A 24-hour run is a form of ultramarathon, in which a competitor runs as far as they can in 24 hours. They are typically held on 1- to 2-mile loops or occasionally 400-meter tracks.
Top runners will often run 200 kilometers or more, depending on conditions, and the best can go beyond 270 kilometers. Some participants will have a crew to help them, but others just set up a camp with all the gear and supplies they need near the starting area to access each loop. Often 24-hour events are combined with 6-, 12-, and 48-hour events. 24-hour runs have also been held in relay formats, with runners completing a mile each in succession for 24 hours. Often these events are not internationally sanctioned, and are more for charitable purposes.
The world records for the event on all surfaces are 255.303 km (161.126 miles) for women, set by Mami Kudo of Japan in 2011, and 303.506 km (188.590 miles) for men, set by Yiannis Kouros in 1997.
The first international championship was held February 3–4, 1990 in Milton Keynes, England. A full continental championship was formed in 1992 as the IAU 24 Hour European Championship.
A 24-hour race is a form of endurance race in a number of sports:
The 24-hour clock is the convention of time keeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours, indicated by the hours passed since midnight, from 0 to 23. This system is the most commonly used time notation in the world today, and is used by international standard ISO 8601. In the practice of medicine, the 24-hour clock is generally used in documentation of care as it prevents any ambiguity as to when events occurred in a patient's medical history. It is popularly referred to as military time in the United States, English-speaking Canada, Russia, and a handful of other countries where the 12-hour clock is still dominant.
A time of day is written in the 24-hour notation in the form hh:mm (for example 01:23) or hh:mm:ss (for example, 01:23:45), where hh (00 to 23) is the number of full hours that have passed since midnight, mm (00 to 59) is the number of full minutes that have passed since the last full hour, and ss (00 to 59) is the number of seconds since the last full minute. In the case of a leap second, the value of ss may extend to 60. A leading zero is added for numbers under 10. This zero is optional for the hours, but very commonly used in computer applications, where many specifications require it (for example, ISO 8601).
Moving on a pale moon night
staring at the taillights of a
truck that rips the road apart in front of me.
Watch your right hand shifting gear,
wond'ring what I'm doing here,
'cause both our minds are occupied by memories.
Like the forests in my eyes
are the pillars of the sky,
impeach your youth and call it your prerogative.
Time and time again it seems,
we're always somewhere in between
and that's the truth, it's in the way we live.
Ray ray rain, if we feel the same,
give me a sign, we're running out of time.
Spiders, snakes and lizard heads,
tell the tale, we'll all be dead.
Indulging me and my fantasy.
Feeding on the tender needs,
what we are is what we breed.
Insulting me with your jealousy.
Ray ray rain, if you feel the same,
give me a sign, give me a sign.
Ray ray rain, say you feel the same, cause you
don't think that I can wait another day.
And no it's not okay.
Explain yourself and say,
no one ever said that live is fair.
Six times in a row, and when it starts to grow,
walking up and down Trafalgar Square.
Right down from the start, right down from the heart,