My grandparents lived on the trail. They would bring the hikers in and cook them dinner and let them take showers. It was a different time back then, but I remember sharing Sunday dinner with a lot of strangers.
That sounds so cool, but I wouldn’t want to house a lot of strangers in my home and I also wouldn’t want to sleep in random strangers’ houses.
an average of 54 miles each day
It also mention she ran 17 jours a day. I can’t imagine the kind of energy it takes to keep that pace going for 40 days. Absolutely insane.
The more you spread that over the day the better. Higher intensity will kill you, you want lower intensity.
Both of you are kind of right. It’s still an insane feat of endurance but averaging an 18 minute mile is pretty damn slow and likely zone 2-3 even in rugged terrain for an athlete like her.
High intensity isn’t just a generalized term but specific to heart rate, lactate buildup, and anaerobic states.
The amount of work done and intensity (the rate at which work is done) are two different measurements.
Of course it can. You just need to define what you’re comparing it against. Surely two marathons per day is lower intensity than two marathons per half-day or 3 marathons per day.
That’s like 3mph for 17 hours. Jesus…. That’s a lot of wheaties… by my back of the napkin calculations that’s burning like 4200 calories a day.
Judging from the headline, it was probably by being stinky.
If I only took like 3 showers a month I bet I could be pretty productive too!
I find that the less showers I’m taking the less productive I’m probably being.
I would not be offering her a congratulatory hug at the end.
Over 50 miles a day? Good Lord how?
Yeah, the article mentions her day begins with a 3am alarm, a quick breakfast, and the taping up of blisters.
Cool accomplishment, but it can’t have been healthy.
No sports world record is broken by doing what’s healthy.
But judging by the trail ultra-marathoners I know personally, they’d be a lot less healthy if they didn’t have that hobby.
Lots of (undiagnosed) ADHD in the sport, too.
