Damn, that made me tired just watching that! Kind of makes me wonder who of our current USA elite track guys would be good at a race like that and who wouldn't be? Running uphill like that is so much different than on a flat track, I have definite respect for mountain running.
WOW!
Nice vid, thanks.
Btw, a lot of your top track and XC athletes would not do as well as you think; speed and aberobic fitness is not enough, you need pure leg strenght. A good example is athletes like Verin, Shorter and Geb who were who were lously on hills.
Hey thanks for the link. The video is awesome - great running from Slovenia.
Really - Fell running? wrote:
Really? I'm pretty sure Great Britain had a team there and I'm pretty sure the US guys kicked their butts. Look at the course profile and you can clearly see the last 1km was not nearly the steepest portion of the trail.
The US boys rocked. Great job fellas!
Clearly no one on this thread knows what fell running is.
What about fell running? Its not a world championship right? GB had a team at the world championship and the result was USA beat them.
Why bring up another event, this was THE event?
Clearly no one on this thread knows what fell running is.
Yeah, dude, we know what it is - a bunch of Brits running up and down lowish hills on generally unmarked trails through bracken and heather. The races are usually won by the local village blacksmith who has run the course daily for 17 years, and knows all the short-cuts.
The World Mountain Running champs is run on similar lines every other year (ie. an up-and-down multi-lap format) but on a marked course that confers less local advantage. To be fair, the top British fell runners are fit, strong and agile - and not too far off the world's top mountain runners in the up-and-down format.