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Podcast: Ultrarunning History
Episode: 18: 1,000 Milers – Part 2 – The Barclay Match
Description: By Davy Crockett
Both a podcast episode and a full article
Richard Manks
Can a person walk or run 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours, doing a mile in each and every hour for nearly 42 days? That was the strange question that surfaced in 1809 in England. In Part 1 of the 1000-milers I covered the attempts to reach 1,000 miles as fast possible. This part will cover what became known as the Barclay Match, walking a mile every hour, which was a feat of enduring sleep deprivation and altering sleep patterns dramatically. In a way, these matches were similar endurance activities to the bizarre walkathons o...