Sandra Vi going for record across America

That physio tape doesn't actually work. It's a placebo.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

That physio tape doesn't actually work. It's a placebo.

I sort of figured that. Do you think she's wearing enough? Hah.

She sounds like she's in good spirits.

Results wrote:

I actually don't know what a 15 minute mile looks like...it seems like it would be awkward, at least for me. Too fast to walk and too slow to jog. I guess a power walk? Is that efficient for a "run" of this length? Perhaps she doesn't have a choice.

Quit thinking in black and white.

15 minute mile is probably a mix of faster running and slower walking.

Grey wrote:

Results wrote:

I actually don't know what a 15 minute mile looks like...it seems like it would be awkward, at least for me. Too fast to walk and too slow to jog. I guess a power walk? Is that efficient for a "run" of this length? Perhaps she doesn't have a choice.

Quit thinking in black and white.

15 minute mile is probably a mix of faster running and slower walking.

Yeah, I figured that out eventually. I'm slow, sorry.

OCT 10th:

Start Times:

Sandy 3:04 AM

Mimi 3:03 AM

At 7:45 AM

Sandy 20 miles

Mimi 18 miles

At 9:48 AM

Sandy 30 miles

Mimi 26 miles

Lunch Break

Sandy 35 miles (start 10:48 AM)

Mimi miles 31 miles (11:06 start AM)

Results wrote:

She sounds like she's in good spirits.

That was my reaction too. She doesn't look or sound like somebody in a death march, struggling to continue. That's good for her, but it makes me even more curious why she's slowed down so much compared to the earlier weeks.

So far today wrote:

Looking at several of Mimi's breadcrumbs it looks like a barely 3 mph walk with some 4-5 mph short running spurts. Walk-run-walk-run .... all day long. A steady pace is much better, in my opinion.

Is your opinion based on all the weeklong runs that you have done? Or are you trying to extrapolate pacing from a 5k to a trans con?

Walk run has been used successfully in many multiday runs.

Grey wrote:

Results wrote:

I actually don't know what a 15 minute mile looks like...it seems like it would be awkward, at least for me. Too fast to walk and too slow to jog. I guess a power walk? Is that efficient for a "run" of this length? Perhaps she doesn't have a choice.

Quit thinking in black and white.

15 minute mile is probably a mix of faster running and slower walking.

If you walk a mile at 15min pace it's a stroll, go and do it and you'll find out, if you combine walk/run the run part would barely qualify as a run, in fact it'd be a slow shuffle.

This isn't running, it's similar to the 18th- and early 19th-century pedestrianism:

You can totally tell from Mimi's Strava and Movescount yesterday that she pretty much just walked the entire afternoon save for a couple of short attempts at running and walking.

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move180783746

Sandra's photos on her Strava look much more convincing than what I see on Mimi's Facebook:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1223219379

OCT 10th:

Start Times:

Sandy 3:04 AM

Mimi 3:03 AM

At 7:45 AM

Sandy 20 miles

Mimi 18 miles

At 9:48 AM

Sandy 30 miles

Mimi 26 miles

Lunch Break UPDATED

Sandy 35 miles (start 10:48 AM, end 11:18, 30 minutes)

Mimi miles 31 miles (11:06 start AM, end 12:00, 54 minutes)

At 12:00 PM

Sandy 38 miles (~23 min additional running time)

Mimi 31 miles

Wow, those photos of Sandy look rough. I would be miserable in that kind of weather.

Have seen much of anything like that for Mimi but Tim has treated us to dozens of sunrise photos. Not really what we're looking for but whatever...

Results wrote:

Wow, those photos of Sandy look rough. I would be miserable in that kind of weather.

Have seen much of anything like that for Mimi but Tim has treated us to dozens of sunrise photos. Not really what we're looking for but whatever...

It has to do with the monotony of the run. Sandy's seems more real life. Mimi's few photos look like they are photo ops.

It's pedestrianism. wrote:

Grey wrote:

Quit thinking in black and white.

15 minute mile is probably a mix of faster running and slower walking.

If you walk a mile at 15min pace it's a stroll, go and do it and you'll find out, if you combine walk/run

Which means if you combined a "15 minute mile" with "a mix of faster running and slower walking" the "slower walking" would be about 25/30 min mile pace which is so ridiculously slow it wouldn't be worth expending any energy on.

Scam_Watcheroo wrote:

You can totally tell from Mimi's Strava and Movescount yesterday that she pretty much just walked the entire afternoon save for a couple of short attempts at running and walking.

http://www.movescount.com/moves/move180783746

Sandra's photos on her Strava look much more convincing than what I see on Mimi's Facebook:

https://www.strava.com/activities/1223219379

Sorry, convincing of what? Is that what we're doing now, taking literally snapshots of people's day and saying that's evidence of anything?

So far today wrote:

Mimi's few photos look like they are photo ops.

Well yeah, this is what this whole thing is based on for the Marvelous one, social media, PR, marketing, women's magazines, etc and later comes the book and film.

Mimi has been running at a roughly 5 mph pace since the end of her nearly double length lunch break. There is one 11+ mph breadcrumb in there. Her Garmin elevations are going up and down +/- 100 feet on flat ground. Very odd, and different that at other times.

Need convincing? wrote:

Sorry, convincing of what? Is that what we're doing now, taking literally snapshots of people's day and saying that's evidence of anything?

Convincing of the fact she's on the road moving forward on her legs, that's what the photos show, even my 10 year old can see that.

The photos are therefore evidence, amongst other things, that is what she's doing. My 10 ten year old understands this.

I'm convinced. But I don't think that's what scam meant.

OCT 10th:

Start Times:

Sandy 3:04 AM

Mimi 3:03 AM

At 7:45 AM

Sandy 20 miles

Mimi 18 miles

At 9:48 AM

Sandy 30 miles

Mimi 26 miles

Lunch Break UPDATED

Sandy 35 miles (start 10:48 AM, end 11:18, 30 minutes)

Mimi miles 31 miles (11:06 start AM, end 12:00, 54 minutes)

At 12:00 PM

Sandy 38 miles (~23 min additional running time)

Mimi 31 miles

At 1:33 PM

Sandy 45 miles (~23 min additional running time)

Mimi 37 miles