Obviously Webb would be the favorite. Webb has probably done a 36 minute 10k while eating 6.2 big macs just for fun.
Obviously Webb would be the favorite. Webb has probably done a 36 minute 10k while eating 6.2 big macs just for fun.
make sure you get video of all this. it'll go viral on youtube if you're able to win the bet...or even if you don't and just end up barfing while your friends laugh. good luck!
(my college team did the "fenton's challenge" where we had to eat a big-ass banana split and then run the 5k or so back to campus. quite painful, but i didn't barf until the end. then again, i finished near the back.)
Webb's a solid pick. I sure wouldn't rule out Solinsky either.
Pick a race that gets coverage, in a semi-small city so a 36min 10k runner can lead for 4 miles. Then at 4 miles while the cameras are rolling grab the bag of 6 big macs from a well planted 'spectator' and proceed to scarf them down while being slowed to a walk in the process.
s and b wrote:
I'm rethinking my 6 minute pace strategy now that I know that running the entire 10k isn't required, just finishing it is.
I think I would go with a 4 mile run, followed by 2 miles of eating and walking. Or, 5 miles of running followed by 1 mile of eating and walking.
Might as well kill two birds with one stone.
Eat the burgers as fast as you can while doing 100 jumping jacks. Then sprint all out from the line as soon as you finish that. Do a tuck 'n roll every fourth mile, pass out at about 5 miles, wake up 10mins. before time is up, stagger home while keeping back up-chuck, then puke it out at the line and slurp it up again in the 1.5 minutes you have left. Easy.
This thread is loaded with people who have never tried anything like this before.
How hungry are you immediately after a run? Usually not at all right? (unless it is a long run) That is because your body is in "run" mode, not "eat" mode. It takes some serious time to switch from one mode to the other. Eat first. The run will suck, but you can still at least do the run. There is no chance in hell you can eat 6 big macs after a decent 4 mile effort.
The 2-1-3 wrote:
Now the question is how are these burgers going to be placed in the course? You can't just leave Big Macs around town willy nilly.
Simple. If this race has an "elite" potential then I say we hire 6 butlers holding a silver platter with a lid to keep the burgers warm. I would place them at each mile marker.
My pick for the elite? Josh Cox? He seems like a beefy guy...pun intended?
So here is my personal experience with running and Big Macs:
I and my buddies ended up in possession of a bunch of buy-one-get-one-free Big Mac coupons.
I ended up with two coupons so I casually ate the first one. The next one I ate in 5 bites. Then came a challenge to eat one in 4 bites which I did fairly easily. So on to the 3 biter. This was more difficult but got it down.
It was around midnight by the time I downed the 4th one.
I hadn't yet run that day so I went off to the track to run my 24 200's alternating hard (35")/ moderate (45"). I remember running my intervals just fast enough to keep from hurling.
So I bring this up as proof that it is possible to be a glutton and still run.
My advice would be to eat two Big Macs prior to the run. Get to the 4 mile mark, as other have suggested, at a comfortable but fast pace. Eat two more while walking and get into the finish as fast as is reasonable and down the last two with a nice Spanish Red Wine.
Buen Provecho!
eat the big macs WHILE running. Eat 1 burger every 1.5k.
Man, this is too easy... eat all the meat before you run (should take you about 3-5 minutes), run your 10k (you won't feel that bad, since you didn't eat all of the big mac), then eat the bread and letttuce, whatever, after the race.
Maybe this is what Josh was trying at Comrades?
In all seriousness, I probably couldn't do it. Of course, I'm a 45 minute 10K runner, and I've never had more than 2 Big Macs either. So I'd only have 15 minutes for the eating portion, which seems a tall task.
After thinking about it, the only way I could possibly do this is to do something like run 6-7 miles easy 2 hours before the race to build appetite (in addition to not eating dinner the night before). Then do a modified 2-1-3 where I ate 2 Macs before starting, then do 15 minutes for 2 miles, have another Mac, run say a 7 minute mile, then shuffle/eat over the remaining 35 minutes/3.2 miles.
The 2-1-3 wrote:
In all seriousness, I probably couldn't do it. Of course, I'm a 45 minute 10K runner, and I've never had more than 2 Big Macs either. So I'd only have 15 minutes for the eating portion, which seems a tall task
Dude, how old are you? If you run a 45minute 10k???? Sorry, I respect the elites...LOL
Hey, I'm a "Master" and that's all I'm sayin'.
Maybe with the Special Sauce I'll break 44 min?
"I ended up with two coupons so I casually ate the first one. The next one I ate in 5 bites. Then came a challenge to eat one in 4 bites which I did fairly easily. So on to the 3 biter. This was more difficult but got it down."
I don't understand. How thick was the paper?
seriously way too easy wrote:
Man, this is too easy... eat all the meat before you run (should take you about 3-5 minutes), run your 10k (you won't feel that bad, since you didn't eat all of the big mac), then eat the bread and letttuce, whatever, after the race.
this isn't that bad of a plan. op should check it out.
loosers! wrote:
This thread is loaded with people who have never tried anything like this before.
I didn't know we had a resident expert. So, how did you do it?
Like I said, I can run a comfortable 36-37 minute 10k without getting into that "run mode" where I lose my appetite. Besides, this isn't eating out of hunger, it's eating for competition, which is completely different. I can eat for a challenge at any time.
there is no way you can do this dude.....
please let us know if you try however..
may god have mercy on your soul
I think it's doable. If you're relatively fit, it would definitely help to run a bunch before, to get nice and hungry, while still guzzling water to keep that stomach expanded. Ideally, you'll be super hungry after the first run, piss out all your water, and be rarin' to go
Have you ever eaten more than 2 Big Macs consecutively? I don't think eating 6 in one hour, let alone the 20-30 minutes you'll have, is as easy as it's being made out.
Precisely Watson wrote:
Eat the burgers as fast as you can while doing 100 jumping jacks. Then sprint all out from the line as soon as you finish that. Do a tuck 'n roll every fourth mile, pass out at about 5 miles, wake up 10mins. before time is up, stagger home while keeping back up-chuck, then puke it out at the line and slurp it up again in the 1.5 minutes you have left. Easy.
Hilarious. But seriously, do the one where you run 4 miles hard and eat the 6 while walking the last 2.2 miles. Also, please please take a video and put it on youtube. Also, my XC team in college did a 24 hr Calorie Consumption Challenge before Winter Break. The guy who won it ate 14,500 calories in 24 hours. He was probably running 80 miles a week though.