The Long Walk for real!!

[Ari_Racing]

I've just put my name in the list of The Long Walk! TRUE!

http://www.extramileendurathon.com/

I don't know if I'll be selected but this should be fun!

Would I be the first to get shoot...sorry, to lose? :D


It will take place in several cities. :) I'll let all know if I'm selected or not.


Best!!

[Storyslinger]

Cool.

Hopefully no the first one ;) :lol:

[Patrick]

Dearest Ari,

Best of luck to you, I know you can do anything you set your mind and heart to.

I still think you are completely insane. Get out now while you still can!

Lovingly,
- Patrick

[Nerak]

cool, let us know

[Ari_Racing]

I'm IN!!! :)

I've just received confirmation I'll be part of the long walk! :)

Next friday.

[Storyslinger]

Congrats

[Matt]

Wow Ari!!

Good luck man :rock:

[Spencer]

Good luck Ari!

[Steve]

Major buggers his mother before breakfast!

[Frunobulax]

Awesome--do tell us how it went.

[Aaron]

Oh, kick ass. I wish there was going to be one in a city a bit closer to me. I envy you. Good luck!

[Patrick]

I still think you're nuts. Hope you win though!

[DTrose19]

Good luck! I'm with aaron i wish it was coming closer to where I live too. Hope you win.

[Matt]

I think I might do this if it were around here anywhere (we should organize it Aaron).

But I would need some kind of "old man handicap" I think, perhaps I only have to walk 3 MPH? :lol:

[Patrick]

:lol: It doesn't look like there is any minimum speed unless I missed something. They better not organize one of these around here - I'd be too tempted to do it.

[Matt]

:o

I should read it. Wasn't the minimum speed in the book 4 MPH? That is a seriously break neck pace.

(I tried it)

[Patrick]

:o

I should read it. Wasn't the minimum speed in the book 4 MPH? That is a seriously break neck pace.

(I tried it)

Maybe, it's been too long since I read the book. If you trained at all, a 15-minute mile would be pretty easy for the first six or eight hours or so.

I think this competition has rest breaks, so it's not quite as brutal as in the book. Plus, you know, they don't kill you for not winning.

[Matt]

Yeah... that left out all kinds of stuff <_<

<kicks dirt>

:lol:

I think I could do it for most of the day, then things would go badly. At 4 MPH that is.

[Patrick]

I agree. I'd slow down significantly around dinnertime. :lol:

Figure at 15-minute miles (4 MPH) you would do a full marathon (26.2 miles) in just over 6-1/2 hours. Like I said, a little training and you could totally do that.

Now what happens after that... No wonder the kids in the story were dropping like flies.

[Matt]

yeah, I think it was 4 days when all said and done.

4 MPH the whole way...I really need to read that story again.

[Patrick]

I guess the threat of death is a great motivator. Otherwise I wouldn't believe that pace for that long.

[Ari_Racing]

Nope, I didn't have training, but I don't smoke and I usually play soccer once a week.

The truth is that I'm taking part of this just for fun :) Hope I win it but I haven't consider that too much :)

[Aaron]

Yeah, it was 4MPH in the book. If we could come up with a source of money for a prize, we could totally organize something like this in correlation to the site. Create our own rules to make it coincide with the story as much as possible. 4mph, no breaks, 30 second warnings, three warnings and you're out.

<sigh>

A bigger prize, though. That's what will get people to push themselves and make it interesting. And I just don't see anyone being able to put together the prize offered in the story. I'm gonna keep track of this.

[JasKo]

Congrats dude, that's awsome. Wish it came to one city near me, then I would be hitting the walk! :)

Edit: This is my post number 19!

[Patrick]

A momentous moment in JasKo's posting history! :lol:


So, Ari, is there a minimum speed?
How often do you get breaks and for how long?
Do you have a good pair of running (walking) shoes?

[Ari_Racing]

I finally couldn't take part. They required that the inscribed ones should be in the line at 3:30 pm, so I had to leave the office at 2:45...and my daily schedule is from 9am to 6 pm. My boss didn't allow me and here I am.

Besides...they're still walking!!! 84 hours already! It's the world's record so far.

[Storyslinger]

Wow, thats to bad to hear though

[Matt]

:(

Sucks you couldn't participate Ari. I am seriously considering organizing one of those around here somewhere. :ninja:

[Heather19]

Wow, that quite a walk. Sorry to hear your boss wouldn't let you go. Do you know how often they get to take breaks?

[Ari_Racing]

Well...it finally ended here.

102 hours!!!

World record!!
Two winners....the organizer decided both won and gave both the price.

[Storyslinger]

Thats damn long, good job to them though

[Patrick]

Wow.

[ExtraMileEndurathon.com]

Hi Long Walkers!
The 2008 season of www.ExtraMileEndurathon.com is starting on April 4, 2008, with the first race of the Liga Argentina in Buenos Aires.
We will also walk in Boulder, Colorado on May 30, Cologne, Germany June 20, Hamburg, Germany July 11, Berlin, Germany August 1, Los Angeles August 15, New York October 3, Barcelona October 24, Madrid October 31 and the best 4 of each Endurathon can compete at the World Championships December 5, 2008 for a prize of $ 10,000. It´s free to register and participate at www.ExtraMileEndurathon.com
March on. Mind over Matter.

[Ari_Racing]

I will be present in the Buenos Aires one! :)

[Ikilledthecrimsonking]

good luck ari

[educatedlady]

I thought maybe this would be about http://longestwalk.org/ but this is cool too. :)