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Hunter's day
14 km
How far a hunter walks in a day.
Fourteen kilometres. An ordinary day's hunting.
- It stands on
- 10 km
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 10 km run
- Most weeks
- A run of about 1 hour, in 7 of the last 8 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 3 hours on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding or swimming counting as 30 minutes
- Running itself
- At least 2 hours a week
The story
In the years they walk most, Hadza men in Tanzania walk about 14 km a day hunting. GPS tracking over 2,078 days. Source: Wood et al. 2021, Nature Human Behaviour.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- 10 km/
- Hunter's day