Meh. Ten years ago, opera star Lisette Oropeso ran the Pittsburgh Marathon on a Sunday morning. Her pre-race regimen? She spent Saturday night starring in Pittsburgh Opera's production of Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment. She finished the marathon 13 hours after getting a well deserved standing ovation (I'm guessing. I saw the opera the next Sunday). Opera star Oropesa has lungs to run Pittsburgh Marathon | TribLIVE.com She recovered well enough to sing the next performance on Tuesday night.
That reminds me of playing rec league soccer in Charleston SC. Really deflating having an all-Mexican team run you into the dirt the first half, have half the team eat, smoke, drink or all 3 during the half, and then run you into the dirt in the second half. This and knowing full well that most finished a full 8 hours doing back breaking blue-collar shift like roofing or construction.
I ran 35ish miles in an 8 hour race while utterly hammered once. I was probably almost back to sober at mile 25ish when I started drinking margaritas.
Big cat taming. I notice AAs typically don't do this type of job or kissing venomous snakes in church. Galante compared the fatal accident to instances when people play with their house cats and unintentionally provoke them, causing minor scratches. However, the key difference, Galante noted, is that when a tiger lashes out, “it can be absolutely fatal,” much like the “poorly placed bite” that killed Easley. Galante emphasized that the tiger “didn’t want to kill” Easley, and that the mauling underscores the “unpredictability that large cats exhibit.” https://www.newsnationnow.com/animals/tiger-fatally-mauled-handler-ryan-easley/amp/
Good % of marathoners have the sads Running on empty: why are so many marathon runners so miserable? One in four endurance runners displays ‘worryingly high’ levels of anxiety and depression, according to a study led by a man who has himself run more than 400 marathons. Isn’t exercise supposed to make you feel good? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...why-are-so-many-marathon-runners-so-miserable
There's emerging evidence that overtraining has drastic longterm effects at the cellular level. Probably mental and physical. I suspect that 400 marathons, unless you have certain genetic capacities that most people don't have, will involve overtraining.
When I played pick up and in the local league right out of high school, there was a clear difference in those who worked out and those who didn't. Like the guy who I knew who was in his early 50s and worked construction was the strongest person I played against. I worked pizza delivery, and always worked the day the shipping arrived. Putting away those 30 to 50 lbs boxes for a good hour really improved my strength. Can't talk about the endurance (I ran on my own, so I was able to outrun most), but the strength was obvious.
Yup. At the same time, there is also emerging evidence that those ultra-endurance athletes have some kind of brain function that is abnormal on the positive side relative to most humans.
Saw that the last surviving sherpa from Hillary & Norgay's 1953 Everest summiting, Kanchha Sherpa, has passed. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq0xlnv2x2o.amp But I had never heard of this unlucky mountaineer who died up there
These Chowdaheads Climbed Mt. Washington Over 20 "ill-prepared" hikers were rescued from New Hampshire's Mount Washington after they were trapped in "full winter conditions" without the proper gear, with some developing hypothermia, according to the Mount Washington Cog Railway. The hikers, who were rescued on Saturday by railway officials, had reached the mountain's 6,288-foot summit, but "most had no idea that summit services would be unavailable and that the state park was closed for the season," Andy Vilaine, the assistant general manager for the Mount Washington Cog Railway, said in a statement on Saturday. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/mount-washington-hikers-rescued-hypothermia-snow/story?id=126900403
They all made it to the summit, lived to tell about it and (hopefully) learned a few valuable life lessons along the journey… ….go Wypipo! framing.
One of the Frenchest things you'll read: A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said. The 77-year-old missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region, careening down a rocky slope and into the ravine near Saint-Julien-des-Points. Unable to climb out, the man tried to shout every time a vehicle passed. But no one heard his cries. As the hours turned into days, he was sustained by the bottles of wine he was taking home to his caravan, rescuers said. Finally, passing roadworkers heard him yelling and spotted the twisted frame of his bicycle. A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with rescue doctor Laurent Savath calling his survival "a miracle ... given the cold and the rain, with almost nothing to eat or drink" other than the wine. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyclist-falls-ravine-survives-days-drinking-wine-france/
Even my climbing partner, who I am 85% sure will die doing something dumb on a mountain, would balk at trying this.