It's impossible. All of us on LR know that the marathon is the ultimate test in sports - the "grand prize" if you will. There is NOTHING harder or more deserving of non-runners' respect than the marathon. Nothing!
I think we have another Kip Litton here. At Marathon Guide there are no records for a runner with the last name of Gertin for any race going back to 2000. I didn't check his "running partner's" name, but I'll wager you'll get the same result.
I'm always suspicious of stories with vague references like "I ran the marathon a few years ago." Why wouldn't the author state "I ran the marathon in 2007" to give credibility and specifity to his story.
Until I see otherwise, I'll assume the guy's a fraud.
Every non-disabled person should be able to cover a marathon in under 6 hours. I don't know when people decided it was impressive just to cover 26.2 miles, but it really isn't and this is great proof. A random guy off the street who's never run more than a mile goes out and does a marathon in 5.5 hours.
Why would you want to "run" a marathon if you aren't a runner?
I just don't understand that.
Make that "gertig". That's a typo in the above post.
Actually, he does show up on Athlinks. He ran it in 2003, according to the records.
I owe Mr Gertig an appology. Looking at the results at Marathon Guide, it appears there is an Andrew Gertin (same typo I put in my original thread) listed with a 4:28:18 finishing time. Not sure why there's a one second descrepency between these results and athlinks, but nonetheless they are there:
Andrew Gertin (M22) 4:28:18 1175 871 / 54 M20-24 Adaton, MS, USA
http://www.marathonguide.com/results/browse.cfm?MIDD=521030727&Gen=B&Begin=1101&End=1200&Max=1891
Honestly, this isn't surprising to me. A lot of people are aerobically fit enough to run 4:30 without being a runner. It'll probably make your legs hurt like hell, but 4:30 without training isn't really that big of a deal. I'd say running 2:30 with training is harder than 4:30 without training.
Yeah. Not even Navy Seals deserve as much as respect. lol. If you are a non runner running a marathon you might as well become a Shiite Muslim and go flog yourself a bunch of times.
9999999 wrote:
It's impossible. All of us on LR know that the marathon is the ultimate test in sports - the "grand prize" if you will. There is NOTHING harder or more deserving of non-runners' respect than the marathon. Nothing!
4. Eat half a banana whenever you see one
I think that was the key strategy that pulled them through.
"This is when I actually started to feel confident because I played intramural soccer in college, was trying to run 2 miles a day to recover from a cut achilles tendon, and had once gone for a three mile run."
Hahahahaha he ran a 4:30 with an injured achilles, that's awesome.
His 4:30 marathon feat impresses the readers of Joggers World because many of them sign up for marathon clinics and actually train for six months only to run 5:50. So at 4:30 this guy is a Jogger's World Elite.
What impresses me more than a non-runner finishing in 4:30 is the guy or gal who trains their ass off and runs 3:11 or 2:48 or 2:22. He who crosses the line first is the better runner. This 4:30 fella is not impressive at all.
Will the rest of the world ever realize that merely completing a marathon isn't some Everest-esque triumph of the human will over adversity but something the average semi-fit person can do under 5 hours with no training? This guy demonstrates this.
Ninetonite wrote:
This 4:30 fella is not impressive at all.
why can't you people realize the guy wasn't trying to impress you?
it it makes any point at all it's that getting through a marathon isn't a big deal.