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Madonna to run The Marathon Des Sables
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151 miles across the desert - good luck to her, if i decide to do that at 51 or whatever she is someone please shoot me
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If it were true at least she has chosen a nice easy race, and not a tough ultra.
Satire, Nick?
Someone on Fetch said the MDS is a corporate wankfest for city boys these days.
I make no observation on that comment - what would I know.
but it's like many events that once were the reserve of nutters, money buys places and the tougher the event, the more who will sign up.....
Everest anyone??
There were a few forumites did it earlier this year.
I think they might offer a different view on the toughness of the event.
i believe everest may well be easier than this
no time for a wankfest, you notice the cutoff times
wank - you die
stop when you drop!
as they say, you're a long time dead
There is a certain personality type that goes for "the tougher the event the better"
I find myself here in a bizarre world, frankly, where amongst my work colleagues or non-running friends I am some sort of freak because I run marathons, and can happily go out and run ten miles on any given day without "training for it", whereas here amongst runners I'm one of the wimps because I don't run them twice while carrying a backpack full of bricks up a mountain, or follow them with a 100 mile swim through the desert or whatever
my answer - "only in your world"
I think that sums it up for a lot of us - people think we are nuts for doing what we do, but when amongst those we do these things with, it's normal.
lol @ corporate wankfest
i think what it means is
"the mds is quite expensive and lots of people who earn more money than me do it, the bastards!"
Having experienced those type of temperatures, I can safely say I will never do any of those races.
And I'll never do Everest either - the probabilities of dying are just too high.
And I don't like loud music any more either.
Where are my slippers?
i love the idea that becasue a race becomes popular and is completed by people that aren't regular ultra runners, it is in some way devalued. it is just a standard tedious elitist argument.
although i admit all the "toughest footrace on earth" (is there an alternative venue?) stuff is annoying because it is so obviously untrue.
yes, that's the place, Malawi.
thankyou
Azacaya, do you wear an Ipod or similar in races
Ipod? Is that like a walkman but much smaller?
tell that to a Spatathlete.
there must be some that have done both, they'll know
I think it is all rather subjective D2d, however Barkley has had only a handful of finishers.
I suspect that Badwater and Sparta are considered particularly tough