MORE DEBATE ON THE HYRULE RUNNING MAN MYSTERY

Rodney Johnson's comments about the Hyrule Running Man and his possible connection to Lon Lon Ranch are quite interesting. A conundrum such as this needs critical deliberation before it can be laid to rest. I myself, have truly pondered the usefulness of the Hyrule Running Man's challenge. No Zelda game has ever presented a challenge that couldn't be mastered. Yet this one does. From what I've been told with an emulated version of Zelda 64 and UltraHLE one can decode the variables for things like time counts and alter them. Apparently someone tried to alter the clock that counts the time Link takes during the race so that it would read zero. When they arrived at the entrance to the Kokiri Forest with a time of 0:00 the running man was Still ahead of them, and said that he beat you by one second (which is impossible unless he could travel faster than the speed of light (theoretical)). The solution must not lie within what we think it does. The obvious is to just run to the bridge and beat him, but there are so many possible scenarios that could interact on different levels with the future that he occupies. Rodney Johnson has again brought some interesting things to ponder regarding this issue and his mysterious connection to another runner.

Strangely, the Hyrule Field Running Man and the Market Running Man are seen together (separate from anyone else) during the end sequence of the game. Also, the man in the market keeps saying "I'm late, I'm late! I'm late for a very important date!" Doesn't the rabbit character in Alice in Wonderland also say this? Maybe there is a way to sell the Bunny Hood to this guy. Or maybe you have to travel back in time during the race and talk to this guy with the Bunny Hood on. Also, this guy says something like, "Oh, so scary! Oh, so scary!" if you talk to him when you have a Big Poe equipped on one of your C-buttons.

These two running men seem to be connected in some fashion, and it has to do with rabbits or bunnies. Very weird.

Indeed, there are mysteries connected with other mysteries in Zelda 64. It just bothers me that Miyamoto put in a puzzle with seemingly NO solution like the running man. It would make sense to at least provide some kind of means to decrypt the circumstances surrounding his existance and placement in the game.

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