Tron wrote:
Sorry but there is a big difference between making sure Dave is doing this properly and writing an article with false claims like you did
Agree. There's also clear indications he's not running straight through on Strava as well. Disclaimer: I've met Dave a number of times and was crewing for another Speed Project (40ish hour 6 man relay from LA to Vegas) team when he did it with a Calgary team this year.
https://imgur.com/a/stNiYJF- 1 hour to 1h50m of stopped time every day, in moving vs elapsed time. He's either pausing his watch or Strava removes stopped time from the calculations itself.
Has it been mentioned that Dave is the Canadian record holder for longest run in 24h? Was previously the world treadmill record holder for 12h, 24h? Canadian 72h record holder before getting an injury and dropping?
https://runningmagazine.ca/dave-proctor-2017-across-the-years-update/I would say there's tons of evidence he's far from a "rookie" at this point. 66 days is far more than he's done in the past, but 100k in a day is a far cry from 500k in 3 or 257k in 1 as his other records are. Dude does 30 mile runs on a 200m indoor track through the winter, his mental game is off the hook.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk80LO6Fjhs/- the Calgary event clearly had a shitload of people in attendance, but the article on the front page claims "Yet Calgary has come and gone without much notice, a big missed opportunity for the charity." - sure, if you don't go looking for information, you'll find nothing.
https://labs.strava.com/flyby/viewer/#1687502673?c=c3n6nree&z=A&t=1RGIev&a=UT-VZGnTlWRxG8Fk1xeUZBs_lWR76pJkZRGTZAYou can see his flybys on Strava too, people are coming to run with him at various points in the day..
There's just an overwhelming amount of evidence, visitors, witnesses, gps data, photos here that things are above board, imo... Complain he's going west to east, sure, but he's running those miles.