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Originally Posted by Alexandra
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Originally Posted by Alexandra
Its also Big and clever
If you read the interview with him in the FRA 40 year mag, he never did any.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
Bu@@er, knew I should have subscribed to the magazine. All those wasted years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
Once Won A ten mile road race, So hung over did not feel a thing Set a course record , took Nick Peach to beat it 3 years later. Felt Pants for a week after
Note to self:
Must google Nick Peach.
And my apologies if you felt I maligned you.
(Apologies too for starting a sentence with a conjunction).
I do seem to remember (amazing after all these years/pints) that someone did research years ago that showed a correlation between distance running (on the roads, I assume...) and heavier-than-good-for-you drinking...
(me and Mr Google are going to try and find evidence right now......)
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Woooo. doesn't take long:-
http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=3205357
"Men and women runners reported more occasions of drinking than matched controls "
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There is hope for us mere snecklifting mortals...thank the lord!Quote:
Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
That marathon runner Pinto owns a few vineyards and I'm sure I read that he did a bottle a day..................:confused::confused::confused :
"We used chi-square analysis, paired t-test, and ANOVA."Quote:
Originally Posted by Fat Bloke
Why do all that work when they could just have asked us? Pretty silly hypothesis in the first place.
Personally I think a couple of pints of proper beer is ESSENTIAL nutrtion for fell runners the night before and after a race!
I was reading about Bradley Wiggins a few weeks ago. What shocked me more than the fact he was doing 6 hours a day training on just 1500 calories :eek: was that he said he was a beer lover, but was not touching a drop until after the Tour - how gutted will he be if he comes second after that sacrifice!!!!
Longest I've gone without beer since I was 17 was for a week whilst in hospital after shattering my collar bone into six pieces, breaking 2 ribs and puncturing a lung - my running was crap for some time after that and that must have been down to the lack of beer ;)
LOL. In 2003 I was hospitalised in Birmingham for a month with a spinal injury and infection. First thing I did when they unhooked the morphine and said I could start remedial walking was walk 2 miles to a pub and back. Felt like I'd run a half marathon. However, can't recommend mixing bitter with intravenous morphine. Went a bit light-headed.
obviously it's a personal thing this, but I actually like the self-denial bit, of not having a pint for a few days before a race - it puts me in a positive, 'hard' frame of mind, and then I really enjoy my pint afterwards, like it's a massive reward - deferred pleasure and all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by stumpy
Don't do it every race - but I know when I've succumbed to a couple the night before, or gone out on a session a couple days before, I never quite start off in such a positive frame of mind as I do when I've been all Taliban about it.
I usually don't have more than a pint the day before a race, but the only race I've ever won was the day after a 6 pints of Golden Pippin. However I wouldn't advocate it as a foolproof strategy.
Nice pint and a half after Causey Pike today.:D
I ran Holme Moss a couple years ago after about eight or nine cans of Carling the night before. I won't do it again :rolleyes:
Holme Moss or the 8 or 9 cans:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
Holme possibly, Carling never :cool::DQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Sorry guys, just thought this was a good one to mention....
The Cressbrook crawl
http://www.highpeaktri.org/
I understand that, included in the entry charge, is a pint of locally brewed real ale.
Thoughts?
isn't it the Old Crown Round where they serve a different ale on each top? I always confuse it with the Old County Tops - but it would be foolish probably to drink beer during that.
Well, out to dinner at the RSM's last night. An Argyll - Regimental motto: You can always tell an Argyll, but you can't tell him much.
I was very well behaved, just 4 pints of Old Speckled Hen, no wine, no port, no whisky, no cigar. Didn't leave the table till well after midnight.
Ran the Blubberhouses 25 this morning. Late night and ever so slight hangover with unfortunate rear end consequences for those behind me meant that I took the first hour more steadily than normal. Then hit my stride and the 'sweet spot' lasted from there right through to the finish. Came 3rd.
Quod erat demonstrandum!
Wow! Well done!!! I shall look at the results with interest and admiration.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brotherton Lad
Agree with Alexandra.... well done indeed. I am now beginning to realise that I have not been drinking enough beer before my runs! Perhaps "runs" is the operative word?
Cheers and well done again
Thanks, really enjoyable day, though rather windy!
Be careful, though, goldsim, you have to build up the beer training load gradually. I started as a junior in 1974, had a couple of over-training episodes at university and didn't really hit my stride until the late 80s/early 90s. It's been a doddle since then though and I make sure I train every day. I especially enjoy the downhill sessions.
Currently on a home-made best bitter, dry hopped with East Kent Goldings.
Old Crown Round - Traditionally you got a free pint in the pub after your first completion, but there was an organised event around it last year where they had samples of each beer on the respective peaks.
My view on drinking and running is a little jaded. Saunders some years ago, two very hot days with an overnight camp at Glenridding. 12th in our class at the overnight camp, dropped to sixty something the following day with no nav errors - just had to blame the proximity to the pub and the effects of not really very much beer on two dehydrated bodies!
The brewery is a relatively recent addition to Wasdale Head (very recent in Joss' timescale). It certainly wasn't there in his heyday in the 70s.Quote:
Originally Posted by ZootHornRollo
The printed word, such as it is from Joss, shows that as much Mackeson as Guinness was consumed.
And if you read "Joss Naylor Was Here" about the Wainwrights Round, there is plenty of both involved.............but not on the move I recall. :D:rolleyes:
I gave up a life of drink & debauchery for cycling and later running, it was a worth while swap.
I'm not against drinking but there is enough evidence around to prove the harm it can do when used to excess. If i drink more than 3 pints it certainly makes me feel rough the following day and losing a day through alcohol is a waste of my time. It also makes for a cheap night out.
However - if people wish to drink copious amounts of alcohol, your choice.:D
I did exactly the same, except I still drink, but a lot less, and now Real Ale, not gassed up lager crap, or anything from a keg really.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveSwift
Cut from 7 days binge drinking to 1 night a week.
Deffo agree, a worth while swap, but also glad to have lived the life of 24/7 debauchery :D :cool:
Off topic i know, but i resent the drain on public services binge drinking creates and the fact it creates heavy handed fascist coppers.Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveSwift