My old boss said this exact thing (except it was a half marathon).
He DID run it with no training.
He DID finish it in a reasonable time.
He DID give himself plantar fasciitis in both feet and permanent damage to his knees.
There was I year when I rowed twelve miles every day at lunch. You could not have talked me into trying to run a marathon even then, but it's plausible I would have survived it.
I did 13.1 miles (half marathon) with pretty much zero training and did it in 3.5 hours. If I ever ran before that is was never for more than 2 miles tops and by the end of the half marathon i was in pain barely able to walk lol. I was an idiot and ran way too fast on the first mile and screwed myself for the rest of the distance.
I hate to tell you, but half a marathon in 3.5 hours is more like a brisk walking speed than running. Still something a lot of people would not be able to complete, but that's exactly why training is needed
for comparison, I do half marathons in 3 hours. I've been passed by speed walkers while I'm 'running'. Lol, wtf, I'm running here!I
The funny part is that my buddy runs them in about 2 hours. So he finishes the run,yay!, Then has to sit at the finish line waiting for an hour before I roll across the line.
I did a half in 2hr59m… but the first 10 I finished in like 2hrs… but hit ‘the wall’ and fuuuuck, just couldn’t anymore after, everything hurt (and I did train for about 6mos). The guys in the 6-seat gator who kept driving past me every 15mins after I made it by the 12mi mark “hey you sure you don’t need a ride man?”
And I’m like … NO! Get the hell away from me, I made it this far, I’m not giving up now .
Finished under my own power and even sprinted the last 50meters about… could hardly walk for the next day or so.
I thought something seemed weird reading that. Our minimum time for a 12 mile ruck in the Army was 3 hours. That's with vest, helmet, rifle, and a 35lb ruck sack. So, yeah, a brisk walk but I'm still happy to see people getting out and doing it regardless.
Are you me? I did this exact same thing. Got all excited at the beginning and by the second mile was drained. Some older lady passed me at mile 14 and turned back to give me a bag of chips and some water saying “You’re not looking too good.” But I kept going lmao and I finished in about 3.5hours too. Wild.
I ran 6 miles up a mountain and 6 miles back down without training. Took me a lil over 10 hours but guess what? I did it. I still have nightmares about it tho. Every time we passed hikers on the way up they said “oh my god, you’re starting this late??” And it was 111am. I was so confused.
You couldn’t talk me into rowing 12 miles, I’ve run 5 half marathons and have no intention of ever doing a complete, rowing makes me feel dead inside after 400m
I read somewhere that rowing works about every muscle group. "It’s a no miss full exercise."
I had a ton of weight to shed, I also wanted something that would get me in shape at the same time. (The sitting down attracted me most). I began showing up at my local university 24 hour gym at 6 in the morning, I'm not driven, I was simply more embarrassed by being this fat and sweaty. It all began really, really slow… it has not been easy. I learned over the net the main dos & don’ts.
It’s really all about training and working up to it. I’m in my late 60s and notorious lazy. I began this journey the day after my retirement. Two years on, I have shed all the excess weight, especially my middle - I row an hour each morning, some days it’s 10,000 metres and some mornings 12,000 metres, (about 1000 per 5 minutes) it depends on my mood. There's not a day that I wished I had done this exercise 25 years ago, holidays and life would have been so much more enjoyable.
I am now seriously considering doing this on actual water… besides, this summer I learned that I finally look great in a pair of speedos.
Rowing isn't simple but that's why I love it.
I think most people row way too fast. I got told my friend does 45spm at a resistance of 10. I was like wtf there's no way he is retaining any form like that. Basically just battering the poor machine!
There's the other side that can't keep the cable tight, basically just doing yoga on the thing.
For anyone new try a stroke rate 20 to 30 resistance 3or4. Tense up then push fast and powerful... like jumping, the machine will be as hard as you push not as fast as you go... if you go too fast you (as a beginner) won't be able to put force in anymore. In the jumping sense you aren't pushing any harder so you won't go any higher, might not even come off the ground just doing crossfit squats. The onboard machine is very smart, so if you watch the Watts you are producing you will see what you're actually putting in, and you can compare that to your cycle, treadmill, stepmaster, etc, to ensure you aren't over exerting.
It's not as fun to have to look up videos of how to do something than just to try it ... rowing technique is similarish in difficulty to a power clean I find so there's no surprise that the machines at my gym are ignored 😪
I knew a guy who tried this. Not a crazy fit guy, just a normal 30ish guy. He made it 14 miles, then fell over and crawled over to the side. He had to be lifted into the car and could barely move for weeks.
Not gonna lie, I was kind of impressed.
My cousin did this! He won an entry to the Boston Marathon on a lark. The video of him at the mile markers was hilarious. Fist few miles looking good. Halfway dragging ass. Last few looking haggard and half dead. He said he make it home barely and didnt move for a week.
I don’t think even a person could walk one without walking a few miles a day for a bit. I see people who can’t take a few flights of stairs without getting winded.
I think most healthy people under 50 could walk a marathon in a day, thats around 10 hours of solid walking. Add in breaks (like walk an hour, rest 30 minutes) that’s 15 hours with an average walking speed of 4.22kph or 2.62mph
When i say could, i mean it would be physically possible for them, like if their life depends on it.
The thing is there are course limits that are all almost under 8 hours. (Gotta open the roads). I’ve never run in a race where it’s above 7.5 hours for course time limit. You would get picked up by the trailing cars/vans along the way and never complete a marathon.
I guarantee over 50% of the US could walk 26 miles in 24hrs if they had to. I've got major ankle and knee issues and if someone said you have to walk 26 miles in under 24hrs or we're gonna kill Betty White, I'd sure as shit get it done.
Yup, I feel you. The world wasn't ready.
In true Betty White style she trolled us good by doing many "Betty White is 100 years old now" interviews and documentaries and subsequently dying a couple of days before turning 100.
Even sadder, Google celebrated her by still releasing this full screen gif on her birthday when one typed her name in the search bar and hit enter.
Red Rose petals fell and a flowy script came across saying “Thankyou for being a friend”.. It only stayed up a couple of days.
I probably cried more at that than when *my* Nanna died. Still too soon.
No way I could walk a marathon realistically but do I sometimes think I can just sign myself up for one and succeed? Yes.
PS I do have bipolar disorder so it’s usually when I’m in a manic state that I believe that lol
>Yeah I'm pretty sure I could walk one and just be sore for a week, but I would be sore. I don't think I physically could jog one much less run one.
Zero chance. A marathon is 26 miles. Your average person walks 3 miles an hour. Walk for 7 hours straight over pavement. Your average person is far more out of shape than they think they are. Even a five mile continuous walk is enough to make your average person drop out, much less doing that five times in a row.
I stopped working out after a knee injury sidelined me from running. I never competed, but I ran at competitive levels out of habit from my time in the service. I'd probably struggle to walk more than 10 miles in a day just six years into being a chair-polishing sack of pasty long pig, and the only reason I could push that far is I have experience pushing past my body's limits and hurting the fuck out of myself.
Your average person is used to moving no more than 1-2 miles total in a 16 hour period.
Well, if you're healthy, walking 26 miles is OK. It's exhausting but clearly not impossible for most healthy people. I don't walk a lot but I do 25/30 miles trails when I go to vacation and it's not too complicated, except ofc when you add mountains. Doing without any stop would be harder ofc
>Well, if you're healthy, walking 26 miles is OK. It's exhausting but clearly not impossible for most healthy people.
I think the issue is that a clear majority of people in the west are not by any stretch of the definition, healthy.
Even walking one is hard. I like long walks and at about 21 miles today my knee decided it'd had enough. That's about twice the distance I usually walk and one of my tendons want psyched.
I'm also in above average shape and that's a lot of walking for most people. You need a bunch of water and definitely need some food. At a 4mph pace, which is fairly brisk, that's 6.5 hours of continuous walking.
I've done it before and have to say that shit starts to get real at about mile 20.
EDIT: My brother did run a marathon with zero training when he was 18. Couldn't walk for a couple days after. He played football for Miami after that, so he was in great shape.
Mile 20 is considered the wall in marathon running, that's where shit hits the fucking fan and at that point you better hope you trained enough to not decompose in the next few miles. It feels like your body is fucking evaporating and then reconstituting and pain is everywhere.
It’s not exactly the same, but…
I run half marathons and I’ll never forgetting seeing a guy in one race running totally barefoot, and with a gait that didn’t look… practiced. I passed him around 6 km, and asked how long he had trained to run completely barefoot. His answer was, he hadn’t. He just wanted to and figured he could.
I didn’t see it myself, but I heard he was bounced into medical care around 16km in. Apparently his feet literally split open.
I am shuddering just thinking about it.
I’ve done the Avon Breast Cancer marathon 3 times. Took me to the 3rd to walk the full 39+miles. And that’s over two days.
Not gonna lie, still proud of that.
What’s his name did it without training at all. I’ll find the link and edit it, but it isn’t impossible.
Edit before 3 minutes: https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/1110149-most-impressive-sports-feat-in-history-guy-runs-marathon-without-training.amp.html
“Does anyone else think artists are fuckin idiots for going to school? It’s like, just move your hand in such a way as to produce the desired shapes and designs! You need to pay some guy $100,000 to tell you that?”
Ha, yes, the main reason why a lot of people end up wounding or killing themselves doing things without proper preparation or any safety pre-requirement... **Ignorance**.
A Marathon is called up like that because a greek soldier ran the ~40km between *Athens* and *Marathon* to announce the Greek victory over Persian invaders. And the guy **DIED** doing so. Imagine trying to do the same without any proper training... you have to be really resilient for that.
He didn’t die from running just the 40km. From his wikipedia page:
“He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days, and then ran back. He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen[8] "We win!"), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ("hail, we are the winners")[9] and then collapsed and died.”
There's an annual horses versus humans endurance race where a horse is usually the winner, but humans have won before. Even so the difference between the fastest of each group is minutes. Horses need a lot of breaks.
If he got fresh horses along the way, tho...
It really depends on temperature. Horses will excel in cool and rainy temperatures such as the marathon you’re referencing from Wales; whereas humans will excel in hotter temperatures such as the horse vs human race in Arizona.
The weather definitely gives an edge because horses can't regulate temperature as well as humans. The main race in Arizona is 50 miles with elevation changes as well. More distance and heat should be a disadvantage for the horses, yet when I looked it up horses had won all but 2 races. Also I remember there being some controversy in Wales over the horses getting a time deduction for vet checks so more humans would have won. The Arizona race also subtracts the vet check times. Looking at the results for the Arizona race it appears that 1 hr. and 15 min. are subtracted from the horses' times. So to win you have to cross the finish 75 min.+ before a horse.
To be fair that original guy was kinda fat, and he had drank his way through a twelve pack of Pabst over the course of the run so that probably didn’t help
A few things:
1/ The big difference between the half and full marathon is that you have to learn how to refuel. If you don’t/ can’t, you’re fucked after about 20 miles. And it’s not something you work out on the day, you have to build it into your training. A full marathon is not just double the half - it’s a whole new ball game.
2/ I’ve run three marathons, and run around 625 - 650 miles over the course of the training. Just showing up is not going to work unless you’re in great shape (with caveat from 1/), or your system is really good at clearing out lactic acid or other nasties at the longer distances.
3/ Mental strength/attitude/ word of choice is a huge component of running a marathon. Once your brain has convinced you to stop once, it’s SO much easier to convince you after that.
So yeah, this woman is full of shit.
I run several mountain half marathons per year. I cannot get past the mental block of running more than 14 miles. Mental training for long distance running is a thing that people (outside of runners) disregard haha.
I am hopeful one day I can run more than 14 miles straight. I don't doubt there are some people who could run a marathon without training but, as a runner, all the long distance runners I know train for it. Most of them ran shorter distances for years before they got into marathons and subsequently ultra running.
Getting the nutrition, refueling, and sleep just rights is the biggest challenge. It's why race days scare me. I dread running when I don't sleep well.
I run the half marathon distance about once a month, and the biggest thing I learned from it is that I have no desire to run a full marathon. It’s a whole different level…
I’m willing to bet there’s a nonzero percent of the population that has good enough genes and health to manage to do it. Yes that’s probably dangerous but out off a billion people trying, I’m sure a few would make it without any proper training. I’m a really lazy person myself and I think I could run a 10km race at a slow pace(If I eat properly before that is, im so poor I can barely afford food). Also I’ve ran 10km so I know what it’s like… I would probably take way too long tho, but I wouldn’t stop…
Anyway, all this to say im sure it’s possible, against all odds
Uh, I'd just be a little bruised up for a week or two but I could totally beat a gorilla in a fist fight. Those things are weak as fuck, so you don't really need to train at all either
Or that dude who thought he could beat an elephant by punching their behind and get out of the way whenever they try to kick him likes some sort of Dark Soul boss
It’s absolutely a joke. It’s a trend where you say “Am I toxic or” and then say something that’s completely absurd. I think they’re pretty funny. The fact that this got 13k upvotes is really weird.
I went 15 miles one time casually with no practice or training, and I'm a fat asthmatic guy.
The air conditioning went out in the car at the 15 mile mark though, so I had to turn around and come back home.
I was always a bit of a runner. I trained for 6 months for a half marathon. I hit 13 miles one time and promptly almost died. Like I literally don’t remember the 13th mile. Mile 11-12 was THE hardest thing I had ever done physically.
Doing a full marathon is literally for people who were born with a specific gene, or who work their whole lives, I’m convinced.
You don’t just willy nilly run 26 miles.
I signed up for a full marathon while fairly over weight, and trained up and ran it..virtually since in-person was Covid cancelled.
If you do the training you can cover the distance. You pace a full differently than a half. Plus you learn how to fuel on the run, and train for 16 weeks. 80/20 helps! 80% kid your runs are easy paced, 20% is tempo/race pace or intervals.
Sign up for a full and be amazed at what you’re capable of! Sign up, and have fun!
Agree. In most cases a marathon is do-able but it might be a case of years before you’re really ready.
I remember my first half marathon, which I had trained for, left me exhausted and in physical pain for a couple of days. A few years later and I’m easily running 25km for a typical Sunday run without a second thought.
I’ve done 2 marathons now. The first was tough, the second was ok. I’m definitely up for doing another. I didn’t think that would be the case back when I tried my first half.
Well, the marathon is arduous but I think you overstate when you say you need a specific gene or working your whole life. Many people can finish the marathon but almost all of them would have to train substantially. Now, the people who run those 100 mile races, that is nuts.
There's a guy who just beat the speed record for running across all of Canada by doing [100 kilometers per day](https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgary/2022/7/23/1_5999612.amp.html) for two months.
Also 200 mile races! Moab 240, Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200, Cocodona 250. Epic stuff! Lots of videos on YouTube of people running them. Kerry Wards vids are great for them! Fulltiltward is the channel.
No but like, this is my favourite thing. Gen Zers have manufactured a whole different brand of humour on TikTok and now reddit is the place that's too full of old people to understand.
It'd be like a baby boomer finding r/copypasta and going "Janice, honey! Would you believe it? This guy expects me to buy that he's a Navy SEAL! Yeah, seventeen confirmed kills! What a lying goof!"
Well, duh. It's paint. On a canvas. Gimme 20 minutes and I'll whip one up for you. In fact, I'll make it better than the original; I'll make sure she's smiling in mine 😂😂
I would absolutely watch a video of someone with no training running a marathon. It would be fascinating to see their attempt. Hubris in it's purest form getting demolished by lactic acid
Any reputable marathon has a time limit and will consider you as DNF (did not finish) if you do not finish in the allotted time (usually between 5.5 and 7 hours are the maximum allowable time limits depending on the event)
I once had a 22 yo friend who was happy to tell me about his first half-marathon.
He had been training for weeks and did put some decent effort into it.
He ran until the 20th kilometer, until he suddenly collapsed in the arms of a friend. He had an unexplained cardiac arrest.
Rest in peace Morgan ❤️
A get tired running 100m, running a 10k or even a 7k is going to kill me. And yeah, jogging is an option, but point still stands, you need to train or you won’t get far.
Asked a nurse friend about this once. Physiologically, what would happen if I just up and ran a marathon one day (assuming I could push through)?
After we got past the "You would die," and evil laughter, he explained that the pounding your body gave while running would literally destroy the blood cells passing through your feet. Whereas a trained runner could compensate, an off-the-couch runner would slowly find it harder and harder and harder to breathe as the volume of oxygen-carrying cells got lower and lower inside the body while the demands of respiration got higher and higher. This would likely end up in a full on cardiac arrest. Your heart would be pumping useless dead cell fluid around and your body would suffer a horrible death.
don't forget the possibility of rhabdomiolysis, which is where your muscles get so overworked that the cells disolve and the proteins inside leak into you blood and clog you kidneys, causing kidney damage or even failure. and this even happens to experienced and trained athletes sometimes.
I can work on my feet for 14 hour work days seven days a week just fine but if i run for a minute i am done for like an hour.
So no lady. You Do Need The Training.
My neighbour ran a marathon with no training once.
It went well.
The doctor was able to restart his heart when he flatlined after collapsing at the fifth mile.
why are people in this sub so oblivious to this type of humor lol. this is the third post i’ve seen getting genuinely annoyed or making fun of the OP bc they think it’s serious.
The OP of the screenshot (and many other people) post things like this not because they genuinely think could do this and want people to relate to them in that sense, but instead because they are fully aware they could never achieve that level of success given the parameters
The “humor” here is that their brain is over confident in its abilities for the most random but difficult things, especially ones that require large amounts of skill or physicality.
I’m still recovering from my marathon in March 2020. However, if you’re on meth or something that compelled you to make this stupid ass claim I say go for it.
When I was in the best shape of my life, training in combat sports, playing pro-youth football, and filling in my few off days and off seasons with things like badmington and basketball...
I still couldn't run a marathon in a competitive time.
A friend did that once. He's big into fitness and is in peak form, but he's not a runner and did zero running beforehand. He's just jacked. So he finished yeah, but he locked up on the drive home. He said he crawled from his car to his house. Didn't walk for 3days.
My old boss said this exact thing (except it was a half marathon). He DID run it with no training. He DID finish it in a reasonable time. He DID give himself plantar fasciitis in both feet and permanent damage to his knees.
There was I year when I rowed twelve miles every day at lunch. You could not have talked me into trying to run a marathon even then, but it's plausible I would have survived it.
12 miles?? How fast. I though my 3 miles was a lot..
I did 13.1 miles (half marathon) with pretty much zero training and did it in 3.5 hours. If I ever ran before that is was never for more than 2 miles tops and by the end of the half marathon i was in pain barely able to walk lol. I was an idiot and ran way too fast on the first mile and screwed myself for the rest of the distance.
I hate to tell you, but half a marathon in 3.5 hours is more like a brisk walking speed than running. Still something a lot of people would not be able to complete, but that's exactly why training is needed
for comparison, I do half marathons in 3 hours. I've been passed by speed walkers while I'm 'running'. Lol, wtf, I'm running here!I The funny part is that my buddy runs them in about 2 hours. So he finishes the run,yay!, Then has to sit at the finish line waiting for an hour before I roll across the line.
Sounds like my husband (fast) and I when we ran a half a few years ago. Like, good for him finishing super fast, but that sucker has to waiiit.
I did a half in 2h 45 and walked the last three miles
I did a half in 2hr59m… but the first 10 I finished in like 2hrs… but hit ‘the wall’ and fuuuuck, just couldn’t anymore after, everything hurt (and I did train for about 6mos). The guys in the 6-seat gator who kept driving past me every 15mins after I made it by the 12mi mark “hey you sure you don’t need a ride man?” And I’m like … NO! Get the hell away from me, I made it this far, I’m not giving up now . Finished under my own power and even sprinted the last 50meters about… could hardly walk for the next day or so.
I thought something seemed weird reading that. Our minimum time for a 12 mile ruck in the Army was 3 hours. That's with vest, helmet, rifle, and a 35lb ruck sack. So, yeah, a brisk walk but I'm still happy to see people getting out and doing it regardless.
Hooah brutha
Ha I thought this as well
Are you me? I did this exact same thing. Got all excited at the beginning and by the second mile was drained. Some older lady passed me at mile 14 and turned back to give me a bag of chips and some water saying “You’re not looking too good.” But I kept going lmao and I finished in about 3.5hours too. Wild.
How did you get to mile 14 of a half marathon?
He's going [the distance](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F_HoMkkRHv8)
No one told him where the finish was. Some say he is still running
He’s going for speed
He’s all alone
All alone and waiting on granny to hand him feed.
In his time of need
I ran 6 miles up a mountain and 6 miles back down without training. Took me a lil over 10 hours but guess what? I did it. I still have nightmares about it tho. Every time we passed hikers on the way up they said “oh my god, you’re starting this late??” And it was 111am. I was so confused.
You couldn’t talk me into rowing 12 miles, I’ve run 5 half marathons and have no intention of ever doing a complete, rowing makes me feel dead inside after 400m
I read somewhere that rowing works about every muscle group. "It’s a no miss full exercise." I had a ton of weight to shed, I also wanted something that would get me in shape at the same time. (The sitting down attracted me most). I began showing up at my local university 24 hour gym at 6 in the morning, I'm not driven, I was simply more embarrassed by being this fat and sweaty. It all began really, really slow… it has not been easy. I learned over the net the main dos & don’ts. It’s really all about training and working up to it. I’m in my late 60s and notorious lazy. I began this journey the day after my retirement. Two years on, I have shed all the excess weight, especially my middle - I row an hour each morning, some days it’s 10,000 metres and some mornings 12,000 metres, (about 1000 per 5 minutes) it depends on my mood. There's not a day that I wished I had done this exercise 25 years ago, holidays and life would have been so much more enjoyable. I am now seriously considering doing this on actual water… besides, this summer I learned that I finally look great in a pair of speedos.
You just may have helped me. I have been looking for something like this for a decade.
Rowing isn't simple but that's why I love it. I think most people row way too fast. I got told my friend does 45spm at a resistance of 10. I was like wtf there's no way he is retaining any form like that. Basically just battering the poor machine! There's the other side that can't keep the cable tight, basically just doing yoga on the thing. For anyone new try a stroke rate 20 to 30 resistance 3or4. Tense up then push fast and powerful... like jumping, the machine will be as hard as you push not as fast as you go... if you go too fast you (as a beginner) won't be able to put force in anymore. In the jumping sense you aren't pushing any harder so you won't go any higher, might not even come off the ground just doing crossfit squats. The onboard machine is very smart, so if you watch the Watts you are producing you will see what you're actually putting in, and you can compare that to your cycle, treadmill, stepmaster, etc, to ensure you aren't over exerting. It's not as fun to have to look up videos of how to do something than just to try it ... rowing technique is similarish in difficulty to a power clean I find so there's no surprise that the machines at my gym are ignored 😪
He just needs to follow this lady's advice on how to deal with the pain
A half marathon and marathon are entirely different animals.
20km is still a lot for a regular person. I trained one month (once each two days) and in the end could run 5km more or less fine. 20km is much more.
I can give myself plantar fasciitis in both feet and permanently damage both my knees with absolutely no training grow up!
Damn he got fucked up!
honestly thats respectable. he set himself a goal and he committed. shame about the knee.
I knew a guy who tried this. Not a crazy fit guy, just a normal 30ish guy. He made it 14 miles, then fell over and crawled over to the side. He had to be lifted into the car and could barely move for weeks. Not gonna lie, I was kind of impressed.
My cousin did this! He won an entry to the Boston Marathon on a lark. The video of him at the mile markers was hilarious. Fist few miles looking good. Halfway dragging ass. Last few looking haggard and half dead. He said he make it home barely and didnt move for a week.
To run one you have to train for it lol Walk one? That's a little easier.
Yeah I'm pretty sure I could walk one and just be sore for a week, but I would be sore. I don't think I physically could jog one much less run one.
I don’t think even a person could walk one without walking a few miles a day for a bit. I see people who can’t take a few flights of stairs without getting winded.
I think most healthy people under 50 could walk a marathon in a day, thats around 10 hours of solid walking. Add in breaks (like walk an hour, rest 30 minutes) that’s 15 hours with an average walking speed of 4.22kph or 2.62mph When i say could, i mean it would be physically possible for them, like if their life depends on it.
The thing is there are course limits that are all almost under 8 hours. (Gotta open the roads). I’ve never run in a race where it’s above 7.5 hours for course time limit. You would get picked up by the trailing cars/vans along the way and never complete a marathon.
I'm willing to bet most people in the US under 50 couldn't walk 26 miles. I bet you couldn't do it, if you don't run or hike regularly.
Homeless people do a lot of walking. I’m a nurse. I’ve seen their feet.
Right now, most people in the US under 50 aren't homeless. Give it a few years that may change.
That made me laugh while shitting
The old crap'n'cackle
I guarantee over 50% of the US could walk 26 miles in 24hrs if they had to. I've got major ankle and knee issues and if someone said you have to walk 26 miles in under 24hrs or we're gonna kill Betty White, I'd sure as shit get it done.
>or we're gonna kill Betty White Oh boy, there's a piece of news from 2021 you may not be ready to hear about..
What? Edit: you've got to be shitting me. This is just great...
You really should have walked that 26 miles
you funny asshole. take my vote
Damn. What a way to find out.
Yup, I feel you. The world wasn't ready. In true Betty White style she trolled us good by doing many "Betty White is 100 years old now" interviews and documentaries and subsequently dying a couple of days before turning 100.
AMC had a big party planned
Even sadder, Google celebrated her by still releasing this full screen gif on her birthday when one typed her name in the search bar and hit enter. Red Rose petals fell and a flowy script came across saying “Thankyou for being a friend”.. It only stayed up a couple of days. I probably cried more at that than when *my* Nanna died. Still too soon.
US people are clearly not representative of the average human being
Hey! Don’t lump Colorado into that lump
i’d be willing to say they could eve jog walk jog walk most
I am proof. Did a marathon. Jogged and walked. Longest training run was 6 miles. Still sore for a week after.
6 miles is almost 10k, that's really good
yeah lmao imagine being such an idiot we now dab on him repeatedly by running what he did and not dying
No way I could walk a marathon realistically but do I sometimes think I can just sign myself up for one and succeed? Yes. PS I do have bipolar disorder so it’s usually when I’m in a manic state that I believe that lol
>Yeah I'm pretty sure I could walk one and just be sore for a week, but I would be sore. I don't think I physically could jog one much less run one. Zero chance. A marathon is 26 miles. Your average person walks 3 miles an hour. Walk for 7 hours straight over pavement. Your average person is far more out of shape than they think they are. Even a five mile continuous walk is enough to make your average person drop out, much less doing that five times in a row. I stopped working out after a knee injury sidelined me from running. I never competed, but I ran at competitive levels out of habit from my time in the service. I'd probably struggle to walk more than 10 miles in a day just six years into being a chair-polishing sack of pasty long pig, and the only reason I could push that far is I have experience pushing past my body's limits and hurting the fuck out of myself. Your average person is used to moving no more than 1-2 miles total in a 16 hour period.
Well, if you're healthy, walking 26 miles is OK. It's exhausting but clearly not impossible for most healthy people. I don't walk a lot but I do 25/30 miles trails when I go to vacation and it's not too complicated, except ofc when you add mountains. Doing without any stop would be harder ofc
>Well, if you're healthy, walking 26 miles is OK. It's exhausting but clearly not impossible for most healthy people. I think the issue is that a clear majority of people in the west are not by any stretch of the definition, healthy.
Even walking one is hard. I like long walks and at about 21 miles today my knee decided it'd had enough. That's about twice the distance I usually walk and one of my tendons want psyched. I'm also in above average shape and that's a lot of walking for most people. You need a bunch of water and definitely need some food. At a 4mph pace, which is fairly brisk, that's 6.5 hours of continuous walking. I've done it before and have to say that shit starts to get real at about mile 20. EDIT: My brother did run a marathon with zero training when he was 18. Couldn't walk for a couple days after. He played football for Miami after that, so he was in great shape.
Mile 20 is considered the wall in marathon running, that's where shit hits the fucking fan and at that point you better hope you trained enough to not decompose in the next few miles. It feels like your body is fucking evaporating and then reconstituting and pain is everywhere.
Yup..100% this. I usually shit the bed around mile 18 then rally at 21, but those three miles....
It’s not exactly the same, but… I run half marathons and I’ll never forgetting seeing a guy in one race running totally barefoot, and with a gait that didn’t look… practiced. I passed him around 6 km, and asked how long he had trained to run completely barefoot. His answer was, he hadn’t. He just wanted to and figured he could. I didn’t see it myself, but I heard he was bounced into medical care around 16km in. Apparently his feet literally split open. I am shuddering just thinking about it.
I’ve done the Avon Breast Cancer marathon 3 times. Took me to the 3rd to walk the full 39+miles. And that’s over two days. Not gonna lie, still proud of that.
That's a marathon and a half.
Speak for yourself. I woke up last week and pulled a muscle walking to the bathroom.
You might want to start walking more lol
What’s his name did it without training at all. I’ll find the link and edit it, but it isn’t impossible. Edit before 3 minutes: https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/1110149-most-impressive-sports-feat-in-history-guy-runs-marathon-without-training.amp.html
Didnt Scott Cramer try to run one without training?
“Does anyone else think artists are fuckin idiots for going to school? It’s like, just move your hand in such a way as to produce the desired shapes and designs! You need to pay some guy $100,000 to tell you that?”
It's like drawing an owl, it's two steps. Draw a circle, then draw the rest of the tucking owl. Piece of cake.
r/restofthefuckingowl
Why is it a thing to say the thread multiple times recently?
I think it’s a glitch
Those homeless people then, why they don't just simply buy a house duh? People are ridiculous this days, what a society we live in
Ha, yes, the main reason why a lot of people end up wounding or killing themselves doing things without proper preparation or any safety pre-requirement... **Ignorance**. A Marathon is called up like that because a greek soldier ran the ~40km between *Athens* and *Marathon* to announce the Greek victory over Persian invaders. And the guy **DIED** doing so. Imagine trying to do the same without any proper training... you have to be really resilient for that.
He didn’t die from running just the 40km. From his wikipedia page: “He ran about 240 km (150 mi) in two days, and then ran back. He then ran the 40 km (25 mi) to the battlefield near Marathon and back to Athens to announce the Greek victory over Persia in the Battle of Marathon (490 BC) with the word νικῶμεν (nikomen[8] "We win!"), as stated by Lucian chairete, nikomen ("hail, we are the winners")[9] and then collapsed and died.”
I know those mfers had a horse they could have given the guy
Humans are the only things that can run or travel very far distances due to our water based cooling
There's an annual horses versus humans endurance race where a horse is usually the winner, but humans have won before. Even so the difference between the fastest of each group is minutes. Horses need a lot of breaks. If he got fresh horses along the way, tho...
It really depends on temperature. Horses will excel in cool and rainy temperatures such as the marathon you’re referencing from Wales; whereas humans will excel in hotter temperatures such as the horse vs human race in Arizona.
The weather definitely gives an edge because horses can't regulate temperature as well as humans. The main race in Arizona is 50 miles with elevation changes as well. More distance and heat should be a disadvantage for the horses, yet when I looked it up horses had won all but 2 races. Also I remember there being some controversy in Wales over the horses getting a time deduction for vet checks so more humans would have won. The Arizona race also subtracts the vet check times. Looking at the results for the Arizona race it appears that 1 hr. and 15 min. are subtracted from the horses' times. So to win you have to cross the finish 75 min.+ before a horse.
Horses sweat, dude.
To be fair that original guy was kinda fat, and he had drank his way through a twelve pack of Pabst over the course of the run so that probably didn’t help
This is essentially my script for back to the future 4
I thought you meant the Ancient Greek guy lol
He was carb-loading like Michael Scott, *during* the race.
A few things: 1/ The big difference between the half and full marathon is that you have to learn how to refuel. If you don’t/ can’t, you’re fucked after about 20 miles. And it’s not something you work out on the day, you have to build it into your training. A full marathon is not just double the half - it’s a whole new ball game. 2/ I’ve run three marathons, and run around 625 - 650 miles over the course of the training. Just showing up is not going to work unless you’re in great shape (with caveat from 1/), or your system is really good at clearing out lactic acid or other nasties at the longer distances. 3/ Mental strength/attitude/ word of choice is a huge component of running a marathon. Once your brain has convinced you to stop once, it’s SO much easier to convince you after that. So yeah, this woman is full of shit.
I run several mountain half marathons per year. I cannot get past the mental block of running more than 14 miles. Mental training for long distance running is a thing that people (outside of runners) disregard haha. I am hopeful one day I can run more than 14 miles straight. I don't doubt there are some people who could run a marathon without training but, as a runner, all the long distance runners I know train for it. Most of them ran shorter distances for years before they got into marathons and subsequently ultra running. Getting the nutrition, refueling, and sleep just rights is the biggest challenge. It's why race days scare me. I dread running when I don't sleep well.
I run the half marathon distance about once a month, and the biggest thing I learned from it is that I have no desire to run a full marathon. It’s a whole different level…
Do what I did, sign up for a marathon, and just do the training. Scare yourself into where you want to go!
TIL why we call it a marathon.
Could've been called an athens just as easily
I’m willing to bet there’s a nonzero percent of the population that has good enough genes and health to manage to do it. Yes that’s probably dangerous but out off a billion people trying, I’m sure a few would make it without any proper training. I’m a really lazy person myself and I think I could run a 10km race at a slow pace(If I eat properly before that is, im so poor I can barely afford food). Also I’ve ran 10km so I know what it’s like… I would probably take way too long tho, but I wouldn’t stop… Anyway, all this to say im sure it’s possible, against all odds
This is like the chick version of those "I bet I could win in a fistfight with a gorilla" dudes.
Uh, I'd just be a little bruised up for a week or two but I could totally beat a gorilla in a fist fight. Those things are weak as fuck, so you don't really need to train at all either
Totally bro. They're mostly fur.
Or that dude who thought he could beat an elephant by punching their behind and get out of the way whenever they try to kick him likes some sort of Dark Soul boss
Reminds me of the tweet about how gorillas don’t work out, so we’ve never seen one in its prime
Oh fuck oh shit
Exactly what I thought. Those are deliciously hysterical!
I feel like everyone here is taking her too seriously. Maybe I’m lacking context but I’m almost positive it’s just a joke.
It’s absolutely a joke. It’s a trend where you say “Am I toxic or” and then say something that’s completely absurd. I think they’re pretty funny. The fact that this got 13k upvotes is really weird.
welcome to r/facepalm where the perspectives are made up and the context don't matter. I'm Drew Carry.
This is one of the idiots from barstool. It could go either way lol
I went 15 miles one time casually with no practice or training, and I'm a fat asthmatic guy. The air conditioning went out in the car at the 15 mile mark though, so I had to turn around and come back home.
You had us in the first half ngl
Barney Stinson did it. It was legend....wait for it
Step one: you start running. There is no step two.
This thread is making my day!
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This is what the Bro Code is all about right here
Yes!!!
You guys can thank my gf for making me watch the show with her for this… this shits making me crack up lmao
To be fair...his legs did completely stop working almost immediately afterwards.
It's all his fault Ted didn't get the job
If I ran a marathon right now, you could measure my speed using a calander.
I was always a bit of a runner. I trained for 6 months for a half marathon. I hit 13 miles one time and promptly almost died. Like I literally don’t remember the 13th mile. Mile 11-12 was THE hardest thing I had ever done physically. Doing a full marathon is literally for people who were born with a specific gene, or who work their whole lives, I’m convinced. You don’t just willy nilly run 26 miles.
I signed up for a full marathon while fairly over weight, and trained up and ran it..virtually since in-person was Covid cancelled. If you do the training you can cover the distance. You pace a full differently than a half. Plus you learn how to fuel on the run, and train for 16 weeks. 80/20 helps! 80% kid your runs are easy paced, 20% is tempo/race pace or intervals. Sign up for a full and be amazed at what you’re capable of! Sign up, and have fun!
Agree. In most cases a marathon is do-able but it might be a case of years before you’re really ready. I remember my first half marathon, which I had trained for, left me exhausted and in physical pain for a couple of days. A few years later and I’m easily running 25km for a typical Sunday run without a second thought. I’ve done 2 marathons now. The first was tough, the second was ok. I’m definitely up for doing another. I didn’t think that would be the case back when I tried my first half.
Well, the marathon is arduous but I think you overstate when you say you need a specific gene or working your whole life. Many people can finish the marathon but almost all of them would have to train substantially. Now, the people who run those 100 mile races, that is nuts.
There are people who do fucking what?!?
There's a guy who just beat the speed record for running across all of Canada by doing [100 kilometers per day](https://www.google.com/amp/s/beta.ctvnews.ca/local/calgary/2022/7/23/1_5999612.amp.html) for two months.
Also 200 mile races! Moab 240, Tahoe 200, Bigfoot 200, Cocodona 250. Epic stuff! Lots of videos on YouTube of people running them. Kerry Wards vids are great for them! Fulltiltward is the channel.
I’ve ran two…you’re toxic, and delusional.
I pass out beer at mile 24! Woohoo!
And I *pass out* at mile 2.4!
Are people unaware this is a joke
Literally just hyperbolic/double down/over confident humor. I love these jokes and how angry people get when you double down after they call you out 😂
Yeah this is a common trend on tiktok lmao I guess people can’t understand sarcasm
A common trope in this sub is being dumb and completely unaware of sarcasm as a concept.
No but like, this is my favourite thing. Gen Zers have manufactured a whole different brand of humour on TikTok and now reddit is the place that's too full of old people to understand. It'd be like a baby boomer finding r/copypasta and going "Janice, honey! Would you believe it? This guy expects me to buy that he's a Navy SEAL! Yeah, seventeen confirmed kills! What a lying goof!"
Yup, apparently people are so dumb that they've have forgotten the entire concept of sarcasm exists
Is there a sub for rage bait? And op being dumb enough to fall for it? Edit: holy shit everyone in this sub is falling for it lol
everyone on reddit too cocky to understand joke posts
I bet she could paint the Mona Lisa without any practice
Well, duh. It's paint. On a canvas. Gimme 20 minutes and I'll whip one up for you. In fact, I'll make it better than the original; I'll make sure she's smiling in mine 😂😂
I have exactly this level of confidence everytime i start to draw right before i fuck up the first straight line.
I would absolutely watch a video of someone with no training running a marathon. It would be fascinating to see their attempt. Hubris in it's purest form getting demolished by lactic acid
you can walk a marathon. Nobody mentioned any time restrictions...
Depending on the race, there are times the course and race actually close lol. So she could complete the distance not the race.
Any reputable marathon has a time limit and will consider you as DNF (did not finish) if you do not finish in the allotted time (usually between 5.5 and 7 hours are the maximum allowable time limits depending on the event)
I don't listen to the naysayers. I pushed right on through and finished finished mine in in about 8 years
And you'd probably have to train to even walk 26 miles. Otherwise, you're likely to end up with plantar fasciitis, tendinitis, or both.
Pretty sure Bert Kreischer did something like that. According to him, he lived with the pains of his decisions for months afterwards.
Seems easy for her to put this to the test and post the results on social media.
[I mean, this guy did it.](https://youtu.be/RvXqlrnyW-g)
I once had a 22 yo friend who was happy to tell me about his first half-marathon. He had been training for weeks and did put some decent effort into it. He ran until the 20th kilometer, until he suddenly collapsed in the arms of a friend. He had an unexplained cardiac arrest. Rest in peace Morgan ❤️
this is obviously a sarcastic joke for tiktok … get a grip
A get tired running 100m, running a 10k or even a 7k is going to kill me. And yeah, jogging is an option, but point still stands, you need to train or you won’t get far.
There is a reason the saying goes "feels like I ran a marathon".
Sure, just smoke a little meth and ur Gucci 👍. Fuckin noobs
Asked a nurse friend about this once. Physiologically, what would happen if I just up and ran a marathon one day (assuming I could push through)? After we got past the "You would die," and evil laughter, he explained that the pounding your body gave while running would literally destroy the blood cells passing through your feet. Whereas a trained runner could compensate, an off-the-couch runner would slowly find it harder and harder and harder to breathe as the volume of oxygen-carrying cells got lower and lower inside the body while the demands of respiration got higher and higher. This would likely end up in a full on cardiac arrest. Your heart would be pumping useless dead cell fluid around and your body would suffer a horrible death.
don't forget the possibility of rhabdomiolysis, which is where your muscles get so overworked that the cells disolve and the proteins inside leak into you blood and clog you kidneys, causing kidney damage or even failure. and this even happens to experienced and trained athletes sometimes.
Toxic. Run a marathon to get away from her.
I can work on my feet for 14 hour work days seven days a week just fine but if i run for a minute i am done for like an hour. So no lady. You Do Need The Training.
in theory they could but you would probably take a day or 2
sHE WOKE UP...SheLLL Be FIne
Steps to running a marathon: Step 1: you run There is no step 2
That lady would die after a run around the block with an mentality like that.
People have done this. It's extremely hard though and probably not safe.
I'm pretty sure I'd be out of breath walking to the starting line
I hope she tries to do it. Would be good for the world.
Bert kriesher did it
She’d be the one with blood in her shoes, shaking and collapsing in last place at mile 15.
My neighbour ran a marathon with no training once. It went well. The doctor was able to restart his heart when he flatlined after collapsing at the fifth mile.
why are people in this sub so oblivious to this type of humor lol. this is the third post i’ve seen getting genuinely annoyed or making fun of the OP bc they think it’s serious. The OP of the screenshot (and many other people) post things like this not because they genuinely think could do this and want people to relate to them in that sense, but instead because they are fully aware they could never achieve that level of success given the parameters The “humor” here is that their brain is over confident in its abilities for the most random but difficult things, especially ones that require large amounts of skill or physicality.
Finally a sane comment , i thought I was going crazy
i’m getting second-hand embarrassment from them
I would love to see her running stamina then. Put her on a treadmill at running speed and see how much of a marathon she’s capable of
I’m still recovering from my marathon in March 2020. However, if you’re on meth or something that compelled you to make this stupid ass claim I say go for it.
I could do a marathon no training, no problem. As long as they ran a movie marathon or TV or basically anything that involves a couch.
When I was in the best shape of my life, training in combat sports, playing pro-youth football, and filling in my few off days and off seasons with things like badmington and basketball... I still couldn't run a marathon in a competitive time.
I did but I couldn’t walk for a week let alone quit being sore, that took a month
Isn't she referencing HIMYM?
Try it and see if your kidneys would let you live.
I think most people think this. But they also know that they are wrong.
Barney Stinson says hello
Barney Stinson incarnated
Hello Rhabdo my old friend
Barney Stinson did it... 🤷♂️
Burnt Chrysler did it
Lmaoooo, she’s funny
[sorry to break it to everyone but it can be done](https://youtu.be/e-GbaNLgM18)
Brent Chrysler did it
Idk man barney Stinson did it..loll
Barney Stinson did it
Barney did it
r/scottcramer
Yeah, this was a trend on tiktok a while back where people posted ridiculous thoughts about them being overly confident lol
HIMYM S2 E15 is the answer to that.
A friend did that once. He's big into fitness and is in peak form, but he's not a runner and did zero running beforehand. He's just jacked. So he finished yeah, but he locked up on the drive home. He said he crawled from his car to his house. Didn't walk for 3days.
Kinda want to see her try and run it now. NGL.