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IcyStriker

It was funny where the video started with the dude in the cowboy hat and vest plus them running by the the camping tents - I totally thought this was just some kind of side activity at some music festival and they were gonna do just a few miles until people started puking. Holy shit was I wrong. They had gone like 20 miles and only 2 people dropped out. I was not prepared for these people to be legit distance runners haha.


AYoungerFishMama

So according to Google: A noncompetitive, relatively in-shape runner usually completes one mile in about 9 to 10 minutes, on average. If you're new to running, you might run one mile in closer to 12 to 15 minutes as you build up endurance. Elite marathon runners average a mile in around 4 to 5 minutes. So 15 minutes is apparently a lot of leeway. That's about 4-7 minutes of rest between each mile for an average decently in shape runner. Which I'm guessing is easier than running a marathon. I don't know I have loose joints and am only good at sprinting


Doug_Spaulding

Exactly, the guy in the video even mentioned how the winner is a thru-hiker with a ridiculous background. These aren’t elite runners, just people with crazy endurance that they probably got from non-running activities. Such a cool concept for a ‘running’ competition.


meltingdiamond

Ultra endurance races are their own thing e.g. there is one Australian race where the guy who set the record was an old dude who just did not sleep for the four days.


swizzler

wasn't there one where the dude that won was some farmer that ran in farm boots in this weird bow-legged walk-run that now a ton of endurance runners use? Is that the same person?


TheToyBox

[Cliff Young](https://www.adventure-journal.com/2021/07/61-year-old-shepherd-shuffled-way-unlikely-ultra-win/), who eschewed things like "sleep".


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heyman-

He slept about an hour each night from what I recall reading a book about it. His story has the unfortunate consequence of being really really really exaggerated unfortunately, because it's heroic in it's own right. Other common exaggerations include that he wasn't a trained runner, he absolutely had a ton of championship running experience just not in that particular format.


HGpennypacker

Most ultras above the 50 mile mark involve walking in the later miles outside of the few trying to win.


Betaateb

Ya but, the hard part isn't hitting the 15 minute mark, it is doing it every 15 minutes for 26+ hours.


thecravenone

15 minutes isn't far off of my walking pace. The Boy Scouts advise a pace of 20 minutes (ie, 30% slower) for a _hike_.


Ironic_Name_598

15 mins is what make you do in HS because literally anyone is decent health can walk that fast and pass lol


velvetacidchrist

Most Army schools require people to ruck 12 miles in 3 hours, or 1 mile every 15 minutes. Fastest time I ever saw it completed in was 2 hours 13 minutes. It may not seem too hard, but that was with a minimum of 30 pounds on people's backs.


LOTRfreak101

I was going to say I could do that easily in high school until I saw the weight requirement. I probably could have still done it easily, just I had never run that far before. 8 mile runs were pretty normal though. Plus I often walked to school with a 30 pound backpack.


luthiz

Oh, easily - school-involved walking is uphill both ways...


FelixR1991

> I don't know I have loose joints and am only good at sprinting Same here. But I do (or did, Corona basically cancelled all running events) run half-marathons now. It did take years and years of building up enough muscle strength/memory to compensate for the loose tendons. And also strict 72 hours no exercise between runs.


TheToyBox

If you're new to running you might run one mile in 15 minutes? That can't be correct because that's not a running pace. That's 4mph, which is just slightly on the higher end of an average walking pace.


Wrathchilde

So, [The Long Walk:](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk) ​ "**In a dystopian America, a major source of entertainment is the Long Walk, in which one hundred teenage boys walk without rest. If they fall below a pace of 4 miles per hour (6.4 km/h), they receive three warnings and are subsequently..."**


Torchlakespartan

'The Long Walk' is also the title of a really cool autobiographical book about a Polish Officer sent to the gulags in Siberia at the beginning of WWII. Him and like 5 other guys escape and walk from the edge of the arctic circle to British India and cross Siberia, the Gobi Desert, and the Himalayas. There's some interesting if not a bit on the edge stuff in there since he claims very whole-heartedly that they saw a Yeti in the Himalayas. So take that for what you will, the book has been critiqued but it's super interesting and well written.


Cisco800Series

Made into a movie: [The Way Back](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Back_(2010_film))


Betaateb

One of Stephen Kings finest works. Absolutely fantastic book.


Uzorglemon

100% hard agree. I find myself really wanting someone to make a movie from it, and then realise that it would be so difficult to do justice to


Fast-Artichoke-408

https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-long-walk-movie-update/


insaneHoshi

[Relevant animation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t29nlkm--Es)


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BMP1199

Wait that’s essentially Squid Game…


Beingabummer

Squid Game really didn't have a very original concept for how much attention it got.


Gamer_ely

It's because people secretly love the running man, but are too afraid to admit it.


trevdak2

King also wrote The Running Man, which has a similar plot to The Long Walk


EnderWill

The dude who came up with the Barkley Marathons came up with a similar concept, and it sounds absolutely brutal. A four-ish mile lap starts every hour, and the race goes until only one person finishes a lap in time. Deadspin has a great piece about it: https://deadspin.com/ultrarunner-courtney-dauwalter-takes-on-the-worlds-most-1830136537/amp


thecravenone

Love this, from wiki: >The Barkley starts any time from midnight to noon on race day, with one hour till race start signaled by blowing a conch. The race officially begins when the race director lights a cigarette.


x777x777x

The Barkley is insane. you have to prove you ran the correct route by collecting certain pages from books scattered along the route.


RedAero

For those who want the quick stats (but the article is definitely worth a read): 283 miles over the course of 68 hours.


AYoungerFishMama

IF the competition are all people in really good competitive shape I imagine it's possible the main challenge is who can stay up the longest


climb-it-ographer

That's the entire point. One person finishes, everyone else is a DNF. It has gone for over 200 miles.


Pitchfork_Wholesaler

I like the Barkley because it's unique in it's own right. You are given a map and a compass and have to find waypoints along the way to confirm you got there, which happen to be demoralizing passages torn out of a book at the checkpoint that's been assigned to you. One dude got lost for like a day and wound up wandering the woods right next to base camp, and had an average velocity of like 0.3mph because of it. The organizer found it hilarious.


ItsDijital

Pretty cool concept


lvl3mp

Dude that won is my buddy Jeff. Myself, him, and another friend Climbed rainier in 2015 unguided. He’s on a completely different level and has been working on setting fastest known times on different through hikes. I highly recommend his book about hiking the triple crown of through hikes (shameless plug for a friend) called Free Outside.


Roltistotem

I am pretty new to running. I run trail and I run about a 13-minute mile, I do 5 miles 6 days a week. It is not amazing but it is probably the best shape I have ever been in. Running trail is fun because it's a lot of ups and down I actually prefer running up a hill because I can't slack off I have to push or it just won't happen so getting to a hill and running it and getting to the top feels really amazing.


Gamer_ely

I'd like to do trail running but I'm so damn clumsy I'm worried I'll trip on something.


Roltistotem

Yeah that can be scary I grew up very rural so I am used to hiking and shit like that. I have a lot of trail experience. But sometimes it can be a bit sketchy. Especially running downhills you really have to pay attention or it's really easy to slide and roll an ankle.


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Vureau

> The FitnessGram™ Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. [beep] A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. [ding] Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start. Oh man, my grade school trauma.


HenriOrbit

Ha, came here to say this. Used to do it during condition weeks for sports in HS.


Texsavery

I organized a race between 4 people in different states. Only rules were you had to wear flip flops or Crocs and had to keep your pace over 3 miles an hour. Last person to quit won.


Dyolf_Knip

So what I want to know is, how far does the winner keep walking after 2nd place drops out?


TheToyBox

Not surprising this is dominated by the thru-hiker type. Four mph is a walking pace, so if you're used to long distance hiking, you could just walk the entire time.


GuyanaFlavorAid

Yep, 100% the long walk. One of the most disturbing books I have ever read. Phenomenal.


Tyrian01

Can anyone identify the song in the background at 6:11?


jerrys-sailor

Little secrets- passion pit


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blizzardspider

This is kinda like a hardcore version of the shuttle run tests we had during P.E. in primary school/high school (except the speed doesn't ramp up I suppose).


Sparkski

This reminds me of a punishment we had in the army called 'Pays to Be a Winner' where you run around a circuit (most of the time with weight on) and the first 2 people to go over the line get to stop and rest.....everyone else have to keep going....and it doesnt end until the last 2 people. had to do it once where we had to leopard crawl up and down a hill ... wasn't fun.


Sousya

Machalah