Here’s an article in the Guardian about the rise in popularity of marathon running. It starts
“It is spring and these days that means one thing - marathon mania. On Sunday, a group of slender Africans running absurdly quickly, 30,000 slightly tubbier Britons and large numbers of people dressed as chickens will be pounding the streets of London.”
It’s quite interesting reading, and I’d imagine there are parallels with Ironman? There’s also a classic quote fomr some guy who hasn’t done any training:
“Training just wears your body out. I’d rather save my energy for the day.”
Then again, I’m not sure I understand the marathon thing, or triathalons, or any of those things. Anything that causes your toenails to fall off and dehydrates your body to the point where you lose control of your bowels … well, that isn’t high on my “things to do” list. That’s just me.
Wow, the sportsguy makes the slowtwitch forum. “World’s colliding!” as George Castanza would say. Sportsguy is great, but he is not touched with the endurance sport bug, that’s for sure.
one of my favorite related quotes from BoBo Anderson :
“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across
the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil,
shouting GERONIMO!”
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