She's already over 40 miles in. Started at 8 am Saturday, 1/20. Raising money for JJ Safehouse, which benefits those who are the victims of domestic abuse.
She's got the computer program Zwift to keep her company.
She's already over 40 miles in. Started at 8 am Saturday, 1/20. Raising money for JJ Safehouse, which benefits those who are the victims of domestic abuse.
She's got the computer program Zwift to keep her company.
Tara's through 50 miles in 6:58:04. She's the real deal. Stop by and say hello to her.
Check out Zwift, too. Makes those tread miles a lot more bearable.
Tara's close to 100 miles through about 14 hours.
Tara with 158 miles and 26 minutes left!
Final numbers:
8:19/mile
161 miles
22:16 on the tread. Planned break at midnight.
That's further than the WR. There is no way the treadmill was correctly calibrated.
Tara is a nice person and a decent ultra runner, but this just makes the whole event look shady. And she could have been running at that 24hr race in Florida this weekend and seen how good she really is.
A wasted effort all round.
Looks like they held the event in her bathroom
TheOhioState wrote:
Final numbers:
8:19/mile
161 miles
22:16 on the tread. Planned break at midnight.
So she ran 161 miles on the treadmill in 22 hours, 16 minutes? Please inform her that she broke the WR by a HUGE margin. Call Guinness and hopefully you have reliable witnesses and the treadmill is calibrated.
The greatest (accepted by Guinness) distance traveled on a treadmill in 24 hours (not 22:16) by a woman is 153.6 miles by Edit Bérces (Hungary) at the Eurocentre shopping mall, Budapest, Hungary on 8-9 March 2004.
... she should also not take a break, if that's what she's doing. Every mile for the next 100+ minutes is furthering her into WR land, even though she's already there.
I'm guessing something is wrong with the calibration, sadly.... but I could be wrong. If so, it's an incredible run.
Tara won the National 24 hour championships last year for women and was 3rd overall. She ran about 131, but all distances were shorter in 2017, including Harvey Lewis' winning distance of 142. Weather may have been the factor, as Harvey has done something in the neighborhood of 157 at Edgewater in the past.
I don't know about the calibration, but Tara ran strong day and night. For the times I saw her, she was almost always running in the low 8's.
What about the calibration of Edit Berces' tread?
By the way, Tara is not claiming a world record. She just got on her tread and ran for 24 hours and posted 161 miles, trying to raise money for a good cause: JJ Safehouse, a sanctuary in NW Ohio for victims of domestic violence. (Shelter and food.) No need to complain about that...right?
TheOhioState wrote:
I don't know about the calibration, but ....
By the way, Tara is not claiming a world record. She just got on her tread and ran for 24 hours and posted 161 miles, trying to raise money for a good cause: JJ Safehouse, a sanctuary in NW Ohio for victims of domestic violence. (Shelter and food.) No need to complain about that...right?
I don't know about the calibration AKA she clearly didn't run anywhere close to 161M
And the ONE thing you should know about posting on LR is that "I did it for charity" plea does not go very far here.
She didn't run 161M - it makes her look bad to suggest it.
Yes, good cause. But badly thought out. May have been a great run, but it does more to harm her reputation sadly.
She ran for most of the 24 hours. It was on display for you and others to watch on youtube. You didn't bother to watch, but had you done so, you would have seen her running on her treadmill. The Zwift display was constantly available.
Typical response, though. "I can't do it" = "she didn't do it."
Remember, Tara is the defending National 24 hour champion. Edgewater Park in Clevelan. Look it up. She ain't no hack.
Somebody has to run great mileage in 24 hours on a treadmill. It just happened to be her.
You seem to have missed my point completely.
I follow 24hr racing - competitor (albeit not fast) / big fan. So I know who Tara is - and, yes, she is very good.
But not 161M good. There is zero doubt that her treadmill run was as good as the WR or even Courtney's AR. Not even close.
So the treadmill was not calibrated properly.
But saying she did 161M just throws away the credulity of her run.
If she had done a proper race (like Fasttrack this weekend) we'd have seen how good she really was. She could have done really well. And she could have done it for her charity too.
How good was her treadmill run? Nobody knows or ever will know. But it was not close to WR. And saying 161M just makes her look like a scam. It is bad for her reputation.
It's all such a waste. She probably could have run a PR at Fasttrack. What a waste of a huge effort. No legitimate distance to show for it.
On fb she is saying it "won't upload" to strava and Garmin connect doesn't show any splits for an unknown reason.
"I was wondering if anyone knows what the distance record is on Zwift or if anyone tracks that kinda thing at all. I ask because I ran 160.61 miles in 24 Hours."
How prestigious
I watched a few minutes and it looked like she was holding on to the rails quite a bit. The video only showed her upper torso but you could tell when her arms were swinging and when they weren't. I don't know any of the requirements for a treadmill record so I dont know if that is allowed or not.
No cadence or hr data...
The lack of data makes this claim quite suspicious.
Why is always the "ultra runners" who run into these types of problems.
He could really drill the 3 in his days at Duke. The Alaskan Assasin.
Too slow to make it in the NBA though.
No gps for the national championship either? It's a manual entry