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Choella, I also saw the Brownlees a few months back.  They were on their bikes and were stopping for a "comfort break" as I passed!

Re the original question, I find walking 26 miles is easier than running 26 miles.

Each year, I do a 40 mile walk over The Ridgeway in Oxfordshire.  The day finishes with me often feeling all in, but it never gets as hard as the final miles of running a marathon.

Those unfit enough to be struggling in walking, looking wrecked at 7 hours would probably have been hospitalised if they had run the whole distance.

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