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I don't recall the title, but I remember a documentary where an African tribe member would slow jog after an animal for about 24 hours before the animal would g

I don't recall the title, but I remember a documentary where an African tribe member would slow jog after an animal for about 24 hours before the animal would get exhausted, so a few hours seems on the lower end of the jogging requirements for our ancestors, but am happy to be proven wrong

soedirgo 5y ago
This is the one that I remember watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o. Not exactly 24 hours though.
- Lhiw 5y ago
  Humans can effectively run forever if it weren't for needing sleep, or eventually, needing to replace fat stores. > Previous estimates, when accounting for glycogen depletion, suggest that a human could run at about a 10 minute per mile pace, which allows existing fat stores to be converted to glycogen, forever. The only limit to our eventual mileage, therefore, is our need for sleep. https://nikomccarty.medium.com/how-far-can-humans-run-d5c97fb81a89 https://nikomccarty.medium.com/how-far-can-humans-run-d5c97f...
- js2 5y ago
  There are regularly 24 hour races and I've done a few myself. 100 miles in 24 hours isn't that hard. The record was just recently set at 192.25 miles (309.4 km): https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37465691/sania-sorokin-24-hour-world-record/ https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37465691/sania-sorokin-24... There are also 48 hr and 7 day races. Sleep is necessary somewhere between those two points, though two guys just went 85 hours with basically no sleep: https://www.bigsbackyardultra.com/ https://www.bigsbackyardultra.com/ That's a race where every hour on the hour you have to complete 4.166 miles. You get as much rest as the balance of your time after you complete a lap till the next hour begins. Most competitors complete a lap in around 48-52 minutes. The race continues until there is only one runner left to complete a lap.
- pkphilip 5y ago
  Then we have Cliff Young who ran 875 km in 5 days - at the age of 61. https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/cliff-young-farmer-who-outran-field https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/cliff-young-farmer-who-out...
the-dude 5y ago
Maybe they invented relay too.
pmahoney 5y ago
There's Cliff Young's win in the 875km Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon. > While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, Young kept running. He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by 10 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)
jacoblb64 5y ago
You might be thinking of this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262452/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262452/

soedirgo 5y ago

This is the one that I remember watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o. Not exactly 24 hours though.

Lhiw 5y ago
Humans can effectively run forever if it weren't for needing sleep, or eventually, needing to replace fat stores. > Previous estimates, when accounting for glycogen depletion, suggest that a human could run at about a 10 minute per mile pace, which allows existing fat stores to be converted to glycogen, forever. The only limit to our eventual mileage, therefore, is our need for sleep. https://nikomccarty.medium.com/how-far-can-humans-run-d5c97fb81a89 https://nikomccarty.medium.com/how-far-can-humans-run-d5c97f...
js2 5y ago
There are regularly 24 hour races and I've done a few myself. 100 miles in 24 hours isn't that hard. The record was just recently set at 192.25 miles (309.4 km): https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37465691/sania-sorokin-24-hour-world-record/ https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a37465691/sania-sorokin-24... There are also 48 hr and 7 day races. Sleep is necessary somewhere between those two points, though two guys just went 85 hours with basically no sleep: https://www.bigsbackyardultra.com/ https://www.bigsbackyardultra.com/ That's a race where every hour on the hour you have to complete 4.166 miles. You get as much rest as the balance of your time after you complete a lap till the next hour begins. Most competitors complete a lap in around 48-52 minutes. The race continues until there is only one runner left to complete a lap.
pkphilip 5y ago
Then we have Cliff Young who ran 875 km in 5 days - at the age of 61. https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/cliff-young-farmer-who-outran-field https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/cliff-young-farmer-who-out...

the-dude 5y ago

Maybe they invented relay too.

pmahoney 5y ago

There's Cliff Young's win in the 875km Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon. > While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, Young kept running. He ran continuously for five days, taking the lead during the first night and eventually winning by 10 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)

jacoblb64 5y ago

You might be thinking of this documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262452/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262452/