TheOrange 0 Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 Having a bit of a lazy day today and just watching a bit of the womens marathon. Looking at some of the closeups, they seem to be going real fast - I'd love to know how their speed compares to mine when I am jogging..... looks a fair bit faster unless I'm mistaken. How anyone can do that for over 2 hours is beyond me. I'd love to know how to increase the lengths I can go while keeping some kind of speed going. I suppose of course it is a case of gradually pushing yourself further. Whats the longest any of you other runners on here have done? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 20, 2005 Share Posted November 20, 2005 Just over a marathon, it was about 45km. Up to 30km was usual for winter (once a week) training. Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 What kind of speeds were you running at then Indosnm? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 21, 2005 Share Posted November 21, 2005 Race pace was around 3:30- 4 min km's depending on the distance so training was probably around 5 min km's with some fartlek thrown in. Winter was just when we used to do the big miles to build up the endurance and speed it up coming into race season (spring). These days , just watching a marathon makes me sweat.. Today 5 min km's just in training would probably kill me! Link to post Share on other sites
TheOrange 0 Posted November 21, 2005 Author Share Posted November 21, 2005 I'm impressed! I must....gambarimasu. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Wow Indosnm, that's pretty fast. When I used to jog for my exercise, I run 2kms in 15 minutes which is 7.5mins a km. Can't imagine how it feels if I try that long kms. Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Quote: Originally posted by Indosnm: Today 5 min km's just in training would probably kill me! Orange & Gamera... thats was all in the past! Gonna get back into it once I get a decent schedule happening Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 Orange, in Uni I was averaging 80-110 miles/week for over 3 years. That does included two a days (morning & afternoon workouts). Have ran a marathon and longer; but the hardest event Id say Ive done was a half-ironman. 1 mile swim, 50 mile bike, half-marathon. That kicked my @ss I use to help coach at Roy Benson's running camps in the states when I was in Uni for hs/jhs runners, if ya want a running program PM me. But, Ive put up similar programs under other threads youve posted about running too Link to post Share on other sites
powwwers 0 Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 have run 4 marathons: 4:43:?? (included a stop at a kiosk for two dim sims and a bucket of chips) 2:48:03 3:08:15 2:59:3? am entered in a 10k. run on dec.4th. and will be doin me best to run a sub 43min. running to me now is just a way to keep fit and keep the aerobic capacity up, so i can enjoy other activities. Runners are a breed unto themselves. Link to post Share on other sites
ncorrenti 0 Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 I've done the Gold Coast Marathon 10km run every year for the past six years, my best time was a few years ago at 0:47:15. Unfortunately my body is screaming out for me to stop (stress fractures in my shins, torn ligaments, bad knees) so I think 2006 might be my last year. Link to post Share on other sites
dizzy 0 Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 i just ran 10K in Toda, Saitama last sunday, the day of the women's marathon. a slow 53:49 finish for me but my goal was to run 2 slow, then 1 medium-paced kms and i did it. good warm up for snowboard season! it's funny saying to people to ran a "maraso-n" and then they go "Wow!" and i have to correct myself, no not "marathon," "maraso-n dessyo." haha when i was wrestling and kickboxing, we'd run 5k, work out for 2 hours, then hit the wieghts for an hour with 45-second repetitions, then run another 5k... but that was 10 years ago. so last week's 6 miles was the longest i've run. how about you, orange? i don't know much about long-distance training, but i've heard of the 10 percent rule: 1) do not increase your total weekly mileage by more than 10 percent nor 2) increase the distance of your long run by more than 10 percent per week. Otherwise, you supposedly risk injury. Link to post Share on other sites
69 5 Posted November 24, 2005 Share Posted November 24, 2005 Quote: it's funny saying to people to ran a "maraso-n" and then they go "Wow!" and i have to correct myself, no not "marathon," "maraso-n dessyo." What? Link to post Share on other sites
dizzy 0 Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 In Japanese, マラソーン, maraso-n can mean any kind of race, whereas in English "marathon" almost always refers to a long, long run, 42.195 km Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 So a 2km could in effect be a "marason" here? Link to post Share on other sites
kintaro 0 Posted November 28, 2005 Share Posted November 28, 2005 I ran the Honolulu marathon when I was 23. It ran by my house every year and blocked off the street so I decided that rather than being irritated by it I would join it. That night I went to bed at 8pm, first time since I was 5 years old. I will never punish myself like that again! Link to post Share on other sites
dizzy 0 Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 r45- i guess, but you'd be best to check with someone who understands japanese better than me where in hokkaido r u? i used to live a stone's throw from hidaka. good close night skiing Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 It's ace being in Japan. You can do things like marathons and be a millionaire dead easy like. Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 r45, I don't think a 2km is a marathon. Dizzy, do Japanese expand that thO for marathon? Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 What do you class as a marathon then gamera? Link to post Share on other sites
indosnm 0 Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 School kids often say MARATHON for the one they do every winter at school. At school we used to call it a mini marathon. My students (who runs marathons) says that she's going to run in a marathon but after furthur investigation I find that it's usually a 5 or 10K. Fun run? Link to post Share on other sites
Yuki's Passion 1 Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 we call em fun runs in the states up to bout 10K, then thed just say half marathon, marathon, ultra-marathon etc... I like how the meaning of English(foreign) words often lose the context in which theyre used in Japan Lets confusion! Link to post Share on other sites
gamera 0 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 cal - maybe 20kms or more? Quote: I like how the meaning of English(foreign) words often lose the context in which theyre used in Japan Smart ---> never means "wise", it just does "slim" Hips ---> means butts Air conditioner --> Cooler Card --> trump Stapler --> hotchkiss Steering wheel --> handle Link to post Share on other sites
Roger's head 0 Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Can someone tell me where on earch "hotchkiss" comes from? Link to post Share on other sites
dizzy 0 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 gamera, i stand corrected. there are words that have more than one pronunciation in katakana/japanese, which i get confused by, for example: ubiquitous【発音】ju(:)bi'kwitэs、【＠】ユービクイタス、ユビӞ 1;タス which is it and why? nevermind somehow beocmes = don't mind, which then = don-mai-n, don-mai-n!! (nevermind my spelling Roger-more than you would ever want to know about Hotchkiss-Brand Staplers. http://www.jekai.org/entries/aa/00/np/aa00np69.htm reminds me of how x-ray is called "rentogen" in japan, after the man who discovered x-rays, Dr. Roetngen, not for the technology itself. this deserves like 87 へぇs! what about marathons? Link to post Share on other sites
tastyfish 0 Posted December 8, 2005 Share Posted December 8, 2005 Quote: more than you would ever want to know about Hotchkiss-Brand Staplers ha, for sure! Link to post Share on other sites
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