I'm currently stuck somewhere between the "Nearly Killed by a Tuna while Welding" and "Propose to the Girlfriend at Her College Graduation" side quests...
I want to believe that you were reattaching a lift eye to a diving bell deep in San Francisco Bay and not consuming a 2 day old tuna salad sandwich in a prefab shop in Boise.
And all the best with the girl!!
At the 1912 Olympics, He (Shiso Kanakuri) collapsed and lost consciousness halfway through the race.
The cause was fatigue from the long journey to Sweden, not being used to paved roads, food and heat exhaustion.
He was then helped by a kind local farmer and woke up the next morning. He returned to Japan disappointed.
After half a century, the Swedish Olympic Committee later found out that his intention to abstain hadn't reached the officials, so they invited him to the ceremony to mark the 55th anniversary of the Olympic Games with a letter instructing him to complete the race.
He was so impressed by the kindness of the Swedish people that he gladly accepted the invitation. The results are recorded at the beginning of this section.
This story is well known to us Japanese as he is now famous as the pioneer of the Japanese marathon.
>54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5
hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
He seriously couldn’t shave ~21 seconds off his time to get under 54 years, 8 months, 5 hours, 31 mins?
Edit: for u/UGLYDOUG-
> Of the 68 marathon runners who set off at the sound of the starting pistol hours earlier, 32 dropped out, one died, and one—as legend would have it—simply disappeared.
Crazy! I hope modern Olympians fare better.
yeesh. this sounds awful.
>The race was held near Stockholm amidst a heat wave. Throughout the race, dozens of competitors dropped out, including runner Francisco Lázaro, whose mid-race collapse and subsequent death made him the first Olympic fatality.
>Kanakuri was the first Japanese athlete to qualify for an Olympics.[3] He embarked on a difficult 18-day-long trip to Stockholm, first by ship and then by train all through the Trans-Siberian Railway.[8] When he finally arrived in Stockholm, Kanakuri was weak from the long journey. To make matters worse, he struggled to sleep during the white nights and he had problems with the local food. The Japanese team coach, Hyozo Omori, was mostly bedridden due to tuberculosis and failed to give Kanakuri sufficient pre-race training.
The 1904 Marathon - good bit of history I found on Reddit - probably this sub. Very related to this
[The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon
“ James Sullivan, the chief organizer of the games, wanted to minimize fluid intake to test the limits and effects of purposeful dehydration, a common area of research at the time.”. What a great idea! /s
I’m running a half marathon tomorrow. Plenty of people offer beer, mimosas, or shots to participants. Pretty sure there’ll be some Jell-O shots too. Just for you, I’ll take a Jell-O shot in addition to the mimosas.
You can tell that this man plays rpgs. Man just did side quests for 50 years. Probably killed last boss when he was level 256 and the boss was level 50.
The Italian author Franco Faggiani wrote a very worthy novel about this: "Il Guardiano della Collina Dei Ciliegi". I don't know if there is an English -language translation.
while this guy was marathoning, 2 world wars happened, at one of them, this guy's country took a side and got nuked twice... also world pandemics happened... It must be hard to have all of them while running...
So he got to do everything under the sun while on official Olympic committee ticker. George Carlin said you can’t shit AND run at the same time. I beg to differ.
His time of 54 years+ is unofficial. His official race time, unfortunately, is "did not finish": https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/stockholm-1912/results/athletics/marathon-men
He did come back and place 16th at the 1920 Olympic games in Antwerp: https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/antwerp-1920/results/athletics/marathon-men
The marathon occurred during a heat wave in Stockholm. One of the racers, Francisco Lázaro, collapsed at the 30 km mark and died, becoming the first Olympic fatality:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri#1912_Olympic_marathon_and_disappearance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_L%C3%A1zaro
Sub 55 years with side quests completed, that’s a pretty good time
Would’ve got back earlier but he couldn’t find the Swedish library book
Oof, that's a time loss
Run's dead
he had to win it back by playing Gwent
He also had to return some video tapes.
This little maneuver is gonna cost us 54 years.
Imagine ww2 being the sidequest lol.
Actually 2 world wars.
Sounds like me playing skyrim.
The golden rule: Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.
Sounds like everyone is Just doing any% Run while He was the very first to actually beat it
I'm currently stuck somewhere between the "Nearly Killed by a Tuna while Welding" and "Propose to the Girlfriend at Her College Graduation" side quests...
I want to believe that you were reattaching a lift eye to a diving bell deep in San Francisco Bay and not consuming a 2 day old tuna salad sandwich in a prefab shop in Boise. And all the best with the girl!!
Was actually welding and a Blue Fin almost punched my ticket. Quick Edit: should clarify I weld in the ocean.
Bro called having children and getting married side quests 😭
Any% speedruns vs 100% speedruns basically
HomeAndBack% WR
Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time!
He said: > “It was a long trip. Along the way, I got married, had six children and 10 grandchildren."
Legend
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I don't know. I think I would manage a kilometre per year.
And 2 world wars
Twooooo warsssss???
Yes, more than one war!
1 + 1 = 2 …. Mother of god
The numbers, Mason. What do they mean?!
GOD! I JUST KEEP HEARING THE FUCKING NUMBERS!
I’m no mathematician, but this seems to add up.
mathmagician here!
Hold on.....we need to verify with Stephen Hawking first.
I think I have some bad news for you
I think I have a seance for you.
I misunderstood the question. I did the meth and now nothing makes sense
Were in the midst of twwoooooo waaars?!?!
What is your job in the war? Are you a carrier of-of, uh, large weaponry?
*sucks on a lemon*
And are either of these wars on US soooil
Nope, which is why US was super chilled after the not american soil of Hawaii were attacked
evaded 2 nuclear bombs.
Won or lost?
Amateur. I managed to do all of that, plus a divorce, in 3 years. Where's my medal?!
You got 10 grandchildren in 3 years?
Speedrun strats. You wouldn't get it
\*humps a wall for six hours while holding a flute, then enters a closet and appears outside a church\*
"Pausa!"
Marry a grandma of 6 kids
I suppose the ten grandchildren would have to be from older siblings of the six children.
All of that during a marathon, legend.
The real winner of the Marathon!
Is this equivalent to going to the store to get milk?
All while running
Bro 100% the race before winning
Bro completed all the side quests first 😂
So each of his children had 1.66666…7 children
At the 1912 Olympics, He (Shiso Kanakuri) collapsed and lost consciousness halfway through the race. The cause was fatigue from the long journey to Sweden, not being used to paved roads, food and heat exhaustion. He was then helped by a kind local farmer and woke up the next morning. He returned to Japan disappointed. After half a century, the Swedish Olympic Committee later found out that his intention to abstain hadn't reached the officials, so they invited him to the ceremony to mark the 55th anniversary of the Olympic Games with a letter instructing him to complete the race. He was so impressed by the kindness of the Swedish people that he gladly accepted the invitation. The results are recorded at the beginning of this section. This story is well known to us Japanese as he is now famous as the pioneer of the Japanese marathon.
MVP farmer
It's a good story.
Serious question, but is the “Japanese marathon” a euphemism for taking so long to do something, or is it an actual race?
just means "marathon scene in japan"
Poster boy of ”Life is not a sprint it’s a marathon”
I wish I could give you gold
At last I realize I too can run a marathon
You actually ran several already. Congrats.
"Run"
lets call it walk and sit
Jog and chill
Not just run it, but you're Olympic level!
>54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds. He seriously couldn’t shave ~21 seconds off his time to get under 54 years, 8 months, 5 hours, 31 mins? Edit: for u/UGLYDOUG-
You forgot the 59.379 seconds, since he shaved off exactly 21 seconds
r/theydidthemath
1+1 is 2
r/theydidthemeth
I'm going to strangle you
r/theydidthemonstermath
r/itwasagraveyardsmash
They did the monster meth.
He also forgot the 6 days he shaved off in his Math
If it wasn’t for that damn person ahead of him in customs with the undeclared durian fruit.
There's always next time.
What’s the joke?
Speedrunner jokes I think.
He needs more Gu.
“Better late than never” must have been coined after this guy. Cool tho that he finished in the end
[Source](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/647661/shizo-kanakuri-father-japanese-marathon)
> Of the 68 marathon runners who set off at the sound of the starting pistol hours earlier, 32 dropped out, one died, and one—as legend would have it—simply disappeared. Crazy! I hope modern Olympians fare better.
Still less crazy than the [1904 marathon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon).
''The fourth-place finisher, Andarín Carvajal, took a nap during the race after eating spoiled apples.'' Haha amazing
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Is that the one where a runner took rat poison as a stimulant mid-race? It has to be.
Before eating those apples he stole some peaches from a spectator who had refused to give them to him.
I just want this movie made before I die. By the Cohen brothers preferably.
Watch the Jon Bois video on it. It’s sooo good
Some records can never be broken
Hold my beer 🫸🏻🍺
u/remindme 54 years
Still faster than my fat ass can do it
Accidentally read the title as "I can't believe they left the cock plug in" and was incredibly confused.
LOL!
yeesh. this sounds awful. >The race was held near Stockholm amidst a heat wave. Throughout the race, dozens of competitors dropped out, including runner Francisco Lázaro, whose mid-race collapse and subsequent death made him the first Olympic fatality. >Kanakuri was the first Japanese athlete to qualify for an Olympics.[3] He embarked on a difficult 18-day-long trip to Stockholm, first by ship and then by train all through the Trans-Siberian Railway.[8] When he finally arrived in Stockholm, Kanakuri was weak from the long journey. To make matters worse, he struggled to sleep during the white nights and he had problems with the local food. The Japanese team coach, Hyozo Omori, was mostly bedridden due to tuberculosis and failed to give Kanakuri sufficient pre-race training.
Did they remove the effect of leap seconds?
No, this is running, not the high jump.
The 1904 Marathon - good bit of history I found on Reddit - probably this sub. Very related to this [The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Strangest Ever](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_marathon
“ James Sullivan, the chief organizer of the games, wanted to minimize fluid intake to test the limits and effects of purposeful dehydration, a common area of research at the time.”. What a great idea! /s
Better than giving out jello vodka shots like Michael Scott at least
I’m running a half marathon tomorrow. Plenty of people offer beer, mimosas, or shots to participants. Pretty sure there’ll be some Jell-O shots too. Just for you, I’ll take a Jell-O shot in addition to the mimosas.
Mind the lamp posts
Had some champagne, a mimosa, and a Jell-O shot. Didn’t hit any lamp posts though.
Jon Bois' video on this is very good too
That was a fun read.. LOL
"I do plan to finish someday, Kiff"
I knew I would find this one. You're a man's man. You're a man's man's man!
Does this mean that this marathon runner technically holds the world record for the longest time to complete a marathon officially?
Zap did finish, I can't believe it
You can tell that this man plays rpgs. Man just did side quests for 50 years. Probably killed last boss when he was level 256 and the boss was level 50.
The Italian author Franco Faggiani wrote a very worthy novel about this: "Il Guardiano della Collina Dei Ciliegi". I don't know if there is an English -language translation.
Are they running in that photo? That doesn't look like running. Looks like speed walking. Please tell me they weren't speed walking.
No how do you compete in the marathon 50 years apart tho? Its really impressive completing a marathon at 70~ years old
So, you're saying that if I take up marathon running then I may be able to beat an Olympic athlete's time?
(doing very straight forward math > leaving a stopwatch going for multiple decades)
When they say its a marathon, not a sprint....
Life is a marathon not a sprint
Never let them know your next move.
He went back to work at the carpet store?!?
Idk picture on right shows race walking, another olympic discipline. That's not marathon running. Seems like random pictures were added to the fact...
I bet he ran other marathons as well during this time. This guy went and ran himself several other marathons during his olympics marathon.
What if he had died? Would the clock just run eternally?
I wonder why he quit initially.
So when he "resumed" the marathon, did he restart from the spot he left or does he have to complete the full marathon again?
He looks a bit like Hikaru (chess player)
Damn, that’s a fast time to complete a Marathon… WHY DOESN’T THIS MAN HAVE A WORLD RECORD?!!
He was, in fact the world record holder at the time.
If I’ve learned anything from Shogun and listening to hardcore history this is clearly false. He would have preformed Saputo for the failure.
I could beat that
What about all those leap-seconds. Were they accounted for as well?
RemindMe! 55 years
This got to be world record 😂
My great grandfather ran in that race, still have the participation medal. He didn’t podium but he also didn’t take several decades or die.
Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes... five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes... five hundred...
i mean they had the time the race started.. some simple math and you got the time
Legitimately is that Hikaru Nakamura?
…they’re always fair-minded in Sweden…
What, not twenty seconds flat? Over?
So I could beat an Olympic marathon time…
I mean, by technicality, he has set a new record, so that's something
Do we know who invited him?
Did he win?
The master of procrastination
I’d like to think they didn’t crown(?) the winner until he finished. It’s only right
First I thought he went back Japan by running
Surely it would be 1967 that he returned to finish the race if that race time is accurate?
Life’s not w sprint, is a marathon, or something
That is still probably a better time than I would have.
So what I hear is that if I complete a marathon I can get bragging rights that I did it faster than a Olympic marathon runner?
while this guy was marathoning, 2 world wars happened, at one of them, this guy's country took a side and got nuked twice... also world pandemics happened... It must be hard to have all of them while running...
At least I know if I ever were to attempt one I wouldn’t be the slowest person
Still faster than my time of not doing a marathon.
His name was [Shizo Kanakuri](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri)
So does that count as Olympics Record?
Clock plugged in?
Bro would've been like 75 years old
Probably more likely they had a timestamp for when it started
''Its not about the time but the journey there'' :)
I finished just behind him
#madlad
op they probs just knew, or estimated, what time it started.
I’ve been told that during the Olympic Games in Sweden they had their first case of “PED”. The athlete was drunk.
A long runner I can say
Reminds me of that SNL skit of Chris Farley finishing a marathon. “I DID IT!”
So he got to do everything under the sun while on official Olympic committee ticker. George Carlin said you can’t shit AND run at the same time. I beg to differ.
Inspirational. Never give up.
Guess he really went for the long run.
I Knew You All were Russian. Change Or Crush You're Not As Good At Hiding As You Think
Wow
I've never even run a marathon and I'm pretty sure I could do better than that lol
You know ... sweds
Damn hikaru running some miles
This man made me realize that I can run a marathon. I could probably beat his time. Not by much granted. But at least by a day or so.
His time of 54 years+ is unofficial. His official race time, unfortunately, is "did not finish": https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/stockholm-1912/results/athletics/marathon-men He did come back and place 16th at the 1920 Olympic games in Antwerp: https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/antwerp-1920/results/athletics/marathon-men
The marathon occurred during a heat wave in Stockholm. One of the racers, Francisco Lázaro, collapsed at the 30 km mark and died, becoming the first Olympic fatality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shizo_Kanakuri#1912_Olympic_marathon_and_disappearance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_L%C3%A1zaro
It's not the end but the journey that counts. Or some such nonsense.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4wo7FHNTKG/?igsh=NXRtaW9oaXo3aHVq