King Hob ([info]hobobob) wrote,
2008-12-20 14:36:00
Every year, Australia hosts 543.7-mile (875-kilometer) endurance racing from Sydney to Melbourne. It is considered among the world's most grueling ultra-marathons. The race takes five days to complete and is normally only attempted by world-class athletes who train specially for the event. These athletes are typically less than 30 years old and backed by large companies such as Nike.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)


In 1983, the 61-year-old potato farmer won the first Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon. The race was run between what were then Australia's two largest shopping centres: Westfield Parramatta, in Sydney, and Westfield Doncaster, in Melbourne.[2] Cliff arrived at the start line with overalls and gumboots. He ran at a slow loping pace and trailed the leaders for most of the course, but by denying himself sleep and running while the others slept he slowly gained on them and eventually won by a large margin.


The Westfield run took him five days, 15 hours and a few minutes.

http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-year-old-farmer-that-won-the-worlds-toughest-race

This guy was twice the age of the rest of the competitors, ran across australia for five days without sleeping, won and beat the record by 9 hours, didn't take the prize, and invented a new style of ultra-marathon running.

hacks

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[info]chipo09

December 20 2008, 23:44:25 UTC 3 years ago

Respect.

[info]spykid

December 21 2008, 06:47:17 UTC 3 years ago

this shit is OLD

[info]crazychopstix

December 21 2008, 11:10:34 UTC 3 years ago

weird. my friend dave just put that up on his facebook.

dope. watch the youtube video of it.
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