeks. Prep, the 2+ hour run, post cleanup, and daily recovery once you have a pile of issues gets to be all you have time to handle.
It may not be quite as bad as that can imply, but I doubt he has much time for anything else. As much as I love running I would consider streak running to be more of a prison than an enjoyable way to engage in the sport.
So what he does is not for or for most anyone and yes, it puts a lot of restrictions or requirements into his life that most of us would not want. But evidently what he does is very significant to him and that's all that matters.
btw guys over the last few years he ran done a 5 mile loop, not the 8 mile loop that he used to do. the jobros brothers of course too lazy to do their own research once again.
8 miles in 4hrs15:00 is painfully slow. What's the point? That's a pace of around 32:00 per mile. Even though it's on a beach.
I cannot imagine living a life so small and unexplored.
This guy is a running ascetic. There are loads of religious ascetics and their efforts, while amazingly self disciplined, are just like his efforts, futile.
This is an interesting post. It's an angle I hadn't thought of. In the early years of Christianity there were a fair few guys who moved away from civilization, maybe into the desert, into a cave, under a tree, scrounged for food, and spent nearly all of their time in prayer and meditation undistracted by much in the line of dealing with the material world. Many of them were seen as sources of wisdom and grace and attracted quite a few followers as Kraft seems to have done. And I would agree that what he does and what the early Christian ascetics did is ultimately futile. But then so is everything else.
This is an interesting post. It's an angle I hadn't thought of. In the early years of Christianity there were a fair few guys who moved away from civilization, maybe into the desert, into a cave, under a tree, scrounged for food, and spent nearly all of their time in prayer and meditation undistracted by much in the line of dealing with the material world. Many of them were seen as sources of wisdom and grace and attracted quite a few followers as Kraft seems to have done. And I would agree that what he does and what the early Christian ascetics did is ultimately futile. But then so is everything else.
I would argue that it is better to be a person "of the world" than someone shut away solely focused on one tiny little thing.
One can ask, who is REALLY the most self disciplined person, the guy living alone in cave pondering holy text (or running every single day on a beach at the same time)or the guy that is out in the world facing temptations at every turn?