Doing a 48 hour test is just fine health-wise.
As someone that did as little as 5 years ago Adventure races. A 48 hour
contest is nothing physically.
These adventure races. Are incredibly grueling! 48 Hours? BAH! Try 7 to
10 DAYS! NON STOP, No sleep, at all, and not just sitting in a chair.
You are running, biking, paddling a canoe, swimming etc...
The all famed "IRONMAN" that gets all the publicity is to Adventure
racers, a simple no stress weekend "training event"
Just like CQWW a 7 to 10 day Adventure race has no time outs. You stop
racing and all it is doing is allowing your competitor a chance to catch
up to you, or make their lead even greater if they are ahead of you,
cool video short can be seen here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h5JOm7T2FI
My problem with a 48 hour contest is lack of stimulation now. As the
owner of a Crappy station, it's hard to keep the rate up. and after 10
or 12 hours if it gets slow and little stimulation, I get then sleepy
and hard to keep concentrating. If the rate stays up to at least, a qso
every couple of minutes then I'm OK. but if it slows down to like one
every 5 min or so, I'm Doomed.
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On 11/28/2013 7:11 PM, Martin , LU5DX wrote:
48-hour contesting is indeed healthy.
It forces you to train your body as hell if you plan to succeed.
You gotta eat right. You cannot drink alcohol (some times hard to achieve,
but well...)
Being comfortable is not healthy.
73.
Martin, LU5DX
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 8:18 PM, W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com> wrote:
Can we really expect an aging group of contesters to continue to do 48
hour contests?
Operating 46 of 48 is less than healthy. Why should we continue to push
people to do what is not healthy? Pro sports are taking measures never
seen before to protect their players.
Mike W0MU
On 11/28/2013 12:16 PM, Edward Sawyer wrote:
After seeing literally more than a dozen well known contesters in each
mode
"opt down" for the 24 hours of Classic and others commenting they may try
it
next year, I have to ask - is it doing what was intended? Seems to be a
nice choice for those who feel inclined at the moment but taking 40+ hour
contesters down to 24 hours is not "helping contesting" necessarily,
folks.
Maybe there are lots of people "opting up" to 24 hours who used to do 10
or
15 hours, I don't know. But it does not seem to be "achieving
expectations"
collectively, from where I sit. Maybe the positive results are just not
obvious.
73
Ed N1UR
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