I guess I don't understand how someone can physically run a marathon and still be overweight. A girl I know just ran a marathon and I would never in a million years have pegged her as a marathoner. She ran around 4:30 which isn't fast but isn't terribly slow for a female.
Even the most basic training plans have you running at least 30 miles a week. It's like the rest of the time they must be eating crazy amounts and sleeping.
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That's what I'm saying.
Oh hell yea. That's why I don't run marathons. People don't know the difference between a sub 2:30 marathon and a sub 5 marathon. So when relatives or friends ask if I run marathons. I'm gonna be lumped with the fat people.
It's because 30 miles a week is hardly exercise at all. People eat way more than they run.
Karthnath wrote:
Oh hell yea. That's why I don't run marathons. People don't know the difference between a sub 2:30 marathon and a sub 5 marathon. So when relatives or friends ask if I run marathons. I'm gonna be lumped with the fat people.
Those same people also don't know the difference between a 15 minute 5k and a 24 minute 5k. And, they're all going to wonder why you don't run marathons.
For a 4:30 marathoner that is about 5 hours of running a week.
Karthnath wrote:
Oh hell yea. That's why I don't run marathons. People don't know the difference between a sub 2:30 marathon and a sub 5 marathon. So when relatives or friends ask if I run marathons. I'm gonna be lumped with the fat people.
Yes. It's possible to be fat and run marathons.
I have a 4:05 PR, and I'm about 5'9 170.
I run about 30 miles per week.
You can even be 300 lbs and run marathons. You just won't be very fast.
SMJO wrote:
It's because 30 miles a week is hardly exercise at all. People eat way more than they run.
seriously? 30mpw is tough for me and feels like a lot of exercise.
I do better at 25mpw for 5k/10k training. Not fast (18:30) but a Masters runner. I don't know how people regularly get over 40mpw.
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sirrunzalot wrote:
I guess I don't understand how someone can physically run a marathon and still be overweight. A girl I know just ran a marathon and I would never in a million years have pegged her as a marathoner. She ran around 4:30 which isn't fast but isn't terribly slow for a female.
Even the most basic training plans have you running at least 30 miles a week. It's like the rest of the time they must be eating crazy amounts and sleeping.
You can run 120 miles per week and still be overweight. It's called eating food.
Not to mention that running 30 mpw probably only burns an extra 500 kcal per day, and many people just assume they are training for a marathon so they can eat whatever they want
When I train for marathon I go up from about 55 mpw to 75. I run 8+ miles nearly every day and do alot of things like 10 miles friday then 17 saturday. The idea is to stay somewhat fatigued and glycogen depleted the whole time. One effect of this is being rediculously hungry all the time. I mean it's just crazy sometimes.
If you are hungry it is quite easy to eat enough to overcome the calorie expendature of 60+ mpw let alone the 30-40 some people do.
Shalane Flanagan recently said that when peak marathon training all she does is run, eat, and sleep.
I sat in front of a guy last night at a soccer game where I listened to him talk about how a marathon training plan he used to be on was too much for him at 40 miles/week so he switched to the half marathon plan. That's not a typo.
It's quite easy to see how the masses out there "running" a marathon would be overweight when they're only running ~40/week.
SMJO wrote:
It's because 30 miles a week is hardly exercise at all.
Oh come on. Only on Planet Letsrun is running 6 miles a day for 5 days a week "hardly exercise at all".
Try telling that to the AMA.
If you've run a lot and your muscular-skeletal system is well-adapted to running, then I can see why it's not that difficult to finish a marathon as an overweight person. However, though a marathon at 9mm might be achievable for such a person, a marathon at 6.30mm most definitely is not. I suppose it boils down to what the aim is.
I am the same. I usually run 25-30 miles a week for shorter races and that is my max. I'm older and have a busy life (children) so I would have to wake up at 4 a.m. every day if I wanted to run 50 miles a week or more. And I'm incredibly lean on 30 mpw, I have to eat everything in sight to just not waste away. (5'10" and low 130s)
I would not consider 5'9" and 170 to be fat. It's not crazy lean like most runner builds, but it's hardly fat. Your BMI is 25, which is technically not even considered overweight.
I am 46 years old. I eat lots of junk. I am 5'10, 195 pounds (and not a muscular 195 -- I weighed about 160 in my mid-20s). The heaviest I have ever been is 225.
I ran a marathon last month in 3:34 off of an average of 45 miles a week.
I only lose weight if I watch what I eat -- i.e., eat salad instead of cheesesteak and fries for lunch; apples instead of chips for a snack. I am trying to get some self control and lose 20 more pounds in preparation for a Fall marathon. Maybe up my mileage to 60 a week.
Body fat is about where the homeostat is set. You can just as easily have a thin person who does nothing as a fatty who runs marathons.
An elephant does not weigh 5 tons because it eats too much. It weighs that much because it is programmed to. Calorie balance is incidental.
I'm guessing it's training pace/effort. Conventional wisdom has marathon training as a lot of long slow runs. These people are barely stressing their system while training, or "racing" for that matter.
