Sid Viscous wrote:
miles and miles of texas wrote:Yesterday in Chicago I was viscously attacked by a bunch of marathon runners.
I was able to fend them off by going for the juggler.
I'm surprised you could get to the vein what with them being so sticky.
speaking of sticky, wait till you get inside the vein!
Sid Viscous wrote:
miles and miles of texas wrote:Yesterday in Chicago I was viscously attacked by a bunch of marathon runners.
I was able to fend them off by going for the juggler.
I'm surprised you could get to the vein what with them being so sticky.
Hey! You piece of garbage, stop stealing my jokes!
It is a much better line in the context of how it was originally used- during the sighting of a creepy clown.
it's a catastrophe wrote:
Sid Viscous wrote:I'm surprised you could get to the vein what with them being so sticky.
Hey! You piece of garbage, stop stealing my jokes!
It is a much better line in the context of how it was originally used- during the sighting of a creepy clown.
Not really. Marathon runners are much more likely to be viscous due to clumsy gel consumption.
I would be very impressed with gargling. Anything else is just child's play.
I passed him around mile 9, but gradually so I had the chance to watch him for several minutes. It was uncanny how in control it looked. I realized later that I would have been completely shocked if he had even stumbled, let alone dropped a ball. I didn't even notice that he was juggling right away. Sure, fastest marathon while joggling is a bit of a sideshow and arbitrary, but also fun to watch and very difficult. No need to get your panties in a bunch...
I'd have been tempted to jostle him a bit, just to give him a little more challenge. Sorry but I find the joggling side show to be very pointless and potentially hazardous to the other runners around him. Bad things happen when people don't pay attention to their surroundings and he's got to be intensely focused on his balls.
I'm impressed with a guy who can juggle for two hours and fifty-five minutes without a break!
I ran a 2:54 marathon so that part of it doesn't impress me.
mehhhhhhh wrote:
I'd have been tempted to jostle him a bit, just to give him a little more challenge. .
You'd have to be able to keep up unless you are thinking of Irish priest style jostling. Which you probably are.
Judie priest wrote:
mehhhhhhh wrote:I'd have been tempted to jostle him a bit, just to give him a little more challenge. .
You'd have to be able to keep up unless you are thinking of Irish priest style jostling. Which you probably are.
Nope, I could keep up just fine. I'm a hobby jogger, but sub 2:50 on a good day. And no, I have zero interest in his balls.
mehhhhhhh wrote:
Judie priest wrote:You'd have to be able to keep up unless you are thinking of Irish priest style jostling. Which you probably are.
Nope, I could keep up just fine. I'm a hobby jogger, but sub 2:50 on a good day. And no, I have zero interest in his balls.
Sure, brother.
Truth dispenser wrote:
Happened today in Chicago. Mixed felelings myself. An impressive feat but then I ask why..,
What's next?
Yoyo marathon?
Rubik's cube marathon?
Hooks hoop?
Agreed - it can't be easy to do, but keep this stuff to yourself. Write a diary entry or something.
joho wrote:
SHOW ME THE MONEY wrote:Nah, since he is making money as a joggler, he isn't at the "hobby" level anymore. Though how he convinced Fairfield Inn to pay him is beyond me. Maybe he has family in the marketing department.
Is that same the guy? Good for him if it is.
You know a 2:55 marathoner has to be on LR. I want to hear from him and how he got into 'joggling'.
Hey, yeah, I'm the joggler guy. I started doing this running while juggling thing back in 2005, partly as a fun way to raise money for charity but also because it was a perfect running metaphor for my life at the time, working three jobs and taking care of two young kids.
I was going to do one and be done with it, but ended up having to defend my record several times before I set the current mark, at which point I became addicted to it.
As a fan of proper running, I realize it's a sideshow to the real race, but I enjoy it, people are entertained by it, and I run off to the side away from other runners so there are no safety concerns. It could be considered pointless, but so too could any sport, really. And for the record, the no-drop 2:55 in Chicago was really, really difficult! More painful than my regular marathon PR.
Joplas wrote:
Degree of difficulty is just as good as a top 10 finish. So yes I am impressed.
And its not as useless as some of you think. He may get a sponsor or a reality show out of this.
There were 12 men in contention for the win at the halfway mark.
There is one man on earth putting down a 2:55 joggling marathon.
You tell me which is inpressive.
Michal Kapral wrote:
joho wrote:Is that same the guy? Good for him if it is.
You know a 2:55 marathoner has to be on LR. I want to hear from him and how he got into 'joggling'.
Hey, yeah, I'm the joggler guy. I started doing this running while juggling thing back in 2005, partly as a fun way to raise money for charity but also because it was a perfect running metaphor for my life at the time, working three jobs and taking care of two young kids.
I was going to do one and be done with it, but ended up having to defend my record several times before I set the current mark, at which point I became addicted to it.
As a fan of proper running, I realize it's a sideshow to the real race, but I enjoy it, people are entertained by it, and I run off to the side away from other runners so there are no safety concerns. It could be considered pointless, but so too could any sport, really. And for the record, the no-drop 2:55 in Chicago was really, really difficult! More painful than my regular marathon PR.
Nice post and great race, Michal. I was on 2:55 pace until 20 miles, and the only safety concerns I encountered were spectators crossing the course (and my inadequate fitness), not your joggling.
Bravo! Hope to see you on the track sometime.
Hey, guy, you're a beast! Keep up the good work.
Btw, just out of curiosity, may I ask what your regular marathon PR is?
Thanks. I ran a 2:30:40 back in 2002, when I won the Toronto Marathon (not to be confused with the Toronto Waterfront Marathon), in a slow year. I've been focusing on masters 800m racing since I turned 40.
done em all wrote:
Joplas wrote:Degree of difficulty is just as good as a top 10 finish. So yes I am impressed.
And its not as useless as some of you think. He may get a sponsor or a reality show out of this.
There were 12 men in contention for the win at the halfway mark.
There is one man on earth in recorded history putting down a 2:55 joggling marathon.
You tell me which is inpressive.
edited for clarity
Clown School Grad wrote:
This is actually more impressive than 2:02:57
Agreed. This is far more impressive than the 2:02:57. In fact if the guy was juggling several balls and dropped none of them during the marathon then this is the 2nd most impressive athletic feat of all time just behind Corey Bellemore's beer mile world record set this year.
It is a almost impossible feet to not drop a ball. Its more imprssive then the beer mile record
Think about it this way...he was probably the only guy out of the entire 40,000 person field who could have done this. There were several runners who COULD have won the race outright. I'd be willing to bet he was the only guy there who could run sub-3 and juggle the whole time.
That's something.,,not sure what, but it's something.