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

Right, I admit that I was completely wrong when I said that only 10-20 men had done it, so here's an updated list of men and women who have definitely (or have a good claim to have) run 300 miles in 3 days:

Modern era (from DUV): James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Ramon Zabalo, Jean Boussiquet, Wolfgang Schwerk, Gilbert Mainix, Joe Fejes, Stu Mittleman, Bryan Smith, Sigi Bauer, Serge Abona, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, Eoin Keith, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas.

Pending Ratification (but definitely did it): Matthieu Bonne, Stine Rex, Camille Herron (According to Wikipedia)
Possibly but not certain: (ie over 575 miles in 6 days) Joe Record, Dan Lawson, Olivier Chaigne, Claude Hardel, Jaroslav Kocurek, Tom O' Reilly, Kevin Mansell.

1880s Era: George Littlewood, Charles Rowell, James Albert (winner of 'best moustache' competition)

Westfield Run: David Standeven Dusan, Richard Tout. (How sure are we that the race distances were accurate? Some amazing performances on a road course with hills and undulations which were well in advance of what they achieved on the track.)

And finally from TikTok: Nedd Brockmann!

Anyway, that makes 51 definite and 10 possibles. Feel free to nominate any more.

Someone mentioned it on this thread already, but what about all the people who have done more than 3 days in backyard ultras, which makes 100 miles per day? There's been an explosion in them over the last few years. Gotta be a lot of people there... Harvey Lewis for example has the record at over 4 days. Jennifer Russo has the women's record at over 300 miles. I reckon there must be at least 10-20 more

Sorry, the above post also had 28 competitors who did 72 Hours (ie 300 miles) in a Backyard Ultra but unfortunately the LetsRun software tells me not to use profanities when I list them!

I can't work out whose name it doesn't like.

Let's not forget that 72 hour was never a race distance. This was just a split in a 6 day race. 72 hour races just came up as an option in the last 10 years maybe.

The Backyard Ultra competitors who've done 72 Laps (ie 300 miles in 3 days): Harvey Lewis, Ihor Verys, Bartosz Fudali, Terumichi Morishipa, Merijn Geerts, Phil Gore, Jon Noll, Frank Gielen, Sam Harvey, Oriol Antoli Sarrau, Lucasz Wrobel, Matthew Blackburn, Rob Parsons, Akihiro Maeda, Hendrik Boury, Ildar Kamaletdinov, Daiki Shibawaki, Jivee Tolentino, Petr Zharikov, Antonio Di Manno, Christophe Baud, Rodolfo Ramirez Leonides, Aaron Young, Matthias Pelgrims, Keith Russell, Ryan Crawford, James Blanton, Joshua Toh.

(It's Terumichi's surname that LetsRun doesn't like- I've changed a 'T' to a 'P'

Assume still not hit 400 yet?

629km in 4 days, 5 and a half hours if I'm right in assuming that Day 5 started at 10 am UK time because of the Daylight Saving change?

It looks like a bit of a breeze has picked-up and they're trying a Kipchoge Breaking 2 style drafting technique at the time of writing. Two guys are running in front of him on the back straight of each clockwise lap.

At this point he could have 10 pacers in front of him and it wouldn't help.
The record was never in reach but it took 4 days for him to realize that.

This just in: Heroic effort chasing the record raises nearly $200k so far!

Well that's cool in itself

It's strange that there's no timer visible on the live feed. Every couple of minutes on the Idiot Magnet (TikTok comment box) somebody asks what a 'Master Lap' is and how long he has left.

I'm gradually picking up a few words of Australian- 'Hater' means 'Intelligent person who asks reasonable questions'.

You'll never meet a hater doing more than you.

You can actually see the total time elapsed in the feed. On an iPad, if you click on the box that the video is on, elapsed time pops up. For example, at 1:23pm est, I get 107 hours 38 minutes. Theoretically, if you look at what he’s done based on that time and current distance, he’s currently going to hit 952 miles after 250 hours. This is based on the last completed master lap distance. This effort is done. It’s been done for at least a day.

...but no live distance. No regular updates. Nothing on Strava. Bloody hell Nedd lad, you're not making this easy to seem transparent. If a Strava update appears and is like "Yep. On track." No watch back up though...what do you honestly say to that?

It doesn't matter. No matter how he performs this will never be recognized by any official ultrarunning organization. He should have done a proper race or organized one. This is just a fund raising scam. He is not close of being able to challenge Kouros. Over 6 days he might be around 500 miles, which is pretty good but not elite standard.

Just this year already 5 runners have exceeded 500 miles/804.5k in 6 days.
Overall you would not even make the top 100.

As of 4am, Tuesday 8th (4 days plus 12h) - 171km for that 36. 654.89km total (408 miles, or 90.67 a day). Digging deep. Nosebleeds the lot. Ballsy in my book. 250k AUD donated so far. Great effort.

But he will not get any faster in the next 5.5 days.

171.79k in the last 1.5 days (483.1k after 3 days) that equals 114.5k per day. That's 629.75k for the remaining 5.5 days. That's a total of 1284.64k. Slightly shy of 1000 miles.
And that's assuming he can keep up the pace from the last 1.5 days.

Not half as ballsy as the many virtual unknowns from both yesteryear and today whose efforts have exceeded what nb is doing now all without the generous financial support and fanfare which surrounds him. The bloke's fighting to uphold an image so the money and fame keep rolling in. I'm not overly impressed. Let's see if he can crack the Australian women's 6 day record of 820km. Probably not.