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15716: RE: [MUD-Dev] Walking

On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, John W Pierce wrote:

> I think (don't remember for certain) that the world's record for 50 km =
race
> walking (bout 31 miles) is well under four hours, and that anything und=
er
> five hours is considered very good.  I don't know how long it takes the=
m to
> recover enough to, say, be able to do it again (I vaguely remember bein=
g
> told that it takes marathoners a couple of weeks to fully recover from =
a
> race). Quite a lot of people have walked 100 mile in 24 hours, though I

Hmm.. not refering to a marathon 'race', a middleaged Danish man just set=
=20
a record for Marathon, and he's been doing two marathons a week all year=20
2000, and he just cornered the 88th this week. The footage i was shown,
showed him in a leasurely jogging pace. I think he's over 40 by the looks=
=20
of him (can't remember though).

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Address:                |___  +45 40383492    __|__       +45 45252425   =
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bygn 208, CBS.          |  Sequence Analysis, Technical University of Den=
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