Posted on 08/04/2019 3:32:13 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The 48-year-old Finn just won this year’s Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. He crossed a duct-tape ribbon Friday after running more than 60 miles on each of 48 consecutive days around the same half-mile course in the Jamaica Hills neighborhood of Queens, N.Y. ...6 a.m., when the race begins and often works past midnight, when the race ends for the day.
One shoe expert replaces the heel with rubber implants, which cuts expenses for the runners who can burn through up to 20 pairs of expensive shoes during the race...
It’s about the joy of transcending your limits and applying that to your life going forward
“I’m very happy,” Mr. Aalto said, who has won the race eight times now. “I can go do other things, rather than run, run, run.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Feels so good when you stop!
Photos: https://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/ashprihanal-aalto-wins-3100-mile-race-record-time?page=1
Wouldn’t this get pretty boring?
Yes, kudos;
but moronic.
“Someone I know is planning on doing this run in three weeks.” From old thread.
This reminded me.
Did your friend make the Grand Canyon run?
And hopefully, he returned better than ever!
Maybe a tiny bit of sunburn.
Wouldn’t this get pretty boring?
That was my second thought after attacks by the local youths?
The article noted the neighborhood had improved over the years. Could it have gotten worse than twenty-four years ago?
Looks very similar to eight times winner Ashprihanal Aalto from Helsinki Finland!
You got to be nuts. Sixty miles a day on the same course? Sixty miles in each of the 48 contiguous states (57 if you are Obozo)—now that would be a goal worth doing.
This is Mr. Aalto’s 15th time completing one of the hardest footraces in the world, which requires runners to cover 3,100 miles over 52 days.
He also holds the record at 40 days.
My dentist has completed every Chicago Marathon since the first in 1977, but his main focus is Ultras. Still running all original equipment.
“Sixty miles in each of the 48 contiguous states”
The race distance is the distance from the west to the east coast of the US plus 11 marathons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Race
You missed my point.
SOME people seem born to run...
And she was right.
From the article:
has won the race eight times now
15-20yrs from now, they’ll all have ankle, knee and hip replacements, or be in wheelchairs with PT 3x/ week.
Feet, knees and hips only hold-up for so long, with that kind of punishment.
Some people love falling into a routine.
By the end of the race, I bet that half-mile course was very familiar. As in, 6200 laps familiar.
I get that same feeling every morning I'm able to set my feet on the floor when I get out of bed.
I save myself 60 miles and who knows what kind of crap that running would do to my body..........
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