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Are those numbers even possible with the resources he’d have had at his disposal? How could he have fueled properly for that effort?
by jimbob45 2y ago
Are those numbers even possible with the resources he’d have had at his disposal? How could he have fueled properly for that effort?
- InitialLastName 2y ago> How could he have fueled properly for that effort? Clearly, he didn't. It's hard to get specifics, but that doesn't seem impossible for a pre-industrial, highly trained runner (several hunter-gatherer tribes seem to be capable of those sorts of distances over multiple days, and he was as close to a professional distance runner as existed at the time). Remember also that he isn't running through uninhabited territory; there would likely have been multiple opportunities (pre-established supply depots? well-known locals?) where an official representative of a major local power would have been able to acquire food.