>>1593710>>1593710Over a single day, yes, sometimes, though top ultra marathon runners have about the same time over 100 miles, with top horses being between 7 and 16 hours depending on terrain and human winners in the UK being about 14. And even aside from that the human could run longer per day and match or even double the horse for distance over 24 hours rather than the 8 to 16 those races are usually held over and which horses would die or cripple themselves permanently by exceeding.
The difference in the extreme cases is that the human can do it again the next day. In the non extreme cases a healthy human has about the same day to day multi day travel as a trained horse. The advantage of a horse is the load it can carry, not the ground it can cover and certainly not the terrain.
Horses are not terrible, history and evolution says otherwise, no one is saying anything against them, but the facts are that humans are biologically made to walk and run further for longer.
Nijmegan 4 day march in Holland is 50 miles per day for four days, 60 thousand plus people do it, most are there to drink and have a laugh, many are young/old/average fitness, the drop out rate is low. Two guys in their 80s finished 35 and 40 miles respectively in a 24 hour race the other year. The drop out rate on the long distance horse races is super high, only have horses that are trained for years and bread for it and the horses only do it because they are being pushed by a rider, many are pulled by vets.
Both on average and at the creme de la creme, Humans are the endurance runners of nature if they put themselves in the position to be it.
I live in a city but get out, and it makes me hurt that so many people have convinced themselves humans are sub par as animals just because they and their friends are lazy af who have never pushed themselves and don't believe anyone else can either.
