Story · Run
Wildebeest's day
21.098 km
A wildebeest can walk a half marathon in a day.
Run a half marathon. What a wildebeest covers in a day.
- It stands on
- Wallace's Line
What it takes
Before you go.
- Recommended first
- Wallace's Line
- Weekly distance
- About 21 km of running a week on average over 6 weeks
- Long run
- 16 km, at least once in the last 6 weeks. Finishing Wallace's Line counts
- Taper
- An easier week before the event week
The story
In Kenya's Amboseli Basin, wildebeest wore GPS collars. Where the land was most open, they walked about 21 km a day. Source: Stabach et al. 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
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