Man vs. Horse 50 mile endurance Run

"To go pack to running on the asphalt"- punks not dead but...

What does that sentence even mean? It doesn't make sense on any level. Somebody please explain it to me....

How do they even get a horse to race 50 miles? I'm assuming someone rides the horse. Seems unfair.

punks not dead but... wrote:

It's just the name of a race idiots! Darn, it's amazing how many ignorant rednecks there are in the U.S. To go pack to running on the asphalt.

Idiots? ...I hate to break it to you, but mankind routinely tries things much, MUCH more outlandish than a man vs. horse race. Why shouldn't we believe that it's a real thing?

About vet checks... I believe that in the Welsh race afore-mentionned (William Hill man vd. horse, approx. 20M), the horses are also checked at regular intervals. However, that time is deducted from their finishing time in order to produce the results. Thus, while the runners are doing 20 continuous miles, the horse is in effect doing an intervals session. Though the horse was only beaten for the first time last year, runners have regularly come within 5mins of the horse. The race also used to be a man vs. horse. vs. bike; and the mountain bikers were regularly the last to come in.

I recall a certain sprinter racing a giraffe and donkey.

Ha! Yes, but that was ridiculous as he had to do it about 10 times, winning some and losing others, until they got good shots on it. So it wasn't really a true race.

1337hax0r wrote:

Could the man ride the horse? Vice versa?

half

That is the horse is allowed to take breaks and ride the man, but the man is not allowed to ride the horse.

the question is not whether a man can beat the horse, but if the horse will be drug tested or not.

You know those horses have no morals, I am sure they are on the juice.

look horses are faster and much more well endowed than us also.

Advantage.......HORSE.

IF ITS THE HORSE FROM THE MOVIE HIDALGO... MY VOTE IS THE HORSE.

UNLESS THE PERSON RUNNING IS JASON REXING, IN TRAINERS.

there is actually a lot of new evidence indicating horse are native animals of north america. At least that is where they have found the oldest remains.

there was a scientific study in nature that showed that Pronghorns...for their size have near the same VO2 max to a bat.THAT is unbelivable..

hannsen wrote:

they should let a pronghorn antelope into this competition. In the racing the antelope book by that german ultamarathoner/naturalist it says they can run 7 miles in 10 minutes!! I periodically post that on a message board because it is so mind boggling but noone is ever interested heh.

bbb-uuu-mm-p wrote:

look horses are faster and much more well endowed than us also.

Advantage.......HORSE.

More DERIVED you mean...

Anyway they loss there there advantage(to some extent), when they have to start burning free fatty acids.

It's not that they can't jump a fence, it's that the thought doesn't occur to them. They could easily jump one, but they've never figured that out. The same is true of racing greyhounds that are often kept in fences as short as four or five feet.

Hypo wrote:

It's not that they can't jump a fence, it's that the thought doesn't occur to them. They could easily jump one, but they've never figured that out. The same is true of racing greyhounds that are often kept in fences as short as four or five feet.

Not true..there legs are very slender and limited in there range of motion(pronghorns).

They even have trouble jumping a small stream,,, and have to land on there back feet

It is a misnomer to claim that a man is racing a horse when there is another man on the horse's back. That's two men against one horse - one racing it and one weighting it down.

Bulls***.

nice rebutle..

Other the pronghorn is a highly derived species that over millions of years of selective pressure never encountered barriers....to the extent that other unguligrades have.

i got the discription of pronghorn jumping small streams from a book written by John M. Byers, who is probably the leading expert in pronghorn antelope.

the book is ...

"Built for Speed, a life in the year of pronghorn antelope"

John M. Myers.

Haverd University Press

Cambridge , Massachusetts, and London England 2003.

and here is the quote..Starting at page 6..under the chapter "Anatomy of a Speedster"

"The long slender lower is the main key to pronghorn running speedbut this design does carry some constraints.PRONGHORN DO NOT LIKE TO JUMP. They much prefer to crawl under a fence 4 feet high, if they can find a hole, rather than jump it. Indeed, hundreds of migrating pronghorn have been killed when heedless ranchers built fences with no bottom clearance across fall migration routes.Pronghorn EVEN HESITATE TO JUMP ACROSS SMALL GULLIES OR STREAMS. IF THEY DO JUMP THEY USUALLY LAND ON THE HIND FEET FIRST- a goofy looking maneuver.

Pronghorn probably aviod jumping to aviod snapping the lower limb bones(9in long and a finger-width in diameter)when all of the body's weight comes down on them.After you've watched Pronghorn for some time , white-tailed deer, with its shorter heavier legs, seem slow and clumsy. But a white-tailed deer , with its shorter, heavier legs, can bound in a graceful arc over a 7-foot fence and land comfortably on its hind limbs."

FAT AND LAZY wrote:

IF ITS THE HORSE FROM THE MOVIE HIDALGO... MY VOTE IS THE HORSE.

UNLESS THE PERSON RUNNING IS JASON REXING, IN TRAINERS.

Actually, if you look it up online you will see that Jason Rexing was originally cast to play the part of Hidalgo in that movie. They ended up using the horse instead because Rexing kept bucking Viggo off and becoming erect during race shots.