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It's funny to imagine these authors pompously claim someone as "world's x" looking through the lens of the Western world being the whole world. I'm sure there's a women in rural Nepal who has carried water on her head uphill for longer distances and years, or a Masai tribesman who does 2x that hunting for baboons

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Perhaps shockingly, African hunter gatherers and sedentary Western office workers have the same daily energy expenditures as far as we know. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405064/

In other words, people training for ultramarathons really are probably working harder than other people, even accounting for lifestyle and income disparities.

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