Learned something that wrinkled my brain.

[FLOOB]

People are always on about how the human brain sets us apart from the rest of animalia. But did you know that a human can travel 100 miles on foot in less than 12 hours? I knew that humans were at the top when it comes to endurance, even better than the horse. But 100 miles in less that 12 hours is mind boggling! 

Consider this, if an ultra runner started his run from your house just as you left for work, by the time you got home from work, the runner would be 100 miles away.

[ghi]

     The Marathon record is about 2 hours for 42 km/ 26 miles, and they get pumped with glucose to recover after the race. It would take 4 Marathon length  races with about 1 hour break in between to cover 100 miles in 12 hours.
 According with the  legend even Pheidippides, the soldier from Marathon collapsed and died after the race .

[FLOOB]

There's a reason it's called the legend of Pheidippides. Legend means fiction, remember that next time you hear someone or something referred to as "legendary".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

[100Coogn]

There's a reason it's called the legend of Pheidippides. Legend means fiction, remember that next time you hear someone or something referred to as "legendary".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

noun: legend; plural noun: legends
  1. a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated.

Does not make it fiction.

Coogan

[Devil 505]

Where did you come up with this figure Floob?

Like ghi mentioned, the required pace to cover 100 miles in 12 hours is simply not attainable by most people.

The average time for finishing the 2015 Boston Marathon was 3 hours, 46 minutes. That is a pace of just under 7 miles per hour. Running non-stop for 12 hours would only cover 84 miles.

Remember that these people are running, not walking, and most are completely worn out by the finish of the marathon. Going 4 times farther is impossible.

[8thJinx]

I don't believe I've ever heard of a human being running a 7 minute mile for 12 straight hours.

Edit - I had to look it up.  Zach Bitter did it in 2013.  Crazy.

[Easyscor]

I could believe 100 k. That's 62.12 miles, or a bit over 5 miles per hour.

[AKKuya]

I can travel 125 miles under 12 hours on my hands "walking" backwards balancing a large bowl of marbles with my feet while in an uphill direction on a gravel road slick with muddy puddles. And, with no breaks.

Anybody beat that?

[100Coogn]

You would have to run constantly at 8.333 mph for 12 hours straight, to make 100 miles.

Coogan (I had to look that up too)

[FLOOB]

Hard to believe I know. That was kind of my point and for that reason I already posted the link. Basically those guys doing 100 miles in less that 12 hours are going 8-9ish mph for 11 and half hours. Mind boggling.

[FLOOB]

Would you like me to post the link again?

[FLOOB]

Remember that these people are running, not walking, and most are completely worn out by the finish of the marathon. Going 4 times farther is impossible.

Not impossible. But now you're coming to grips with how amazing the human body is. It seems we are more different than the other apes physically than we are mentally.

[FLOOB]

I don't believe I've ever heard of a human being running a 7 minute mile for 12 straight hours.

Edit - I had to look it up.  Zach Bitter did it in 2013.  Crazy.

I'm a backpacker, or more accurately a base camper. So I'm familiar with some of the pro backpackers who do 5,000 and 7,000 mile trips, Like Andy Skurka etc. So I learned that some of these pro backpackers are also something called ultra-runners. WTF is an ultra runner?? I looked it up and proceeded to toejam my pants as some of you're doing now.

[Devil 505]

Not impossible. But now you're coming to grips with how amazing the human body is. It seems we are more different than the other apes physically than we are mentally.

You need to learn to use specific language in your writing when necessary, as in this case. "A human" would be used to indicate any human picked at random is capable of this feat. What you should have said is "this human" to indicate a particular person.

[FLOOB]

Remember homo sapiens sapiens evolved to be the best terrestrial endurance hunter. In Africa stone age tribes still hunt this way, basically they'll chase/track an antelope (you read right, a GD antelope) until it collapses from exhaustion and heat stroke. But get this, not only are humans amazing on land, turns out the human body has something called a dive reflex enabling us to dive to depths of 100 meters on a single breath of air. The body shunts blood and retards some functions to enable this. No other terrestrial animal can match homo sapiens sapiens at diving and endurance swiming, just as no other terrestrial animal is able to match us at overland travel.

And people wondered how it could be that primitive man habitated every corner of the globe before we could read or write.. Pfft.

Man vs Nature.. the road to victory.