cdoug55 wrote:
Twinkie wrote:
Scottxs wrote:
A friend of mine did the same thing. He trained to run 26, 1 mile intervals and walked the aid stations. He had a pretty fast marathon doing that.Define pretty fast.
and related to OP. If you have to plan how you are going to be walking during an IM - perhaps you should skip the race - and train a bit more - so you can plan to not only "run" the marathon, but "race" it as well. I can understand if someone bikes or cranks to heavy or has some nutrition malfunction or injury and they have to walk day of because of it - but planning to walk....that is like me entering a 200 free swim event (which technically can be any stroke) but most do front crawl because its fastest - and deciding to doggy paddle.
Please tell me you are joking? Your analogy makes no sense...did you just compare a short distance swim event to a long distance endurance event???
I see you are observant as one can be. Yes I did - but clearly you are not naive enough to be thinking the comparison was in distance but rather the approach to completion of a task that was not designed for said task.