Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots:
Reading that it sounds like his main feat was to keep running. If you do the math a 5 day/4 night race with 18hrs running a day by the other competitors gave him a 24 hour time advantage over them.
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Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots:
http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young-the-61-ye...
Man, I had never heard of this guy before. That is absolutely incredible. Thanks for posting that.
Reading that it sounds like his main feat was to keep running. If you do the math a 5 day/4 night race with 18hrs running a day by the other competitors gave him a 24 hour time advantage over them.
That's real endurance!