I just saw an Aleve commerical and it was ridiculous. This guy comes on and says, "right around the 4 or 5 mile mark his knee starts saying ouch, Ouch, OUCH! I take Aleve and the pain is gone and I'm able to finish my FOUR HOUR RUN!"
4 hour run thats longer than any elite African, European, and Japanese, or Chinese runners who are known extremely long single runs. IS THAT GUY an ultra-marathoner or just a actor/model doing a bad exaggerating commerical?
April 10, 2007
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Though your reaction is understandable given the source, only a moronic tool would look for complete truth in a damn advertisement.
Geeezus
there are many individual who aren't runners who just might believe such a commerical. In fact there are MANY more people who watch television and that Aleve commerical who have no clue about running then there are runners.
4 hour run? Actor? Ultra runner? Commercial? Hype?
Yes sports fans, Dean Karnazes has set the bar for all running commercials.
I prefer the meb one.
The four hour "run" they are talking about is the marathon. I figured runners would pick that up.
So what?
this girl on the cheerleading squad told me that, when their coach made them run a mile, after they came through in 8, 9, 10, 20 minutes, she said something like, "c'mon! those guys on the cross country team do it in like 2 and a half minutes"
you would be surprised exactly how many people dont know shit about running
No, I wouldn't be surprised, but I also wouldn't mistake some airhead cheerleader's misconceptions for being an indication of society's as a whole.
A lot of nordic skiers do over distance workouts for 4 hours, less running than jogging (yogging i think its called) but for the most part no, it makes no sense for traditional runners
The median finishing time for US marathoners a year or two ago was around 4:30 and it's probably gotten even slower since then.
That's like cycling for 4 hours. No impact=no limits.
I've done a 4 hour run before. In the buildup to my first marathon I did a 30 miles, since I thought I should be able to go overdistance. It was really fun, actually.
I have not seen the commercial, have you?
Was he wearing a race #?
Why did he not say "marathon"?
Why did he not say "4 hour RACE"?
Christ, you are a fetid douche' wand.
I have done two 4 hour plus runs. Coincidently, my knee did start hurting at the 19 mile mark during one of the runs. Commercial sounds believable to me.
How about that?
No he wasn't wearing a racing bib! He was talking about running/training as he ended saying, "it lets him get back to his running the next day" and it showed him running alone (as if exercising/training) at decent clip in training gear.