Heaviest person to break 3 hour marathon?

Clyde's Dale wrote:

150 is light. 3 hours is slow. wrote:

I did 2:42 at 6'0", 158.

Lightweight. I'm 6'2" and was 185 when I ran 2:44.

Damn...you're a smoker! That's impressive at your size👍. Most cats a third lighter than you can't run sub 2:45. I bet you put quite a shock in some of those dimuinitive flyweights as you smoked by them? 😁.

Clyde's Dale wrote:

150 is light. 3 hours is slow. wrote:

I did 2:42 at 6'0", 158.

Lightweight. I'm 6'2" and was 185 when I ran 2:44.

Well, I guess you're a lightweight. I'm 6' 3" and I weighed 192 when I ran 2:40:50. I've run sub 2:45 8 times at that weight.

Alan page was not 300 pounds

Chuck Norris?

Caffeine Charlie wrote:

This is a goofy thread...most any avid runner can run a sub-3 with the right training, good running shoes & plenty of caffeine. This guy is far more impressive than anything anyone here has posted:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/400-pound-sumo-wrestler-kelly-gneiting-sets-record-heaviest-person-finish-marathon-article-1.122205

C'mon posters...400 freak'in pounds and he ran a marathon! Holy Smokes! ☺👍👏

I'm not sure that the posters who think anything over 3 hours is walking will think a nearly 10 hour marathon means he "ran" a marathon.

I remember when that happened and noticed this nonsense in the article: "The Idaho native crushed the previous world record for marathon weight - 275 pounds". I've run four marathons while heavier than that, as have many others. Any marathon that has weight divisions, including MCM, has several guys recorded with weights heavier than that. There have likely been thousands who have run marathons at over 275 lbs.

Cool that the 400 lb dude did it though.

not exactly wrote:

I'm not sure that the posters who think anything over 3 hours is walking will think a nearly 10 hour marathon means he "ran" a marathon.

I remember when that happened and noticed this nonsense in the article: "The Idaho native crushed the previous world record for marathon weight - 275 pounds". I've run four marathons while heavier than that, as have many others. Any marathon that has weight divisions, including MCM, has several guys recorded with weights heavier than that. There have likely been thousands who have run marathons at over 275 lbs.

Cool that the 400 lb dude did it though.

Cool he did it without suffering a massive coronary event!

In the late 60s and until the mid-70s Alan Page was about 265 or 270. In the late 70s and 80s he was about 220 or 225. I am sure Page was a sub-20 5K runner then which was very good for his size.

jorvack wrote:

I ran 2:27 when I was around 165 5' 10"

Same here. I ran my first sub 2.30 (2:27:12) at about 165 lbs. Later that year I ran 2:23 at roughly the same weight. About a decade later I ran my PR of 2:18 at about 155 lbs. I am 5 foot 10.

Lets be honest.

a 3 hour marathon is equal to about a 14 second 100m.

Or a 6 minute mile.

Hell a 73 year old with cancer ran 2:54.

Its a jogger's event. Distance running is about as uncomplicated as can be. Just put in the miles, control the boredom. Go hard when you have to.

Percentage wise there are way more people who could run a 3 hour marathon, than say a 12 second 100m. Its an endurance event, at sub maximal levels. A sprint is at maximum efforts with technical difficulty, and the chance for injury.

The danger in a 3 hour marathon is falling asleep on the road.

trumpeter wrote:

The danger in a 3 hour marathon is falling asleep on the road.

...and making a wrong turn and running off course for several miles 😁

I personally know a quite overweight, easily 200 lbs and sort of short.. he ran 3:16 (Not sub 3 but the guy is legit very tubby but has legs like tree trunks)

201lbs. 2:38:02. Marine Corps Marathon 1993.

I ran 2:38:02 in 1993 at 201 lbs. and 6’5” at the Marine Corps marathon.

Paul Ryan

Hungry for weird facts wrote:

Who has the World's Heaviest Sub-3 marathon?

All the runners I know who have done it are 150 lbs or less...

There's gotta be some decently heavy dudes at Boston who dipped below 3...

I broke 3 at 185 and years later broke 2:30 at 176. You just need an engine big enough for your body. I'm 6'2.