In my mind, it's an event where half the challenge is just finishing the damn thing.
What say you?
In my mind, it's an event where half the challenge is just finishing the damn thing.
What say you?
Fine. I'll reword the question.
Is a marathon an endurance race?
run till I drop wrote:
Fine. I'll reword the question.
Is a marathon an endurance race?
Is pasta food?
No. Yes.
Reading stupid questions like this one.
so you don't know?
It used to be that any event over 600 yards was considered endurance. With the advent of advanced training techniques it may now be anything at 1500M and beyond.
My definition of an endurance event: you don't win it with speed, but just by dropping off the least and hanging on the longest:
Tour de France
Western State 100 mile
Hawaiin Ironman
by that definition, so are the 800 and 400
"Fine. I'll reword the question.
Is a marathon an endurance race?
Post of the year.
You can only maintain your flat-out top speed (acceleration plus max velocity) for 7 seconds, which is when your alactic system starts to run out of steam. So every event over 60 meters is an endurance event.
100 meters is a DISTANCE RUN. 200 meters (even a world class one) is 20-25% AEROBIC.
How about this for a definition...
"Any event that requires a participant to consume food/drink in order to finish."
Anyone can complete a marathon without taking in fluids. Almost impossible to do the same for a 100 mile trail race.
Any of you pansies lasting more than 5 minutes in the sack with a girl (if you ever get a girl).