And yet all this research and hypothesizing doesn't end with grabbing one of these super marathon runners, taking him to the wide open plains of Utah, and asking him to bring back a dead antelope.
you might need a tracker for when the antelope goes over the horizon/out of sight. Most ong distance runners would be clueless about tracking prey. Maybe the tracker can drive/cycle alongside the runner in a hypothetical experiment.
well, If you don't want to model how much the hunter recovers during periods of relative rest ( slower-than-running-time-spent-in-tracking this would be additional resting time for the prey as well I suppose) you could do it that way.
Does anyone in HN know of what kind of mathematics would be needed to set up a simulation like this?equations for rates of exhaustion/ speed loss over time etc?
NetLogo is something i've used before to do similar stuff.