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Has anyone run the distance to the moon yet? Seems like the next step in the ultra progression these days... My girlfriend does about 300,000' of vertical gain
by tppiotrowski 4y ago
Has anyone run the distance to the moon yet? Seems like the next step in the ultra progression these days...
My girlfriend does about 300,000' of vertical gain a year which I think is the altitude that's considered the edge of space :)
- oefrha 4y agoIf you run a marathon every day, it “only” takes 25 years.
- markwillis82 4y agoThat will become the next “corporate team building”
- quickthrower2 4y ago2022: No more commutes but need to run 26 miles a day!
- wizofaus 4y agoOn a bike that's very doable though - if you wanted to do it 10 years you'd need to ride ~105k a day, which doesn't sound completely crazy.
- teruakohatu 4y agoThe moon is very far away! For every foot your girlfriend climbs, she would need to do 1km to get to the moon in a year... Although in space you wouldnt be fighting gravity.
- jayknight 4y agoTo get farther away from earth you have to work against gravity.
- iso1631 4y agoTechnically it's slightly lower surprisingly early in the trip -- get to an altitiude of 500km and g is down to about 8.5m/s, at 2000km it's 5.7, and by the time you get just 1/10th of the way it's pretty much gone. At some point the moon's gravity will start to work with you and pull you in.
- pg314 4y agoAccording to Wikipedia [1], Gordon Pirie ran 347,600 km in the 40 years to 1981. He lived another 10 years after that, so he might have come close. The distance to the moon is 384,400 km. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pirie https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pirie