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Run- 42km Marathon
Walk? About the same though I have done some hikes in the mountains which were not as long but took much more time and were much harder.
Bike- about 100km
Climb- 12 pitches maybe 500m
Teenager, early 1960s. Walked from my neighborhood to aunt's shore, 12 miles. No one home. Turned around and walked back home. Total 24 miles.
I've equaled or surpassed that in the military.
Some of the runs with the 101st Airborne at Ft. Campbell were shorter but required much more exertion and O2 uptake going up-and-down those hills.... up-and-down, up-and-down, up-and-down. Whew!
My wife and I did the Komen Breast Cancer 3-Day walk which is 60 miles. Longest individual day was probably a touch over 20 (allegedly - there was some variance with my GPS). Longest run is probably 9 miles or so.
run - 13.1 mile half marathon
bike - I got lost on a bike ride, did just under 75 miles. Not much fun was had. I'm ok with under 50 miles these days.
^both of those records were over a decade ago.
I am strongly considering hiking the complete Inca Trail, which is 26 miles over 4 days, at 9K-11K elevation. This is on my bucket list, but it may kill me.
25 miles to and 25 miles miles back on a borrowed mountain bike from my neighbor on pavement. While that was 7 years ago, apparently mountain bikes are for the trails and road bikes are for the road.
run - 13.1 mile half marathon
bike - I got lost on a bike ride, did just under 75 miles. Not much fun was had. I'm ok with under 50 miles these days.
^both of those records were over a decade ago.
I am strongly considering hiking the complete Inca Trail, which is 26 miles over 4 days, at 9K-11K elevation. This is on my bucket list, but it may kill me.
I've walked similar terrain in Ecuador, at similar elevations, in an afternoon, but only the downhill side. Going downhill, you can do about 4 miles an hour, which means about 15-16 miles in 4 hours. It's no biggie. Uphill is a different matter. I didn't notice that the altitude bothered me at all on the way down, but uphill at the higher elevations, around 10K+ it seemed like I was short of oxygen. I've done about 20 miles/day in the Olympic Mts. in WA with a full backpack, when I was in my teens.
I've done a bike ride around San Juan Island in WA State, which is about 40 miles, in a day.
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I was around 20 years old and bought my first 10-speed bike. It was a clunker by today's standards, but they were kind of a new thing some 40 plus years ago
I had read somewhere that a person in good shape should be able to ride 100 miles in 10 hours.
Back then I ran a sub 5 minute mile with no effort almost every night for fun. So why not give 100 miles a try?
From my house to a certain food place we went to by car now and again was 52 miles one-way on a little used highway. Perfect I thought. It took me a little over 3 hours to get there, but it took over 6 to get back, and I nearly collapsed.
Remind me the next time I try to ride 100 miles in the middle of Georgia in August to take some water, or at least a few dollars.
My "daily" hike in our mountain preserves is 5 miles in almost any weather. A 10 mile hike is not unusual in the northern part of the state. As far as riding, I used to do a daily ride of 10 miles, or a trail ride of 20. Pretty much every day. Now hiking is more convenient so I do that instead. Longest bike ride (at one time) was 52 miles. I used to do a lot of road riding.
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