Race, No Training Required

Curious.  What's the running background of your friend?

I say we kick your friend's @$$!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

All of my races I have not trained properly or adequately for. It's not that I don't train but my training is sporadic, unorganized, limited due to schedule. Sometime, I will go weeks without training, and sometimes I will try to squeeze in too much. What resulted? A whole bunch of BOPER times and recently a DNF for IM distance. I don't regret it and I still continue to train like i've been due to schedule. After June 2008, I will be able to train more.

Triathlete (for 15 years), sponsored I might add, longest distance 1/2 IM (which was his longest run before the 22 miler).
Has since finished 2 IMs, qualified for Long Course Championships, he might in fact be a freak of nature. But, I know y'all normal people do it too!

I am a slave to training. And freaks of nature really shake my confidence. I have a friend who ran off and on for a month then did no running for two weeks prior to a race we were running. He beat my PB 5K time by two minutes. I thought, well it was only a 5K, I've got a better endurance background, but the same thing happened during a half-mary, except this time he got me by 22 minutes. At least I can kick his a$$ in the water.

Pam

Just finished a race I was not prepared for, and I regret it, except for one thing: my vocabulary has improved to include the term: Illiotibial Band Syndrome ('nuff said).

I'm in. When can you pick me up? I thought we could car-pool to the a$$-kicking.



Ditto. This isn't some couch-to-5k guy. This is someone with a serious endurance base. I'll bet many serious soccer players, or even basketball or tennis players, could gear up to endurance running in a number of weeks. All it takes is a solid, multi-year fitness base, excellent cardio-vascular, and desire. And the willingness to be very sore.

Well, it's not a foot-race, man; we could chase him down in a truck. There's no rules against that. Heck, there's no rules at all!

How much did Lance Armstrong train for his 3 hour marathon?

not much. You can undertrain and do better during the race but you can also get hurt or just have a long recovery after it. My fastest marys are the ones I been way undertrained for but also the ones that I hurt myself afterwards.


My friend who ran a 50k the next weekend runs a marathon then goes get drunk and dances for 8 hours now that is being in shape or what.

Danny Dryer of chi running if I remember correctly says if you run over 30 miles a week avg you should be able to run a mary in one weeks notice. Its all about the base. One reason they ask people to be running for atleast 1 year before they try to tackle the marathon.

There is no doubt about it, this guy needs to have his a$$ kicked, but don't worry he had it handed to him when his Ex-girlfriend BEAT HIM at Long Course Champs.
However, back to the original question. I see people (newbies) posting stuff on here all the time about, running 12 miles max then signing up for a marathon the next weekend. So, who is guilty and willing to admit it??? I am admit I am tempted to run one without training. (and before you even post it, I did train for the last 1, 18 weeks, to the letter, and I then spent 3 months not running due to ITBS, so would I have been better off not training so much?).