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

Good luck with that prediction.
I think they have to rent this track for another three or four days. What a nice fundraising opportunity.

800km. 5d 11 hours.

Whatever way you look at it, that's decent

That's the tragedy in this. This would be a great 6 day performance under real race conditions. Unfortunately this is just a made up format which will be recognized by nobody.

an hour and 40 more than that. the 5:11 they stated all part of the grift to make it sound better than it is. They should just keep to the facts ffs

Race conditions wouldn't have done that mileage, as its harder I'd say...but I'm sure you know that too!

Makes me want to do one.

Is that because of daylight savings? I wonder if that was deliberate? Probably not, but it would make sense. Urg. Imagine doing it 10 mins ahead on the daytime clock, going nuts, then someone telling you you were fifty over. That would be chunder time.

Reminder, he was 9 hours ahead of pace at day 1, now half way through day 5, he's 7 hours 40min behind.

He's losing 4 hours per day, it's worse than his fans realise.

Even at current rate (highly unlikely), it'll be 11 says and 21 hours.

He could have raced smarter in race conditions when he saw other runners. But he might have gone out fast like he did anyway.

Try a 6 day race AussieAussieAussie, it's a great way of learning that a day has 24 hours and that math on paper doesn't work in these kind of races.

Say he gets to 850km for 6 days, puts him in the top 50 all time for 6 days

Better than I’d expected, obviously not on track for any WR but still it’s 850km in 6 days

I hope you all learned your lesson that you don't have to be homely and decrepit to be an ultrarunner. Nedd is a good runner, not the best in the world but still good.

Don't contaminate our thread with your drivel.

That's the kind of ultra running gatekeeping I was referring to

If you want to contribute to the thread don't misrepresent what others are saying.

It could be around 46th place IF this would be a certified and sanctioned race. But this is a made up format so it doesn't count for anything.

That wouldn't be 46th run though, it would be 46th runner, big difference. And it'd be more than that because that's a mens list and there are women who have run farther too.

You guys sound like a sad bunch of old jealous boomers. Time has marched on fellas and social media is here to stay. Nedd is lucky to be born when he was. I don’t think when he ran across Australia he had any idea he would become a Tiktok star. He was just an average guy raising money for charity. He would’ve been approached by a marketing team and who wouldn’t have gone with it. Heck Kouros tried to milk every cent he could.
No matter what Nedd does you guys won’t acknowledge any merit which says a lot. Any of you so called ultra athletes done 500miles in 5days and change? I’m guessing not and if you had was it easy?
you guys are critiquing the timing when he’s using an Olympic track with timing mats, livestream and gps is the biggest joke ever. I bet the Casio was just invented in your day and the events were measured with an analogue car odometer.
All this talk about 6 day races too. If this were a 6 day event he wouldn’t have slept half as much and he’d be 900k easy.
I’ve never had any interest in ultra running, always considered those people head cases rather than athletes. Had no interest in Nedd whatsoever but listening to you resentful old fogeys is making me like him more and more

His effort is admirable, everyone acknowledges that.

Spruiking a record attempt for marketing purposes, when it was never even remotely possible for a runner at his level is disingenuous at best.

The damage to his health caused by chasing an unattainable, ill conceived, poorly prepared goal, is horrible to watch.

For the record, I thought he was most likely to take 15 days when he started. Now, sub 12 days is still possible, sub 13 days more realistic.

So far he's exceeded my expectations, but it's only half way.

Every second time I go on tiktok, nedd is resting.
Still almost 500 miles to go. That's a long way.

You’re still missing the point mate. It’s called marketing and it’s working. Right place, right time and he’s going to do well out of this whatever happens now plus he’s raised millions for charity which is probably more than any of your ultra heroes ever did so good luck to him I say.