Endurance running

[mackthefork]

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Yeah 6 day, 1000 mile races, that guy is sure one hell of a mentalist.

Mack

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Ever read about his first Ultra? His very first Ultra he ran against all the best in the world at the time and crushed them all by hours. Part of it was at night and they all thought he cheated. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Yeah I know it's a minority sport but that guy is incredible.

Mack

[Shajen]

I don't think so.


My unit was in 29 Palms doing some training with the grunts of 2/1.

The CO of 2/1 got the idea to hump back to Camp Pendleton (roughly 200 miles or so, IIRC) from mainside 29 Palms. They had to carry all of their supplies and would hump 25-30 miles a day.

They got about half way before they started losing troops at an alarming rate.

900 miles in 10 days? 90 miles a day? Sun up to sun down you'd be walking. No way.

[jakethebake]

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I don't think so.


My unit was in 29 Palms doing some training with the grunts of 2/1.

The CO of 2/1 got the idea to hump back to Camp Pendleton (roughly 200 miles or so, IIRC) from mainside 29 Palms. They had to carry all of their supplies and would hump 25-30 miles a day.

They got about half way before they started losing troops at an alarming rate.

900 miles in 10 days? 90 miles a day? Sun up to sun down you'd be walking. No way.

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25-30 miles isn't that far. When I was MCRD, the recruits all did a 25 mile hump. And it was a cakewalk for me. In fact I used to shuffle most of it. I've been on longer humps. The troops they were losing were surely the shitbirds.

[Shajen]

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I don't think so.


My unit was in 29 Palms doing some training with the grunts of 2/1.

The CO of 2/1 got the idea to hump back to Camp Pendleton (roughly 200 miles or so, IIRC) from mainside 29 Palms. They had to carry all of their supplies and would hump 25-30 miles a day.

They got about half way before they started losing troops at an alarming rate.

900 miles in 10 days? 90 miles a day? Sun up to sun down you'd be walking. No way.

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25-30 miles isn't that far. When I was MCRD, the recruits all did a 25 mile hump. And it was a cakewalk for me. In fact I used to shuffle most of it. I've been on longer humps. The troops they were losing were surely the shitbirds.

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Yeah, everyone did the hump up Mount MFer. That's not the thing. They were road walking, with full packs.

Not [censored] birds, I went on float with those crazy bastards. Just wrecked a bunch of people's knees and legs.

[daveymck]

Not planning to run from John'o'Groats to Landsend are you?

Walking it may be possible (how long did it take Botham?) running I suspect would be too hard, you would need to train very hard for a few months and even then on the run itself the chance of injury would be high.

[jakethebake]

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Yeah, everyone did the hump up Mount MFer. That's not the thing. They were road walking, with full packs.

Not [censored] birds, I went on float with those crazy bastards. Just wrecked a bunch of people's knees and legs.

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I'm not talking Mt. Mother. I don't know when you went through. I was stationed there awhile after boot camp. They had added a long hump that was more what you're talking about. Mt. Mother was all about mental. I remember when I was a recruit, it seemed hard as [censored]. Later I used to go do it with the recruits just for fun. As a recruit, you were just so mentally tired everything was a challenge.

[BreakfastBurrito]

Kouros' record for the 1000 mile is 10 days 10 hr 30 minutes, so your challenge looks like it is barely possible, but only achievable by the greatest endurance runner in all of history.

[Shajen]

I went to bootcamp July 5th of 93.

Our longest hump was around 25 miles or so. It included Mt Mfer.

The mountain wasn't all that bad.

I assume you went through around 87-88?

[jakethebake]

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I assume you went through around 87-88?

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'87. Maybe it was just the stress fracture in my right femur that made it seem so bad to me then. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

When i was in boot camp, I think our longest was some 12 miler. Pretty weak. Al Gray fixed that when he got in there though.

[Voltron87]

I don't get why you were running so far. I mean that's way longer than any of the boats in the navy, I know some of the aircraft carriers are long, but still. Shouldn't you be swimming more instead?