什么是超級馬拉松

今天的這段對話，在討論超級馬拉松，
 
很多人喜歡極限運動，你知道超級馬拉松是什么嗎
 
來聽今天的講解:
 
A: Well actually speaking of extreme sports, we're talking about extreme sports, have you heard about ultra marathon?
 
說到極限運動，我們之前談過了極限運動，你聽說過超級馬拉松嗎？
 
B: I'm reading a book right now that's about a tribe of ultra runners in Mexico and I think it's gonna come on to the subject of ultra marathons.
 
我現(xiàn)在看的一本書里介紹了墨西哥的一個超級跑者的部落，我想書里馬上就要談到超級馬拉松這個話題了。
 
A: Yeah, I mean what has the book talked about?
 
對，那本書里寫了些什么？
 
B: The book talks about this very old tribe who can run for days.
 
書里介紹了一個非常古老的部落，這個部落的人可以連續(xù)跑好幾天。
 
A: Days?
 
幾天？
 
B: Like days, yeah, and some of the members of this tribe are already in their eighties and nineties and they scale mountains and they have a very frugal diet. They run barefoot.
 
對，一些部落成員已經(jīng)八九十歲的高齡了，不過他們依然可以攀登高山，而且他們的飲食很節(jié)儉。他們是赤腳跑步的。
 
A: Barefoot?
 
赤腳？
 
B: They run barefoot.
 
他們赤腳跑步。
 
A: In the desert, on rocks?
 
在沙漠里跑步還是在巖石上？
 
B: In the desert yeah, yeah.
 
在沙漠里。
 
A: Wow.
 
哇。
 
B: And they are bought, like they run from, well from they don't, as soon as they learn to walk they're running and they run their whole lives and they run like a hundred miles is just like a walk in the park to them. They just...
 
他們從……他們剛學會走路就開始跑步了，而且他們一生都在堅持跑步，跑100英里對他們來說就像在公園里散步一樣。他們……
 
A: That's insane.
 
那太瘋狂了。
 
B: At speed, at speed, at very high speeds.
 
而且他們跑步的速度非常快。
 
A: I mean do they have some secret, some traditional secret?
 
他們有秘密嗎，傳統(tǒng)秘密？
 
B: Well, yeah, they do, they're a very mystical tribe and they're not that well known. This, the book is written by a journalist who investigates and he records his story of how he gets to meet, just even finding them and meeting them is a huge ordeal in itself.
 
的確有，他們是一個非常神秘的部落，并不為人所熟知。這本書是一名記者寫的，他對那個部落進行了調(diào)查，他記錄了他去見部落成員的故事，找到那些人、和他們見面這件事本身就很艱難。
 
A: Because I mean physiologically it sounds like that's impossible. Like the human body can only run so far because it needs water, it needs food, it needs rest.
 
從生理學上講，這聽起來根本不可能。人只能奔跑一定的距離，因為身體需要水、食物，還需要休息。
 
B: Well, I don't know. I think part of the philosophy of the book is that we're limited by our belief in that and that in fact this tribe don't have that belief, therefore they don't have those limits. They kinda surpassed those limits simply by they just do it. Nobody told them they couldn't so they...
 
我也不清楚。我認為這本書的哲理在于，我們被自己的信仰所束縛了，而這個部落沒有信仰，所以他們沒有被限制。他們超越了極限是因為他們根本就沒有限制。沒有人跟他們說他們做不到，所以……
 
A: They just do it.
 
他們就去做了。
 
B: Nobody told them they needed a pair of, you know, hundred dollar shoes in order to run. They just run, it's like it's a natural human thing and it's like an atavistic thing.
 
沒有人跟他們說跑步需要一雙幾百美元的鞋。他們只是在奔跑，就像人類的自然行為，就像返祖行為一樣。
 
A: Wow.
 
哇。
 
B: You know humans, we can run down gazelle, we can run faster than hor..., I mean we can run further than horses and these creatures, creatures that we think have a running ability.
 
你知道，我們?nèi)祟惻懿降乃俣瓤梢猿^羚羊，奔跑的距離也可以比馬還遠，這些生物是我們認為擁有奔跑能力的動物。
 
A: Are you sure about that?
 
你確定嗎？
 
B: Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
 
當然確定了。
 
A: Really?
 
真的嗎？
 
B: Yeah.
 
對。
 
A: I've never, I've never heard that before that...
 
我以前從沒聽過這種說法……
 
B: That's why, you know people who, it's quite dangerous to run with a dog for example. People who run and take the dogs because dogs can't run as far as humans.
 
這就是帶著狗狗一起跑步很危險的原因。那些帶著狗狗一起跑步的人很危險，因為狗沒有人跑得快。
 
A: Really?
 
真的嗎？
 
B: Yeah. And dogs can't sweat. Humans can run and run and run for days, that's how they, that's how they killed prey when we were in the cave.
 
對。狗狗不會流汗。而人類可以跑好幾天，這就是我們?nèi)祟愡€住在山洞里時捕殺獵物的方法。
 
A: Before we gave up?
 
在我們放棄之前？
 
B: No, you can outrun an antelope because an antelope can only have short sharp bursts of speed.
 
不是，你可以跑得比羚羊還快，因為羚羊爆發(fā)性的速度持續(xù)時間很快。
 
A: Ah.
 
啊。
 
B: But a pack of humans can run down any animal on the planet.
 
一些人可以跑贏地球上的任何動物。
 
A: That's good to know. If I ever need to kill an antelope...
 
我很高興知道這點。如果我要殺死一只羚羊……
 
B: Well yeah obviously you can't just, you know, stick your shoes on and set off and...
 
顯然你不能，穿好鞋子，出發(fā)……
 
A: Wow, good stuff though. So, but would you like to try it some day, try one of these ultra marathons?
 
哇，不過也挺好的。你想嘗試一下超級馬拉松嗎？
 
B: I think it's good to have a goal but I like training for these kind of things and ultra marathon, I just mentally, I don't know I have that ability to run for that far and that long. I'd like to have, yeah, I'd like to try and develop that stamina.
 
我認為有目標是件好事，我喜歡超級馬拉松這種訓練，從心理上說，我不知道我有沒有能力跑那么遠的距離、那么長的時間。我想試試，我想改善一下耐力。
 
A: Yeah. I think we, maybe in my younger days but...
 
對。也許在我年輕時可以，不過……
 
B: No, I don't think you do.
 
我不這么覺得。
 
A: Or in another life but...
 
或者下輩子……
 
B: I think.
 
我想……。
 
A: I'm gonna pass.
 
我放棄了。
 
B: I think that running actually requires a lot of maturity so the older you get the better you are at running because you give up on stuff when you are young and your brain's quite, you know, you can't concentrate. You learn concentration and discipline and they come with age and maturity so I think we get better runners as we get older. That's what I'm banking on anyway.
 
我認為這種跑步需要成熟度，年紀越大，在跑步時的發(fā)揮會越好，因為你年輕的時候可能會因為無法集中注意力而放棄。在學會專心和紀律以后，年齡和成熟度慢慢增加，我認為我們年齡稍大一些以后會成為更好的跑步者。我是這么希望的。
 
A: Yeah, me too. I got that on my side.
 
我也是。我這樣認為。