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Oh man, are you selling it short. He was a professional running-courier, so we can assume he was well-seasoned for the activity, BUT
If I'm reading this correctly, he ran 350 miles in around a week or less? That's insane.
Ok, yeah that's insane. No wonder the poor guy dropped from exhaustion
Probably kidney failure
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Kidney failure? Was he chugging wine and mead the whole way, or is that just a result of extreme dehydration?
Muscles break down kidneys get overwhelmed and go into failure. Sometimes (rarely) ultra marathoners will need dialysis and they are running a much shorter distance.
Ahh! Gotcha. Fair enough. I suppose that's actually useful for me to know, thanks!
Rhabdo?
I dunno basically basing this off a bit of running knowledge and something I sorta remembered, probably from an episode of house or some other medical show. I also did a bit of quick googling to validate its a real thing.
No have horse?
Humans can actually outrun a horse under certain conditions, notably hot temperatures and extreme distances.
But like if he could have ridden a horse and then ran and found a new horse ya know? Maybe he could have lived
Funnily enough, a pony train has been the solution many times throughout history. A messenger would ride one horse to exhaustion, jump on another at a depot, and continue.
Now we're cookin with grease
Very expensive, like owning a Rolls Royce as a modern day gig worker delivering pizzas...
Famously ancient historians never embellished anything especially when it comes to a story with national significance