[CQ-Contest] Classic - Doing what was intended?

[Joe]

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.

Joe WB9SBD

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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 at 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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