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If you trained for five years…

GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Spark said:
With 5 years of intense training I think most people would be at least able to finish the triathlon/marathon, that's something that you really can just train for. You'd be slow as **** but you'd technically finish.
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I guess it depends how you define embarrassing yourself. As the son of a fairly successful marathon runner, he’d have been made up if I’d kept up with the running just to be able to run some marathons, but I’d have probably been embarrassed at not being able to come close to his level of performance.
 
Coronis

Coronis

International Coach
GIMH said:
I guess it depends how you define embarrassing yourself. As the son of a fairly successful marathon runner, he’d have been made up if I’d kept up with the running just to be able to run some marathons, but I’d have probably been embarrassed at not being able to come close to his level of performance.
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Wikipedia successful?
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Coronis said:
Wikipedia successful?
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No, but successful enough to make the BBC news when I was a lad and he won the 'Mersey Marathon' a few times

Best time 2hrs 19 mins. Think it probably put him in the top 10 in England the year he ran it
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
wpdavid said:
So this is him?

ARRS - Runner: Ian Corrin

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Aye you were able to find that more easily than I could!

He did about 40 marathons in all I think. I went to watch him do the LA marathon in either 1990 or 91 where he came 44th.

When I took up running circa 1994, people expected greatness (in local terms) from me once they heard my name. So while I wouldn't quite say I know what it must be like to be Rocky Flintoff, I can relate on a micro level haha.
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
GIMH said:
Link doesn't work through my firewall which is weird. I overestimated then haha. Not bad going though, I guess. Especially given the amount of lager he managed to consume in between races.
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Hey, in a country of what was ~60m then, that's still pretty effing good:


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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
By any measure, 2.19 is hardcore for a marathon. I know plenty of runners, but the fastest, who runs marathons all over the globe, is attempting to get under 2.30.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
BoyBrumby said:
Hey, in a country of what was ~60m then, that's still pretty effing good:


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In 1989 the Mersey Marathon was a qualifier for the Commonwealth Games in Auckland. He was the prior year's winner but missed that version through injury.

Looking at the times that won it that year, he'd have not made the cut, but I know that not getting that chance was one of his big regrets.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
GIMH said:
I guess it depends how you define embarrassing yourself. As the son of a fairly successful marathon runner, he’d have been made up if I’d kept up with the running just to be able to run some marathons, but I’d have probably been embarrassed at not being able to come close to his level of performance.
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Tbf the yardstick I'm using is stuff like artistic gymnastics, where I'd almost certainly severely injure myself, or whitewater canoeing where I'm almost certainly killed at some point. I'd embarrass myself in a marathon but I probably wouldn't die.
 
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Realistically none, but my best shot would be something like Handball, one of the few Olympic sports that Ireland has no tradition of whatsoever. For the purposes of the thought experiment let’s pretend qualification isn’t a problem.

Sailing is an option too. An ultra-low participation sport where physical limitations are less of a barrier.
 
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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Uppercut said:
Realistically none, but my best shot would be something like Handball, one of the few Olympic sports that Ireland has no tradition of whatsoever. For the purposes of the thought experiment let’s pretend qualification isn’t a problem.

Sailing is an option too. An ultra-low participation sport where physical limitations are less of a barrier.
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Need to get Dublin to host then Ireland get an automatic qualification to events like handball.

I think sailing is far more physically demanding than you anticipate.
 
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School friend of mine formed a bobsleigh team and went to the Winter Olympics in 1988

Basically the Australian version of Cool Runnings as most were ice hockey players with no experience
 
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Ali TT said:
Need to get Dublin to host then Ireland get an automatic qualification to events like handball.

I think sailing is far more physically demanding than you anticipate.
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I know sailing is physically demanding as ****, but we're talking about Olympic sports here. Some of the competitors in sailing almost look like actual humans.

Others have said shooting, but with our recent history? I'd have no chance.
 
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Daughter of my first gf won a sailing silver at London & is competing here.

Amazing life where she travels the world sailing in exotic locations so that would be my choice

Only problem is that Olympic sailing is on skiffs so you actually have to do more than hang on
 
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