[HN Gopher] A day and night running round a track
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A day and night running round a track
Author : HansardExpert
Score : 21 points
Date : 2024-10-27 16:20 UTC (4 days ago)
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| HansardExpert wrote:
| A 24-hour party of pain - a day and night running round a track
| embeng4096 wrote:
| Relatedly, see Big's Backyard Ultra[0]: runners run a 4-mile
| loop, on the hour, every hour, 24 hours a day, until only one
| runner completes a loop that nobody else does. In 2011, when it
| started, the winner did 18 laps. In 2023, the winner completed
| 108 laps!
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| [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%27s_Backyard_Ultra
| pierot wrote:
| We are 2024 and it stands at 110 laps, by a belgian team!
| TYPE_FASTER wrote:
| Related: the Last Skier Standing - one uphill lap per hour.
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| https://unofficialnetworks.com/2024/02/15/last-skier-standin...
| jonathanpglick wrote:
| Reminds me of an awesome documentary about The Barkley
| Marathons called "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its
| Young". People are incredible!
| mikestew wrote:
| Guess who came up with the idea of the Backyard Ultra? The
| Barkley race director.
| mtalantikite wrote:
| The same organization has one here in NYC that is nearly 5000km,
| running around a single block in Jamaica, Queens, over the course
| of 52 days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-
| Transcendence_3100_Mile_R...
| mygrant wrote:
| Reminds me of Beau Miles' "24 marathon" which was much more fun:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvT5XS7j-Dc&t=6s
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