Kipchoge's performance, while great, was a one-off.
Rauschenberg lasted for one complete year even though many figured it was impossible for the human body to endure the marathon pounding for 52 straight weeks.
Kipchoge's performance, while great, was a one-off.
Rauschenberg lasted for one complete year even though many figured it was impossible for the human body to endure the marathon pounding for 52 straight weeks.
Moon River wrote:
Kipchoge's performance, while great, was a one-off.
Rauschenberg lasted for one complete year even though many figured it was impossible for the human body to endure the marathon pounding for 52 straight weeks.
You're comparing Secretariat to a plow horse.
Pete Kostelnick averaged more than TWO MARATHONS a day for 99 straight days--5300 miles. And he did it carrying all of his own food and water. No drink stations. (Ken2Key run of 2018.)
Pete K. wrote:
Pete Kostelnick averaged more than TWO MARATHONS a day for 99 straight days--5300 miles. And he did it carrying all of his own food and water. No drink stations. (Ken2Key run of 2018.)
That is 202 marathon distances completed in 99 days. Yikes.
granted, this was impressive but Rauschenberg entered and completed his marathons in official marathon races.
Pretty sure David Goggins ran more than that in 2007 running almost 15 ultras that year.
https://calendar.ultrarunning.com/runner/show?first_name=David&last_name=Goggins
Rauschenberg is grifter
Moon River wrote:
Kipchoge's performance, while great, was a one-off.
Rauschenberg lasted for one complete year even though many figured it was impossible for the human body to endure the marathon pounding for 52 straight weeks.
I mean just about all of us have run high mileage in our lives. It's really not hard to run a marathon every weekend. Most top tier college programs do 16-20 mile long runs once a week at sub 6 minute pace. Dial that back to 8-10 minute pace and dial back workouts during the week to easy runs and I bet most NCAA runners could run 52 marathons in 52 weeks. Remember, a marathon is 26 miles. If you're doing 16 mile long runs at balls-to-wall pace, adding another 10 miles at jog pace wouldn't be incredibly difficult.
Kipchoge didn’t even have the most stunning run of the weekend
Moon River wrote:
granted, this was impressive but Rauschenberg entered and completed his marathons in official marathon races.
Entering official races is not impressive. Pete had real time GPS posting. A lot of people joined him during parts of the run and Pete was always were his GPS said he was. But if you want to grovel for a weaker result by Rauschenberg being more impressive then you go right ahead. But, in 14 weeks plus 1 day Rauschenberg ran 14 marathons while Pete ran 202.
What about 52 thonners in 52 days in 52 different states. I'd like to see Kipchoge face Dean Karnazes.
Banana Bread wrote:
What about 52 thonners in 52 days in 52 different states. I'd like to see Kipchoge face Dean Karnazes.
But there’s only 50 states.
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