Note by KC: It is true that running in marathons has profound effects on every runner. Running a marathon is not about standing at the starting line and competes in that 42 km race. It is about commitment and constant training in order to cross the finishing line unscratched – without any injuries.
According to the training schedule which I am adhering to, I would have run 500km before I step foot at the marathon race if I were to follow the 3-month plan dutifully. The distance of 500km is equivalent to traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Kedah near the Thailand border!
The long hours of endurance training run actually generate tremendous chemical reaction in our bodies due to constant secretion of feel-good endorphin and super-charge adrenaline – good hormones for a lingering euphoria. Obviously, we are stronger in all aspects – physically and mentally. We would have lesser illness too due to stronger resistance in warding off virus attack.
One running friend told me that the duration for sex is also longer, much like endurance running. This could be bad new for the pharmaceutical company that produce Viagra pills. Another running friend has the most unusual discovery that the “brother” is also bigger due to the stimulation of hormones to certain organs of the body. Well, in order to testify both claims, we need more factual findings on those observations.
Below are excerpts from the book How to Run a Marathon
By Tony Benyon and Kevin Macey’s
Your Sex Life
Without a doubt running can alter your sex life drastically. The early days of training reduce you to a mound of aching jelly barely able to crawl unassisted upstairs let alone indulge in any nocturnal naughties. Quite naturally, this can cause distress in the marriage partner, speeding up an impending divorce.
Partners may jump to the conclusion you are tired because you have another lover or they may think you may have lost interest in them because running has turned you gay. After training for some while, many people find all they think about is sex, and running starts to make them hot for action, resulting in them speeding up the homeward half of their training route. Alas, the mind may be sexually rampant but the body isn't and they soon find they are falling asleep during love-making which is a step forward from falling asleep before it.
Don't be concerned; as time passes you will soon begin to feel the benefit from running. Your stamina will increase and so will the sensation of physical well-being. At last you will have the hots but be in top physical condition and so be able to do something about it. Alas, this is also the time when you realise you have no partner; they have long since lost interest and gone off with someone else.
Running Together
The couple who run together stay together as long as they both keep to the same schedule so their fantasies and capabilities coincide. If your partner misses a week's training, then so should you, otherwise you find your stamina is unequal to their fantasies.
Training together does have its problems. For example, running on a hot day in clothes that leave little to the imagination may give you an urge to lose yourselves in the long grass. Try to resist such temptations for the sake of your pulse rate and the laws of the land.
You will find that the experience of training together brings you closer to each other than ever before, not only sexually but mentally. You will be spending more time in each other's company and many more evenings at home. This is because you are both as boring as hell and no one wants to hang out with guys who just prattle on about running every waking moment. So make an effort to get out and about.
Go to parties and meet people but try to avoid the swapping parties, the nude cocktail parties and the 'Hey, let's all throw our car keys into the centre of the room' parties. Otherwise neither of you will have the strength left for training.
Your Social Life
The main effect running has on your social life is to make it vanish altogether. Without realising it, you can become a bore if all you want to do is talk about your P.B. (personal best), jogger's nipple and stabilizers. Even old friends will start to avoid you like the plague.
They will cross you off guest lists because you are always tired in the evening with the result that you are no longer invited out to dinner. No one wants a guest who falls asleep face down in the first course, or lies with his head on the table snoring during the coffee. It somewhat diminishes your reputation as a live wire and raconteur.
Running also leads to deterioration in your appearance, as you no longer get asked out you cease to buy new clothes. Instead, you shamble about wearing a track suit, muttering about health food and sneering at people who smoke.
More serious is the damage that can be done to your career. If you run to work or in the lunch hour no one wants to share an office with someone dripping with sweat and whose steaming feet burn holes into the carpet. Promotion will also elude you because the higher you climb in the business, the more often you are obliged to have long, large lunches and nights out with dignitaries. Falling asleep on them or scowling when they light their cigars are not attributes that will make you popular.
Becoming Thin
Marathon running is much talked about as being the ultimate challenge. For some people this may be true but for many others they only run to be thin, because fat is unhip. Looking thin is looking good, preferably with a suntan. Surplus mounds of white lard begin to vanish soon after taking up
running, not only because exercise burns off unwanted calories but also through the worry caused by your marriage breaking up and your work prospects being wrecked.
Thinness also comes about because of a change in your eating habits. Now that you live on your own you tend to eat less because it really isn't much fun cooking for yourself. Restaurants are out too, as eating in them on your own isn't much fun and no one will eat in them with you.
Initially, you may find that running makes you hungry and so you eat more. But after a while you start to fit in eating around your training. The truth is you don't like returning to an empty home. So you stay out training for longer, which in turn means you have less time for eating. Even those rare couples still living together change their eating habits. They no longer have the huge meals they used to because they are too busy endlessly bonking.
According to the training schedule which I am adhering to, I would have run 500km before I step foot at the marathon race if I were to follow the 3-month plan dutifully. The distance of 500km is equivalent to traveling from Kuala Lumpur to Kedah near the Thailand border!
The long hours of endurance training run actually generate tremendous chemical reaction in our bodies due to constant secretion of feel-good endorphin and super-charge adrenaline – good hormones for a lingering euphoria. Obviously, we are stronger in all aspects – physically and mentally. We would have lesser illness too due to stronger resistance in warding off virus attack.
One running friend told me that the duration for sex is also longer, much like endurance running. This could be bad new for the pharmaceutical company that produce Viagra pills. Another running friend has the most unusual discovery that the “brother” is also bigger due to the stimulation of hormones to certain organs of the body. Well, in order to testify both claims, we need more factual findings on those observations.
Below are excerpts from the book How to Run a Marathon
By Tony Benyon and Kevin Macey’s
Your Sex Life
Without a doubt running can alter your sex life drastically. The early days of training reduce you to a mound of aching jelly barely able to crawl unassisted upstairs let alone indulge in any nocturnal naughties. Quite naturally, this can cause distress in the marriage partner, speeding up an impending divorce.
Partners may jump to the conclusion you are tired because you have another lover or they may think you may have lost interest in them because running has turned you gay. After training for some while, many people find all they think about is sex, and running starts to make them hot for action, resulting in them speeding up the homeward half of their training route. Alas, the mind may be sexually rampant but the body isn't and they soon find they are falling asleep during love-making which is a step forward from falling asleep before it.
Don't be concerned; as time passes you will soon begin to feel the benefit from running. Your stamina will increase and so will the sensation of physical well-being. At last you will have the hots but be in top physical condition and so be able to do something about it. Alas, this is also the time when you realise you have no partner; they have long since lost interest and gone off with someone else.
Running Together
The couple who run together stay together as long as they both keep to the same schedule so their fantasies and capabilities coincide. If your partner misses a week's training, then so should you, otherwise you find your stamina is unequal to their fantasies.
Training together does have its problems. For example, running on a hot day in clothes that leave little to the imagination may give you an urge to lose yourselves in the long grass. Try to resist such temptations for the sake of your pulse rate and the laws of the land.
You will find that the experience of training together brings you closer to each other than ever before, not only sexually but mentally. You will be spending more time in each other's company and many more evenings at home. This is because you are both as boring as hell and no one wants to hang out with guys who just prattle on about running every waking moment. So make an effort to get out and about.
Go to parties and meet people but try to avoid the swapping parties, the nude cocktail parties and the 'Hey, let's all throw our car keys into the centre of the room' parties. Otherwise neither of you will have the strength left for training.
Your Social Life
The main effect running has on your social life is to make it vanish altogether. Without realising it, you can become a bore if all you want to do is talk about your P.B. (personal best), jogger's nipple and stabilizers. Even old friends will start to avoid you like the plague.
They will cross you off guest lists because you are always tired in the evening with the result that you are no longer invited out to dinner. No one wants a guest who falls asleep face down in the first course, or lies with his head on the table snoring during the coffee. It somewhat diminishes your reputation as a live wire and raconteur.
Running also leads to deterioration in your appearance, as you no longer get asked out you cease to buy new clothes. Instead, you shamble about wearing a track suit, muttering about health food and sneering at people who smoke.
More serious is the damage that can be done to your career. If you run to work or in the lunch hour no one wants to share an office with someone dripping with sweat and whose steaming feet burn holes into the carpet. Promotion will also elude you because the higher you climb in the business, the more often you are obliged to have long, large lunches and nights out with dignitaries. Falling asleep on them or scowling when they light their cigars are not attributes that will make you popular.
Becoming Thin
Marathon running is much talked about as being the ultimate challenge. For some people this may be true but for many others they only run to be thin, because fat is unhip. Looking thin is looking good, preferably with a suntan. Surplus mounds of white lard begin to vanish soon after taking up
running, not only because exercise burns off unwanted calories but also through the worry caused by your marriage breaking up and your work prospects being wrecked.Thinness also comes about because of a change in your eating habits. Now that you live on your own you tend to eat less because it really isn't much fun cooking for yourself. Restaurants are out too, as eating in them on your own isn't much fun and no one will eat in them with you.
Initially, you may find that running makes you hungry and so you eat more. But after a while you start to fit in eating around your training. The truth is you don't like returning to an empty home. So you stay out training for longer, which in turn means you have less time for eating. Even those rare couples still living together change their eating habits. They no longer have the huge meals they used to because they are too busy endlessly bonking.
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3 comments:
Ha! Ha! Ha! There are some truth in the observation.
This is a great site. Have you ever heard of a marathon runner names Simon Woodstock Harriers? He is a great runner from the U.K. and is quite dedicated. I will pass this blog link along to him.
Thanks for the laughs.
Dear Sir, Thanks for the compliments and the encouraging feedback. I thinks he maintains a running club in UK. Internet line speed is slow; will log on again later.
Regards, KC :-))
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