Kaiha Bertollini fakes AT speed record

Sorry, repost. https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7697188

the story says she is asking people who saw her and hostels and so forth to testify to her locations at certain times. sounds unlikely.

Someone posted on another forum that the day that he saw her she sat around the entire day drinking beer and smoking while covering exactly zero miles because it was raining outside.

Please repost this info on the other Kaiha Bertollini thread:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=7697188&page=4

AT is the softest record on the books. You have 50 year old guys getting injured within the first 10 days of the hike (Jurek, Meltzer). What you need is a Jurek in his prime to take it on... the record could be around 40-42 days if a 20-30 year old attempted it.

jTjg wrote:

AT is the softest record on the books. You have 50 year old guys getting injured within the first 10 days of the hike (Jurek, Meltzer). What you need is a Jurek in his prime to take it on... the record could be around 40-42 days if a 20-30 year old attempted it.

This is a tough hike. High risk of injury. Mentally and physically draining. I Don't think many are too many out there, even if they're physically capable, that are mentally capable of tackling this type of gruelling day in and day out challenge.

I think there are many out there who are physically capable (20 min miles) and mentally capable (40 day vacation from your job sponsored by red bull) to give it a crack.

agreed wrote:

I think there are many out there who are physically capable (20 min miles) and mentally capable (40 day vacation from your job sponsored by red bull) to give it a crack.

20 minute miles? HAHAHA You've never been on the AT have you? This isn't mileage on a flat track or even gentle grade up and down. There's some hands and knees downward and upward climbing, you'd quickly injure yourself attempting to "run" certain sections. Mile for mile the AT is tough work. Certain sections, especially in the north, I don't care who you are, you're not doing 20 minutes a mile as a sustianable pace.

Melter can run 7:00 miles for 100 miles and yet he said he was happy when he could get under 20:00/mile on the AT.

Of course, he is not Woman, we can't hear him ROAR!

I don't think you'll see too many younger and (relatively) fast ultra folks chase the AT record, because it's A) Draining as hell, even if everything goes well. You're going to have nagging injuries. B) Counterproductive if your goal is to be competitive at lots of ultras. Long hikes get you fit for long hikes, but your running will suffer for a long while after.

I think the most likely scenario for a record breakthrough is a younger, sub-"elite" ultrarunner, who chooses to focus all their training on hiking instead.