Hardest physical sport?

drdeadlift

Top of my head is cycling-tour de France l'Étape du Tour..
Whats your choices?

IveSeenFire

Rowing and Cross-Country skiing

Gmpd

Hands down DARTS!!! Altho for pure fitness and energy levels that's needed tennis is my shout. Some matches can go 5+hours

Hanley

Rowing/Pro Cycling/Racing Ironman's.

drdeadlift

Gmpd wrote: »

Hands down DARTS!!! Altho for pure fitness and energy levels that's needed tennis is my shout. Some matches can go 5+hours

Im actually very handy at darts,oh don't forget the tour De France is 21 days covering 3500km.

bob50

Its got to be cycling i.e Tour de France Giro Itallia

Endurance at its best

Brian?

Le tour de France is definatly the most physically demanding. 3 weeks of hell. But then it's a pro sport.

For an amateur to compete in, I'd say an Iron Man.

Chavways

400 metre sprint

Hanley

briankeating wrote: »

Le tour de France is definatly the most physically demanding. 3 weeks of hell. But then it's a pro sport.

For an amateur to compete in, I'd say an Iron Man.

Finishing an ironman is an entirely different proposition to racing one though.

And let's not forget Triathlon is a pro sport too.

Willard

hands down; Deca-Ironman; swimming two and a half miles, cycling a 116 miles and running a marathon all in the same day, for TEN consecutive days. A Mullingar man won the first one held in the UK last year.

Brian?

Hanley wrote: »

briankeating wrote: »

Le tour de France is definatly the most physically demanding. 3 weeks of hell. But then it's a pro sport.

For an amateur to compete in, I'd say an Iron Man.

Finishing an ironman is an entirely different proposition to racing one though.

And let's not forget Triathlon is a pro sport too.

Oh I agree. I was just trying to think of the hardest test for an amateur.

squod

I'm thinking gymnastics. That or the tour de France. Up the Alpe-d'Huez after seventeen days of racing? Inhuman.

Hanley

Willard wrote: »

hands down; Deca-Ironman; swimming two and a half miles, cycling a 116 miles and running a marathon all in the same day, for TEN consecutive days. A Mullingar man won the first one held in the UK last year.

Look at his times tho.

There's a big snobbery in the endurance community (somewhat deserved) - anyOne can train to go rreally really long distances slowly, but the real deal is racing events.

Brilliant feat and all, but if Gerry really was a top triathlete you'd see him on the line in Kona contesting a win, but you don't.

I know a guy who ran ultra marathons. Big bloke. 105+kg. Awesome and all. But I don't think he'd a marathon time of sub 4. The super endurance events really just seem to be about not getting bored.

*waits for backlash

colman1212

Willard wrote: »

hands down; Deca-Ironman; swimming two and a half miles, cycling a 116 miles and running a marathon all in the same day, for TEN consecutive days. A Mullingar man won the first one held in the UK last year.

Holy sh1t! There should be laws against that kind of thing..!
I'd love to see the nutritional requirements over those 10 days and before and after bodyweight. Warriors...

menoscemo

Badwater Ultramarathon
A 135 mile foot race held each year, starting in Death Valley at 86m below sea level and finishing 2548m above sea level. If that's not tough enough it is held in July when temperatures typically reach over 50 °C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-e4bOLAuXg