Originally Posted By: CaT
Just read this article about an army vet who ran 4,425 miles cross-country (Astoria, Oregon to somewhere in Maine) in honor of his fellow soldiers who have fallen in Iraq.

It says he averaged 29 miles/day, and only stopped for 4 days the whole trip, having begun on May 1 and finished today.

Sorta makes the Badwater-to-Whitney run look like preschool playground recess by comparison.
You're not comparing apples to oranges, you're comparing apples to habanero peppers!

Next we'll prove a 100m race is preschool stuff next to a 5000m race.