#marathon

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Odin’s at the Amsterdam marathon! Yes, many of the competitors smile at Odin as they pass, and one lady gave up a few seconds off her result to stop and pet him. There are party boats blasting music up and down the Amstel. One of them’s just a guy in a rowboat with a trumpet and a hand crank organ tooting Aan de Amsterdamse Grachten While I was typing the alt text, two more runners pet him #amsterdam #marathon #amsterdammarathon
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That’s what it looked like — unfortunately, it stayed rather close to this for the first few kilometers. I took over whenever possible, but I couldn’t find my rhythm (how should I, going 5:45 in a spot, 4:15 a few meters on, then back to 5:25, then 4:27…) These masses of people aren’t for me. I was completely stressed out by these huge amounts of people. My heart rate stayed at around 180-195. My usual heart rate is ~130-140, 155 when I really push it hard. #running #einstein #marathon #ulm
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Final results are in: Of 928 male runners, I was 183rd. And of 59 male runners in my age bracket (50+), I ended up seventh. That’s quite good, way better than I felt when I reached the end of the run. (My Ice Cubes app has crashed three times when I tried to add ALT text to the pics, so I’ll just let it be for now…) #einstein #marathon #ulm #running
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In the end, that’s what I ended up with. I’m not really happy with it, having run my own private marathons with 3:25 and 3:27 this year. But it helped me in that way that I’m not going to do any more of these public runs. There’s not much fun in #running when you’re in a mass of people for the first ~16 or ~18 kilometers (I just can’t remember when they split off the half marathon…). #running #einstein #marathon #ulm #coros #apex4
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On the road to the #Generali #Cologne #Marathon, today I completed the first training week with an easy long #run from Zoutelande to Vlissingen and back after a few days off. In the Netherlands, all runners greet each other. Can we please make this a worldwide thing and always give each other a high five? 😁 I always greet runners, but in Germany, too few greet back. #running #runnersofmastodon #runnersofmarathon #garmin #stryd #laufen #runningcommunity
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If you're not up on your #sports trivia: A sub 2 hour #marathon has been a long time dream It just happened in #London #Kenya's #SabastianSawe He just made sports #history 1 hour, 59 minutes, 30 seconds 😲 2nd place was also sub 2 hour! #Ethiopia's #YomifKejelcha: 1:59:41 *And* 3rd place #Uganda’s #JacobKiplimo broke the previous record with 2:00:28 (2:00:35 set by the late great #KelvinKiptum at the 2023 Chicago marathon) The weather was perfect https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/sabastian-sawe-marathon-world-record-london-two-hours #LondonMarathon
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#Gamers I'm not sure what to do. I love the #Marathon games so much. I played Marathon 1 on my family's Mac back when it came out. Since then I've played Marathon 2: Durandal and Marathon: Infinity many times. I still love how the game tells a story, the floaty physics, the gunplay, the Phor, and the "Front Blast the Vent Core". Yet, I'm too afraid of the new "Escape from Tarkov" game style. I don't usually like to play the unwashed masses. Will I like the game or realize I'm not good enough.
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