Runing a marathon

Luisgallo · #1 03-09-2007, 07:14 AM

i run 3 marathons already and saying this to a friend he was not impressed...saying that a lot of people run marathons.

This really pissed me off because I still believe is a great achievement and not for everybody and in any case it takes a lot of commitment.

What do you guys think when you hear somebody who run a marathon? Impressed or not?

MissOt · #2 03-09-2007, 07:16 AM

what were your times? i dont think a 10hour marathon is too impressive. anything under 4 though is very impressive imo

Luisgallo · #3 03-09-2007, 07:18 AM

mine was below 4h.

But again this is not the point...

Wilco666 · #4 03-09-2007, 07:43 AM

Eff the haters.

Running a marathon is definitely a great achievement.

Shadowrun · #5 03-09-2007, 08:27 AM

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KidLifeCrisis · #6 03-09-2007, 08:29 AM

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Just to point out for my own sake, I wasn't being a hater. I was fixing the spelling of "runners" to match the thread title. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

BeL0wMe · #7 03-09-2007, 10:08 AM

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mine was below 4h.

But again this is not the point...

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No that is the point, if someone ran a 5+ hour marathon, then they really get no respect from me. Anything under 4 and it's a job well done. For the record the farthest I've gone was a half-marathon in high school, in 1 hour 29 minutes. Then I realized that girls liked the bigger guys much better than rail thin runners, and I got in the gym and started doing crew. Best decision evar [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]

tdarko · #8 03-09-2007, 10:37 AM

Actually the time and respect is relative. If you saw me in person and knew that I was athletic you would think I was lame if I ran a 6 hour marathon but if some woman that was 75 pounds overweight when she started her training program decided she was going to run one as a positive decision in her life for once instead of always going down the same ol' path then just finishing is impressive to me.

I have seen women my mothers age tell me they are running a marathon and in the back of my mind I am thinking "no f'ing way, you are way too out of shape...your knees won't even be able to take the impact before you get to the marathon." But they did it and no matter the struggle I always thought it was really cool that they got their ass off the couch and did something that made them feel good about themselves.

Luisgallo · #9 03-09-2007, 10:51 AM

Great post!

Luisgallo · #10 03-09-2007, 10:50 AM

You can do a bit of both...I run my best half in 1h38 and I still go to the gym and chicks do love (I am married though)...:-)