Discussion: Wow!

Good for Sweetie! Under 6 min/mile? Hope you get a race for dogs sometime this year to see how she does with competition.

Next winter 2 Skijoring races for sure!!

I'm equally amazed by her endurance at 7:00 per mile!

Dogs are pretty good endurance animals, especially if they're trained for it. Not many can keep up with a well-trained distance running human, though.

I’m training her, she’s getting addicted to the morning 4 miler.

I read about a border collie that could easily run 18 miles at 5:30 pace. don't know if its true, but from watching dogs move I would think it was.

You're on the road to the Iditarod. Use caution:-).

I heard this on NPR the other day...50 miles in 6h 14m, man beats horse(s).

Many years ago PG and I raced in a 50 miler that had horses in it. It was pretty hot, as I recall, but you wouldn’t have wanted to lay down in any of the occasional streams because the horses had gotten their first and peed in them. A slow as I was, I still beat quite a few horses.

Border Collies are fast and can go for a long time as posted.
My guess is horses are not built for endurance/speed.
Charlie beat them in a 50 miler wow!!!

Certainly not all of them. I think a horse won the race, but breeding and training are important, too. A lot of horses can't do it. I think a good ultrarunner could beat a Kentucky Derby winner pretty handily, for example. Here is an article. The longer the race and the hotter it is, the more the advantage to the human. Of course the days when I might run 50 miles have receded into the dim past.