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‘I’m a little bit tired’: Briton becomes first person to run the length of Africa (www.theguardian.com)

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Russ Cook from Worthing reaches Ras Angela, Tunisia, after covering more than 9,900 miles in 352 days

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I mean, he didn't run. 45km a day, when you walk 8 hours per day, is about 5.6kmh, which is absolutely doable for humans. Still, doing that every fucking day for an entire year is a stunning effort. I've been on hiking trips where we did 40-50km each day for three days and I needed a few days to recover. Oh, and I didn't hike through the continent known for its heat and deserts and wars.

Edit: I stand corrected. The guy is even more of a beast.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You can follow him on Strava and see all his runs, looks like he was doing up to 80km a day. On the 3rd of April he did 85km and the next day 81km. Insane!

Edit: his longest run according to Strava was 110km

[–] surely_not_a_bot 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh he did way more than that, and faster than walking. Come on, he did run.

It's been all over the place, but his typical run the past month or so was 75km at 7m:30s/km pace (8km/h). In the beginning he was doing ~50km runs at 5m/km pace (12km/h). I think the slowest I've seen him doing is 9m:15s/km pace (6.4 km/h).

He absolutely did run, but usually at an endurance pace, not at a race pace.

He had struggles in the beginning, but his aerobic fitness is probably astronomical by now.