Story · Run
Royal Road
27 km
A day's journey on the Persian Royal Road.
About 27 km. A traveller's ordinary day.
- It stands on
- 25 km
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 25 km run
- Long run
- About 1 hour 45 minutes, 4 times in the last 10 weeks, at least once in the last 5 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 4 hours on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding or swimming counting as 30 minutes
- Running itself
- At least 3 hours a week
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
Herodotus measured the road from Sardis to Susa: 150 stadia a day, ninety days end to end. Its mounted couriers, he wrote, were stopped by neither snow nor rain. Source: Herodotus 5.53 and 8.98.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- 10 km/
- 10 mile/
- Half Marathon/
- 25 km/
- Royal Road