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- From: sd007b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Sunil Dixit)
- Newsgroups: rec.running
- Subject: Re: Minimum age for Marathon?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.044210.4599@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 04:42:10 GMT
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- >I ran my first marathon at age 16 on about 30-40 miles a week with my previous
- >long run being 13 miles. I ran relatively slow and walked the last couple of
- >miles. My next was at 17 on maybe 40-45 miles a week, but I raced. I ran
- >another 3 as an 18 year old, on about 60 a week. In all cases, I didn't get
- >hurt and recovered quickly.
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- >16 years later I managed to finally break that PR I set as an 18 year old. I
- >trained like hell for 4 months, 70-80 miles a week, and felt like something
- >that the cat spit up for about 3 or 4 weeks after.
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- >Run 'em while you're young.
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- >-paulf
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- I don't know if I would agree with Paul here, Alison. I'm 19, and have run
- a marathon, which I trained extensively for (50 miles per week or so). The
- actual run wasn't too bad, it was the after effects. Our bones, though
- fully developed, haven't peaked in their strength yet, and won't for about
- five or six years. Besides, we're nowhere near our aerobic peak either,
- which usually occurs around 28 to 30 years of age. There's no need to push,
- because we have plenty of time. I've seen some really good middie runners
- wrecked by pushing to hard and too fast on a huge and *unnecessary* run.
- One moron ran 30 miles in practice one day, and 20 miles the NEXT! Tore all
- sorts of important things, and can't run more than a mile now without
- sweating from pain. Anyway, I wouldn't recommend it.
-
- Sunil Dixit
- U of Rochester (sd007b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu)
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