• Keld [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    (do people really lose their toenails after a marathon? omg gross)

    Yes, also poop themselves, pee themselves, throw up, bleed from their nipples, chafe so bad they get scaring, get six hundred kinds of tendinopathy, etc. Man was not meant to marathon, and we do it anyway because fuck nature that punk.

    You lose the toenail because you get a hematoma (A localised blood collection outside the blood vessels) under your toenail that coagulates and pushes the nail until it becomes detached.

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          People run it with handicaps (Not as in disabilities, although people also do that, but with like self imposed challenges) He is truly getting dabbed on

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        He actually ran a 490 km round trip from Athens to Sparta to Athens to first to request aid from the Spartans then ran 42km from Athens to Marathon to fight a battle there and then another 42 back to athens before dying as the legend goes

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      Man was not meant to marathon, and we do it anyway because fuck nature that punk.

      Isn’t the marathon pretty in-line with our persistence hunting heritage? Do experienced marathoners still deal with those or do they mainly impact beginners?

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        Being an experienced marathon runner is a red flag marker for all kinds of tendon damages, all kinds of muscle damage, some kinds of organ damage. During examination if someone tells you they run marathons you go directly to checking for damages like it’s a choose your own adventure novel.

        It’s an incredibly intensive and repetitive (In terms of impact and muscle activity) activity with a lot of friction involved and that’s a bad combo for basically all parts of your body.

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        Isn’t the marathon pretty in-line with our persistence hunting heritage?

        chasing down an animal for like a mile or two is different than chasing it down for 26