Sentences with phrase «wall at mile»

I have a marathon in a few weeks (first marathon as a «no meat athlete») and my last marathon (my first) I totally hit the wall at mile 22.

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Someday, a driver will crash into a wall at 200 miles per hour.

so lapping the 38 - mile course millimetres from walls and hedges at outrageous speeds should be all in a days work for him.

About three miles east I stop again at a small deserted beach and walk along under walls marked «private» that ring the water around the sweeping half - mile curve that leads to the rocky point where I am headed.

After the Olympics everybody will want to try the Tyrol's newest ski area at Lizum, 18 miles from Innsbruck, built in a dramatic rock - walled cul - de-sac for the women's downhill and the men's and women's slaloms.

She took the gel at mile 22 and looked for a wall to appear.

I am getting an inside look at one of the world's most grueling events: the 19th annual Race Across America, or RAAM, a 2,975 - mile, balls - to - the - wall bike competition from Portland to Pensacola, Fla..

The 90,000 - square - foot facility at 11351 W. 159th St. offers a climbing wall, a fitness center with 130 pieces of cardiovascular and free weight equipment, a one - tenth - mile indoor track, golf cages and activities such as indoor soccer, basketball, volleyball, gymnastics, and aerobics.

2 In 500 B.C. Athens created the first municipal dump, requiring trash to be disposed of at least a mile from city walls.

A pair of autonomous robots developed by Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute will soon be driving through miles of pipes at the U.S. Department of Energy's former uranium enrichment plant in Piketon, Ohio, to identify uranium deposits on pipe walls.

At Abu Simbel, the famed Egyptian rock - cut temple 300 miles south of Aswân whose entrance is adorned with four colossal statues of Ramses II, a wall relief shows the pharaoh making an offering to Amun, who appears as a man.

A group of four MPhys physics students have worked out that a racing car travelling at over 150 miles per hour would be able to stick to the walls of a completely circular speedway track with 90 degree banks.

«The wind was blowing 30 miles [48 kilometers] per hour this morning,» says Arnold Boezaart, vice president for grant programs at the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, whose four - story arts complex boasts the first commercial SWIFT attached to a mast jutting from its outside wall.

We now stand at about 20,000 known pieces of space debris bigger than an apple — that is, an apple capable of ripping through a steel wall at 17,000 miles per hour — and there's bound to be more.

Dubbed the Ferrigno Rift for the glacier that fills it, the chasm's steep walls plunge nearly a mile down (1.5 kilometers) at its deepest.

Most impressively — at least according to this runner — is Auburn University's 1/3 of a mile «corkscrew» indoor track that weaves through the entire gym, including around the enormous rock climbing wall.

If you don't, you'll likely «hit the wall» at the common 20 - 22 mile mark of the race.

So here it is: If you are an endurance athlete on an old - fashioned high - carb diet, sometimes still recommended by fitness magazines that endorse carbo - loading, you can expect to hit the wall at around the 20 mile mark of a 26 - mile marathon.

Whenever I run the Twin Cities Marathon I love the «Wall» we all run under at mile 20.

Boy did I hit the wall at 40 miles big time!

For example, if you go for a long run, you can follow the simple rule of elevating your legs above your head by propping yourself up against a wall — and keep those legs elevated for at least 1 minute for every mile you've run.

For example, the reason that just about everyone hits the wall during a marathon is because just about everyone runs at a far higher consumption of energy than their fat - burning engine can produce — which is why they must rely on relatively small sugar stores for fuel, which is why they run out of energy at mile 17, and start losing power at mile 10.

This game is complicated but if you ever tried to slide sideways thru a turn at 50 - 60 miles per hour in real life and tried to make it thru the turn without hitting a wall, you know that it really is a hard task.

People came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.

Sac Running Tours — a local group that hosts history and sightseeing excursions, as well as outings to visit Wide Open Walls murals — is starting a 3 - mile, two - hour walking tour that will feature stops at Lady Bird sites like Club Raven, Pasty Shack, the McKinley Park rose garden and the blue manse in the Fab 40s that served as the title character's dream home.

In Sharknado 3, most of the Eastern Seaboard - from D.C. to Orlando - is in danger from a massive Sharknado wall that can only be stopped by a «tower of flame 60 miles high burning at temperatures hotter than the sun.»

«I figuratively hit the wall at about 24 miles, and my tank was running dry,» he explained.

2006 Chevy 3/4 ton cargo van, divider wall, full shelving units, everything works, new radiator, water pump and serpentine belt a year ago, tranny serviced at 70,000 miles, oil changes every 3000 miles, 4.8 L V - 8, 85,700 miles, runs great.

250 GMC inline 6 with performance cam dual Weber carburetors, 4 speed automatic transmission with overdrive, (engine and transmission rebuilt at time of restoration 322 miles ago), power steering, 4 wheel power disc brakes, power windows, Vintage A / C, leather interior, split windshield with sun visor, dual exhaust, 4 wheel independent suspension with sway bars, powder coated wheels with factory style hub caps and wide white wall tires, oak bed with chrome bed strips, custom matching oak tool chest and battery cover and running boards.

One notable achievement included the Center for Auto Safety ranking the 1993 Concorde as superior in crashworthiness after testing it at 35 miles per hour (56.3 km / h) into a wall.

Chabil Mar is located within just 20 miles by boat from the second largest barrier reef in the world, where wall dives start at 35 feet and drops plunge nearly 300 feet.

For example, the Wall Street Journal once offered 800 miles for any order placed online at the WSJ store.

The Kuloa Point Trail is a half - mile easy loop trail that begins at the Kipahulu Visitor Center and continues past historic walls and pre-contact Hawaiian habitation sites to Kuloa Point at the mouth of «Ohe'o Gulch.

Long Reef Location: two nautical miles south of Southwater Caye Depth: 45 - 100 feet / 14 -30 mt Access: Boat Expertise rating: Intermediate The wall here starts at 45 feet / 12mt and drops to a little over 100 feet / 30mt.

Art rules the walls at the stylish Islington Hotel, about two kilometres (1.2 miles) up the slopes from Hobart's city centre.

Fisherfolk line the rock wall breakwaters and a tiny beach at river mouth provides protected swimming for youngsters, while the often deserted surf beach stretches out for many miles to the south.

A quick scan of RocketMiles today shows that it is currently offering 15,000 Mileage Plus miles for a three - night stay (@ $ 493 / night) at the swank Andaz Wall Street in New York City in late April.

What's it like to hit a wall at 250 miles per hour and see a car completely obliterated.

A scaled - up digital print of Katz's 2012 painting, Katherine and Elizabeth, which has never been shown publicly, will be installed on the North - facing wall of 95 Horatio Street, a residential building near 14th Street, owned by T.F. Cornerstone, at the southern end of The High Line, New York's 1.45 miles of elevated park.

The latter is best known for installing a two - mile «Repellant Fence» of 26 balloons along the U.S. - Mexico border; at the Whitney, it will show «A Very Long Line,» an immersive and discordant video projection that spins around all four walls of a room to convey the point of view of a passenger in a car driving along that same hotly - debated / contentious border.

Miles Automotive Group, featured recently at CNN Money, is promising the $ 30,000 Miles XS 500 to reach a top speed of 80 miles per hour and a range of 120 miles at 60 miles per hour; six hours of charging in a normal wall socket will top the batteries off.

A retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, contained the waste until a wall breached last Monday, sending the sludge downhill to damage 15 homes and cover at least 300 acres.

You're looking at winds exceeding 75 miles per hour, which means that they can be rather destructive, but what's more is that they usually exceed the 75 mph mark and become even more destructive, taking roofs off of houses, tearing down walls, and even rendering the mighty Deerfield Beach apartment building helpless.

If you hit another car or perhaps a wall or telephone pole, and you're only going twenty miles an hour, you have to remember that everything inside the car is moving forward at twenty miles an hour.

Very clean 3 bedroom home features 2 full baths, full walkout basement, Knotty pine walls, bamboo floors, central air, skylights, all appliances included, washer and dryer, new well, 24x24 pole barn with electric and cement floor, 10x17 shed, 2x6 walls, 2x12 ceilings, very energy efficient home 1.5 miles to the Dock at McLaren Lake.

Once we finished the floor and painted the miles and miles of paneled walls, it was fun to start dressing it up a bit with a vintage frenchy commode that we picked up at an estate sale.