A very long time ago I had several conversations with fellow runners about how crazy the training scenes in Rocky and Rocky II and Rocky III were. They were obviously spliced together just to have images to go with the music. Philadelphians knew none of it made any sense.
As the Rocky movies became increasingly worse (Rocky XII: Cold-Blooded will star descendants of Rocky's original turtles, Cuff and Link in a slo-mo crawl across their cage to the music of Abba), we all calmed down and forgot all about the brouhaha over the editing.
Until someone more obsessive/compulsive than me decided to document the run to find out how far it had to be to actually follow the editing. Turns out that was a 30.6 mile long run.
So my question is, "How many of you ever took a run longer than Rocky's "training run" in Rocky II"?
I actually did it only once on a run from the Nation's First Capital to the High Water Mark of the Confederacy in 1977.* That was a 35 mile training run including a marathon in just a tad over 3:00. Yeah, times have changed...
*100% true, documented fact. References available upon request.
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