Official 1,000 mile WR attempt by Nedd Brockman live discussion thread. Can he break the 10 day, 10 hours record?

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are we sure his run across Australia was fake? is this Asher Delmott certified?

There's a bit of debate about Nedd's run across Australia and his 50 marathons in 50 days on the thread here
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=11576178&page=2

The only organisation interested in verifying a 1000 mile record would be GOMU

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and I've no idea whether they are involved. Whether they would be happy about a record in a non race setting, I have no idea and as Transcon Expert said- it probably doesn't matter because even 3 days at 100 per day is almost certainly beyond him.

Hope I have to eat my words though!

It looks like that Nedd has a pacer right now and he is not staying in the lane.

https://www.tiktok.com/@nedd.brockmann/live?enter_from_merge=pc_share&enter_method=pc_share&is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

To be fair, I'm not watching the stream as I don't do Tiktok, so I'll bow to your judgement there, but I'd say he has been preparing. Before he went blackout on Strava, he was putting in numerous 100+ mile weeks, now I know that's not 100 a day, but youre obviously not doing that in training.

The only "red flags" I've seen are from jealous old former ultra-runners that Brockmann doesn't worship and they have an axe to grind with him. You know who I'm talking about.

52.8 miles per day is very easy to do on the road.

Sorry, but on the live feed, is he the guy in the red shirt, who is limping while walking around the track?

I once did 100k in one day, to prove to my dad that I could do it and that he was full of shlt. It was interesting, I really felt like I could have done another few days at that pace, because I zoned out. Sometimes it was like jogging while sleeping, I wasn't really even aware of the fact that I was jogging. I can see the appeal of ultra running, although I would never do it now.

Limping around the track on day 2, though...GTFO

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Stine Rex and Matthieu Bonne Set Six-Day Women’s and Men’s World Records

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New world records for both men's and women's six-day running have been set by Matthieu Bonne of Belgium and Denmark’s Stine Rex in September, 2024.

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This Belgian bloke broke Kouros' 6 day record not by being a better runner but mostly by sleeping a lot less than Kouros did.

There is definitely a modern trend of ultrarunners sleeping a lot less than the ultrarunners of older generations, and not just Matthieu Bonne vs Kouros.

Nels Matson is running an average of 16 hours per day on his current run across America while Tara Dowers recently ran an average of 17.6 hours today while setting the Appalachian Trail record for both men and women. Ned Brockman did about 16 hours running for his first day of the current record attempt.

Compare this to the past generation of ultrarunners like Pete Kostelnick who only ran 12.5-13 hours a day during his run across America record. The old geezers will tell you that 12.5-13 hours is the way to do these long ultra records so you have enough time to recover and sleep each day. But the modern generation of ultrarunners show that they are wrong and for the lack of a better description, just lazy. Modern multiday ultra records are all about 16-18 hour days with less sleep but the longer hours enables you to cover more ground at slower speed to lower the average impact force on the legs.

From what I can see, his per mile pace on day 2 vs day 1 has dropped by at least a minute. This will create a recovery problem if his pace starts going over 10 minutes miles.

You sound like someone who has no idea what he is talking about.
Kouros was the master in running without sleeping. Especially in the first 72 hours.

It looks like Nedd walked of the track after 243.79k. That's like 50+ miles into his second 100 miles. Will he come back?

I've downloaded the data from Nedd's Strava for his run across Australia from Sept 1, 2022 to Sept 17, 2022. I've analyzed it and there is nothing suspicious about it. Nedd Brockman's run across Australia is legit.

The detailed data shows no high or inconsistent speeds indicative of travel by car. The cadence data is all there and the resulting stride lengths are consistent and regular runner values.

For Nedd's run across Australia he averaged 12.3 hours of recorded activity time per day, same as the average recorded activity time of Pete Kostelnick in his run across America. Whereas Pete did an average of 72 miles per day in America, Nedd only did 53.7 miles average per day in Australia. Nedd's performance is entirely realistic and reasonable, and I will even say that 53.7 miles per day is not an elite level ultra runner record performance since many people can do this. Pete could have easily broken Nedd's Australia time by an enormous amount when he was in his prime.

For those of you who in the previous Nedd Brockman thread that "analyzed" his Australia data by simply looking at the Strava P.O.S. "moving time" and simplified tables and graphs, do I need to tell you that you have no idea what you are doing and do you need me to teach you how to download data again?

Here is a list of Trans Australia runners. It's not complete but it's better than nothing.

Patrick Malandain from France ran it in 38 days in 2013. He is a legit runner. I ran with him across the US.

In 2023 there was a Chris Turnbull doing it in 39 days. I am not familiar with him or his run.

en.wikipedia.org

List of people who have run across Australia

People who choose to run across Australia can choose to run from either of the geographical extremes of the continent, or from directly opposed cities on opposite shores. The westernmost geographical extreme of Australia is S...

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So no, Nedds "record" run in 2022 was not a record at all.

Whatever Nedd does, you are all haterz and will accuse him of cheating.

But realistically, based on Nedd's past run across Australia performance averaging only 53.7 miles per day, the 100 miles per day required to break the 1000 mile record is too far out of reach for him unless he has been able to become a much better runner in the past couple of years.

Exactly, this is basically confirmation of my analysis of Nedd's Australia run data. It was nowhere an elite level record performance and yet somehow all the old ultra geezers on here imbued hate and false allegations of cheating by Nedd simply because he likes to keep some muscles on him to impress the ladies.

This is funny how offended you are that Nedd is trying to break a world record. You probably still talk about your high school state titles as well.

How much hate would you give someone if they told you, with a straight face, that they were going to break the marathon world record? Or any other track record?

How far behind the record do you think he pulls the pin?

Or does he just keep going until either a) he does ten days or b) body ceases to cooperate?