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A little aside, but nobody can run 12 hours a day for more than a short period of time. Running involves a lot of pounding on the joints, and muscles fatigue.
by hsitz 7y ago
A little aside, but nobody can run 12 hours a day for more than a short period of time. Running involves a lot of pounding on the joints, and muscles fatigue. In fact, the best endurance runners in the world (i.e., people who train optimally for maximal results) mostly run for only about 15 hours per /week/, often less.
- moltar 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete) > In 1983, the 61-year-old potato farmer won the inaugural Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, a distance of 875 kilometres (544 mi). The race was run between what were then Australia's two largest Westfield shopping centres: Westfield Parramatta, in Sydney, and Westfield Doncaster, in Melbourne.[4] Young showed up to compete in overalls and work boots, without his dentures (later claiming they rattled when he ran).[5] He ran at a slow, loping pace, and trailed the pack by a large margin at the end of the first day. While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, however, Young kept running. He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by ten hours. Before running the race, he had told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots.