2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
This book will undoubtedly revolutionize your understanding of human capabilities and your own capabilities. The luxurious photo book contains 50 of the most difficult races in which people take part. If you think that a marathon or a full IRONMAN is the limit of human capabilities, then you definitely need to take a look at "Hardest Endurance Race"!:)
Here are some examples of starts that are described in the book and which made a shocking impression on me:
- Norseman is a 226 km triathlon that starts in icy water, then continues with a wind and cold bike ride. Then a marathon uphill to a height of 1883 m on stones and a difficult road.
- Trans Europe Footrace - 4132 km running across Europe - from Gibraltar to Scandinavia.
- Ö till Ö - running and swimming for a distance of 64 km, where participants enter and exit the water 38 times. Very cold water + 10 … + 16 ° С.
- Marathon des Sables is a six-day ultramarathon across the Sahara over a distance of 240 km. All these days, the participants literally run on the sand, fighting heat, cold, sandstorms and other gifts of the desert.
- The Great Wall Marathon is just a 42 km marathon, but along the Great Wall of China - 5165 steps up and down.
- Yak Attack is a 400 km bike race along the Himalayan mountain pass with an altitude gain of 12,000 m.
- Ultraman World Championship is such an advanced version of IRONMAN with a total length of 514 km. In Hawaii, you swim 10 km on the first day and ride a bike for 145 km, on the second day - a bike ride for 276 km with a climb of 2611 m, on the third day - a run for 84 km!
- Self Transcedence 3100 Mile Race is the strangest competition ever. People run 4989 km for 52 days in two Queens neighborhoods in New York in a circle 883 m long. Why they don't understand this, but it's very cool to read about it:)
Stories about all the starts are accompanied by atsomfer photo stories of those who took part in them - preparation, sensations, observations (here is an example).
In the Russian edition from "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" there are many stories of our compatriots.
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