MSNBC article about "running" a marathon...funny

also, there is no way she is doing the schedule that she posts. if she was she couldn't be so bad. it's like filling out your running log the week before you run and then not bothering to correct it when you skip three days.

here it is.

Anyone know if she's now writing an article about how to climb Mt. Everest in 3 easy days of training or less?

I'm sorry, but I keep coming back to this when I need a good laugh.

sb wrote:

also, there is no way she is doing the schedule that she posts. if she was she couldn't be so bad. it's like filling out your running log the week before you run and then not bothering to correct it when you skip three days.

I was also thinking that. I suspect that she posted her intentions, but "cheated" a bit on her workouts - a little less in the swim, a few less miles on the bike, cut the run short by a mile...

All the cheating added up.

Still Laughing wrote:

Maybe it was the bacon and scrambled eggs that she couldn't pass up that did her in again.

I was wondering if Paula had bacon and scrambled eggs before the Olympic marathon.

KnowItAll wrote:

Still Laughing wrote:

Maybe it was the bacon and scrambled eggs that she couldn't pass up that did her in again.

I was wondering if Paula had bacon and scrambled eggs before the Olympic marathon.

What did you eat before your last Olympic Marathon?

Really.

KnowItAll wrote:

Still Laughing wrote:

Maybe it was the bacon and scrambled eggs that she couldn't pass up that did her in again.

I was wondering if Paula had bacon and scrambled eggs before the Olympic marathon.

Really.

Since someone bumped this up - I just HAD to check in and see what she was doing. Well, she has "given up" on the Ironman (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8404893/). My favorite quote was:

"I knew in my head Ironman training was going to be long, monotonous and hard, but knowing it intellectually and knowing it actually are two different things."

long ... monotonous ... and hard was from March to July.

WOW. hmmm. just think how long, monotonous and hard it would have been to actually train for as long as it takes to do an Ironman ... or even a marathon for that matter.

Her name is now synonymous with laughable attempts. Over at coolrunning, someone told someone to pick up the training, or she'd become a Denise Hazlick.

What in the world was she thinking????????

Some comments she made during one of her articles:

"Because, you see, I really don’t like to run."

"There is no sense of accomplishment or satisfaction. I want ibuprofen. I want to curl up into a ball and sleep for the next week. I want chocolate. I want my mommy. I so hate running."

She hates running and she's going to do an Ironman? She's doing triathlons at all?

Was this woman dropped on her head recently?

I was wondering if Denise was still running. It looks like she may be, she recently did a 1/2 marathon in Maui where she finished 361st out of 377 with a time of 3:03 - good for a 13:59 pace.

http://www.jtltiming.com/results/msshm.html

The race was in January of 2006.

On July 16, 2006 she finished the Seafair Sprint Triathlon in 2 hours. - 1/2 mile open water swim, 12 mile bike and a 5k.

Last month she did the Shore Run, a 6.7 mile run in 1:30 for a pace of 13:34.

Putting aside my feelings of being a stalker, I want to make it clear I did not post this to mock her times, I was simply interested in if she was running still, especially since this was such a hot thread for a while.

I do think it is good she has kept up running and for that I say good for her.

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why?

againtocarthage wrote:

i think she was being sarcastic with the ironman comment?

are you QC????