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Gives me an idea of an ultra endurance event... Think "Ironman" of walking. Let's say participants would have two weeks to complete the 587 km course or some part of it and whoever finished first is the Leatherman.


There already are, they're called ultramarathons [0], 587 km would be on the longer end for a regularly held race but it's only slightly longer than Dean Karnazes's record for an uninterrupted run which was 560 km in 80 hours [1] so it'd be a multi day race probably.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarathon

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Karnazes#Running_highligh...


Usually the extremely long distance ultra events are held as laps around a limited area because it's hard to safely run a race over hundreds of kilometers over a long period. Each racer needs a support car usually in the really long distance events that do happen to be run on roads etc. blocking traffic and making sure if they do get into medical trouble they can get help immediately.


That was a big deal in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrianism

Crazy things like people walking 1 mile every hour for 1000 hours, grabbing bits of sleep within those hours.


Do you have to walk? I get that power walking exists as a sport. But no way to easily disqualify people from running instead of walking. Plenty of ultras exist though this would be a cool theme.



Now days, people call them backyard ultras.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_ultra


It's only one loop so not really a backyard ultra.


How would it differ from other long ultras?


It would be on the longer side of ultras and unique if it was actually run over the route (vaguely defined) that Leatherman took. But that's mostly because they tend to not be done that way because of the difficulties of supporting runners when the course is that long. The really long ultras are often lap based instead of being a course that's actually 100+km long or take place in remote areas with support cars following the runners.


Cool origin story


I believe it's a bit of a disservice. People should develop a musical ear to tune their own instruments. Haven't been using tuners for about past five years. However my guitar does drift off a bit sometimes


agree with you but you cant tune onstage/ with other instruments also tuning. the guitarist can't go "everybody shut up I'm tuning" like in the orchestra. and I believe in concert bands/ orchestras they also tune with equipments before going on stage


Can anybody learn it? I thought many people were just tone deaf. Is it a myth?


Tuning off of a reference note isn't that hard, almost anyone can learn to do it. It's just more convenient to use the tuner for each string.


You've got a nice LAMP there, can I come in?


Would Henry Ford tax programmers for the time they spent debugging?


I can only imagine what kind of images Bing would show for this search


I'm so joining the wait list


I believe mindfulness teaches you to focus your attentions in a turn on / turn off manner. It doesn't actually tell you to be painfully attentive all the time.


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