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blessphemy · 8 days ago

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the fastest known time (supported - i.e. having a team pass food to the runner en route) for the 800 mile Arizona trail is 13 days 3 hours 21 minutes.

so I think 12 days may be within the realm of human possibility depending on what the terrain looks like but we’re talking elite athletics and high support.

looking at the Google forecast it seems that the 12 days forecast is coming from ~2.7 miles per hour for 288 hours (12 days). which I suppose is a perfectly reasonable pace, assuming you don’t need to sleep, eat, poop, etc.

Was curious how far Ithaca was from troy today while listening to epic the musical and rereading the illiad and I found this map

I think odysseus would have been better just to walk😭

#takethewatch is correct tho #but! a guy did the 2653 mile pct self supported in 55 days 16 hours 54 minutes #20 miles per day backpacking is a fine pace for me but I’m a slow walker bu Thru standards #but I’ve talked to people doing 30 or 40 #and a guy who was aiming to set a supported record for 512 mountain miles in <10 days or something I forget #ultradistance running for time is a Different beast from backpacking #and odeyssus isn’t having the benefit of having people hand him energy bars and water as he goes

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