One in particular irks me. I am sure you runners out there have seen them ... the jogglers. Those guys (I actually have never seen a woman do it) who run while juggling. Well, you can set a world record for joggling, if you can beat Michal Kapral's time of 2:50:09. I dont really get it, but reading about Michal today raised a question I cant get out of my mind. If you are running a marathon, and juggling, how do you drink water? Does he juggle the three all in one hand while he drinks? Does someone just squirt the water into his mouth at stops? How does this work????
March 13, 2008
Dumb World Records
I assume this 101-year-old guy, if he completes the London marathon, will set some sort of world record and his name will be in the books until another guy that old can attempt such a feat. As it looks like he will take over 10 hours, I doubt his time will be hard to beat ... but how many people that have lived 100+ years are going to attempt such a feat? Maybe this is a reputable record, but there are some that seem a bit dumb to me. Not just the "world's longest finger nails" and "world's biggest tea bag label collection" but records for athletic feats as well.
One in particular irks me. I am sure you runners out there have seen them ... the jogglers. Those guys (I actually have never seen a woman do it) who run while juggling. Well, you can set a world record for joggling, if you can beat Michal Kapral's time of 2:50:09. I dont really get it, but reading about Michal today raised a question I cant get out of my mind. If you are running a marathon, and juggling, how do you drink water? Does he juggle the three all in one hand while he drinks? Does someone just squirt the water into his mouth at stops? How does this work????
One in particular irks me. I am sure you runners out there have seen them ... the jogglers. Those guys (I actually have never seen a woman do it) who run while juggling. Well, you can set a world record for joggling, if you can beat Michal Kapral's time of 2:50:09. I dont really get it, but reading about Michal today raised a question I cant get out of my mind. If you are running a marathon, and juggling, how do you drink water? Does he juggle the three all in one hand while he drinks? Does someone just squirt the water into his mouth at stops? How does this work????
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I think you just stop and drink water. I think the rules are that you have to joggle all parts of the course...but that's just my understanding. I actaully think it's a pretty cool thing to do. There is a local chicago guy that set a joggling record for the 50 mile in the fall. We'll see him joggling around the city sometimes which is funny. he has a blog : http://justyouraveragejoggler.com/
You raise some very compelling questions... I am going to see if I can get to the bottom of this.
really I'm less concerned about the water and more concerned with why are they juggling when already doing something that is horribly hard?
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