Follow Camille Herrons world record attempt

fdsajlfdlsjlkfa wrote:

No mention in this thread yet of Courtney Dawaulter running as well. She has a much better shot to break the WR imo. Definitely better tested at running for long periods of time.

Courtney Dauwalter has to be the favorite in the women's race here. You would think she should be tired from her long year of successful races but it will be hard to beat her. But I can't imagine that she will have a shot at the WR in this race.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure

Whoa, Courtney D is in this too! Clash of the women ultra-titans!

There’s a lot of evidence of a personal, genetic “power curve.” Great marathoners may find it impossible to generate the ultra distance numbers. Additionally the bias is always for distance. It’s an old rule that sprinters can be made into distance runners. Theoretically marathoners can be trained for ultras, but at the highest level it’s difficult to match specialists who, in some cases, love the longer stuff.

The men’s race is going to be great too.

Zach Bitter vs. Patrick Reagan vs. Pete Kostelnick

Bitter and Reagan are debutants of sorts (Zach has run one, but not since nailing down the 100 mile distance well). Patrick had success at the marathon and 100km (ran Olympic Trials marathon in 2016) before moving up to the 100 mi. distance. It’ll be interesting to see how these guys hold up over 24 hours of steady running, and if they do, if they can put up some stellar marks.

And then Pete is the vet, where finishing 24 hours of running isn’t an issue. He just finished running from Alaska to Florida - fully self-supported. Seems like a whole different universe of activity to me, but I guess that would make 24 hours the geometric mean for him vs. Reagan/Bitter.

It should be noted how wonderful the media production of this is - not only can we get the on-going lap-by-lap feed (

https://192.227.136.240:8080

), but the live stream (both embedded on Twitter and on YouTube above) has the stationary camera going with results split-screen, but will occasionally be picked up (with appropriate equipment to stabilize and make the mobile shots smooth and visually pleasing) along with some commentary in and out. For a race that doesn’t pull in any revenue off of that and does it to entertain the community who does follow it and potentially expose and grow the sport, it’s pretty cool. A lot of races could take a page out of their broadcast efforts.

Watched the live stream for about 20 seconds.

Saw some people walking around a track while some emaciated soyboy ranted about nonsense.

Nope, this ain't real running folks.

Phantasy Star wrote:

Watched the live stream for about 20 seconds.

Saw some people walking around a track while some emaciated soyboy ranted about nonsense.

Nope, this ain't real running folks.

Yeah, idiots running 8 minute miles for 2 hours. Way slow. Most on here could do 4 key workouts in that time. And 8 minute miles, that’s like Kenyan easy pace, it’s embarrassing.

Keith Olbermann wrote:

It's live now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrqnimUWN7M&feature=youtu.be

WTF is this boring shìt

lmao @ this stream

None of these "runners" look healthy. Lotsa skinnyfat people, weird emaciated vegan types, bearded soy hipsters. 70% of the field is already walking.

Stfu anal bandit wrote:

Phantasy Star wrote:

Watched the live stream for about 20 seconds.

Saw some people walking around a track while some emaciated soyboy ranted about nonsense.

Nope, this ain't real running folks.

Yeah, idiots running 8 minute miles for 2 hours. Way slow. Most on here could do 4 key workouts in that time. And 8 minute miles, that’s like Kenyan easy pace, it’s embarrassing.

And yet you're watching. Thank you for your support.

btw, the top few are slightly under 7 minutes per mile. Any letsrunner could keep that pace for 24 hours easily. Heck, the previous poster apparently can walk a 7-8 mpm pace.

Why isn’t Camille’s bio on the ultra signup site?

thank you for your support wrote:

Stfu anal bandit wrote:

Yeah, idiots running 8 minute miles for 2 hours. Way slow. Most on here could do 4 key workouts in that time. And 8 minute miles, that’s like Kenyan easy pace, it’s embarrassing.

And yet you're watching. Thank you for your support.

btw, the top few are slightly under 7 minutes per mile. Any letsrunner could keep that pace for 24 hours easily. Heck, the previous poster apparently can walk a 7-8 mpm pace.

Probably need to look up sarcasm in a dictionary.

Moran’s be here wrote:

thank you for your support wrote:

And yet you're watching. Thank you for your support.

btw, the top few are slightly under 7 minutes per mile. Any letsrunner could keep that pace for 24 hours easily. Heck, the previous poster apparently can walk a 7-8 mpm pace.

Probably need to look up sarcasm in a dictionary.

No one is running 7 minute miles.

WR pace is just under 9-minute miles.

For the men, I’m certainly pulling for Pete. His recent run may pay dividends long-term, or even today.

Men’s WR pace = less than 8-minute miles, or over 8 minutes/mile not counting Kouros, most of whose times are in breakable (so far).

Unbreakable, my phone denies this is a word!

anybody know what happened to the live feed?

help help help wrote:

anybody know what happened to the live feed?

Idk, but it had said live commentary would resume at 10:40 mst, so hopefully it'll be back up in a minute or two.