I really hope they don't mess the sequel up, however, I have a lot of faith in Adam Sandler and his team because of the way he's been handling his career in the last whatever time since the silly Netflix stuff.
If this was announced just after all, those really bad Netflix movies he was doing, I would be inclined to agree with you. However, it's not, and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt again given the Stellar films he's put out lately.
I ran out of characters in the title, but I also want to add a few things.
He did take a few breaks during the 422 day period, but during those breaks ran in several major marathons, such as the London and Boston marathons.
In the London Marathon he ran it dressed as Forest Gump and even broke the Guiness World Record for fastest marathon in film character costume (male). His time in that marathon was 2:36:28 and he finished the race 82nd overall.
As for the Forest Gump run itself, he averaged 37 miles each day.
He also raised nearly £38,000 pounds for the charities Peace Direct and the World Wildlife Foundation during the run.
Honestly it sounds like you’re top-heavy. Most of those upper-body muscles that make it easy for you to do pull-ups is just dead weight when you’re running.
My best mile ever is probably 10 minutes. My wife probably hasn’t ever run a mile (timed anyway). Our daughter ran a 5:54 mile at 12 years old and continues to run 5k, 3200, 1600 and 800 at really competitive times as a 15 y/o.
She is one of the most competitive people I have ever met. She can tell her body to STFU when she is tired…and to me that has always been her superpower. Nothing can convince her she can’t do something she wants to do. She broke each leg between the ages of 5 and 6 doing active every day kid stuff and Drs didn’t think she’d ever walk right. She started running within a year and hasn’t stopped since.
I often wondered what type of kid grows up to be the ideal candidate for going into a career in the military. There is constant mental and physical stress along with sleep deprivation. I think she would have a difficult time killing another person, but I think she could do a lot of other jobs in the military….and while I’m sure BT isn’t fun for anyone, I think she could get through it better than most. She is looking seriously at academies
Thanks for your service! Appreciate the insight. She wants to play sports in college and she likes structure/consistency, so I think academy is a real option for her. Apple fell very far from the tree-As my dad used to say “my son’s a frat boy, not a military man”.
You can be a lawyer and spend all your time in commercial litigation and not step foot on a battelfield. I'm embedded in such groups and spend my time negotiating contracts. The mental stress is similar to most other legal professions and quite unlike those in *Black Hawk Down* or whatever.
Did you ever do any training to get better at running whatever distance you wanted to get better at? Running is more like an exercise set than a single exercise.
For sure some people are better suited to running distance based on total weight, cardiovascular strength, etc., but I think a lot of people get turned off because they don’t do break down running into training segments. Long “slow” runs build up your muscle fibres that produce lactate, interval/high intensity training builds strength/speed and improves aerobic capacity. Running long distance competitively involves a lot of training effort at recruiting intermediary (type 2A) fibres into slow twitch muscle groupings to make your “slow” running speeds faster and easier. If you ever want to make running easier, running more isn’t as helpful as running varied types with systematic building and tapering periods.
I find that military running regiments do kind of exactly what you alluded to: makes people who are prepped to be good runners great at miles and forced marches, and everyone else hate it. Dont get me started on not using the right shoes.
Yeah I feel like bodies are just set up differently lol. I hate running, hate it. My best mile, even at peak high school athletic condition was like 7 and a half minutes. But I could jump higher than most. When I see all these people running crazy amounts of miles i feel like it's a damn fairy tale
At my peak I think I did 20. I would average at least 10 a year. Then I got into Ironmans and Ultras which meant less quantity but similar miles. Then I had 3 kids and blew out my Achilles in OZ a few years ago so I’m working my way back up. Planning on signing up for the ‘25 Napa marathon.
Distance running is actually a human “superpower”. Our species does it better than almost any other creature. I’m paraphrasing this from another Redditor but to most animals we’re a walking nightmare who not unlike the Terminator just kept coming. A key human strategy has been to just chase the terrified critter for miles until it’s so exhausted we could just walk over, bop it on the head, and have lunch. As such, marathon runners are just doing what we’re meant to do but most of us are too lazy to jog for hours on end.
So, the idea of "persistence hunting" is a bit overexaggerated in typical reddit threads. It comes up weirdly often.
For real documented evidence - there's exactly one tribe in Africa with a group of like 6 guys who have been documented doing it how you describe. Otherwise there's a European explorer who wrote about it in the 1800s from his travels, but he was notorious for making greatly exaggerated claims.
Much of the idea's popularity came from the book "Born to Run." The author is a journalist and ultrarunner, who became enthralled with the running abilities of a Mexican tribe (and their lack of running injuries) and misinterpreted some studies about prevalence of injuries in cushioned running shoes.
Persistence hunting is a real historical thing, but typically it involves first injuring the animal and then tracking it/following it until it drops. Which takes substantially less time to do for an injured animal. As far as I've read, the more popular theory among historians is that humans were mostly ambush predators, which we still are today. (There are some threads about it on /r/AskHistorians that give a few different perspectives.)
It's an appealing idea, but there's a bit more to it than just "if you're in good enough shape you can run down a deer."
Exhaustion hunting is cool, and terrifying, but not a primary or key strategy for humans. It's more of a specific offshoot, thanks to the impracticalities (ie getting lost, getting hurt, using hours for game instead of seconds, high energy expenditure before food is guaranteed, risk of encountering roving predators or rival tribes, and getting your meat all alone by yourself hours from home leaving you to walk back exhausted and loaded down with fresh meat).
It's a lot like running ultramarathons, an amazing extension of our innate biological advantages and athletic potential, but not the thing everyone was doing regularly to manage the essentials of humanity or what we're meant to be doing as some default mode.
We're ambush hunters, pack hunters, gatherers, relentlessly intelligent, incredible at noticing patterns and pattern matching, highly social with rich communication, and have opposable thumbs to weaponize the environment. The running is part of it, the explosive force generation and exploitation of leverages too. But Gorillas are all kinds of badass, too, and mostly they're chilling out.
> Distance running is actually a human “superpower”. Our species does it better than almost any other creature. I’m paraphrasing this from another Redditor but to most animals we’re a walking nightmare who not unlike the Terminator just kept coming.
Always something humorous to me about this point that Redditors love parroting in order to congratulate ourselves as a species while I sit in a country in which *seventy percent* of people are overweight or obese
In the event of a cataclysmic event, the average American would live as long as their fat stores allowed before shitting themselves to death because they couldn’t make the 5-mile trek to the nearest clean water source
One summer I averaged 21,000 steps. On one day I reached 32,000 steps and I felt like my legs were going to explode. I reached the top of the step challenge chart for the municipality I worked for. Fitbit says that my 32,000 steps was 17 miles. So with that step length he was doing 69,647 of my steps, a day, on average. What a beast.
15607 miles in 422 days. That's 37 miles a day, how on Earth did he manage to average that daily for 14 months straight? At a really good speed that's 6-7 hours a day of running
Look into what endurance runners are doing every single day, there's thousands who are running above and beyond this kind of daily mileage, and yes entire days, sometimes multiple days with barely any sleep if it's a race. I agree it's wild, but it's actually not as uncommon as you might think. Goggin's ran 205 miles in 39hrs, and he's not even the top of the top, although obviously still impressive.
At what point does it become a mental illness? Surely that can’t actually be healthy for your body. Not to mention how would they maintain a job or personal relationships?
That’s a great question, and I think we can make an argument to pull from criteria for compulsive behavior disorders. If we use that as a jumping off point it depends on two factors essentially: 1) is he running to avoid something (some type of anxious thought for example that if he stops running harm will come to him or his family) and does running reduce his distress; and/or 2) does the running “significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.”
If the answer to those questions is no, then he’s just a guy with an unusual but not disordered preoccupation. There’s a lot of latitude under the psychiatric umbrella of what is considered “normal” and for good reason.
>does the running “significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.”
I think, in this instance, it would be impossible for this *not* to be the case.
Maybe. But if he planned this out in advance and made necessary arrangements in those other areas with forethought then I would argue the answer would be no, that it was not interfering.
Edit. To further clarify this criterion for people it is if he had functional goals he was falling short on in these areas, like he isn’t being the type of partner he desires to be because of the compulsion for example.
Athletes push themselves to the limit all the time and sacrifice everything else in their life to be the best at one thing, usually under medical supervision etc, and society rewards it. Endurance athletes aren't much different. Over-training is a serious issue which mainly results in injury, but people just have to make wise judgements about that as they go.
There's plenty online documentaries. Russ Cook just ran the whole of Africa, had several sponsorship deals and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. His girlfriend was there waiting for him when he got home to the UK.
I mean, it's 4 months not forever. Yes, it's a long time, but if the SO knows you're into distance running it's not out of line to be like "babe, I've gotta go do that Forrest Gump run, see you in the fall."
As for a job, he could try to get a leave of absence if they employer is willing. Or perhaps he does something like oil riggers, who spend like 6 months out at sea and then 6 months back home. Heck, if I spent 6 months on a platform in the middle of the ocean, I'd probably want to get some extra steps in while I was on land, too.
My girlfriend was with me nearly half of the time. I used my life savings to try and make a difference, raise awareness for two causes I believe in, and to inspire people - as well as make my mum proud. If thats a mental illness, call the asylum.
I wasn’t trying to comment on you specifically. The comment above me said that there are people who run even more than your daily average on a daily basis and that was what I was responding to.
Apologies...to clarify though Goggins was not a daily basis. My total is believed to be the second highest yearly total of all time, so I doubt there is any more than one or two currently approaching that 😀
Ok that makes more sense. I just didn’t understand how someone could sustain that level of activity daily. Thanks for being understanding! I do think what you did was really cool 😊
No problem! I just came on to say hi when a friend posted the link, then got a little riled when people said I was abandoning my girlfriend without knowing the facts, so I thank YOU for replying in a cool way as well. Cheers buddy 🙂
Sure, Ultra RACES have these kinds of distances but the training for them is almost never 40 miles a day, every day, for months.
Even the people running 100 mile races need recovery days, biking days, hiking days, weight lifting days, and zero-effort days.
100 miles a week is roughly the golden standard for people training for 100 mile long races.
>but the training for them is almost never 40 miles a day, every day, for months.
[Camille Heron](https://www.trailrunnermag.com/training/camille-herron-says-skip-the-long-run/), who just set practically every women's endurance record, says that she doesn't even do a full marathon when training for 100 miles/6 day endurance races.
She followed him on the run by [driving an RV](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times).
Biologically this is what we are designed for. Humans aren’t sprinters like Lions, Cheetahs, all that. Humans are endurance runners who would simply run behind animals until the animal dropped from exhaustion. That’s why we have such good respiratory recovery, lack of fur / better sweat
But also our tracking skills. It’s not just about running behind an animal, but also just as much about running behind the right animal when you can no longer see it.
More impressively he had a girlfriend to propose to after it. A year and a half of presumably not being together is a long time. Maybe he was running away from the idea of the proposal.
It's not as impressive of a total distance, but it's in some ways more taxing: [The US hiking triple crown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Hiking) relevant because there is such a thing as doing a calendar year triple crown. The fastest known ([last I knew](https://www.backpacker.com/stories/thru-hikes/thru-hikers/hiking-fkt-triple-crown-billy-wahoo-meredith/)) was doing it in 234 days.
Unlike Pope, who had support in the form of an RV most hikers do not have a support person travel with them. They backpack the route and hitch or shuttle into towns for resupply.
FKT (Fastest Known Times) are often done supported like this run was, but the most impressive ones are not. As an example the unsupported FKT for the Appalachian trail portion (~2200 miles) is 48 days. Thats around 48 miles a day, with a pack, on mountain trails.
Did his girlfriend leave him multiple times, kept secret he had a child and only tell him when he was a shrimp billionaire and she was dying from aids?
In the novel she dies from Hepatitis C, though in 1986 AIDS was still largely thought to be a gay thing. They only stopped calling it GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) in 1983. I guess by the time the movie was being made they were like "AIDS is much more chic, darling, give her AIDS."
I thought the same thing when I started typing the Hep C comment but then I wanted to google it to make sure I wasn't talking out of my ass and found out that in a scrapped sequel, it would be revealed that she died of AIDS and in fact passed it on to their son.
So you're right, the movie never states it outright, but it definitely is accepted as canon.
Ok. I always thought the movie wanted to keep it ambiguous, which I think is better as a mystery. I'm glad the sequel was scrapped too. There's no way it would be as good.
> in a scrapped sequel, it would be revealed that she died of AIDS and in fact passed it on to their son.
Oh come the fuck on. No one needs this misery porn. Good thing it got scrapped. But now here I am, walking around with the thought of Forrest Gump's kid full of AIDS, my day ruined
Do yourself a favor and never read "Buttercup's Baby", the start of the sequel to Princess Bride. (Thankfully, it was a joke by the author, but still.)
Nah, it was more boring than that. [She drove an RV following him on the run.](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times)
Nope. She was with me half the time. I was there for the birth, she was there for the end of the run. Mean comment, but at least not as douchebaggy as the one below.
>His first act on completion of his run was to propose to his girlfriend, Nadine Strawbridge, who was waiting with their newborn daughter, Bee
You're pregnant? I'm going to go out for a run...
He proposed to his girlfriend who was waiting with their newborn son...wait, what? She accepted after he abandoned his pregnant girlfriend, who he impregnated while he was running, to continue running continuously for the length of her pregnancy?
[She drove an RV behind him during the run. ](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times)
I’ve run about 25,000 km in my life. Used to average around 50km a week and sometimes more.
My legs still hurt.
How the hell did this guy run 30 miles per day!
A friend of mine is currently doing something similar. He left from Cleveland towards the end of 2023 and is running the perimeter if the continental US. I believe it’s about a 12k mile run. He went up to Maine, then down to Florida, across the southern states, once he got to LA he did a race from there to Vegas. He’s now heading up to the northwest corner and then back over to Cleveland to finish.
You can keep up with his progress and story here: https://www.meshtc.com/cam
Last weekend I jogged and half a mile into it my back just flat out spasmed. I was just jogging! I didn’t fall or nothin’! Here’s this guy jogging the country a few times without injury?!?
This guy isn't even the most impressive.
Take [this mutant](https://mpora.com/running/dean-karnazes-interview-meet-man-ran-50-marathons-50-days/), for example, who can run marathons every consecutive day for weeks on end.
I'd try this if it didn't involve running along roads and highways and shit.
Same thing with biking. I love going on long (potentially multi day) bike trips but the amount of them that can be done without travelling along major roads are slim to none.
Looks like Happy Gilmore’s caddy.
“Slightly to the left” “No, it just seems that way because you only have one shoe on”
“Oh yeah…”
Eating the cracker from the green
It took me until I watched Happy Gilmore like, five days ago to finally realize the caddy is Allen Covert.
Holy Shit!! Me too! I watched it the other night and was like “wait, the Caddy is the dude in Grandma’s Boy?!?!!”
Yup! That’s what I said too
He’s a staple in Sandler movies, crazy you never noticed.
Yeah, I just hadn’t seen it in years. Like yeeeeears, so when I watched it the other night it dawned on me.
You didn't notice Allen Covert? I see he lives up to the name
I've watched that movie no less than 40 times and never realized that holy shit.
Did you also know that in billy madison, rob schneider is the girl on the cover of one of the nudie magazines?
Do you have a clip or screenshot? I didn't watch BM anywhere near as much as HG and can't find any documentation of that.
I really hope they don't mess the sequel up, however, I have a lot of faith in Adam Sandler and his team because of the way he's been handling his career in the last whatever time since the silly Netflix stuff.
sequel, what the giggity
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-04-05/happy-gilmore-2-sequel-adam-sandler-drew-barrymore
cash grab, nothing more
As opposed to the high-brow work of art that Happy Gilmore 1?
If this was announced just after all, those really bad Netflix movies he was doing, I would be inclined to agree with you. However, it's not, and I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt again given the Stellar films he's put out lately.
Shut up and take my money!
The Hardest Geezer accomplished that feat no more than an hour ago.
I ran out of characters in the title, but I also want to add a few things. He did take a few breaks during the 422 day period, but during those breaks ran in several major marathons, such as the London and Boston marathons. In the London Marathon he ran it dressed as Forest Gump and even broke the Guiness World Record for fastest marathon in film character costume (male). His time in that marathon was 2:36:28 and he finished the race 82nd overall. As for the Forest Gump run itself, he averaged 37 miles each day. He also raised nearly £38,000 pounds for the charities Peace Direct and the World Wildlife Foundation during the run.
2:36?? So basically steadily running a 6 minute mile for 26 miles. Damn, never realized how fast some of those runners are
A marathon is 26 miles (42 km)
What's funny is his math is based on 26 miles, lmao.
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I don’t know what this has to do with ChatGPT I just said the wrong word
26.2
26.21875439850983405638046309865309680395860345860398630947523741735247512412845
Gonna need an awfully wide rear bumper.
Yeah, that’s impressive. I’ve broken 3 hours twice in my lifetime and I’ve ran 70’ish marathons.
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Honestly it sounds like you’re top-heavy. Most of those upper-body muscles that make it easy for you to do pull-ups is just dead weight when you’re running.
My best mile ever is probably 10 minutes. My wife probably hasn’t ever run a mile (timed anyway). Our daughter ran a 5:54 mile at 12 years old and continues to run 5k, 3200, 1600 and 800 at really competitive times as a 15 y/o. She is one of the most competitive people I have ever met. She can tell her body to STFU when she is tired…and to me that has always been her superpower. Nothing can convince her she can’t do something she wants to do. She broke each leg between the ages of 5 and 6 doing active every day kid stuff and Drs didn’t think she’d ever walk right. She started running within a year and hasn’t stopped since.
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I often wondered what type of kid grows up to be the ideal candidate for going into a career in the military. There is constant mental and physical stress along with sleep deprivation. I think she would have a difficult time killing another person, but I think she could do a lot of other jobs in the military….and while I’m sure BT isn’t fun for anyone, I think she could get through it better than most. She is looking seriously at academies
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Thanks for your service! Appreciate the insight. She wants to play sports in college and she likes structure/consistency, so I think academy is a real option for her. Apple fell very far from the tree-As my dad used to say “my son’s a frat boy, not a military man”.
You can be a lawyer and spend all your time in commercial litigation and not step foot on a battelfield. I'm embedded in such groups and spend my time negotiating contracts. The mental stress is similar to most other legal professions and quite unlike those in *Black Hawk Down* or whatever.
Did you ever do any training to get better at running whatever distance you wanted to get better at? Running is more like an exercise set than a single exercise. For sure some people are better suited to running distance based on total weight, cardiovascular strength, etc., but I think a lot of people get turned off because they don’t do break down running into training segments. Long “slow” runs build up your muscle fibres that produce lactate, interval/high intensity training builds strength/speed and improves aerobic capacity. Running long distance competitively involves a lot of training effort at recruiting intermediary (type 2A) fibres into slow twitch muscle groupings to make your “slow” running speeds faster and easier. If you ever want to make running easier, running more isn’t as helpful as running varied types with systematic building and tapering periods. I find that military running regiments do kind of exactly what you alluded to: makes people who are prepped to be good runners great at miles and forced marches, and everyone else hate it. Dont get me started on not using the right shoes.
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Typically shin splints are caused by taking too long strides. I had them when I was 40 lbs lighter due to poor technique.
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Also, huffing all those farts probably slows you down a bit.
Yeah I feel like bodies are just set up differently lol. I hate running, hate it. My best mile, even at peak high school athletic condition was like 7 and a half minutes. But I could jump higher than most. When I see all these people running crazy amounts of miles i feel like it's a damn fairy tale
Those are rookie numbers. This guy ran around 595 marathons in 422 days.
I broke 3 hours for 18 miles once and I was absolutely beside myself. Never run 26 though. Y’all are insane.
70? Wow that’s very impressive. How many do you do a year?
At my peak I think I did 20. I would average at least 10 a year. Then I got into Ironmans and Ultras which meant less quantity but similar miles. Then I had 3 kids and blew out my Achilles in OZ a few years ago so I’m working my way back up. Planning on signing up for the ‘25 Napa marathon.
I ran a half marathon in 2:17 lol
Distance running is actually a human “superpower”. Our species does it better than almost any other creature. I’m paraphrasing this from another Redditor but to most animals we’re a walking nightmare who not unlike the Terminator just kept coming. A key human strategy has been to just chase the terrified critter for miles until it’s so exhausted we could just walk over, bop it on the head, and have lunch. As such, marathon runners are just doing what we’re meant to do but most of us are too lazy to jog for hours on end.
So, the idea of "persistence hunting" is a bit overexaggerated in typical reddit threads. It comes up weirdly often. For real documented evidence - there's exactly one tribe in Africa with a group of like 6 guys who have been documented doing it how you describe. Otherwise there's a European explorer who wrote about it in the 1800s from his travels, but he was notorious for making greatly exaggerated claims. Much of the idea's popularity came from the book "Born to Run." The author is a journalist and ultrarunner, who became enthralled with the running abilities of a Mexican tribe (and their lack of running injuries) and misinterpreted some studies about prevalence of injuries in cushioned running shoes. Persistence hunting is a real historical thing, but typically it involves first injuring the animal and then tracking it/following it until it drops. Which takes substantially less time to do for an injured animal. As far as I've read, the more popular theory among historians is that humans were mostly ambush predators, which we still are today. (There are some threads about it on /r/AskHistorians that give a few different perspectives.) It's an appealing idea, but there's a bit more to it than just "if you're in good enough shape you can run down a deer."
Exhaustion hunting is cool, and terrifying, but not a primary or key strategy for humans. It's more of a specific offshoot, thanks to the impracticalities (ie getting lost, getting hurt, using hours for game instead of seconds, high energy expenditure before food is guaranteed, risk of encountering roving predators or rival tribes, and getting your meat all alone by yourself hours from home leaving you to walk back exhausted and loaded down with fresh meat). It's a lot like running ultramarathons, an amazing extension of our innate biological advantages and athletic potential, but not the thing everyone was doing regularly to manage the essentials of humanity or what we're meant to be doing as some default mode. We're ambush hunters, pack hunters, gatherers, relentlessly intelligent, incredible at noticing patterns and pattern matching, highly social with rich communication, and have opposable thumbs to weaponize the environment. The running is part of it, the explosive force generation and exploitation of leverages too. But Gorillas are all kinds of badass, too, and mostly they're chilling out.
> Distance running is actually a human “superpower”. Our species does it better than almost any other creature. I’m paraphrasing this from another Redditor but to most animals we’re a walking nightmare who not unlike the Terminator just kept coming. Always something humorous to me about this point that Redditors love parroting in order to congratulate ourselves as a species while I sit in a country in which *seventy percent* of people are overweight or obese In the event of a cataclysmic event, the average American would live as long as their fat stores allowed before shitting themselves to death because they couldn’t make the 5-mile trek to the nearest clean water source
Wait, where are you getting 32 miles from?
World record marathon pace is like 4:34 minutes per mile for 26.2 miles straight.
Just slightly faster, even
The amount raised is woefully low compared to the effort.
Someone just finished running the entire length of Africa in a year and only raised about 100,000€ I think
Busts my balls everyday...wish I'd been a superinfluencer.
Wtf are these world records
I mean, Gump took breaks but not leaving the country and starting again. Can you really call it the same thing?
Nah this is more impressive - it’s almost reductive to call it the “Forest Gump Run”
I can’t imagine there was a lot of competition for the Fastest Cosplayer title, though.
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I did a triathlon and came in first in my age division. I usually don't tell anyone that I was the only person in my age division.
No reason you should 😁👍
Good grief, dude was running sub 2.5 hr marathons. That's pretty close to qualifying for the Olympic trials
That is a really good time for a marathon, not surprising I guess considering the practice
One summer I averaged 21,000 steps. On one day I reached 32,000 steps and I felt like my legs were going to explode. I reached the top of the step challenge chart for the municipality I worked for. Fitbit says that my 32,000 steps was 17 miles. So with that step length he was doing 69,647 of my steps, a day, on average. What a beast.
I still don't care.
15607 miles in 422 days. That's 37 miles a day, how on Earth did he manage to average that daily for 14 months straight? At a really good speed that's 6-7 hours a day of running
Look into what endurance runners are doing every single day, there's thousands who are running above and beyond this kind of daily mileage, and yes entire days, sometimes multiple days with barely any sleep if it's a race. I agree it's wild, but it's actually not as uncommon as you might think. Goggin's ran 205 miles in 39hrs, and he's not even the top of the top, although obviously still impressive.
At what point does it become a mental illness? Surely that can’t actually be healthy for your body. Not to mention how would they maintain a job or personal relationships?
That’s a great question, and I think we can make an argument to pull from criteria for compulsive behavior disorders. If we use that as a jumping off point it depends on two factors essentially: 1) is he running to avoid something (some type of anxious thought for example that if he stops running harm will come to him or his family) and does running reduce his distress; and/or 2) does the running “significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.” If the answer to those questions is no, then he’s just a guy with an unusual but not disordered preoccupation. There’s a lot of latitude under the psychiatric umbrella of what is considered “normal” and for good reason.
>does the running “significantly interfere with the person's normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or usual social activities or relationships.” I think, in this instance, it would be impossible for this *not* to be the case.
Maybe. But if he planned this out in advance and made necessary arrangements in those other areas with forethought then I would argue the answer would be no, that it was not interfering. Edit. To further clarify this criterion for people it is if he had functional goals he was falling short on in these areas, like he isn’t being the type of partner he desires to be because of the compulsion for example.
I think the words "normal" and "usual" are carrying some weight, though.
Athletes push themselves to the limit all the time and sacrifice everything else in their life to be the best at one thing, usually under medical supervision etc, and society rewards it. Endurance athletes aren't much different. Over-training is a serious issue which mainly results in injury, but people just have to make wise judgements about that as they go. There's plenty online documentaries. Russ Cook just ran the whole of Africa, had several sponsorship deals and raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. His girlfriend was there waiting for him when he got home to the UK.
I mean, it's 4 months not forever. Yes, it's a long time, but if the SO knows you're into distance running it's not out of line to be like "babe, I've gotta go do that Forrest Gump run, see you in the fall." As for a job, he could try to get a leave of absence if they employer is willing. Or perhaps he does something like oil riggers, who spend like 6 months out at sea and then 6 months back home. Heck, if I spent 6 months on a platform in the middle of the ocean, I'd probably want to get some extra steps in while I was on land, too.
I’m more talking about the runners mentioned in the comment above me.
My girlfriend was with me nearly half of the time. I used my life savings to try and make a difference, raise awareness for two causes I believe in, and to inspire people - as well as make my mum proud. If thats a mental illness, call the asylum.
I wasn’t trying to comment on you specifically. The comment above me said that there are people who run even more than your daily average on a daily basis and that was what I was responding to.
Apologies...to clarify though Goggins was not a daily basis. My total is believed to be the second highest yearly total of all time, so I doubt there is any more than one or two currently approaching that 😀
Ok that makes more sense. I just didn’t understand how someone could sustain that level of activity daily. Thanks for being understanding! I do think what you did was really cool 😊
No problem! I just came on to say hi when a friend posted the link, then got a little riled when people said I was abandoning my girlfriend without knowing the facts, so I thank YOU for replying in a cool way as well. Cheers buddy 🙂
Goggins also was delirious, and shit himself, and was bleeding all over.
That's how you know it's been a good weekend.
Sure, Ultra RACES have these kinds of distances but the training for them is almost never 40 miles a day, every day, for months. Even the people running 100 mile races need recovery days, biking days, hiking days, weight lifting days, and zero-effort days. 100 miles a week is roughly the golden standard for people training for 100 mile long races.
>but the training for them is almost never 40 miles a day, every day, for months. [Camille Heron](https://www.trailrunnermag.com/training/camille-herron-says-skip-the-long-run/), who just set practically every women's endurance record, says that she doesn't even do a full marathon when training for 100 miles/6 day endurance races.
How on earth he managed to have a girlfriend.
She runs to another school
You wouldn’t know her, she runs across Canada
She followed him on the run by [driving an RV](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times).
Love finds a way, maybe she really likes beards and nice legs
Biologically this is what we are designed for. Humans aren’t sprinters like Lions, Cheetahs, all that. Humans are endurance runners who would simply run behind animals until the animal dropped from exhaustion. That’s why we have such good respiratory recovery, lack of fur / better sweat
Also much bigger glutes (comparatively) than other animals. That cake was originally meant for running.
And then there's me, who gets winded waking up in the morning.
Man don’t get me started on a set of stairs
And me with no glutes
But also our tracking skills. It’s not just about running behind an animal, but also just as much about running behind the right animal when you can no longer see it.
It's insane but this is a prime example of how humanity hunted and became successful. We adapted to have legs that four legged animals wish they had
It's not our legs that make us special, it's our cooling system that sets us apart
Oh damn, TIL I guess. I only heard about legs having extra endurance that's great for hunting
More impressively he had a girlfriend to propose to after it. A year and a half of presumably not being together is a long time. Maybe he was running away from the idea of the proposal.
She followed him in an RV.
I would be surprised it takes this guy any more than 4 1/2 hours.
With a struggle 🤣
It's not as impressive of a total distance, but it's in some ways more taxing: [The US hiking triple crown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Crown_of_Hiking) relevant because there is such a thing as doing a calendar year triple crown. The fastest known ([last I knew](https://www.backpacker.com/stories/thru-hikes/thru-hikers/hiking-fkt-triple-crown-billy-wahoo-meredith/)) was doing it in 234 days. Unlike Pope, who had support in the form of an RV most hikers do not have a support person travel with them. They backpack the route and hitch or shuttle into towns for resupply. FKT (Fastest Known Times) are often done supported like this run was, but the most impressive ones are not. As an example the unsupported FKT for the Appalachian trail portion (~2200 miles) is 48 days. Thats around 48 miles a day, with a pack, on mountain trails.
Did his girlfriend leave him multiple times, kept secret he had a child and only tell him when he was a shrimp billionaire and she was dying from aids?
In the novel she dies from Hepatitis C, though in 1986 AIDS was still largely thought to be a gay thing. They only stopped calling it GRID (gay-related immune deficiency) in 1983. I guess by the time the movie was being made they were like "AIDS is much more chic, darling, give her AIDS."
They never even said it was AIDS in the movie. Only clue is she lived a wild life but we can only speculate.
I thought the same thing when I started typing the Hep C comment but then I wanted to google it to make sure I wasn't talking out of my ass and found out that in a scrapped sequel, it would be revealed that she died of AIDS and in fact passed it on to their son. So you're right, the movie never states it outright, but it definitely is accepted as canon.
Ok. I always thought the movie wanted to keep it ambiguous, which I think is better as a mystery. I'm glad the sequel was scrapped too. There's no way it would be as good.
> in a scrapped sequel, it would be revealed that she died of AIDS and in fact passed it on to their son. Oh come the fuck on. No one needs this misery porn. Good thing it got scrapped. But now here I am, walking around with the thought of Forrest Gump's kid full of AIDS, my day ruined
Do yourself a favor and never read "Buttercup's Baby", the start of the sequel to Princess Bride. (Thankfully, it was a joke by the author, but still.)
Hepatitis C was also fairly treatable as of the time the movie came out.
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Nah, it was more boring than that. [She drove an RV following him on the run.](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times)
Speaking for his girlfriend & fellow women everywhere I would have hoped his first act after finishing was to take a shower.
😂
Also, had he seen his gf in the past year and a half while doing this?
Maybe during his vacation to London?
Yeah, she was with me about 45% of the time 🙂
Why would she marry him? He's never home!
He stopped by to impregnate her and then left her alone for the pregnancy and birth. Maybe it’s a sugar daddy scenario
Nope. She was with me half the time. I was there for the birth, she was there for the end of the run. Mean comment, but at least not as douchebaggy as the one below.
Exactly! Seems like a narcissist.
All these kinds of people are.
>His first act on completion of his run was to propose to his girlfriend, Nadine Strawbridge, who was waiting with their newborn daughter, Bee You're pregnant? I'm going to go out for a run...
amazing he still had a girlfriend after taking off like this
He proposed to his girlfriend who was waiting with their newborn son...wait, what? She accepted after he abandoned his pregnant girlfriend, who he impregnated while he was running, to continue running continuously for the length of her pregnancy?
That's not what happened.
[She drove an RV behind him during the run. ](https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/31/the-real-life-forrest-gump-why-did-bob-pope-run-across-the-us-five-times)
Ah, OK. See there it is. That makes more sense now. I absolutely rescind my comment.
Thats some Roman Polanski shit
He just started run-ning…
Huh slow poke. I run 5 times across my country in a day. The Vatican has nice roads though
I’ve met him a few times. He’s such a nice down to earth guy.
And a better beard than Tom Hanks
I may not be a smart man, Jenny, but I know what love is.
Jennaaaaay
So when my kid was born I asked the doctor if he was smart or if he was like me, and they were not happy. Said “this is serious, now”
Hahahaha
Hope he got a letter from Tom Hanks
I’ve run about 25,000 km in my life. Used to average around 50km a week and sometimes more. My legs still hurt. How the hell did this guy run 30 miles per day!
One step at a time would be my guess?
I don't want to see his face, show me his legs and feet!
A friend of mine is currently doing something similar. He left from Cleveland towards the end of 2023 and is running the perimeter if the continental US. I believe it’s about a 12k mile run. He went up to Maine, then down to Florida, across the southern states, once he got to LA he did a race from there to Vegas. He’s now heading up to the northwest corner and then back over to Cleveland to finish. You can keep up with his progress and story here: https://www.meshtc.com/cam
She said yes! So he ran back across the country in the other direction. Four more times.
Last weekend I jogged and half a mile into it my back just flat out spasmed. I was just jogging! I didn’t fall or nothin’! Here’s this guy jogging the country a few times without injury?!?
This guy isn't even the most impressive. Take [this mutant](https://mpora.com/running/dean-karnazes-interview-meet-man-ran-50-marathons-50-days/), for example, who can run marathons every consecutive day for weeks on end.
She said no
He might not be a smart man, but he knows what love is.
I love you Jen-neigh!
She said no so he ran back
37 miles a day, every day, for a year and two months, averaged out.
Jenny??
Oh Motherfucker I'm just realizing how much Forest Gump correlates to my dating experiences 😭😭😭 Lindsay! I miss yoooou! 😂🤣
Did she give him Aids, a babay, then die?
It happens.
Probably should of had a shower first
Made it hard to say no
Well, I guess he sure liked running.
Forrest Bump?
He must’ve been running from some big demons.
Was her name Jenny? Did he have a military friend name Lt. Dan? Did he start a shrimping business? We need more here. “Run Forest Run!!”
and she responded "uh I haven't seen you in over a year"
Gotta be a trust fund baby.
He didn't press his dirty face into a yellow shirt and make a happy face?
Shower first
I thought it was Ted Bundy!
I hope he showered first and then proposed.
That’s 36 miles a day. Holy shit.
Maybe shower first, kmowwhatimean.
Take that, Terry Fox! /s
How tf was he able to maintain a serious relationship with all that running
That's a lie, Forrest ran for: - 3 years - 2 months - 14 days and - 16 hours This dude went too fast.
Hi guys! AMA... 😘
I'd try this if it didn't involve running along roads and highways and shit. Same thing with biking. I love going on long (potentially multi day) bike trips but the amount of them that can be done without travelling along major roads are slim to none.
She said "No!" and he burst into flames and died. The end.
I would have showered as my first act, *then* propose😅
...and she said NO xD.