Ultra marathons, Triathlons. Anybody do 'em?
I had a mate with whom I used to go clubbing in Edinburgh and who was well overweight and big into his smoke and pills and stuff who in his 40's suddenly started running. I have another mate in Belfast who was a bit of a boy on the Proddy scene, overweight, liked a drink who has started doing the same. Parks runs, followed by marathons followed by ultra marathons all in a couple of years. WTF?
OK it didn't work out for the first lad as he died of heart issues at 55, but t'other is welll into it and even got his ma running.
Another lad who was a right boozer turned up at our footy match once as a spectator - what you up to. Oh, just cycled 50 miles or so. Err why? I'm training for the iron man - I've already done a few triathlons. WTF?
I always struggled to go much above 7 miles even when young, fit and footballing Saturdays and Sundays and training most days in between. How do these lads do it? Any of you lads lot into this shit? I know Pies has recently run a marathon and he sounded buggered after it. Is it something in the genes or can it be trained?
