Joanie Benoit, in 1984, running and winning the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon just two weeks after knee surgery!
Joanie Benoit, in 1984, running and winning the U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon just two weeks after knee surgery!
HQ version of Ross sisters:
Simo Hayha from Finland, nicknamed "the white death". During the 'Winter War' against Russia he had 505 confirmed sniper kills in just 100 days. He would often lie camouflaged covered in snow for long periods of time in -40c temps. Had his jaw shot off and the bullet exited his head and he still survived.
any running feat wrote:
I mean obviously it is physically great, but there just isn't enough people with perhaps the same physical shape who would take that kind of risk. They are out dominating other forms of safer sport. So I would call it the single greatest physically ballsy feat. I would name the greatest physical feat something that anybody can try but only one does it better than anyone, that way there is no doubt about it being the greatest of all physical feat.
You can't be great if you don't take risks.
Molasses runs faster than me wrote:
Simo Hayha from Finland, nicknamed "the white death". During the 'Winter War' against Russia he had 505 confirmed sniper kills in just 100 days. He would often lie camouflaged covered in snow for long periods of time in -40c temps. Had his jaw shot off and the bullet exited his head and he still survived.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4
I've heard the same story, but the temp was always -40F.
Reinhold Messner (1980) all by himself
Mark and Mary"s wrote:
I've heard the same story, but the temp was always -40F.
I hope you're joking, b/c those two temps are the exact same.
Jesus Christ saving the world through His death on the cross and His third-day resurrection!
"If they ever tell my story, let them say I walked with giants. Men rise and fall like the winter wheat, but these names will never die. Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, breaker of horses. Let them say, I lived, in the time of Achilles."
I vote for Earnest Shackleton.
Has to be this
college kid wrote:
Mark and Mary"s wrote:I've heard the same story, but the temp was always -40F.
I hope you're joking, b/c those two temps are the exact same.
It was between -20c and -40c but I think you got trolled.
Seriously, page 3 and we don't have the answer yet? Clearly:
Fast Guy, 100 beers, 100 miles, 79h 44m 26s
50,50,50 was Karno.
WWM was Litton...
might be wejo wrote:
Seriously, page 3 and we don't have the answer yet? Clearly:
Fast Guy, 100 beers, 100 miles, 79h 44m 26s
Incredible for a normal guy, but this is what Rod Dixon called an "easy Sunday."
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but fighting a battle in full plate armor has got to be near the top of the list.
Jesus feeding the 5,000.
Junxia Wang running 10K in 29:31 and then 2 or 3 days later running 3K in 8:06. Nobody has come close to those records.
By man or God? There is a difference. Do PED's count?
