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Doing a solo expedition isn’t a race. Very different things. The closest race I know to an expedition is the Badwater 135, which is 135 mile run from Death Vall
by MOARDONGZPLZ 3y ago
Doing a solo expedition isn’t a race. Very different things. The closest race I know to an expedition is the Badwater 135, which is 135 mile run from Death Valley to near the top of Mt Whitney. But that’s significantly easier than Barkley if percentage of people who finish is the metric.
- tialaramex 3y agoSee, to me the obvious comparison was to the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race, because of the loops. I hate loops, I'm a walker not a runner, so these aren't things I have any ambition to attempt, but personally I'd rather spend six hours going to somewhere (even if to then immediately get in a car and be driven back to civilisation) than three hours in loops repeating myself. In other ways these are very different races - Sri's race is literally around a single city block, over, and over, and over again - there's no significant climbing element, it's not really possible to get lost and it's mostly about the mental state needed if you are sufficiently capable of the running itself. But the loops, that's what jumps out at me.