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Dag is amazing but he's probably not the world's oldest ultrarunner. Bernd Heinrich is 83 and recently wrote a whole book (highly recommend) about running and
by swalling 3y ago
Dag is amazing but he's probably not the world's oldest ultrarunner.
Bernd Heinrich is 83 and recently wrote a whole book (highly recommend) about running and aging, Racing the Clock. There's also the Bay Area legend Eldrith Gosney who is the same age and still kicking. https://ultrasignup.com/m_results_participant.aspx?fname=Eldrith&lname=Gosney https://ultrasignup.com/m_results_participant.aspx?fname=Eld...
- wging 3y agoHaven't read Heinrich's latest, but his Why We Run (also known as Racing the Antelope, for weird reasons) is an amazing book.
- hackernewds 3y agoIt's funny to imagine these authors pompously claim someone as "world's x" looking through the lens of the Western world being the whole world. I'm sure there's a women in rural Nepal who has carried water on her head uphill for longer distances and years, or a Masai tribesman who does 2x that hunting for baboons
- swalling 3y agoPerhaps shockingly, African hunter gatherers and sedentary Western office workers have the same daily energy expenditures as far as we know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405064/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405064/ In other words, people training for ultramarathons really are probably working harder than other people, even accounting for lifestyle and income disparities.