Indoor DIRT track?
Indoor DIRT track?
How much weight do these guys lose during this whole ordeal? I am assuming there are going through a massive deficit in calories...or does the body just learn to really slow down your metabolism?
Indoor marathon run by my "webmaster" Gary Wallace a 2:18 marathoner.
Bob,
Here are the details:
October 9, 1976; College indoor board track (15.5 laps to the mile, 4
very tight but banked turns per lap); 2:45:40 after 406 laps; No taper, 18
miles 2 days before, 13.5 the day before including 32:48 on same boards; I
did rest the following day.
Gary
At 05:23 AM 10/30/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Gary,
>What were the details of your indoor marathon? Time, place location etc.
>
>Curious Hodge
Seko won London in 1986, not especially quick I recall but a comfortable victory. He definitely used to pack in the miles.
It is tough to keep up on the calorie intake to match the 60 to 90 miles a day, but in the few short multi-day events (6 and 10 Days)I have done, I've lost 3 to 5 lbs. at most (~156lb to 151lb). For longer multi-day stage races (Trans-America, for example) it is a lot harder to keep up over several weeks of 40 to 60 miles a day and weight-loss is more pronounced. Definitely start losing muscle mass and not just fat.
In the 6/10-day events there are usually 3 hot meals served each day and then the fully stocked aid station each lap (1 mile loop in NYC or 1/4 mile track). The pace is so slow that stomach problems aren't usually an issue so taking the calories in is not a problem. (Some, I think, see it as an eating event with some running in between.) However, even the top people can maintain the needed energy-intake. In Noakes' "Lore of Running" he details Kouros' (WR holder at 24/48 hours)eating/drinking habits over a 1,000km/620 mile race. He lost no weight and may have even gained a few ounces.
Yeah...indoor DIRT! This was in Jan '82, the facility has since been modernized with an awesome track(the outdoor as well). However, at the time it was dirt. I used to run intervals in there, and when finished, all my clothes stunk like hell! I think it was something they put down to keep the dust under control. 11 laps to the mile for 114mi in 24 hrs on dirt in Jan. It was hardcore!
In the east,at the turn of the 1900's, colleges built
"cages" with dirt floors and most had a track around them,
but the primary purpose was for baseball. Coxe Cage(Yale)
Curry Hicks(UMass)and Amherst College were glass roofed
and had netting suspended all around so they could bat
inside and prepare for spring games. Later lacrosse got
involved. As a person that worked out in one, it was like a
three ring circus, your concentrating on your pace, with
an ever watchful eye on stray balls that find their way
thru the net. The roping that raised the netting claimed
a few victums. 10-11 laps to the mile, you learned how
to make a circle out of a square.
Definitely a noteworthy guy. I recall reading that his fifth run was an 18 miler. Very strange animal.
Monty