Among their many events, the pedestrians took part in staged indoor six-day races, mixing walking and running to cover vast distances.
In a six-day race in 1882, he is credited with covering 150 miles in the first 24 hours of the event - the first time 150 miles (241 kilometers) was broken.
The first recorded distance on the DUV Ultra Marathon Statistics website is by the American Marcy Schwam. She ran in the 1979 David Copperfield 48-Hour Track Ultramarathon in Woodside, California, and recorded 113.671 miles (182.937 kilometers). This seems to be the first recorded and ratified female 24-hour world record of modern times.
In the balance of this article, we'll dive deep into the progression of the 24-hour world record from these starting points.
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