We're talking 20-40 year old male who is not overweight, has no injuries and would be considered haelthy and atetic by his peers.
I'd say 22.5 hours with 6 months focused training.
We're talking 20-40 year old male who is not overweight, has no injuries and would be considered haelthy and atetic by his peers.
I'd say 22.5 hours with 6 months focused training.
If vegan 15 hours or faster.
30 if things go well, i.e. with a relatively low probability of success.
Hypothesis: moderately athletic but no serious running/hiking background.
Reason: You need several months of training to just have joints and bones solid enough to withstand the pounding of the training, so the load would be limited. With no serious running or mountain hiking experience, he would get sore as fsck at best if running the downhills in the race, probably injured, and certainly sore as fsck from walking down at a more than leisurely pace. So I'd guess the moderately athletic guy would need to hike most of the thing and do some run/hike where it's mostly flat. At a decent walking pace on hilly terrain (161 km / 5 kph = 32 hours) plus stops, it's close to the time limit of 36 hours but if some running is mixted on relatively flat parts maybe 30.
With a 2:54 marathon and decent training on the road, I'm not sure I'd be able to pull a sub-24 in just one semester even with everything going well.
48 hours or more. Average person has zero endurance . Only chance would be walk /run 20 hours, sleep 6 , them go until finished .
Rice and beans wrote:
We're talking 20-40 year old male who is not overweight, has no injuries and would be considered haelthy and atetic by his peers.
I'd say 22.5 hours with 6 months focused training.
A 4 hour marathoner would be considered fit and healthy by 90% of his peers. What do you think a realistic 6 month training plan to get him to string together almost 4--- 5 1/2 hour marathons would look like?
I'm more interested in what the average UNTRAINED American is capable of.
How long do these races take for the hobby jogger mid packer?
wineturtle wrote:
Rice and beans wrote:
We're talking 20-40 year old male who is not overweight, has no injuries and would be considered haelthy and atetic by his peers.
I'd say 22.5 hours with 6 months focused training.
A 4 hour marathoner would be considered fit and healthy by 90% of his peers. What do you think a realistic 6 month training plan to get him to string together almost 4--- 5 1/2 hour marathons would look like?
If they just finished a 4 hr marathon they are ahead of the hypothetical game here.
I would have them start to train for trails and hills. At the end of first month they would race 50k on trails. This outcome would project their run and hiking ratio. Month two would be a recovery month with cross training. In the month of three they would begin physical strength training with mileage increase. The fourth month would include a 50 mile race using pacing strategy. The Fifth month would include hiking focus. The final month would have even more specific race training to nutrition, pacing, all that.