Robert "Raven" Kraft has run the same 8 mile loop on the beach every day for 50 straight years

Ditto...fellow South Floridian here...the Raven is a local legend and he's the real deal. We've all known about him for decades down here, and he is out there running every day.

I remember an article in Runners World....maybe 30 years ago.....celebrating his streak back then.

Legend

Yeah it would be more like being unable to leave the area for more than 48 hours as you could run early morning day one and late night day 2 which would be max approaching 48 hours between runs allowed to continue to streak. Does this guy drive or not?

He still runs daily, but he is down to 5 miles a day.

runnersworld.com

For 48 Years, Robert “Raven” Kraft Ran the Same Eight Miles. Every Single Day.

Due to debilitating back pain, Raven will now run five miles.

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Yeah it would be more like being unable to leave the area for more than 48 hours as you could run early morning day one and late night day 2 which would be max approaching 48 hours between runs allowed to continue to streak. Does this guy drive or not?

He runs at the same time everyday.

What if there was a hurricane

I was actually trying to do the calculations on that... get up at 4am, run for over an hour (8M), travel overnight somewhere in Florida, return the next day and run at like 10pm?

But people point out that he does it at the same time as well. That makes it a lot harder.

I'm from Miami. This is definitely legitimate. He's been featured in Miami media numerous times and there are YouTube videos dating nearly 20 years. Raven traveled early in his life. He had song writing aspirations but had a bitter experience. That's largely what led him to running, to battle bitterness and depression.

In this video from he was interviewed by Mary Carillo

The man is hardcore, do you think that would stop him.

According to one news story, he has run through some hurricanes, but...

"The only time he didn't physically run his 8 miles on the sand was during Hurricane Irma in 2017, when he ran 240 times around his apartment because the wind was so bad."

I have no doubt this guy is extremely dedicated, and he has been out running on that beach most every day for many years.

But I seriously question if he has run 8 miles every single day on that beach for the past 50 years.

Three time Olympian Ron Hill (2:09 marathon best) is credited with the world's longest continuous daily running streak, 52 years 39 days. He did not count it as a daily run unless he ran at least one mile. He said it was extremely difficult to cover even a single mile some days when he was really sick, injured, after a car crash with broken bones, and after bunion surgery where he used a crutch to 'run' one mile in 27 min.

R Kraft is very committed (likely obsessive/compulsive) and this is a great story, but I find it hard to believe that he ran that far on that beach every single day with no injuries, illnesses, other commitments, etc.

Also if you look at recent videos of him running, it looks lide more like a fast painful shuffle walk with continuous contact with the ground at maybe 20 min mile pace at best. Eight miles at that pace is 2 hours 40 min.

So what this guy has done is remarkable and impressive, but it is not up to snuff in a sport that times races down to the one hundredth of a second and adds additional extra distance to certified road courses.

Only a jerk brings up Trump in a thread like this. Grow up and move on with your bitterness, or just move.

The Raven is real.

Pretty much the worst take on the subject.

I suppose it's impressive, and at this point he continues because of all the publicity. But really this just seems stupid.

"The streak" has impacted his life so much that he had no chance to do anything else of significance.

6 days a week would have been much healthier. But then there wouldn't have been reporters to give him attention.

i think he is the guy that invented macaroni & cheese in a box.

If he thinks running eight miles at the same time of day over the same course every day is significant who is anyone else to say it's not? What do you think he could do on that one non running day each week that is "significant?"

I don't think one day a week would do it. The point was that breaking free of the restrictions that a streak puts on your life enables you to do other things.

Travel for one. But really, the rub is not about travel. For any of us running 8 miles a day for a few months would have minimal impact on life. Once it becomes a long-term streak it turns into something else. You lose time planning around it. You get injuries and spend unnecessary effort accommodating it for 6 months when it could have healed in 2 weeks. Prep, the 2+ hour run, post cleanup, and daily recovery once you have a pile of issues gets to be all you have time to handle.

It may not be quite as bad as that can imply, but I doubt he has much time for anything else. As much as I love running I would consider streak running to be more of a prison than an enjoyable way to engage in the sport.