Sandra Vi going for record across America

I just plotted it on Google Maps. If she were to Power Walk it from here on out, following the Red Line, and only averaging 3 miles/hr, she would make City Hall ~10 minutes before midnight!

This is amazing, no?

this is amazing, no? wrote:

I just plotted it on Google Maps. If she were to Power Walk it from here on out, following the Red Line, and only averaging 3 miles/hr, she would make City Hall ~10 minutes before midnight!

This is amazing, no?

No, my mistake! 3miles/hr pace to City Hall is a little less than 8 hrs of walking, and they are in the EASTERN TIME ZONE! (sorry)

this is amazing, no? wrote:

I just plotted it on Google Maps. If she were to Power Walk it from here on out, following the Red Line, and only averaging 3 miles/hr, she would make City Hall ~10 minutes before midnight!

This is amazing, no?

In the video Cinder posted she said she planned to tell the City Hall guard that 10 pm was the ETA. But it could be closer to 11 pm and even the twelve bells of midnight.

So far today 2 wrote:

In the video Cinder posted she said she planned to tell the City Hall guard that 10 pm was the ETA. But it could be closer to 11 pm and even the twelve bells of midnight.

Well, she has slowed in the last couple of miles...hope these last miles don't turn into a 'death march' for her.

it is, what it is wrote:

So far today 2 wrote:

In the video Cinder posted she said she planned to tell the City Hall guard that 10 pm was the ETA. But it could be closer to 11 pm and even the twelve bells of midnight.

Well, she has slowed in the last couple of miles...hope these last miles don't turn into a 'death march' for her.

Someone posted that Sandy's team as of yesterday was 5-6 people--Zwitty or AquaDyne. The reason the pace is slow now, in my opinion is 37 hours of being awake and she is fatigued. The team should be a help to keep her going. But 3 to 3-1/3 mph might be the best that can be expected.

it is, what it is wrote:

Well, she has slowed in the last couple of miles...hope these last miles don't turn into a 'death march' for her.

Yeah, I wonder if attempting the final 135 miles in one big push will prove to have been a mistake. It'll still only be a few hours of difference in a 54 day event, though.

I think it would be cool if she finishes after midnight, in the time warp when 1:00 AM to 1:59 AM occurs twice, thanks to the time change.

So far today 2 wrote:

Someone posted that Sandy's team as of yesterday was 5-6 people--Zwitty or AquaDyne. The reason the pace is slow now, in my opinion is 37 hours of being awake and she is fatigued. The team should be a help to keep her going. But 3 to 3-1/3 mph might be the best that can be expected.

The cumulative fatigue, and then the sights and sounds, bells and whistles...keep an eye on her, and pull the plug if necessary. Midnight is not a hard requirement. Tomorrow will likely arrive.

it is, what it is wrote:

So far today 2 wrote:

Someone posted that Sandy's team as of yesterday was 5-6 people--Zwitty or AquaDyne. The reason the pace is slow now, in my opinion is 37 hours of being awake and she is fatigued. The team should be a help to keep her going. But 3 to 3-1/3 mph might be the best that can be expected.

The cumulative fatigue, and then the sights and sounds, bells and whistles...keep an eye on her, and pull the plug if necessary. Midnight is not a hard requirement. Tomorrow will likely arrive.

A two hour nap can work wonders when you are fatigued. You are still physically tired but your mind does better with a even a short rest.

it is, what it is wrote:

The cumulative fatigue, and then the sights and sounds, bells and whistles...keep an eye on her, and pull the plug if necessary. Midnight is not a hard requirement. Tomorrow will likely arrive.

Maybe a bright side to finishing up tomorrow afternoon is more media coverage at the conclusion.

scam_watcheroo wrote:

this is amazing, no? wrote:

My question pertains to her technique in the weeks prior, not her technique over the last several hours, which may be greatly compromised with severe fatigue. (Obviously, it would have been nice to have been able to go watch her for a few days to see how she does it, but short of that...all we have is testimony from witnesses with a few short videos, the latter of which do not divulge a technique over a typical half-day period (e.g., how many stops, for how long over five miles).

I've done analysis of Sandra's Strava files that relates to your question. On average, Sandra stays in her running cadence for 5-6 minutes at a time before dipping down and resuming running again. I'll plot Sandra's numbers per day and post the links here.

I've finished running Sandra's Strava data through my tool to spit out a detailed summary stats per run and also by per day, along with some relevant graphs.

In particular, this graph below will interest you. It shows you the average duration and count of the number of run-walk cycles Sandra did each day. The number of times Sandra transitions from a running cadence to a walking cadence varies from 50-300 times depending on which day we are looking at because of the terrain/weather/fatigue.

The yellow line shows the average time below running cadence per run-walk cycle. On most days, Sandra only spent 2.5-4 minutes on average below running cadence per run-walk cycle. There are 3 big spikes from the runs on Sept. 22-24th where her average time spent below running cadence is extremely high (18-47 minutes), but these are the days when she experienced the extremely snow in the mountains so it expected. Note that the yellow line includes all the times she took for lunch, too, since that is part of her data.

The blue line shows the average time she spent in a running cadence during a run-walk cycle. It varies between 3-18 minutes depending on the day we are looking at. But one thing should be clear looking at the graph. From October 10th to now, Sandra's average time spent running per run-walk cycle has been in a steady decline with a corresponding increase in the number of run-walk cycles (black line). This indicates that Sandra is in fact experiencing increasing fatigue from her transcon and is supported by the fact that her daily mileage has been in a decreasing trend while the run duration has stayed the same and the net elevation change has not been notably different per day during the recent weeks.

Yikes, if she were to finish up at the time of, roughly, midway through the NYC marathon, think their TV coverage could pull away briefly over to City Hall to catch the conclusion of this TransCon attempt, for some national exposure?

This is amazing, no?

I read some of these posts, and this is pretty incredible. can someone give me a summary update on this...(1) is she on for the record, and (2) what time does she need to arrive to take it?

JG

She is currently crushing the record, with a cushion of several days.

southerntide wrote:

I read some of these posts, and this is pretty incredible. can someone give me a summary update on this...(1) is she on for the record, and (2) what time does she need to arrive to take it?

JG

Sandy is on pace to finish in 54 days X hours. That beats the two versions of the record by 10 and 15 days.

Run Across America World Record — Guinness Official

Mavis Hutchinson age 53

- 2,871 miles in 69 days 2 hours 40 minutes in 1979.

- Los Angeles to New York. Solo run.

Run Across America World Record — Witnessed Group Race

Lorna Michael age 34

- 2,912.4 miles in 64 days in 1993.

- Los Angeles to New York. Group event. 1993 Trans-America Foot Race.

Not a Guinness record because paperwork was not filed.

this is amazing, no? wrote:

She is currently crushing the record, with a cushion of several days.

Here is a neat article, that includes relevant record stats:

Oh, and Sandy will have run some 3,120 miles, so 200 miles further than those two records.

5-MILE SPLITS -- Final 40 miles

Day # 55, November 4th

All times are Garmin Time in the Pacific Timezone.

Time: Miles to Go ~Split Time +/- 3 minutes (Split Pace in min/mile)

09:23 AM: 40 ~80 min (16:00)

10:39 AM: 35 ~76 min (15:12)

12:17 PM: 30 ~98 min (19:36) NOTE: This split includes stops of 4 and 10 minutes

02:01 PM: 25 ~104 min (20:48) NOTE: During this split there was a 0.9 mile, 14-1//2 minute unintended diversion. Time is included. Miles are not.

03:32 PM: 20 ~91 min (18:12)

Are we inside of 20 miles to go? No way she is stopping now, even if she has to walk the whole way.

From that article:

"Apart from minor tendinitis, her biggest concern has been a developing carpal tunnel effect from carrying “The Baby,” her live-tracking GPS device."

Was there not a means to strap it to her person in order for her not to have to carry it?