Back when I ran a lot.. 7 miles was easy. Probably could have kept running but just got bored of running.
Same, I got bored after 8, and that was my longest distance.
32 mi mostly at doubletime 10 min mile for an endurance bet. Ahh I need to run more these days. It's almost as fun as digging.
hoo boy, that's a killer one.
*run
I ran the Pikes Peak Marathon in my early 20's. 28.6 miles if I remember correctly. It is actually a super marathon. You start at 6,300 ft elevation, go up to 14,115 ft at the top and back down again. Passed the premiere woman's marathoner passed out on the ground near the top. My wrestling coach ran it every year. He had many horror stories of blood being poured out of the sneakers at the end of the race. I kept saying to myself: heel, toe, pull. I could run very fast down hill. I averaged just over 4 minutes a mile on the descent. The next day at wresting practice, we started off with a 5 mile run. My coach was a bit sadistic. But he did have a few gold medals to his credit and hands like vises.
Probably just 1-2 miles full run / jog.
Would have gotten in to running and gone a lot further, however ended up with an illness that caused joints that get hurt easily with things like prolonged running. So never could. Can still go to the gym and many other things fine, but something like running which puts a lot of stress for a long period of time on the ankles etc I can't do.
"longest distance you've ever run" not "longest distance you've ever ran"
13 miles. Done it twice.
5 miles when I wasna kid. Couldn't do it no2!
We've I was training to join the state patrol (thank God I didn't) I was running up to 5 miles every couple days
Freshman college wrestling preseason:
11.5 mile run. I was one of the top 5 to finish. It was boring, but seemed to get effortless/easy after mile 6 or 7.
The next week we did a 3 mile run, while carrying a 45lbs Olympic plate anyway you could. That FUCKING SUCKED!
What does any of this "training" have to do with wrestling, you ask? Fucking nothing. I quit, and the team performed very poorly that year. Buncha faggots.
I think your coach just wanted you to get hernias. Reminds me of high school football. Was the only team you didn't have to try out for, well that and track. so you get all these guys who are just absolutely terrible at football, myself included, standing out there pretty much fodder for the juniors and seniors to destroy when they run their plays. The coach never spent any time with any of the younger guys who were average, didn't show us any plays or give us any mentoring or proper weight training. it was just fuck the younger guys, he only needed them to take a landmine during practice.
Yeah it really just boiled down to them being bad coaches. Now that I'm a bit older and have coached (jiujistu, wrestling, weight lifting) I can see that they were morons who thought "doing something hard" equated to good practice.
No, you stupid niggers. If you want us to get stronger, have us do weight training. If you want us to be better wresters, have us drill techniques. Doing something arbitrarily difficult because "reasons" doesn't do fuck all, and as you stated, is likely to get people hurt.
The head coach was demoted to a high school coach some years later, so that was some solid vindication that quitting his shitty team and the culture being built around it was a good decision. Too bad for them too, I was definitely one of the top 2 freshman they brought in that year. Wrestled in a few of the open tournaments and did really well, losing only to juniors and seniors but holding my own against them.
And as young men we looked up to our coaches only to be let down. I'm glad you figured it out and coach differently.
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