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09-29-2005, 08:50 AM
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Endurance running
Any military or ex-military types who think they could cover 900 miles by foot on good roads, in 10 days? Assume indoor accommodation is available at the end of each day, and the desired food and drinks will be carried by someone else, riding beside you on a bike. Just wondering how close to possible this is.
Mack 
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09-29-2005, 08:54 AM
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Re: Endurance running
I was pretty damn good at the "recon shuffle" but no way in hell.
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09-29-2005, 08:55 AM
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Re: Endurance running
I could do it in 8 days. Less, if there were no dangerous animals on the way. Not that they would stop me, I’d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you’d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times.
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09-29-2005, 08:57 AM
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Re: Endurance running
90 miles a day for 10 days is pretty respectable by bike. Impossible on foot, IMHO.
(are you talking American miles, or wimpy klicks?)
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#5
09-29-2005, 08:58 AM
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Re: Endurance running
[ QUOTE ]
90 miles a day for 10 days is pretty respectable by bike. Impossible on foot, IMHO. (are you talking American miles, or wimpy klicks?) [/ QUOTE ] Not impossible. Google Yannis Kouros.
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09-29-2005, 09:02 AM
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Re: Endurance running
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[ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] (are you talking American miles, or wimpy klicks?) [/ QUOTE ] The mile is an Imperial measurement. [/ QUOTE ] You tell these colonial johnnies what's what, what! [/ QUOTE ] Haha. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Mack
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09-29-2005, 09:03 AM
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Re: Endurance running
[ QUOTE ]
I could do it in 8 days. Less, if there were no dangerous animals on the way. Not that they would stop me, I’d make poison darts out of the poison of the deadly frogs. One milligram of that poison can kill a monkey. Or a man. Prick yourself and you’d be dead within a day. Or longer. Different frogs, different times. [/ QUOTE ] I'm slow today, took me 5 mins to get that one. Mack
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09-29-2005, 09:05 AM
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Re: Endurance running
I ran a marathon back in the day, and could not imagine running 3.5 of these a day for 10 days. Not so much because of the cardio or muscular requirements, but because of the pounding on your body. I weighed 200 lbs and finished in 4 hrs and 1 min and my body paid a price. I was never winded or tired from running, but my back, knees, and ankles would begin to hurt from banging the pavement.
Maybe a small person could do something like this? Seems unlikely to me though.
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