Streaker
Streak Runner is a term used for runners who run every day.
According to the rules of the American Streak Running Association (USRSA, United States Running Streak Association), which are recognized worldwide, the following conditions apply to a streak, i.e. a series of daily runs:
Every day will
- between midnight and midnight
- at least one continuous mile (corresponds to approximately 1.6 km)
- without technical aids (except for prostheses ) or the support of strangers
ran and the series is documented accordingly.
Streak running comes from America . The USRSA as the American association of streakers, which was founded in 2000 and lists only US citizens , currently leads Robert C. Ray as the first in the ranking, who started his streak on April 4, 1967 and has not stayed a single day since then.
The longest known streak was run by Ron Hill of Accrington , England, which ran from December 21, 1964 to January 29, 2017, a total of 52 years and 39 days. Hill trained twice a day on weekdays until March 6, 1991, and has been running one session a day ever since. Ron Hill has competed in the Olympics three times and has a personal best of 2:09:28 in a marathon . He had to end the streak due to health problems.
Daily running at high intensity can lead to overtraining with negative consequences such as exhaustion , injury or immunosuppression and must therefore be done carefully. The Streaker alternates between hard and lighter units as the basis of every training session , without completely giving up a daily training session. Athletes who run daily for weeks or months, then have to or want to interrupt in order to start a daily series of runs again at a later point in time, also refer to themselves as streakers or daily runners.
Measured by the large number of occasionally or seriously training runners, streakers are a minority who are aware of the peculiarities and the risk of their form of training and who (probably because of this) exchange information about their results in discussion forums and rankings.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ First day of rest after 52 years and 39 days www.runnersworld.de Retrieved on February 3, 2017.