King Vitamin wrote:
Ran some numbers. 0.5% of people in the US have ran a marathon. ~2% of people who run a marathon will break 3 hours (based on an analysis of 2017 Chicago marathon results). Therefore, about 0.01% of Americans can break 3 hours in the marathon. While about 1% of Americans would probably be able to be financially well off enough to comfortably afford a $60,000 Mt. Everest summit vacation.
Running a sub 3-hr marathon is about 100x harder to accomplish than summiting Everest. Even if you assume that 90% of the people that could break 3 hrs in the marathon choose never to run a marathon, that would mean only 0.1% of people in the US could break 3 hours in the marathon, still making running a sub 3 hr marathon 10x harder than summiting Everest.
Laughing so hard. Great post.