a fun/sick way of looking at Gebs record

I would definitely go with the 105x400m. Throw one in after every run for a couple of months.

....Geb, what a beast.

9:26 for 13 days wouldnt be too hard...

71 sec quarters for 105 days is definitely the easiest. I wouldn't want to do it, but it's very doable.

I could do the first one.

The first one would be easy for me right now.

The second one I could do if I get in a little bit better shape than I am right now. It is doable.

The third one and the others would be totally impossible even in my best ever shape.

That's my whole point - doing a 400 after every run for 105 straight days would be very tough. Think about cold winter months in the north, late days at work, and the fact that means you'd have to run 105 days in a row without a rest. When the down days come you'd still have to warm up a while to knock them out.

I'm guessing some of the people who have responded already are young and fit. Think about a slightly older runner or one that does mostly 10ks/marathons. Breaking down Gebs pace this way really shows how sickeningly fast his race was.

Why did you stop! I'd go 26.2 miles in 2:03.59 and get it over with in one day. (Then I'd Wake Up)

At the track on Tuesday, my workout partner and I had just completed a 70sec 400 and were jogging around to the next start. I looked over and said BTW that was Geb's pace for the whole race in Berlin...geesh.

I might be delusional, but doing a 71 s 400 for 105 straight days doesn't sound that bad. Worst part would be getting to the track every day.

2:22 for 52 days would be a breeze.

Another way to look at it is to just "average" 71 sec per 400 for 105 straight days. Maybe one day your tired and only do a 73, but one day your feeling great and knock out a 69. Geb certainly did not run dead even split during his WR run, why should we be so exact?

Yeah, a lot of the people saying this would be easy are college guys. How many 35 year olds like Geb could pull off one of these? Not me...

An even easier way to look at Gebs record. There are maybe 4 or 5 runners in the US who are qualified to be his pace setter.

This is the dumbest thread I have ever seen...

Geb and those African pussies keep 'ducking' me in the real man's ultra-distance events.

I think I'd opt for 100m in 17.75 sec for 420 straight days.

why??? wrote:

This is the dumbest thread I have ever seen...

Obviously, the point is that the fewer the intervals and the longer their lenghth, the harder it is. And Geb did it all in one shot... and is already talking about going faster in Dubai.

By letsrun standards, I'm not the fastest of runners ... I've run in the range of 51.X for 400 to 26:XX for 8km ... but the first two are definitely easy ... as far as 71/400 for 105 straight days, the major obstacle would be too actually run 105 straight days - when I was in good shape, pretty much any run I did had a 71 second 400 in at some point (I'd like to put in several surges just to loosen up and get open up my stride) ... also in high school, I would routinely finish easy winter runs with a 400-600m pickup on the track in somewhere between 55-61 / 1:28-1:36ish in runners ... so 2:22 on a daily basis wouldn't be a problem either

4:43 x26 would have been tough but do-able ... and 9:26 x13 would require me to race almost flat-out 13 days straight - so I doubt that would happen

That's the point, at this time most other humans on the planet need days to run 26 miles that fast. Breaking it down by pace shows how awesome the performance was.