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Wallace's Line
20 km
The strait most animals never crossed. People did.
Twenty kilometres. The width of the gap.
- It stands on
- 10 mile
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- The 10 mile run
- Long run
- About 1½ hours, 4 times in the last 10 weeks, at least once in the last 5 weeks
- Weekly training
- About 3½ hours on average over 6 weeks, with an hour of riding or swimming counting as 30 minutes
- Running itself
- At least 2½ hours a week
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
The Lombok Strait stayed open water even in the Ice Ages, so most Asian animals stopped at it. That line is Wallace's Line. People crossed it by sea on their way to Australia. Source: Bird et al. 2019, Quaternary Science Reviews.
The ladder
- 5 km/
- 10 km/
- 10 mile/
- Wallace's Line