As in RACE it, not just run it for the sake of finishing. I vote yes but only just and you'd need a freak of an athlete. Surely it would be close to impossible to keep continually getting doing 91cm jumps to get over the barriers after 30k and further of hard racing. It would have to be on the track, so 42195m including about 420 barriers (105 of them water jumps).
having just finished my last 35km run before a marathon, the thought of clearing any kind of hurdle is paralyzing...
If you figure a steeple time is roughly equivalent to what the athlete could run for 2 miles, then using the same ratio of 15:16.1, we'd get a theoretic world best of ~2:15. I really doubt even the best could keep this going for >30km.
Put up $100k for prize money, and you will have your answer.
Springheeled Jack wrote:
As in RACE it, not just run it for the sake of finishing. I vote yes but only just and you'd need a freak of an athlete. Surely it would be close to impossible to keep continually getting doing 91cm jumps to get over the barriers after 30k and further of hard racing. It would have to be on the track, so 42195m including about 420 barriers (105 of them water jumps).
If it's possible to finish it, then it's possible for one person to finish it faster than a group of other people who are all competing for the best time.
THEREFORE, it is physically possible to race a marathon steeplechase and your question is decidedly uninteresting.
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I once experienced a dream/nightmare of doing this, only it was a barrier every 1/4 mile and it was on the roads. It wasstarting to really hurt and I was maybe ten miles in before my brain decided to "change channels".
I don't think it's possible.
Ummm ever heard of Tom Bedford?