1mph running to exhaustion

Until you pass out from lack of sleep.

Well 60:00 pace is slow even for walking so I guess I could do that until I get forced asleep. Maybe 2 straight days if I don't have a really good reason to stay up/no caffeine.

probably less than what people think.

This would be very difficult after 24 hours.

BR wrote:

How far do you think you could run if you had to average 1mph every hour.

The rules: Every hour, you must travel 1 mile on your own two legs. Walk, run, jog, it doesn't matter as long as you do at least 1 mile every hour.

The question: For how many hours (miles) would this be possible?

1 mph? You can do that at a glacial walking pace. It probably wouldn't be a problem with physical exhaustion, just lack of sleep.

iowatfxc wrote:

Until you pass out from lack of sleep.

you could jog a mile and still get 40 minutes sleep in. and a light snack.

im guess this could go on until you get bored shitless....so about 6 miles max.

The real challenge would be something like how far could you go at 6 mph pace.

If there was a lot of money involved, I am sure people could do a month

straight.

If you can handle 168 mile weeks than you could go for years

milethon wrote:

If there was a lot of money involved, I am sure people could do a month

straight.

I agree with you. If the only requirement is to cover 1 mile every hour, you could jog a mile at the beginning of an hour, sleep for 100 minutes, then jog a mile at the end of the next hour. Repeating this a few times each night would allow you to get enough sleep to get by.

This is similar the sleep pattern of solo sailboat racing champions, they typically take 20 to 40 minute naps though, because they don't want to sleep long enough to get into "sleep inertia," which could be deadly in a sudden emergency. Our runner doesn't have that danger and can have the luxury of longer naps.

If the OP literally means that you have to constantly move at 1mph, then I think some really tough people might make about 72 hours.

1mph all day every day. 168mpw no sweat. chump change.

Rest of my life.

Could have 45 minutes sleep every hour.

Some guy did it for 1000 hours back in the late 1800s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barclay_Allardice

This is exactly what ultra "runners" do.

until forever wrote:

iowatfxc wrote:

Until you pass out from lack of sleep.

you could jog a mile and still get 40 minutes sleep in. and a light snack.

im guess this could go on until you get bored shitless....so about 6 miles max.

Agree but the number is much less than 6 (more like 1).

until forever wrote:

iowatfxc wrote:

Until you pass out from lack of sleep.

you could jog a mile and still get 40 minutes sleep in. and a light snack.

im guess this could go on until you get bored shitless....so about 6 miles max.

Well that would be a waste of your time. Instead you should run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min, run 1 mile, wait till the 2nd hr expires, immediately run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min. You could do this for eternity.

moose wrote:

until forever wrote:

you could jog a mile and still get 40 minutes sleep in. and a light snack.

im guess this could go on until you get bored shitless....so about 6 miles max.

Well that would be a waste of your time. Instead you should run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min, run 1 mile, wait till the 2nd hr expires, immediately run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min. You could do this for eternity.

I reread the original post. Since you only have to AVERAGE 1 mph, there's no need to do something each hour. You could run 8 hours in an hour, then sleep for 7 hours before running again, for example.

boring boring wrote:

moose wrote:

Well that would be a waste of your time. Instead you should run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min, run 1 mile, wait till the 2nd hr expires, immediately run 1 mile, sleep 90-100 min. You could do this for eternity.

I reread the original post. Since you only have to AVERAGE 1 mph, there's no need to do something each hour. You could run 8 hours in an hour, then sleep for 7 hours before running again, for example.

Read again:

The rules: Every hour, you must travel 1 mile on your own two legs. Walk, run, jog, it doesn't matter as long as you do at least 1 mile every hour.

moose wrote:

boring boring wrote:

I reread the original post. Since you only have to AVERAGE 1 mph, there's no need to do something each hour. You could run 8 hours in an hour, then sleep for 7 hours before running again, for example.

Read again:

The rules: Every hour, you must travel 1 mile on your own two legs. Walk, run, jog, it doesn't matter as long as you do at least 1 mile every hour.

OK then about 1 hour.

Interestingly, I've done this. We ran a 24 hour relay where each of us ran a mile. I wound up running a six minute mile on the hour. By 2 o'clock in the morning, someone would wake me up 5 minutes or so before my leg. I'd walk over to the start, run my mile, and then walk back to my sleeping bag. It was amazing how quickly I could get back to sleep.

Now, if you only had to run one mile each hour, you could start a mile at 7 minutes before the hour, run a mile. Walk until the next hour started, and then run another mile. You'd have about an hour and 40 minutes for sleep.

I think your distance would depend a lot more on the sleeping conditions than anything else.