It is hard for many people to run even 1 km, but there are people who can run 10 km long enough distance. There are people known as super -marathoners who can run a distance of more than 42 km long. But how far a person can run before he just has to stop? About this writes Live Science.
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To answer this question, you need to determine what really means " To date, an unofficial record for the longest race without sleep belongs to the American super marathon Dina Carnasis. 20 years ago he ran 563 km in 3.5 days.
Two years ago, the American Super Marathon Harvey Lewis set a new record in a long distance race, running in a circle. In this type of competition, runners run 6.7 km long every hour, until only one runner remains. Lewis ran 108 such circles in the same number of hours that it is approximately 4.5 days. That is, the general distance that the runner ran 724 km. But Lewis at the end of each hour took short breaks to rest.
Since the runners at super -marathon distances often take short breaks to walk, eat, go to the toilet or, depending on the type and duration of the race, sleep, there is no official record for the longest race without stopping. But if he was, it was the need to go to the toilet, it would most likely be the most important limiter.
Jenny Hoffman, a physicist from Harvard University, has a world record for the most rapid intersection of the United States on foot among women. She was able to cross the country in 47 days, 12 hours and 35 minutes. According to the scientist, the most important factor that limits the movement of a person to very large distances without stops is the need for urination.
According to the French physiologist Guillaume Mille, not counting short breaks to go to the toilet, people have a number of features that allow us to well overcome long distances during the run.
People have relatively large gluteal muscles that help with moving forward, the ability to maintain elastic energy in our tendons and muscles, as well as strong ligaments of the neck, which maintain the stability of our brain during running. People are also well adapted to run in the heat, because we can adjust the temperature of our body using sweating.
Despite these adaptations, people never specially evolved to run over too long distances. This can only be achieved by long training and proper nutrition, scientists say.
Scientists say that a number of physical factors, such as trauma, muscle fatigue or sleep deprivation, can force the runner to stop. But moral resistance also plays a role in very long distances. To continue to move for several days in a row, super -marathoners must be able to overcome pain and exhaustion.
More and more people are trying to escape the supermarraph every year and the number of people who want to do this has grown by 1996 by 1676%. Perhaps in the future someone will be able to set a world record for running a very long distance without stopping.
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