Women runs 520 miles on treadmill in 7 days but doesn't get WR as Guinness says her witness doesn't count

Time to go on Oprah wrote:

noticing a lot of Norwegian supporters signing up for Amy's petition.

But with just 2364 signatures right now, it doesn't look like that she has a lot of supporters.

Given that the whole ultra community is about half that size, Amy's fan following is HUGE.

you're not including the Scandinavian crawling through mud and jumping in puddles community...thats where her real fan base is.

ExpertKipWatcher wrote:

Is it my imagination or has she disappeared from Power of 10 ? You know the database of performances that "Hobby Joggers" like Mo Farah are on?

It is your imagination

ukathleticscoach wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Found it.

http://www.thepowerof10.info/athletes/profile.aspx?athleteid=170469

Amazes me that someone can run 500 miles in a week but can't even be bothered to do one race all year.

Not sure where she got all those medals from.

She's been updating her races at least.

There were only 3 races on this when I originally posted it

Was her 53 in 52 accepted by Guinness?

My 10k training runs are quicker than her PB and I can't run 35 miles a week without injury. She can run 520. Yeah right.

If your getting injured at 35 mpw then you're training runs are to fast.

OK, back to the 350 mile week claim.

This claim of a 350 mile week is in my honest opinion, complete and utter fantasy. As a qualified endurance coach who has coached some reasonable runners and knows many athletes who run competitive ultras I find the 350 mile claim incredulous.

Whilst I have no doubt that Amy increased he weekly mileage substantially during the training for the event, I just cannot see how Amy is able to actually run 350 miles in a single training week without breaking down injured. Indeed I would be so bold as to say I doubt very much she could do any more than 100-120 miles in a week for an extended period of time without getting injured.

If you consider that her official marathon PB (3.53) race pace is 08:54/mi, it would be safe to assume that the training would be conducted at a pace much slower than her marathon race pace. This assertion is supported by the fact she states in her video that the training is about ‘time on feet’. Based on that, to get the required daily mileage she would need to be running anywhere between 9-11+ hours per day. Given the need to rest / recover / refuel then, even with 6 days of double runs I cannot see this happening.

Verdict - This claim is fantasy

None of their claims have a semblance of reality or knowledge about what the best are actually capable off.

She shuffles around at 4mph and thinks she can do 350 mile weeks.

Great thoughts from everybody here regarding Amy's training.

It's very hard to imagine that she ever trained more than 50 miles per week. Even that is hard to believe.

Just look how she runs. Does that look like somebody who runs 50 or100 miles per week?

YorkieCoach wrote:

If you consider that her official marathon PB (3.53) race pace is 08:54/mi, it would be safe to assume that the training would be conducted at a pace much slower than her marathon race pace.

Verdict - This claim is fantasy

I did some quick math based on the women's records for the marathon, 100k and 100 mile. Obviously the longer the distance the slower the pace. From that an 80 mile race would have a pace per mile approximately 1.4 times the marathon pace. Amy's last three marathons average approximately 4.5 hrs so her 80 mile race pace would be 6.3 hrs per marathon. Now as 80 miles is just over 3 marathons she would need to run for over 19 hours to cover the 80 miles. And this is time running and doesn't include toilet breaks, stretching, eating etc. Finally this calculation is based on race pace, i.e. going all out for the finish line and leaving nothing in reserve for the next day or the day after.

For a multiday event Amy would need to run at something below race pace. If Amy ran at 7.86 hrs per marathon, or 80% of race pace, she would need all 24 hours of the day to cover 80 miles.

Nice statistical analysis. I think it's pretty clear that it would take an athlete of exceptional strength, robustness and ability to be able to run 350 miles in a training week. Whilst I have now doubt Amy increased her run volume to train for the event, there is absolutely zero chance that she actually managed to run a training week of 350 miles.

Math is wrong. 128" belt length. Up to 129.5" with stretching.

Imagine that wrote:

It is your imagination

That is interesting because if you do as I did and use the search here

You get 7 hits for Hughes Amy - none of which are her

This one looks correct.

Watching the "Mud Run" video really made me laugh. Whilst viewing the video I started to think that she could have a great career doing parody running videos. It's the funniest thing I've watched on the internet in an age.

MoreParodyNeeded wrote:

Watching the "Mud Run" video really made me laugh. Whilst viewing the video I started to think that she could have a great career doing parody running videos. It's the funniest thing I've watched on the internet in an age.

I have not read this whole thread, may have already been pointed out, but it looks like they looped the segment where she is doing the split jump plank to give the appearance she did more in a row than she is actually capable. She couldn't even do three burpees in a row at the very end. Looks like two hungover people who woke up in the woods and couldn't find their wat out, actually. Inspirational stuff.

MoreParodyNeeded wrote:

Watching the "Mud Run" video really made me laugh. Whilst viewing the video I started to think that she could have a great career doing parody running videos. It's the funniest thing I've watched on the internet in an age.

The best part is when they smear mud in their faces at the end to look "better". Which mud runner does that?

It's reminds me of the Rocky preparing to fight Drago video montage

Sole bro wrote:

[quote]Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Math is wrong. 128" belt length. Up to 129.5" with stretching.

How did you find those numbers for the belt length?

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Sole bro wrote:

[quote]Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Math is wrong. 128" belt length. Up to 129.5" with stretching.

How did you find those numbers for the belt length?

What you need to do is count the total number of revolutions for all of the time you have available.

Ultrarunning Judge wrote:

What you need to do is count the total number of revolutions for all of the time you have available.

Yeah, that is the better approach. But it will need to have a bit of the distance estimated based on walking/running speed since this are a few minutes where people stand in front of the camera obstructing the view of the treadmill.

I estimate that someone counting would have on the order of around 20,000 revolutions of the treadmill belt to count. Probably best to break it down into 15 minute manageable chunks to allow for a record of how many revolutions are counted to allow other people to verify. This task would be extremely tedious but yield quite solid proof......