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Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
by cjrp 2y ago
Indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_versus_Horse_Marathon
- panick21_ 2y agoThat's still a pretty short distances. I think in Ultramarathon, humans would win.
- luqtas 2y agowith carbohydrate gels, fancy shoes and years of training on the asphalt and a bunch of servants throwing you motivational words and ice water bottles?
- deepsun 2y agoWell, it's rider on a horse. Would be fair if the human runner also carried another human on their shoulders. Besides, ancient horses were much smaller and couldn't carry a rider, hence chariots. I would like to speculate that smaller means better thermoregulation, so smaller horses fared better on long distances versus Homo genus.