Running challenge
50 km
50 km
Eight kilometres past the marathon.
Run 50 km. The first step beyond the marathon.
- The distance
- 50 km
- It stands on
- Thirty-miler
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Thirty-miler
- Weekly distance
- About 50 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long run
- 22 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Thirty-miler counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
Fifty kilometres is 7.8 km past a marathon, so it is an ultramarathon.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- Forager's day/
- First flight/
- Mawson's last miles/
- 10 km/
- Gold march/
- Hunter's day/
- Nut grove/
- Twelve-miler/
- Wallace's Line/
- Wildebeest's day/
- Half Marathon/
- Toutle avalanche/
- Roland's pass/
- Olympus Mons/
- Dawes's ride/
- Laki fissure/
- Royal Road/
- Legion's march/
- Persistence hunt/
- Norwegian thirty/
- Chalk Gate/
- Racing the horses/
- Rim to rim/
- Barclay's walk/
- Long fall/
- Nijmegen day/
- South Georgia/
- Marathon/
- Fox's crossing/
- Thirty-miler/
- 50 km