The Man vs Horse Marathon, Wales

Sat, 09 Jun 2018 10:55:00 +0000

The Man versus Horse Marathon exists because two men in a Welsh pub couldn’t settle an argument any other way. Sometime around 1980, in the Neuadd Arms in Llanwrtyd Wells, a debate broke out over whether a human being, given rough enough terrain and a long enough distance, could out-endure a horse. The landlord, Gordon Green, did what any decent publican with a flair for spectacle would do: rather than let the argument fizzle out over closing time, he organised an actual race to settle it, in public, with proper rules and a proper course. Forty-odd years later, that bar-room dispute is still being run every June, over roughly 22 miles of Welsh road, trail, and mountainside, and the question it set out to answer took a quarter of a century to get a definitive result.

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The Man vs Horse Marathon, Wales