400-Pound Man Runs LA Marathon

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[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:

[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
Ok, for those who don’t think it’s that much of an accomplishment; Strap enough weight on yourselves so that you weigh 400 lbs, then walk for 10 hours. Or, one of those fat suits that actors wear sometimes.

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Seriously!

I remember when I started running as a fatty. THAT WAS FUCKING HARD. It’s so easy now. Effortless. But wheezing and gasping and flapping around, I am not sure how I did now lol. I see people starting out and I know they probably feel like they suck but it really is so much harder when you’re new and out of shape, especially if you’re fat.[/quote]

WOW!!! this is huge.

although I do not think you were ever a huge person, it is good to get someone who was larger to comment on how it would have been.

off topic. Deb, what are you hauling in your avatar? is it a kayak?

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=D

Yeah it’s a kayak.

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[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:

off topic. Deb, what are you hauling in your avatar? is it a kayak?

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From what I remember, she did confirm the thing to be a kayak.

[Edit: lost my bid for “in before”]

Good night SoCal.

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[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
A 10 hour marathon is about as awesome as benching the bar 10000 times by a 100lb guy. Still stupid
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I’d like to see your ass try to bench the bar 10,000 times.

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^^ Just because it’s hard to do doesn’t mean it’s praise-worthy though.

I could slowly eat War and Peace one page at a time. It may even get me into the record books.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Just because it’s hard to do doesn’t mean it’s praise-worthy though.

I could slowly eat War and Peace one page at a time. It may even get me into the record books.[/quote]

Not if I do it first!

I’m gonna need a fiber supplement.

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I’ve worked at the ironman world championships in Kona and two races in Lake Placid and have seen similar things as Maximus pointed out and I’m in the same boat. Doing something poorly doesn’t impress just because it’s hard .

At that time I treated a woman who finished near the top of her she group . As in top five . Her friend had done marathons in 3:50 range or better as a 40 year old woman . Yes they’re distance runners and yes they’re smaller. But they are suited to complete the activity in a racing time.

Not walking time. Someone quoted the writer using the 100 m dash as a comparison and another has used the powerlifting meet to compare . They’re appropriate .

But for so many this marathon thing is like some pinnacle if athletic achievement . It’s not unless you do it in a competitive time fir your group . Otherwise it’s a long, probably sucky walk . I’m more impressed with his national champ status in sumo. I’m sure it’s harder to accomplish that than this.

If you asked an average person what is more difficult to accomplish , a triple bodyweight deadlift or completing a marathon I’m sure the average guy would pick the marathon . Even though the deadlift would make the top 100 in the country for men in plusa

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[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Just because it’s hard to do doesn’t mean it’s praise-worthy though.

I could slowly eat War and Peace one page at a time. It may even get me into the record books.[/quote]

true , hard and difficult are two different things

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go big boy!

I remember all those morning runs for wrestling at 265-290…5 miles killed

I remember walking at 335…unreal

if you’ve never been heavy like this you have no idea about how awesome this is.

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[quote]Nards wrote:
^^ Just because it’s hard to do doesn’t mean it’s praise-worthy though.

I could slowly eat War and Peace one page at a time. It may even get me into the record books.[/quote]

And it COULD kill you. Which, by the way, is another strong point for arguing in his defense.

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I do not know if you of the posters who posted that this is not a feat ever enjoyed the glory of prolonged marches with heavy rucksacks, but as far as I could find out the most US army special forces do is around 50 lbs in training.

The most anyone did ever do where Roman soldiers with up to 100 to 150 lbs.

Fiven that those soldiers usually are skinny runts that brings them to about 300 lbs tops which is still way below 400.

If any one of you ever tried to walk 26 miles with 100 lbs on his back you would know that is neither pleasant, nor easy.

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[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]MaximusB wrote:

[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
Ok, for those who don’t think it’s that much of an accomplishment; Strap enough weight on yourselves so that you weigh 400 lbs, then walk for 10 hours. Or, one of those fat suits that actors wear sometimes.

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Seriously!

I remember when I started running as a fatty. THAT WAS FUCKING HARD. It’s so easy now. Effortless. But wheezing and gasping and flapping around, I am not sure how I did now lol. I see people starting out and I know they probably feel like they suck but it really is so much harder when you’re new and out of shape, especially if you’re fat.[/quote]

I cannot imagine you as a fatty. When you say fatty, are you talking about skinny-fat with a little weight to lose? Or are you talking about a landwhale being worthy of a harpoon?

You have always been a straight shooter Deb, so is this you overexaggerating here?[/quote]

Don’t make me post my fatty pic! =D[/quote]

In lieu of fatty pics, we will accept skinny nakey pics.

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[quote]orion wrote:
I do not know if you of the posters who posted that this is not a feat ever enjoyed the glory of prolonged marches with heavy rucksacks, but as far as I could find out the most US army special forces do is around 50 lbs in training.

The most anyone did ever do where Roman soldiers with up to 100 to 150 lbs.

Fiven that those soldiers usually are skinny runts that brings them to about 300 lbs tops which is still way below 400.

If any one of you ever tried to walk 26 miles with 100 lbs on his back you would know that is neither pleasant, nor easy.

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I was in the Canadian army (no laughing) and the marches were better for me than the runs. I was one of the bigger guys, if not the biggest, at about 215lbs. We only had to carry about 50lbs so that wasn’t even a quarter of my weight.
The runs were brutal, because we’d do 2 miles in about 13 or 14 minutes and I was literally seconds away from stopping and walking (aka: giving up)

One time another guy in my platoon said it was harder for me because I was bigger and must be like a 150lb guy carrying 65lbs on his back. I was the one who countered him, saying thanks, but some of that very weight was in the legs that I use to walk with, so the analogy of carrying extra weight above and behind your center of gravity in a ruck is not quite the same as being bigger overall.

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
if you’ve never been heavy like this you have no idea about how awesome this is.

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Real talk. And someone has the audacity to say that walking it made it any less impressive. Well that person can go fuck themselves, because they have no idea what it’s like to be 4 bills. Hell, I don’t, but I have a much better idea than him.

And someone was addressing the whole “how did he let himself get like this” (pertaining to his work ethic and drive) question.

That’s just grossly offensive. When I was fat, I was just as ambitious and hard-working in whatever endeavors I considered important at the time. Except I like eating a lot of shitty food and didn’t work out.

I don’t know how being heavy automatically makes you a horrible, lazy, and un-motivated person. This is what we like to call “PREJUDICE” people.

God the retardedness on this site is unfathomable sometimes.

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[quote]gregron wrote:

[quote]Captnoblivious wrote:
A 10 hour marathon is about as awesome as benching the bar 10000 times by a 100lb guy. Still stupid
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I’d like to see your ass try to bench the bar 10,000 times.[/quote]

Seriously dude!

I just put that into a one rep max calculator that equates to a 14895lb 1 rep max!!!

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[quote]Nards wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:
I do not know if you of the posters who posted that this is not a feat ever enjoyed the glory of prolonged marches with heavy rucksacks, but as far as I could find out the most US army special forces do is around 50 lbs in training.

The most anyone did ever do where Roman soldiers with up to 100 to 150 lbs.

Fiven that those soldiers usually are skinny runts that brings them to about 300 lbs tops which is still way below 400.

If any one of you ever tried to walk 26 miles with 100 lbs on his back you would know that is neither pleasant, nor easy.

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I was in the Canadian army (no laughing) and the marches were better for me than the runs. I was one of the bigger guys, if not the biggest, at about 215lbs. We only had to carry about 50lbs so that wasn’t even a quarter of my weight.
The runs were brutal, because we’d do 2 miles in about 13 or 14 minutes and I was literally seconds away from stopping and walking (aka: giving up)

One time another guy in my platoon said it was harder for me because I was bigger and must be like a 150lb guy carrying 65lbs on his back. I was the one who countered him, saying thanks, but some of that very weight was in the legs that I use to walk with, so the analogy of carrying extra weight above and behind your center of gravity in a ruck is not quite the same as being bigger overall.[/quote]

Um, o rly? This is all based on anecdotal guessing, it looks like?

…so you’re talking about how hard it was to walk around with 265 total pounds. But it’s waaay worse because it’s behind your center of gravity.

That’s strange, because normally someone who is 400 lbs is going to have a very large stomach, so much to the fact that it pulls your posture down and forward. I know this because I HAVE this.

So, seriously, until you’ve been a MORBIDLY OBESE person and have done something similar you really have no room to comment on this. At all. Ever.

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40 year old 400lb dude walks 10 hours in the rain with blistered feet for nothing more than earning an accomplishment, just so he can say “I did it!” ?

Kudos I say.

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SSC: I just said it wasn’t the same as a 200lb guy having 200lbs on his back.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
C’mon you haters.

What’s worse, that fat guy’s 10 hours, or that dude who shit himself while running?

Images like this are why I hate distance running. Shitting yourself is badass now?

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[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]OctoberGirl wrote:

[quote]debraD wrote:

[quote]imhungry wrote:
Ok, for those who don’t think it’s that much of an accomplishment; Strap enough weight on yourselves so that you weigh 400 lbs, then walk for 10 hours. Or, one of those fat suits that actors wear sometimes.

[/quote]
Seriously!

I remember when I started running as a fatty. THAT WAS FUCKING HARD. It’s so easy now. Effortless. But wheezing and gasping and flapping around, I am not sure how I did now lol. I see people starting out and I know they probably feel like they suck but it really is so much harder when you’re new and out of shape, especially if you’re fat.[/quote]

WOW!!! this is huge.

although I do not think you were ever a huge person, it is good to get someone who was larger to comment on how it would have been.

off topic. Deb, what are you hauling in your avatar? is it a kayak?

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=D

Yeah it’s a kayak. [/quote]

Looks like someone’s helping you with it. Your dad wouldn’t have needed help.

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I am not sure if this was posted yet, but here is a vid I found…