#marathons

[therealbrigeedarocks]

starting the dreamworks animated film marathon (according to wikipedia) and uuuggghhhh antz

the movie itself is fine but even if woody allen wasn't one of the biggest fucking creeps to ever live, i fucking hate his voice and delivery

it's why i hate nic cage so much too

[homosexual-hairflip]

adhd is so funny I just saw some dude online complain abt how hard marathons are and now I’m like ‘well it’s like 40 kilometres that’s not that far’ and now I’m planning my running training regimen to beat his time. i hate running btw.

[tame-a-messenger]

Since these marathons happened before, how long are they gonna last? Respectfully I’m tired of them

To be totally honest, I have no idea.

@lilac-hecox said they do it every year for the first week, but it’s been a little longer than a week atp.

We could be getting a Games livestream tomorrow, or maybe a new video Friday, but again totally not sure.

On Trevor’s Smosh Mouth ep they talked about upcoming videos so I think we’ll be back to normal uploads soon 🤞

[inviernainvicta]

racismcels cant't do shit against the GOAT

[jdpink]

Boston and New York are known as the hilly World Marathon Majors, yet this course features nearly twice as much climbing as either of them. The biggest hill in NYC, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge at the very start of the race, climbs 160 feet in one mile. The big hill in Paris climbs 511 feet.

The hilliest part of the Boston course, the 1.5-mile stretch between 19.25 and 20.75 miles, rises approximately 150 feet. The biggest hill in Paris climbs more than three times that much. If you compare the Paris hill just to Heartbeak Hill (roughly 20.25 to 20.75 miles in Boston), it’s the height of 6.2 of those.

 “Honestly I don’t think they’ll run faster than 8:00 on that mile [in the women’s race], even at the front…[The hills are] gonna make the race, for sure. 

We’re not sure if Olympic organizers are going to give mile-by-mile splits, but if they do take a look at the 20th mile. Between mile 19 and 20 (30.57 km to 32.18 km), the course drops roughly 100 meters. That is 328 feet, which would be worth nearly a minute according to JK. So theoretically, a sub-4:00 mile would be possible although we think the runners will have to be putting the brakes on to not destroy their quads since it’s greater than a 6 percent downhill grade. 

Kipchoge also has no history of success on hilly courses. He has only run one — Boston in 2023 — and it did not go well. At the time, Kipchoge said he did not adjust his training at all to account for Boston’s unique course, instead relying on the playbook that had brought him so many marathon victories in the past. Kipchoge wound up 6th after getting broken in the Newton Hills.

With a victory in Paris, Kipchoge would make all sorts of history. He’d be the first person to win three Olympic marathon titles and, at 39, he’d be the oldest person to win Olympic gold in any running event. He’d also accomplish the one thing he has not been able to so far in his decorated career: win on a hilly course.

[limbinda]

Just an introductory post. I’m Mary and I’m a painter and a runner. I will post about my art, running, nutrition, and my dog. This year I am running 13 half marathons.

[animerunner]

The absolute happy dance when setting up my playlist for the marathon tomorrow and discovering that the Tron Lightcycle Run music is indeed on Spotify.

[therealbrigeedarocks]

first snag in my disney theatrical animated features (according to wikipedia) marathon

i cannot seem to find a way to watch “so dear to my heart”

there’s a copy of “song of the south” on my beloved pirate site, and i can find “the ugliest dachshund” and “the happiest millionaire”, but “so dear to my heart”? nope

but can’t you watch that movie legally by renting or buying in places

DISNEY ISN’T GETTING MY MONEY FOR AN ARBITRARY MARATHON I NEED TO COMPLETE BY WATCHING A FILM ABOUT A KID RAISING A LAMB

[vaguelyhumanshapedbeing]

I personally like to imagine that ghosts are real purely so Pheidippides just gets eternally dunked on at every marathon ever held

[asmita-das-blog]

I Found Myself in 2014.

I have always been this happy-go-lucky person ever since I have explored and understood myself. In fact, after moving to Bangalore in 2014, I have discovered a new version of me. Back in Calcutta, I was kind of shy and didn’t really have any courage to strike up a conversation even with myself. Well, there were many obstacles in my mind – My weight, my acne face, tall but slouched stature, low…

[atotaltaitaitale]

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Paris marathon.

If the goal was to go from the green flag (Champs Élysée) to the red flag (Avenue Foch) more than 52,000 participants (57,599 registered) took the wrong way and run 42.195kms instead of the barely 2kms needed to join the Point A (aka Departure) and Point B (aka Arrival). Just saying ;-)

NB: It’s the marathon with the second-most finishers in the world, behind the New York City Marathon.

[kitty-dw28]

What's worse is now there are ULTRA marathons: anything over 26.2 miles. I heard of a 100 mile ultra marathon.

Mega flex on the first marathon guy...

[sunflowermp4]

ITS DOECHII BITCH MISS D-O-E DON DADA BITCH YOU NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[windwenn]

‘You were my new dream’ or however the fuck that scene went

[flynndesdelca]

attempted to go give blood today, but ended up getting turned away for having too low iron. sucks, but it's understandable, and especially nowso more than before. really sucks for that exact reason: I want to get this done before training for the upcoming marathon season really starts in earnest. because I know how that feels and it absolutely sucks.

last year I had put off giving blood when my window opened in the summer because it was hot and I was depressed out of my mind and lazy. come september I realized that I probably should go and get it done and so I did, without really thinking about it. the timing was bad because I'd smacked my head into a raised trunk door the day previous and bled quite a bit. however my iron was okay and my overall condition was fine. apparently they don't care if you had bleeding head wounds, only if you've had dental work or surgery. go figure. I went and gave blood as I normally would.

it was only when I was doing my token reading of the donation literature that I realized that I had made a rather grave mistake, as the literature itself states that you should avoid overly heavy exercise. and stupid me, I had chosen to go give blood a week before a marathon. I understood the basic idea of blood in the body, in that it is responsible for carrying oxygen. so in theory I understood just what could happen. and I attempted to prepare as best as I could. I ceased all training that week so that my body could rest and repair itself. I ate as much good food as I could. on the actual race day I ran at much slower than my normal race pace in order to give myself a break. it was my first attempt at that particular race so I wasn't worried about trying to get a new pb or anything like that. all I needed to do was finish.

when I hit about the 5k mark of the 10k I usually run was when I started noticing the trouble. my breathing was harder, I didn't feel as refreshed with each breath as I should. I took a minute to walk and to catch my breath and let myself rest and then attempted to shoulder on. I made it about another klick before I had to repeat this. and again. and again. the last klick was probably more me walking than actually running. I saved up enough breath and energy to at least be able to run across the finish line. a very poor showing for me, but I knew better than to be disappointed. that was what I had invited in with my poor thinking.

the really telling point was the afterward, as I was talking to a friend of mine while sitting and guzzling the energy drink they give you after a race. I couldn't actually talk because I'd run out of breath. I was gasping and gulping and had to sit and be quiet for about a minute before I could even squeak out what had suddenly happened.

absolutely terrifying experience, to breath and not actually feel like I'm getting any kind of benefit. to be gasping and wheezing and not able to stop. my blood had not replenished nearly enough for me to be trying to run any length of time. but yet I persisted for another couple marathons. perhaps out of sheer bloody determination. after all I'd paid to run these things and I was going to do it, damn whatever time it took me. I did finish them all, to my credit.

by the end of october I'd recovered enough that I could actually run at full race pace and had a good showing for the first time the entire season. and I'd learned a valuable lesson about just how important blood is when you are running... and that I'd better be way more careful when deciding to give it.

I'll try again in a couple weeks and hopefully get my iron up by then. let's hope that my body cooperates.

[piratelawyer]

please listen to this sidedoor episode about her and other early woman marathoners- she said she didnt have the right shoes bc they didnt make running shoes for women so she ran part of the race barefoot!!! whattt! and then Kathrine Switzer talks ab that famous photo and how the race organizers (not other runners mind you) were so mad she "tricked" them to get an official number by using her initials. its a great episode with some cool stories! and they talk to an astronaut! who ran the boston marathon! IN SPACE!

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the race to begin. When about half of the runners had gone past she jumped in. She wore her brother’s Bermuda shorts, a pair of boy’s sneakers, a bathing suit, and a sweatshirt. As she took off into the swarm of runners, Gibb started to feel overheated, but she didn’t remove her hoodie. “I knew if they saw me, they were going to try to stop me,” she said. “I even thought I might be arrested.” It didn’t take long for male runners in Gibb’s vicinity to realize that she was not another man. Gibb expected them to shoulder her off the road, or call out to the police. Instead, the other runners told her that if anyone tried to interfere with her race, they would put a stop to it. Finally feeling secure and assured, Gibb took off her sweatshirt. As soon as it became clear that there was a woman running in the marathon, the crowd erupted—not with anger or righteousness, but with pure joy, she recalled. Men cheered. Women cried. By the time she reached Wellesley College, the news of her run had spread, and the female students were waiting for her, jumping and screaming. The governor of Massachusetts met her at the finish line and shook her hand. The first woman to ever run the marathon had finished in the top third.”