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

Settle by democratic vote wrote:

Is LRC were that serious about deleting Amy's new record, why don't start their own change.org petition about it?

there is no record to delete.

neither of her 2 claimed 'world records' have been validated by anyone except her and her boyfriend.

One, John Beaton-Hawryluk from Scotland, set up a petition calling on Guinness World Records to change the decision.

"The whole running community believes this to be morally wrong after the blood, sweat and tears that went into attempting the record," he said.

He's wrong. It should be ... "that went into breaking the record."

WTF John? wrote:

"The whole running community believes this to be morally wrong after the blood, sweat and tears that went into attempting the record," he said.

She should have dotted her I's and crossed her T's and documented the hell out of it to satisfy Guinness. Until then it's not a record.

Is immorally right the opposite of morally wrong?

Karl Hungus wrote:

WTF John? wrote:

"The whole running community believes this to be morally wrong after the blood, sweat and tears that went into attempting the record," he said.

She should have dotted her I's and crossed her T's and documented the hell out of it to satisfy Guinness. Until then it's not a record.

Guinness is probably working on a lawsuit against Dave and Amy already.

Using their trademarks without permission for a fake charity organization.

Oh boy, Dave will be in so much trouble once he returns from Spain.

WTF John? wrote:

WTF John?

One, John Beaton-Hawryluk from Scotland, set up a petition calling on Guinness World Records to change the decision.

"The whole running community believes this to be morally wrong after the blood, sweat and tears that went into attempting the record," he said.

Not the LetsRun community or the UK Ultra Running Facebook site, or am I missing something?

Then again perhaps he's referring to cheating being "morally wrong".

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

To get a more accurate result and to save time, I will be trying to use software called Camlytics with its counting ability to try to count the revolutions of the treadmill belt by watching for the Sole logo crossing a line. Maybe this off the shelf software will work for this scenario with the correct set up. Give it a try on a segment of video, it will come in handy when we get all the video from Millet:

http://camlytics.com/help/analytics.html

Don't bother trying out the Camlytics software. I've tested it and it won't work for this scenario. It can't be configured to work on the small fast moving area of the treadmill belt and detect anything. I'm rolling my own custom solution with OpenCV instead.

Wonder if Amy and Dave have thought about an assault on Everest?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-40859155

Any word from millet sports on the video links?

Or maybe keep it closer to home and set some kind of record for the Three Peaks Challenge.

Jamie Ramsey's run of 13d 23hrs 40mins seems eminently beatable to an ultra runner of Amy's ability. I've got no idea of the actual distances involved but I just know that with her mental strength and Dave's witnessing abilities she's can do it.

https://www.threepeakschallenge.net/three-peaks-challenge-records

Much of this route is dependent on traffic. You have probably 8 hours driving. Actual peaks are ~4-6 hour hikes. 13 hours is really moving.

Ultrarunning Judge wrote:

Much of this route is dependent on traffic. You have probably 8 hours driving. Actual peaks are ~4-6 hour hikes. 13 hours is really moving.

Perhaps explains why the guy in 1971 was able to do it 2hrs quicker - less traffic.

Or maybe he just got his mates to verify that he'd done it.

Next challenge wrote:

Ultrarunning Judge wrote:

Much of this route is dependent on traffic. You have probably 8 hours driving. Actual peaks are ~4-6 hour hikes. 13 hours is really moving.

Perhaps explains why the guy in 1971 was able to do it 2hrs quicker - less traffic.

Or maybe he just got his mates to verify that he'd done it.

He also had a rally driver in a rally spec car driving him. I would guess that's why they have a modern record, impossible on today's roads.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

To get a more accurate result and to save time, I will be trying to use software called Camlytics with its counting ability to try to count the revolutions of the treadmill belt by watching for the Sole logo crossing a line. Maybe this off the shelf software will work for this scenario with the correct set up. Give it a try on a segment of video, it will come in handy when we get all the video from Millet:

http://camlytics.com/help/analytics.html

Don't bother trying out the Camlytics software. I've tested it and it won't work for this scenario. It can't be configured to work on the small fast moving area of the treadmill belt and detect anything. I'm rolling my own custom solution with OpenCV instead.

Keep up the good work!

Yorkshire 3 peaks is seriously impressive.

~23 mi, up 3 peaks, 2 hours 43.

ExpertKipWatcher wrote:

Lookmatter wrote:

No.

So who are you suggesting does something about it?

How about we start with the people accusing her of charity fraud.

It's the only sensible conclusion given the other lies.

Funny you don't like people booing your drug cheat but are all getting your knickers in a twist over this

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

To get a more accurate result and to save time, I will be trying to use software called Camlytics with its counting ability to try to count the revolutions of the treadmill belt by watching for the Sole logo crossing a line. Maybe this off the shelf software will work for this scenario with the correct set up. Give it a try on a segment of video, it will come in handy when we get all the video from Millet:

http://camlytics.com/help/analytics.html

Don't bother trying out the Camlytics software. I've tested it and it won't work for this scenario. It can't be configured to work on the small fast moving area of the treadmill belt and detect anything. I'm rolling my own custom solution with OpenCV instead.

Don't worry nobody else is.