whats the furthest run?

jarv · #1 25th Aug 07, 01:10 PM

Who what ,and when was the furthest ever non stop run by one person?

ed_m · #2 25th Aug 07, 06:05 PM

....define non-stop....

....define 'run'....

jarv · #3 27th Aug 07, 08:01 PM

as in a marathon type run, running all the time non stop like a pro marathon runner will run 26 odd miles but i bet someone has run 30 or more but how far exactly and how long where they running for?

ed_m · #4 27th Aug 07, 09:06 PM

hmmm so excluding multiday events then....

gucr in this country is 145miles, i had a 10minute kip this year does that disqualify me?
last years winner did 29hrs or so and barely stopped.

more normal for faster speeds are 50km & 100km events, or 6/12/24 hr races.

jarv · #5 28th Aug 07, 03:41 PM

Let us be clear on this... you ran 145 miles and had 10 minutes kip,how the the hell does the body cope with those sorts of stressess?

ed_m · #6 28th Aug 07, 04:53 PM

i slept well the following night ?

the race website is here:
www.gucr.co.uk
it attempts to be classified as a 'continuous' event by only allowing you to stop for a max of 40minutes at a time.

shorter faster stuff ?
draycote 35 does 35 miles round a resevoir (7ish laps), there's also a 5mile race there later in the year. the other year the winner was doing every single lap faster than my time for the 5mile race!

or there's the anglo celtic plate, kind of british championship race of 100km, winning time 7:04...
http://ultrarunner.co.uk/index.php?o...120&Itemid=143

oldschool · #7 20th Mar 08, 12:07 PM

I understand that some top ultra-running can do a 50 mile race running the entire distance (no walking). Not sure about a 100 mile race though.

oyster · #8 16th May 08, 08:16 AM

Dean Karnazes from USA claims some pretty mind boggling stuff, one of which being 10 marathons back to back. It was a relay event, yet he entered solo. Im sure there was some writing creativity there and he walked chunks of it.. you know, these americans.

As for the UK, Mark Cockbain is well known for his stuff, he ran the Badwater Ultra- 135miles, then turned round and ran back to the start. Very few men have ever done this..

There are plenty more...

pedestrian · #9 21st Jun 08, 08:07 AM

The relay race that Dean Karnazes did was 200 miles. He actually turned around at the finish and added another marathon onto his distance, making the whole run 226.2 miles.:eek: (I do seem to remember a mention of some crawling being involved at some point. Not surprisingly).
I think he also did a marathon a day for 50 consecutive days, in 50 different American states; but obviously that's not a continuous run.

Ultra-marathons... I get. There's something appealing about the challenge of running vast distances.
... What I don't get are the events like the Badwater, the Antarctic challenge, the Sahara Marathon etc... where, even before the race begins, it's an act of survival just to be in that environment.

Running? yeah, I like the idea of that. But doing a race where the running is secondary to the act of just staying alive? No thanks.

JBBury · #10 21st Jun 08, 06:38 PM

THis is a pretty impressive one:

"The Badwater Ultramarathon begins in the blazing depths of the Badwater basin, located in Death Valley, and goes 135 miles to the trailhead at Mount Whitney, the highest mountain in the lower 48 states. Enduring temperatures in excess of 120 F, the race starts at 280 feet below sea level and ends at almost 8,700 feet above sea level. Factoring in all the descents and ascents, runners endure over 13,000 feet of total climbing. Until 1989, the race went all the way to the top of the peak. By the time the course was changed to end at the trailhead of Mount Whitney instead of the peak, only 9 runners had completed the run from the bottom to the top.

Current course record for this test of endurance running? According to the Badwater Ultramarathon website, it's 24 hours, 36 minutes, 8 seconds, set by Scott Jurek. Even more amazing? Some runners suffer this torture-fest for close to 60 hours."