Talk:Man versus Horse Marathon

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The story of Guto and the horse is discredited in his own article.

Unfortunately, it's not true that bicycles are prohibited from bridleways. --Auximines 13:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I find article claims about bike participation doubtful, unless the course terrain is crazy (rocks, logs, etc) a bicycle would beat a runner (and by article's reasoning, any horse) by a huge margin: on most roads/packed dirt trails a good mountain biker could have ~15-20mph sustained speed.

(and the best result mentioned in the article has an overall speed of less than 11mph).

Similarly, the claim:

"In 1989, British cyclist Tim Gould beat off the first horse by three minutes - the first time that a horse was beaten off by a human in the race."

is doubtful. Pro bicyclists can maintain road speeds in excess of 25mph for several hours. I was under impression that this is quite a bit faster than what a horse can do.

Shouldn't there be a column for whether the race was won by a horse, a cyclist or a runner?

[edit] Urban legend it must be

I sounds mega-bullshit that a human runner on foot could defeat a horseman over 40-something kilometers. Either those horses were centennials or there is some skullduggery going on here. They definitely did not use the noble arabian horses, which regularly run a 1000 kilometers over terrible desert terrain without much water or stopping. 82.131.210.162 07:30, 2 October 2007 (UTC)