Complete the sentence: Running a 5k is __% mental and __% physical.
Also, running a marathon is __% mental and __% physical.
Complete the sentence: Running a 5k is __% mental and __% physical.
Also, running a marathon is __% mental and __% physical.
99/1 x 2
5k: 50% mental 50% physical
marathon: 30% mental 70% physical
Marathon is much more physical. Most of it is at a comfortable pace. When you hit the wall there's nothing mentally you can do about it. 5K you can really dig deep and push yourself and it has a larger relative impact on your final time.
Also, training largely improves your mental state as well as physical.
Both are 100% mental and 100% physical.
Running is 90% mental; the other half is physical.
Blair?
Libbby wrote:
Maybe 2% mental. Brains are not required to run, as this conservative freakshow of a forum proves.
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
really the only answer you need here
100% hate.
7% mental
26% physical
67% spiritual
ABCDABCD wrote:
Complete the sentence: Running a 5k is __% mental and __% physical.
Also, running a marathon is __% mental and __% physical.
False dichotomy. Mental and physical are not two different things. Your brain is a physical entity governed by physical and chemical properties, so everything mental is also physical.
And everything, mental or physical, is reducible to hate. It's all hate. 100% hate. Hate hate hate. Thank you, and you are welcome.
ps. Hate.
DietBacon wrote:
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
... and 100% Reason to Remember the Name.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Both are 100% mental and 100% physical.
Exactly. Body and mind work together. Now can you guess what blood lactate and brain lactate levels are likely for a typical 5000m runner?
DietBacon wrote:
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
Came into this thread ready to throw this down. Not disappointed someone beat me to it.
Each of us has our own demons but I find the 880, 3 mile, and 26.2 mile races to be more taxing mentally and physically than other distances (under the full marathon).
That said, break down the 3 mile or 3. to physical and mental aspects. The first two miles are almost all physical (but you do have fight angst and doubt from the get go). And the mental aspect kicks in somewhere over the last 1.1 miles (we don't talk those foreign ks or meters here, this is America! And this IS Letsrun!). If you are in great shape you might be able to hang on to physical until you have a thousand yards or so to go. Then it becomes more mental--but that's impossible without the physical endurance. You can either go with it or drop off. The difference is maybe 10 or 15 seconds if you dig down.
If you think about it that way, the 3 mile (or 3.1) is 98% or 99% physical (just point your shoes forward and run, damnit!) and about 1% or 2% mental.
DietBacon wrote:
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
+1
Is this hypothetical marathon run on a track?
Physicallity>mentallity
DietBacon wrote:
10% luck
20% skill
15% concentrated power of will
5% pleasure
50% pain
100% chance to remember the name
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