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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by datpuz on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:12AM (#16229140)
Maybe even more amazing is that Courtney Dauwalter ran the Moab 240 ultra marathon (240 miles) non-stop in 2.5 days.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by soperj on Thursday January 25, 2018 @03:08AM (#16229504)
Al Howie ran across Canada(7295.5 km) in 72 days, 10 hours and 23 minutes. Which is about 2/3 of Courtney's speed but for 72 days straight.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by wellboy on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:02AM (#16230096)
72 days straight means without sleep?
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by jlgaddis on Thursday January 25, 2018 @09:28AM (#16230928)
According to Wikipedia [0]:

> ... the holder of the scientifically documented record for the longest a human has intentionally gone without sleep ... stayed awake for 264.4 hours (11 days 25 minutes).

So I'm gonna guess "no", it doesn't mean "without sleep".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Gardner_(record_holder)

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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by jandrese on Thursday January 25, 2018 @11:35AM (#16232077)
That sounds insanely dangerous. People often get brain damage from staying awake that long.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by michaelmior on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:59AM (#16229295)
Non-stop in the sense that there aren't any staged pauses, but she undoubtedly stopped to sleep at some point. What really blew my mind is that she finished 10 hours ahead of the next competitor.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by latch on Thursday January 25, 2018 @06:33AM (#16230195)
The story of Cliff Young will undoubtedly blow your mind:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Young_(athlete)#Sydney_t...

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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by rplnt on Thursday January 25, 2018 @04:10AM (#16229715)
Rest sure, but sleep isn't usually employed much in endurance events. In RAAM (bike from west coast US to east coast) winners sleep maybe 10 to 20 hours over the whole race which lasts 10 days.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by Kiro on Thursday January 25, 2018 @02:21AM (#16229364)
She only slept 1 minute actually.
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Re:Surviving 75 hours alone in the ocean by zaroth on Thursday January 25, 2018 @07:45AM (#16230429)
So not nonstop then.
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