What would be the world record for marathon if a person could run each mile a different times in 24 hour period

hannsen wrote:

The sleep thing is not that big of a deal. As long as youre rested going into it its not a problem- you get sleepy by the end but it doesnt affect the actual running i dont think as long as you pace it properly which of course can be a challenge.

I was thinking an even easier way to do it is in 400m or especially 100m segments. Could someone do a 100 in 14 every 3.5 min for 24 hours.I dont see why not and thats even faster than what is being projected.Bolt could prob do it lol ud just have to keep him interested have it at an all day party. Think about the workouts Ryun did 40x400 or whatever- you could multiply that distance by 2.5 and multiply the rest he took by like 10 times or more.

Have you ever done a 24-hour race? Staying up for 24 hrs is hard, but very hard if you are planning on running a 4:15 1600 every hour on the hour with very little warmup and cooldown. I have done a bunch of 24 and 12 hour cycling races, which are much easier than running, and you are really beat up after 12 hours.

If you do a little warmup and cooldown and do this challenge as a 27 X 1600m workout with one rep every hour, you are adding about 20-30 more miles onto your total. Therefore, you have to do it with very little running or strides in between.

This is another reason why you would want to do it in sets of 4-9 X 1600m, once you are warmed up, you will actually do better with 10-15:00 rests in between than stretching out the rests to 55:00 between each rep.

Your legs would be stiff and beat up by 10 reps if you raced a mile every hour for 24 hours.

14-Flat wrote:

you will actually do better with 10-15:00 rests in between than stretching out the rests to 55:00 between each rep.

Your legs would be stiff and beat up by 10 reps if you raced a mile every hour for 24 hours.

You wouldn't need to warm up and cool down. Good grief.

Anyone should do better with a 51-52 minute rest than a 10 minute rest.

I'd just be sleeping while you're wearing yourself out.

bored and already shot load wrote:

What if instead of a marathon as it exists today a new 26.2 mile event was created where a runner could start a mile of the event at any period during a 24 hour period.

First off, I am sorry I didn't read the whole thread (omg, don't judge me!) In all seriousness, my first reaction to your question is.... What if you had THE best milers to run each mile for 26.2 miles? Hmmm...don't you think that would be more interesting? But then again, maybe I missed your point of this discussion? If so, then my bad.

Roo Runner wrote:

Jordy Williamsz did this just the other day at Penn.

He ran well at penn but a 3:58.4 1600 with a running start isn't equivalent to sub-4.

He ran 3:58.7 in 4 x mile.

What if instead of a marathon as it exists today a new 26.2 mile event was created where a runner could start a mile of the event at any period during a 24 hour period.

For example

The event starts at 7:00 AM and runners have until 6:59 AM the next day to complete it. The intervals have to be 1 mile in length but could be started at any time and the clock doesn't start until you make the first step of the mile.

The last .2 starts the same way.

What kind of strategy would you use?

What do you think the world record average mile pace would be for this event?

14-Flat wrote:

Your legs would be stiff and beat up by 10 reps if you raced a mile every hour for 24 hours.

not so.. oddly enough. 10 reps was easy. after 24 hours I was beat, more from lack of sleep than the running. Guys who could actually get to sleep in the 50min breaks did better.

In fact the whole thing worked more like an interval session than a race - I set an 8k pr the next week..

sgdhtj wrote:

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on a 24-hr relay our top guy averaged under 4:30 miles, IIRC he didn't run marathons though his training partner was 2:30s low.

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That seems extremely unlikely unless your team called it quits after 80-100 miles.

285 miles for a new Universities world record, SA record. I wasn't on that team, I was with the other slow guys on the B team.

My recollection was false, he averaged 4:38 for 31 miles in fact. So not sub-4:30, but fairly close.

Splits can be seen:

3:45 for 1500m at that time, his current page shows a 2:33 marathon,

humpty doo wrote:

roll into the next mile.

The language for the clock starting at the first step does seem to allow for a rolling start and that is a good .01 shaver.

1:48. World records are set by studs. There are probably a few elite 2:04/5 marathons with sub 4 mile speed who, if given 24 hours, can run 26 miles averaging 4:07 pace. Totally doable....twill hurt like bad stuff, but doable.