I’m going to see if I can start an event the competitors pay for.
It will encompass a 500 yard briar patch low crawl, followed by a swim from Alcatraz to the mainland.
Entry is $500.
Can’t read the article (paywall). However, if it presents what I think it does, then maybe this is a sign that competitions are focusing too hard on “extreme” and not enough on the actual sport. A 100K run is challenging enough without throwing in extreme conditions, and even events that change terrain a lot (such as the Tour de France) are designed to have gear that changes based on the terrain of the day. To go from desert to mountain in a single day is a level of stupidity on the part of the organizers that should preclude them from ever being an organizer again. It sounds as if 17 runners died. Horrendous price for ignorance.
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C.H.U.D.
How do you run a 100K race? That’s about 62,137 miles
Thats two and a half times around the earth. Something is wrong on the math.
Anybody check the local body-parts donation clinics?
“Here’s another one boss, over here in the ditch. Think we’ll get 50 yen for this one too? I’m keeping the running shoes this time, though.”