On 29th May 2009 at 11.30pm, Richard Dunwoody started a 1000 Mile Challenge to walk the same mile 1000 consecutive times (from the Bedford Lodge hotel in Newmarket up the Bury Road to a post half a mile away and back again) for a 1000 consecutive hours with the last mile up the home straight of Newmarket racecourse just before the Ladbrokes Bunbury Cup on 10th July 2009.
In
1809 Captain Robert Barclay Allardice was bet that he couldn’t walk
1000 miles in 1000 hours for 1000 Guineas – meaning he had to walk one mile in
every consecutive hour 24 hours a day – the challenge therefore taking
42 days with the maximum
an hour and 20 minutes sleep at any one time (if you walk back to back miles in different hours). He completed the challenge on 12th July 1809, losing three stone in the process with his challenge hailed as
‘one of the greatest human feats ever attempted.’
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