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How to hack a marathon

lifehacker.com — I'm going to give you a brief day-by-day rundown (pun intended!) of my marathon experience, highlighting where I went right and where I went wrong, to give you an idea of what tack you might want to take the weekend of your race.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 25, 2006

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  • inactive, on 10/24/2007, -4/+42How to misuse the term hack
  • chriskzoo, on 10/24/2007, -0/+25How to hack work:

    Get up at 8am
    Take shower
    Get in car, get to work at 9am
    Leave at 5pm

    HACK!
  • wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Not really a hack, because (as far as I know, and I've done 15) there are no hacks. You either do with work in training, or you fail.

    The author (Adam Pash) finished in 4:38, a respectable time, and about what I did my first marathon in.

    Here is one little know marathon hack. Average finishing time for women is about 4:30, for men it is 4:00. Run at about a 4:30 pace and you will be surrounded by women, and you'll have lots of time to talk, and lots to talk about (training, the course, et al). Now have at it.
  • pensivewombat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A fried of mine hacked a marathon in high school. He wore a rediculous yellow tracksuit from the 70s with short shorts, and stuffed tennis balls in his jock strap. Then ran off the track so to beat everyone. He crossed the finish line a mile ahead of second place, while chain smoking marlboro reds.

    The photo of that made the front page of the local paper.

    ps- don't worry, he just wanted a hilarious photo out of this, credit was given to the real winner and everyone involved has a sense of humor about it.
  • nandabanaotakun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The title is misleading. There are no open-sourced vintage mac fps games in the article.
  • DrGamez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This honestly is what I was hoping for :(
  • turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3impact101
  • SPARTACVS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I know how to hack Marathon, just not A marathon.
  • norcim, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2Using a marathon to meet women. Brilliant.
  • PDelahanty, on 10/24/2007, -0/+2I just "hacked" this article by marking it "Inaccurate" due to the entirely misleading title.
  • LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Everyone knows how to do this, you just type "jackpot" during the game to get all weapons.
  • DDoSAttack, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7'Hack does not mean "do".'

    Actually it does... more or less.

    I believe in the context of the article (if you would have bothered to read it) "hack" would mean - 'To cope with successfully; manage'
  • FishyJoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, I thought this would be about banditing the race and being able to somehow hack the champion chip.
  • davidwho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/hack
    now you know, and knowing is half the battle

    ... haha as if anyone that doesn't already know the meaning would actually click it :(
  • iamexcite, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1and for 30 lives:
    up up down down left right left right b a start
  • chaimpot0k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0It is ironic to me that this lifehacker was dugg. And very funny. I'm sure one of you will know what I'm talking about
  • jcalaiaro, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Hack does not mean "do".

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