Endurance hunting is rarely a straight line race. Here is an example of a route for one of those hunts (it's from my first link): http://www.jstor.org/literatum

Endurance hunting is rarely a straight line race. Here is an example of a route for one of those hunts (it's from my first link): http://www.jstor.org/literatum/publisher/jstor/journals/content/curranth/2006/ca.2006.47.issue-6/508695/production/images/large/fg2.jpeg http://www.jstor.org/literatum/publisher/jstor/journals/cont... As you can see, even though the overall distance is 25.1 km, the straight line distance between the start and finish is less than a mile.