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Bro's got nothing on Cliff Young

A potato farmer, aged 61, he turned up in overalls and work boots to the Sydney to Melbourne ultramarathon, 875km.

Young arrived to compete in overalls and work boots (though he ran the race in a new pair of runners somebody gave him), without his dentures (later saying that they rattled when he ran).[9] He ran at a slow and loping pace and trailed the pack by a large margin at the end of the first day. While the other competitors stopped to sleep for six hours, Young mistakenly woke up at 2 am, several hours earlier than intended, and began running, taking the lead while the other runners slept. Young then decided to avoid sleep as a strategy, and finished the rest of the race without sleeping at all, eventually finishing in 1st place 10 hours faster than the runner who came in second.[1] Before running the race, he had told the press that he had previously run for two to three days straight rounding up sheep in gumboots.[10] He said afterwards that during the race he imagined he was running after sheep trying to outrun a storm. The Westfield run took him five days, fifteen hours and four minutes,[1] almost two days faster than the previous record for any run between Sydney and Melbourne, at an average speed of 6.5 kilometres per hour (4.0 mph). All six competitors who finished the race broke the old record. Upon being awarded the prize of A$10,000 (equivalent to $36,011 in 2022), Young said that he did not know there was a prize and that he felt bad accepting it, as each of the other five runners who finished had worked as hard as he did—so he gave A$3,000 to 41-year-old Joe Record and A$4,000 to the other runners, keeping only A$3,000 for himself.

I mean I exaggerate the Pheidippes is the OG runner yeah, but this guys kinda tough imo as well, haha.

That inspired a thing called "the Young shuffle". Kinda like the Fosbury Flop.

His last words were "wassup, we won"

This is what I come to the comments for.

The ancient Greeks used units invented in the 1790s? I mean at least miles were from the same millennium.

Thanks

he actually ran like 300 miles over 4 days

The caricature of religion that exists now might be the real disappointment. Or maybe it's the same as it was then, idk I'm not a historian

he ran down to VII/XI to get an amphorae of wine

And they are jumping spiders. By far the coolest of cool spiders. And they make great interactive pets once they get to know you.

Straight fisticuffs