IF you would get PAID $1,000 for every mile, how far could you go on foot tomorrow?

And the evidence is in the post above. We will await your apology. And thank you to “los the Lessor.”

10 miles is a joke. I think the average would be 25 miles for someone of normal fitness. The mental part would be what separates those who go 50 from those who go 25. Physically, most people in good health would be capable of going 50 miles though.

And of course silence from the humiliated Kobbs Hessler, a poster who just shoots off his mouth and doesn’t care about the facts.

$1000/mi is ridiculous. I would definitely be shooting for 140+ miles. Given a few months I'd shoot for 150+ but in my fitness now 140 should be reasonable.

For $100/mi I would run 125 miles or more tomorrow with zero notice.

I've run 100 miles on trails in 17 hours, on roads or a flat loop I could easily be under 15hrs (9min/mi) with no breaks. And I'd do it again a couple weeks later if you still paid me.

FYI I've run a couple dozen ultras and am running about 80 miles a week on all trail, so maybe 12hrs/week of running for the year so far.

So we know must be a professional runner to be able to run 7:17 per mile nonstop for 17 hours, which is 140 miles. How many people on earth can currently do this?

If you're curious I can give you a reasonable estimate of this.
I am a locally sub-elite runner, or as a trailrunner you'd call me locally elite. I ran 100mi in 17hrs in a trail race in my first attempt at 100mi. I won the race but it wasn't even a good performance from me, I was hoping to be an hour faster. That was an effort of under 8min/mi for the first half and probably diminished to about 9min/mi effort for a chunk of the middle before picking it back up toward the last 15mi. If you lined up every active and currently healthy ultrarunner in the United States for a 10hr trail race, I'd maybe be in the top 100 but it's unlikely. I was a 15:20s 5k runner and 2:28 marathoner, so there's tons of people better than me but not many who actually do these types of events. For reference I could still get close to 15:30/2:28 but I'd need a couple months to do more road and track workouts and stop running so much on trails.

I may have missed something, as I thought this was a 24hr thing and not 17hrs. for 17hrs on a flat road I could definitely hit 100mi in 14hrs or so without too much difficulty if I'm being honest (8:xx/mi effort) and in the last 2.5hrs I could get in another 15mi probably.

127.5mi in 17hrs is respectable at 8:00/mi and that's a lot harder than it sounds due to muscle breakdown and fueling/hydration. Most people would get to 40 miles comfortably but wouldn't be able to fuel well enough to keep the effort going.

I misinterpreted the initial post a bit, I assumed we'd get 24hrs. But a lot of people could run 7:17/mi for 17hrs if they gave it a couple years to get the fueling experience. Not many could do that with no notice, maybe 100s but not more than 300 people?

Two summers ago I hiked 100km in 15 hours.
Did about 1 minute of running per mile to hit my goal pace.
I was not in running shape at all. Had been recovering from a big surgery actually, just hiking for a few months.
Carried all of my food and water. 10k of vert
wasn’t that difficult.
wasn’t sore the next day like after a marathon.

I remember thinking that had I done this when I was in running shape, I could have done gone way faster and much further in a day.

so, to answer the question:

if it truly was $1000 per mile, I would be motivated and could do 100 miles in 24 hours. Probably more. Especially 10 years ago when I was super strong and fit.

I was a 400m-800m guy in high school.

I guess another question, which doesn’t help tell us how far you could go on foot in 17 hours, but what is the farthest you have done? I was able to run 28xx for 10000m and I am pretty confident I have never done more than about 30 miles on foot in a day and so many of you are confident you can do 50, 70, 100….I am not so confident for myself. But I appreciate the responses. It really makes me wonder.

I would go 65 miles

Most of you must be really struggling if you would put yourselves through something that may cause a long-lasting injury. I said that I would do 10 miles.

Thanks, guys, for the detective work.

Now, in the interests of accuracy, I have to point out that I was actually wrong. I said I won $2,000 for 8th place (Anne Myers was my maiden name) and 7th place was $1,000 more, but apparently I actually won $3,000 for 8th (and 7th place was $1,000 more).

The original point of my story stands: I did not find the possibility of earning an extra $1,000 highly motivating at the 25 mile-ish point of a marathon, even when I felt I was running OK.

Yes I noticed that, but of course that just made Kobbs Hessler even more incorrect and inappropriate in his laughing at you for remembering a dollar figure which could not possibly comport with his worldview (which made him assume you were incorrect), as opposed to placing his thumb on the credibility scale on your side because it was your own report of your own experience. Bit such is life.

Thinking about this, I remember back to forever ago when I did 100k just to prove to my dad that I could do it.

If this money was on the line, I think I could pretty easily sustain 8 hours of running with enough food and drink, however far that would get me. 40-50 miles? 40 easily, that's 5mph, that is my all-day warmup pace, so let's say 40.

Not bad, for a day's "work". So who wants to pay? I'm ready, but it has to be above 60F and preferably flat.

Hmmmm, didn't read. Maybe after the 40 or 50, if I still had some daylight, I could walk another few miles. For 1k/mile, sure! Unless that landed me in Gary, IN.

The woman who took 7th place in front of you was Tammy Slusser, a local. I believe she won Pgh twice while her husband Don was also a competitive runner in the area.

Yes, I raced Tammy frequently back in the day. She was usually just a little bit better than I, as she was that day. At the time I didn't know it was Tammy I was chasing.

Money shouldn’t be necessary for motivation to catch someone ahead of you. All that’s needed is competitive fire. Evidently you have none.