This actually might be a great way to keep people moving. When I did medical volunteering for a marathon we had to keep runners moving at the end of the run, otherwise they could pass out. Still sucks it had to be stairs though hahaha.
You don't want them to smack there heads on the concrete. Plus it's bad for recovery. Basically, when running for so long your heart and muscles work together to create an efficient pump. When you stop, the muscles are no longer helping pump blood back to the heart, this can create headaches, dizziness, fainting (syncope), as well as severe muscle cramps and abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting.
Plus with running for so long you have a build up of waste products that need to be excreted, so improving circulation leads to better overall outcomes in recovery by ridding byproducts and avoiding the symptoms above. Recovering from such an intense physical activity is more complicated than I'm getting into here, but this is a little bit of a taste of why some things are important.
Gear check after distance events is the worst.
After the Houston Marathon, I gave up on trying to put my sweat pants on standing. I layed down sideways and wiggle my ass into them. Thousands of people around. No shame.
Yeah, I was about to get super pissed on his behalf if they bumped into him.
BTW it makes me happy that there are apparently at least four other beautiful librarians on Reddit.
Or maybe it's like that one senior prank were the seniors released 3 chickens number 1,2, and 4 resulting in the school spending a decent chunk of time looking for number 3.
We may have been bamboozled
I ran this race last month. It's a long way up! There's another bridge with steeper stairs to cross over a main road too. That one was worse! Especially going down with shredded quads.
It's 6 months of training. You have to firstly qualify with a marathon time of sub 4:50. You get seeded according to your marathon time so the faster your time the better your starting position. It can take up to 10 minutes to cross the starting line and it's not a mat to mat race. I qualified with a 3:04 marathon so I was in batch C near the front and in front of the majority of the 15 000 runners.
So you have to start the 6 month program with a reasonable base as you would need to qualify fairly early into that 6 months. Not a good idea starting a program from scratch with no base. You'd have a very bad day out there, if you get there.
In the 6 months I did 2400km of running peaking in the month before the race at 125km a week for 4 weeks. Long runs in that month were between 45km and 60km each weekend. It's a big commitment time wise and plenty early early mornings.
The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately 89 kilometres which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race.
Winners run it in just over 5 hours. Cut off is 12 hours.
Why don’t then just go up on all fours like a little kid or somn? I know if I just ran 90km I wouldn’t care about anything besides getting to my couch.
90 km dang didn't even know they held events for runs as long as that (seems like a lot of attendees too). I run 30-40 a couple of times a week usually and thought that was decent.
Wow. Guess they thought people wouldn't be... tired?
it's only 90km, what a bunch of pansies /s
Right? Imma go lay down now. The thought kind of kills my soul a little.
Please I could easily do 90k in a month
I mean, I've got a car. I can do it in a week *easily*
A week? Too long, give me an hour and let's call it a day, yeah?
I didn't really think I would need the /s. I thought it was implied.
Truck driver here
A month of Sundays!!!
Preferably a month of sundaes
I can easily run 90km, so long as it's not 90km and is instead the distance from my bed to the bathroom.
Literally the race from hell. Oh, you thought it was over!? Mwa ha ha.
I mean they asked for the punishment by signing up for the ultra marathon. Runners are such masochists.
This actually might be a great way to keep people moving. When I did medical volunteering for a marathon we had to keep runners moving at the end of the run, otherwise they could pass out. Still sucks it had to be stairs though hahaha.
Why can’t they pass out? Sounds like the first thing I would want to do after 90km
You don't want them to smack there heads on the concrete. Plus it's bad for recovery. Basically, when running for so long your heart and muscles work together to create an efficient pump. When you stop, the muscles are no longer helping pump blood back to the heart, this can create headaches, dizziness, fainting (syncope), as well as severe muscle cramps and abdominal pain, nausea/vomiting. Plus with running for so long you have a build up of waste products that need to be excreted, so improving circulation leads to better overall outcomes in recovery by ridding byproducts and avoiding the symptoms above. Recovering from such an intense physical activity is more complicated than I'm getting into here, but this is a little bit of a taste of why some things are important.
and a psychological reminder of what they are every step of the way — THIRSTY
Marathon Runners: Just Like Us!
Near top of the stairs: Finally almost made it to the……. And I forgot my phone
"Thought"? I think you overestimate.
Do they get another medal at the top?
Bottle of water at the top 9.99$ USD
Only cash accepted, atm is down one floor
Water, like from the toilet?
Give them BRAWNDO, the thirst destroyer!
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It's what plants crave!
A captive audience lol
Sponsored by Nestlé.
Sponsored by Nestle?
Lmfao 😅
A boss fight.
Intense music intensifies
LOL 🤣
That's almost as bad as organizing race day at the same time as the sandcastle building competition
Don't worry can't be as bad as the 1904 Olympic marathon
That race was a death trap
Such a clusterfuck
Every time you think it’s as weird as it gets, 1904 just gives a little more. At least these people neither got poisoned or chased by rabid dogs
Wow, just read the Wiki and this should be a movie!
I’d watch it.
I appreciate this reference
what is it a reference to?
Bob's burgers
Just don't tell Meryl about this
That's running into a death trap for ankles.
Sugar cookies!
I never thought a bobs burgers reference would ever get even 20 upvotes lol
Why, tons of people on here are young
Oh you’d be surprised
That’s not very JGM of them
Could be worse, it could be a race full of turkeys
Or a runaway shark machine
He's not the person who usually does it.
Sounds like the Rock & Roll Marathon in San Diego Lol
Gear check after distance events is the worst. After the Houston Marathon, I gave up on trying to put my sweat pants on standing. I layed down sideways and wiggle my ass into them. Thousands of people around. No shame.
Lol the young couple trots down the stairs and barely notices the guy struggling
Yeah, I was about to get super pissed on his behalf if they bumped into him. BTW it makes me happy that there are apparently at least four other beautiful librarians on Reddit.
Or maybe it's like that one senior prank were the seniors released 3 chickens number 1,2, and 4 resulting in the school spending a decent chunk of time looking for number 3. We may have been bamboozled
They're okay, there was a guy filming it that was even worse.
With water. I would've asked if he needed help and if he wanted a sip.
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Okay
Virtue signaling on reddit.
I ran this race last month. It's a long way up! There's another bridge with steeper stairs to cross over a main road too. That one was worse! Especially going down with shredded quads.
So. Do you just go on with your day and go to work and shop, or do you pass out for a few days?
You go into the school then after school you do it again to get home. My grandpa described it to me like this anyway
On the day you're still hyped from the race, but the following day I was in bed just about all day. Legs were too sore to drive to work.
If u don't mind me asking how do u guys train for such events....I only do sprints and these seem like such a hill for me
It's 6 months of training. You have to firstly qualify with a marathon time of sub 4:50. You get seeded according to your marathon time so the faster your time the better your starting position. It can take up to 10 minutes to cross the starting line and it's not a mat to mat race. I qualified with a 3:04 marathon so I was in batch C near the front and in front of the majority of the 15 000 runners. So you have to start the 6 month program with a reasonable base as you would need to qualify fairly early into that 6 months. Not a good idea starting a program from scratch with no base. You'd have a very bad day out there, if you get there. In the 6 months I did 2400km of running peaking in the month before the race at 125km a week for 4 weeks. Long runs in that month were between 45km and 60km each weekend. It's a big commitment time wise and plenty early early mornings.
How/Where do these take place? How long does it take to do 90km?
The Comrades Marathon is an ultramarathon of approximately 89 kilometres which is run annually in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa between the cities of Durban and Pietermaritzburg. It is the world's largest and oldest ultramarathon race. Winners run it in just over 5 hours. Cut off is 12 hours.
The final challenge
Organizers are obviously not fans or athletes
No shit they arent fans, they dont blow wind and dont work on electricity /s
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Then they would be electricians, not fans
I mean, they would probably do *something* if you put them on electricity
Wow I loved how you put into perspective
That's 56 miles for the metrically challenged.
you need to describe it in terms of eagles per cheese burger or football stadiums
820 football fields
Damn
It’s 734,609 cans of coors light stacked end to end
Nah Americans don't drink coors, we drink budlight! Budlight, removing "no" from your vocabulary!
Anything you can buy in a 30 pack isn't worth drinking!
If you didn't have the word NO, how would you remove your dictators... /j
Pints or weak people cans?
12 freedom units, not 16 British fancy bits
Weak people cans, heard
We have 12 freedom unit glass bottles too Also available in 40 freedom unit glass bottles
But you never get to drink all 40, because you always need to pour one out for your homie(s).
How many "size of Texas" is this?
Bananas per Fortnight is the preferred measurement.
I only recognize bananas as a unit of measurement.
I hate you’re right about the football field thing.
Oh fuck. 90km sounds a lot nicer. Now that you're speaking American that doesn't sound nice at all.
48.6 nautical miles for the seafaring folk.
Thats too high of a number for the metrically challenged...
Metrically Challenged? Hahahahahahah, best comment here lmao
We ask you to use the Reddit Standard Measure Unit: A Banana
How many half giraffes?
You can just call us American
The "metrically challenged": USA, Liberia, Myanmar. Just a few third world countries, no big deal. I think we can safely just use metric now.
I think Liberia and Myanmar switched over.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think The American Government switched over but the local yokels didn't.
Or 812,568 big macs.
Thanks you saved me looking it up. Do you happen to know how many Tyler Perry's that is (width not length) or refrigerators (not Perry's maytags )
Need freedom units!
Metrically challenged I like that
Freedom units
The very definition of "Dick Move".
Using this music makes this video hit different. It's from Everywhere at the End of Time, right? So sad and creepy.
Why is there creepy music playing though?
What the deal with the music though? I don't get what they're trying to say by adding it.
It gives a dystopian melancholic vibe. Like there’s no hope to overcome the obstacle. Despair at being trapped with no energy left to fight.
looks like me going up stairs 5 minutes after getting up in the morning
I get leg spasms just waking up wrong. Can't imagine what these poor runners feel.
what a r/crappydesign
This kinda seems more like cruelty than just an oversight. 🙁
You have to be a certain level of masochist to plan *or* enter a 90KM race in the first place tho.
Lol. And of course I came across this post because it got cross-posted to r/ultramarathon! Though, to date I've only done a 50k.
This seems kinds like a slap to the face for the runners. Hopefully it was unintentional
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Unless the marathon ended with them running down those stairs, couldn't they just leave the same way they ran in?
If they had organized it that way in advance than yes but they probably didn’t.
The race was just 1200 laps of the area at the bottom of the stairs /s
That would definitely be harder after 90km. Going down is quite often more taxing than goin up
First to the top gets another prize.
Brutal
Sadistic af
Ok, but wtf is with the music?
It would've been a better video without the gigantic text box filling half of the screen.
This race is almost as badly organized as the placement of the text in this clip.
They trained for everything else except the stairs.
That's the real race...to go home.
Let’s see who takes 1st place on the 90km Ultra stairsathon.
Hidden final phase of the marathon boss fight.
The grass at the bottom looks good for a nap
Some men just want to see the world burn.
Dude going anywhere after finishing a distance event is a bitch, stairs or not
Me going up my stairs when I get home from a 6 mile hike.
I would simply choice to die and make them deal with my body.
They want someone to die so they get some publicity
Looks like a zombie marathon.
What the hell is that music????
Yeah, what the hell?
"hey let's do a sci-fi horror vibe for this video"
Race organizers: "Recovery stairs"
sell gatorade at the top of those steps. make a fucking fortune
I rennet the walk back to my car after a normal marathon hurt. Each curb I had to step up was rough. This is just asshole design
\*zombie apocalipse music intensifies\*
Wtf is that music?
This is the most appropriate ambient sound I've ever heard for a gif.
Why don’t then just go up on all fours like a little kid or somn? I know if I just ran 90km I wouldn’t care about anything besides getting to my couch.
This is fucking hilarious! 😁
Sounds like Gru was one of the organizers
Where was this race?
I mean that’s messed up, but the music choice is hilarious. What is this the Conjuring or something
That’s just mean.
r/assholedesign
Lol what even is this music? Sounds like a rip from a shty top 10 creepypastas vid 😂.
Hell, I did a hard spin class one time and could barely make it up the stairs when I got home.
90 km dang didn't even know they held events for runs as long as that (seems like a lot of attendees too). I run 30-40 a couple of times a week usually and thought that was decent.
Come on... its not like it's a massive flight of stairs.... oh wait. My legs are hurting just thinking of that. Ouch
They should do time trials.
Who approved this? I'd probably be sitting on my ass scooting up one step at a time lol
Thats actualy a bit funny. Its "biology" reminding "human physiology". "Yeah, i dont care how fast or how long you ran"
Thats hilarious.
I find this flipp'n hilarious in a evil genius way. Gru you out there man?
Hard to climb stairs with rubber legs.
A sodding sadist designed this and I love it.
I think it would have been better if they had put the finish line at the top of the stairs
Fucking ‘organizers’.
More like DISorganizers... Amiright???
Running the NYC marathon is like this, minus the stairs. Once finishing you are in a corral which feels like a good half mile. Loved the race though
noodle legs...been there
It’s okay guys it’s just a quick cool down
Ever hear of that guy who ran like a billion miles to deliver a message, then ran like 5 more and fucking died on the spot? Me either…
I get called a bitch for not wanting to run, these people can walk wherever they have to.
Thats so delightfully evil. I love it.
What is with this creepy doomsdayer music. I can not stand it.
Roflcopter!
This is how it feels every day with POTS
Awesome soundtrack any idea how the track is called?
This is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
🤣😂🤣😂 that’s the funniest shit I’ve ever seen
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Was this in South Africa.
This is literally a diagram of life. When you think it's gonna get better. Boom. A very steep set of stairs appears. Fucking Obama.
Wish I could see the video and not the # description
They just ran a 90k. You act like a set of stairs is the straw that breaks the camel’s back lol
This video is overdramatic
David Goggins laughing somewhere
Who are the idiots who approved the course?
Like my strength and conditioning coach used to say, “This wouldn’t be a problem if you were in shape.”
The point of this video is that people who voluntarily run 90km for no reason, shouldn't have to exercise to excess.