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The 'crazy' running challenge pushing people to their limits [run 1 km day 1, 2 km day 2, etc., cumulatively] (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus Christ, I can barely walk out to check the mail without losing breath. I'm not building up to a 365km in 24 hours run!

[–] Zagorath@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago

Oh shit. I didn't even think about it before. But the world record marathon time is over 2 hours. At that world record pace, it would take over 17:18:00 to complete the final day of the year.

I think it's safe to say nobody's running that far in that time. It may not be physically possible to continue this for a full year.

That said, the goal doesn't seem to be to do a full year. It's to keep going until everyone else doing the same challenge gives up. Last year's 3rd place runner got to day 76. Today is day 80.