Kipchoge -"80 per cent of athletes drink alcohol so a lot needs to be done."

stay in lane wrote:

Quick reminder to not take advice from specialists, let alone athletes. The best ones are typically the ones with the most empty brains. He probably also says tsk-tsk for the dwindling numbers of religious people too. He is good at his thing, but also remember he said something about the shoes having very little to do with his performance. I don't ask Aaron Rodgers for health advice either. Thanks kip, keep cranking out great performances, but I will not subscribe to the moral panic.

great analogy -

Aaron and Eliud cut from the same cloth

People are addicted to atheism?

Tinny 2 Shoes wrote:

jamb innnnn wrote:

Best beers are post run beers and shower beers. You aren't an alcoholic if you enjoy those things.

+1

Unfortunately some can never have just one.

statmancrothers wrote:

"I didn’t f**ckin’ train. Not once. Just turned up and did it" - Joe Stummer.

https://flashbak.com/joe-strummer-paris-marathing-london-marathon-the-clash-399081/

Then there's Andy Holden, 1972 Olympic steeplechaser;

"He is alleged to have drunk ten pints of beer the night before winning the 1979 Bermuda marathon in a course-record time".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Holden_(athlete)

And lets not even get started on David Bedford drinking regime.

Come on Kipchoge, live a little mate,

Joe strummer finished his marathon in over 4 hours. You think that's a ripping endorsement for alcohol?

Holden died at 65. That's a decade ahead of the average. Mind you the average person is obese and never exercises.

Kipchoge's life is just fine, mate.

For Frank Shorter, a contemporary of Rodgers and 1972 Olympic marathon champion, the running diet was based around Schlitz beer (Milwaukee's original, now sadly lamented) and Ring-Dings (a sort of extra-sweet chocolate Kimberley).

In his book The Frank Shorter Story he again admits his fondness for beer, and how, to my enduring amazement, he got quite drunk the night before winning his Olympic gold medal in Munich.

"That night we went out and I had a litre and a half or two of beer before bed. I didn't have any trouble sleeping at all. The German beer is great, and I really don't mind getting half looped the night before a race."

One of the most startling interviews in Running With The Legends is with Toshihiko Seko, Japan's most successful marathon runner, with victories that included Boston, London, Chicago and Tokyo.

Seko's training and diet were both extreme, as this diary entry illustrates:

6.30am: Wake-up, 10-mile morning run.

8am: Breakfast (rice), followed by morning nap.

11am: Second workout, 13-mile time trial.

1pm: Leisurely lunch of udon noodles and sushi, followed by afternoon nap.

5pm: Hardest training, 13-18 miles. Stomach upset and couldn't eat. Drank 10 beers.

9pm: Lights out.

TMADDDHASFNE wrote:

I don’t drink and don’t judge those that do, however those that can’t drink responsibility should seek help.

The worst addictions in America are:

Sugar

Alcohol

Prescription drugs

coffee

Pornography

Nicotine

Hemp

Illicit drugs

Cellphones

Television

Video games

Ignorance

Atheism

Atheism! HAHAHAHA really hope you're joking

That's how it starts wrote:

i inform wrote:

Kenya is a fuc#ed up third world country with massive social problems, alcoholism being one of them. It makes sense from his perspective. Not from “I have an ice cold IPA after a run” perspective.

Double I.P.A. to vehicular homicide. Oh. You are different. You wouldn't do that.

Sounds like my Health Class from the 80's.