Man brags he could run a marathon on 24hr notice with no training — so wife signs him up - Guess the time

Don't celebrate people until the drug test results come in.

What a waste of time/a post for everyone. Don’t you have anything better to do instead of posting ridiculous posts with no info for people to go off, Rojo?

Poor Rojo.

To be fair, there’s plenty of videos documenting it. This isn’t a fake.

Bekele has probably sleep walked a marathon in under 6 hours

The title said "...RUN a marathon...", a 5:58 effort is a bit faster than a brisk walking pace of 4mph.

For such a young and slim looking guy, this is kinda embarrassing, but maybe the random 24 hr notice messed with his mental prep. Years ago we egged on a friend to register on a whim just days before a marathon i was running in. Other than softball and some hiking, he did zero training and had a desk job. He was naturally big/lean, 6ft-1, 190lbs 12.5% BF, ~38 yrs old. During warmups in a park he sprinted by the top Kenyans shuffle-jogging, which probably misled him. But hey, he finished just under 5:50 iirc, on a very hot day in sunny California. He walk-jogged the first half, then power walked the last half with some woman in her late 70s (she pulled away last mile), sprinting the last 50 yards to the finish line. Next few days he could only go down the stairs backwards, laughed his head off about it. Good times.

I'm going with 5:58

Yep, Rojo could do a sub 6 hour Marathon now, even if he had time to prepare.

Yep, Rojo couldn't do a sub 6 hour Marathon now, even if he had time to prepare.

I'm not sure it's "embarrassing", but it's definitely unimpressive. He ran like 13:40 per mile. A 17 min mile is a really brisk walking pace, so there's a pretty big gap between what he did and that. But obviously that's not a running pace either. I'm assuming he slogged through it as you would expect an average-built, average-talent, untrained, inexperienced person would. This is an exceptional nonstory.

4 hours 30 minutes

JFC, are you kidding? I *walked* a marathon in 5:23 a couple years back. In my 70th year.

The lady repeatedly says this in her tik tok post. That her husband finished a marathon but didn't run it.

He allegedly ran the first 10 miles. Can't imagine it was a blistering pace.

Today I learned that "impressive" now means not even mediocre

RoJoke you dumb pud. What was the point of the tease when most won’t see the thread till the next day and/or just look it up themselves? I swear you are a real life version of a tragically incompetent character in a John L. Parker novel.

The part that could very well be made up is the zero training aspect, although I'm not sure I'd feel good about a 5:58 with some training.

Under 24 hours

In other words, he can run 10 miles with 24hrs notice - then go on to walk/jog in intervals up to a maximum of 6hrs in total

I tried something like this once in HS. My sophomore track season was over and I hadn't run for a several weeks. (Back then it was not unusual to not train during the summer.) My older brother had signed up for the inaugural Palos Verdes Marathon. That morning, he woke up not feeling well, so I said, "What the hell, I'll take your place." I managed 13 miles on the hilly course. Could have gone farther, except the metal eyelets on my New Balance shoes were digging into the tops of my feet whenever I ran downhill. My first and only attempt at the marathon.