This thread was originally titled, "Incredible development in the $612,000 Transcon Goodge run, currently ongoing" but the new title is more descriptive. The description of the run is here.
This has all the makings of one of the freakiest endurance challenges of all time. This is an apparel company which doesn't have the first clue about one of the toughest sports in the world, feeding athletes and and models it endorses to the lions.
It is a real life, running version of Squid Game.
The British Journalist Piers Morgan once challenged the fastest cricket bowler in the world to have six balls at him in the nets. Brett Lee said sure... huge crowd. He broke his arm with the fourth ball. Mess with stuff like this at your peril.
This has all the makings of one of the freakiest endurance challenges of all time. This is an apparel company which doesn't have the first clue about one of the toughest sports in the world, feeding athletes and and models it endorses to the lions.
It is a real life, running version of Squid Game.
The British Journalist Piers Morgan once challenged the fastest cricket bowler in the world to have six balls at him in the nets. Brett Lee said sure... huge crowd. He broke his arm with the fourth ball. Mess with stuff like this at your peril.
To be precise, Lee actually broke one of Morgan's ribs -not arm- with the third ball, and hit the fractured bone again with the fourth. But your point about Lululemon feeding these women to the lions is spot on.
This has all the makings of one of the freakiest endurance challenges of all time. This is an apparel company which doesn't have the first clue about one of the toughest sports in the world, feeding athletes and and models it endorses to the lions.
It is a real life, running version of Squid Game.
The British Journalist Piers Morgan once challenged the fastest cricket bowler in the world to have six balls at him in the nets. Brett Lee said sure... huge crowd. He broke his arm with the fourth ball. Mess with stuff like this at your peril.
To be precise, Lee actually broke one of Morgan's ribs -not arm- with the third ball, and hit the fractured bone again with the fourth. But your point about Lululemon feeding these women to the lions is spot on.
Omg Arthur, are you married? We have a future...
My breakdown so far of the contenders is:
one is downright dangerous, this is really inappropriate. four can hardly run at all. three are fair to solid 1 is good 1 is the greatest ultrarunner of all time.
According to the live tracking website, they've currently covered 17.8 miles in a mere 88 minutes. This certainly inspires trust in the event
the time-keeping a hideous clusterf*ck, but I have Camille at 20.4 miles in around 2:30. She has gone out needlessly quick. Says she's chasing Yiannis Kouros which is a bad idea.
According to the live tracking website, they've currently covered 17.8 miles in a mere 88 minutes. This certainly inspires trust in the event
the time-keeping a hideous clusterf*ck, but I have Camille at 20.4 miles in around 2:30. She has gone out needlessly quick. Says she's chasing Yiannis Kouros which is a bad idea.
The timing varies depending on your timezone. It's only acurate for Pacific time and you need to adjust for how many hours you are out from that.
I've seen it claimed that Herron isn't just going for Kouros' official men's world record, but his unnoficial mark of 658 miles which he ran in the Sydney to Melbourne race on an unratified course.
the time-keeping a hideous clusterf*ck, but I have Camille at 20.4 miles in around 2:30. She has gone out needlessly quick. Says she's chasing Yiannis Kouros which is a bad idea.
The timing varies depending on your timezone. It's only acurate for Pacific time and you need to adjust for how many hours you are out from that.
I've seen it claimed that Herron isn't just going for Kouros' official men's world record, but his unnoficial mark of 658 miles which he ran in the Sydney to Melbourne race on an unratified course.
Or they could just put a bloody stopwatch on it like normal people. The human race, 'eh.
Actually if you look at the page source for the tracker you can find the url that they are using to pull the data to update the tracker. There is a lot more data than they are reporting including pace (for what I assume was the last lap) and average pace for each person.
If you grab the url and paste into firefox, firefox should parse it automatically for you so you can get more detailed information.
Anyone know if they are planning on running 24 hours a day. Breaks?
I am really surprised I don't see any ongoing social media about this. It seems like lululemon would be more accomplished in leveraging this. Maybe they are going to wait till later.
At this point Camille is motoring right along.
pace "07:50 min/mile" paceAvg "07:45 min/mile"
One of the participants is
pace "23:51 min/mile" paceAvg "21:27 min/mile"
which looks to be a long 6 days.
I can't imagine running the same 2.5 mile loop for 6 days.
Actually if you look at the page source for the tracker you can find the url that they are using to pull the data to update the tracker. There is a lot more data than they are reporting including pace (for what I assume was the last lap) and average pace for each person.
If you grab the url and paste into firefox, firefox should parse it automatically for you so you can get more detailed information.
Anyone know if they are planning on running 24 hours a day. Breaks?
I am really surprised I don't see any ongoing social media about this. It seems like lululemon would be more accomplished in leveraging this. Maybe they are going to wait till later.
At this point Camille is motoring right along.
pace "07:50 min/mile" paceAvg "07:45 min/mile"
One of the participants is
pace "23:51 min/mile" paceAvg "21:27 min/mile"
which looks to be a long 6 days.
I can't imagine running the same 2.5 mile loop for 6 days.
Actually if you look at the page source for the tracker you can find the url that they are using to pull the data to update the tracker. There is a lot more data than they are reporting including pace (for what I assume was the last lap) and average pace for each person.
If you grab the url and paste into firefox, firefox should parse it automatically for you so you can get more detailed information.
Anyone know if they are planning on running 24 hours a day. Breaks?
I am really surprised I don't see any ongoing social media about this. It seems like lululemon would be more accomplished in leveraging this. Maybe they are going to wait till later.
At this point Camille is motoring right along.
pace "07:50 min/mile" paceAvg "07:45 min/mile"
One of the participants is
pace "23:51 min/mile" paceAvg "21:27 min/mile"
which looks to be a long 6 days.
I can't imagine running the same 2.5 mile loop for 6 days.
Yes, just run run run, break when you can, but the clock never stops.
I don't get Camille. She's on for 780miles and Kouros' WR is 645. Where's the fire? She did precisely this at the World champs in '21 and dnf'd at 100k.
Actually if you look at the page source for the tracker you can find the url that they are using to pull the data to update the tracker. There is a lot more data than they are reporting including pace (for what I assume was the last lap) and average pace for each person.
If you grab the url and paste into firefox, firefox should parse it automatically for you so you can get more detailed information.
Anyone know if they are planning on running 24 hours a day. Breaks?
I am really surprised I don't see any ongoing social media about this. It seems like lululemon would be more accomplished in leveraging this. Maybe they are going to wait till later.
At this point Camille is motoring right along.
pace "07:50 min/mile" paceAvg "07:45 min/mile"
One of the participants is
pace "23:51 min/mile" paceAvg "21:27 min/mile"
which looks to be a long 6 days.
I can't imagine running the same 2.5 mile loop for 6 days.
Meanwhile over with the other crazy cats in Arizona, these are Paul's first four 10 mile splits of the day:
1:52 2:12 2:46 3:20
He's actually gone very well today, but that is still a trepidous decline in fortunes, and I'm deeply suspicious of the fast first 10 when the blob literally leaped half way down my phone in the space of 20 minutes. Maybe Strava can shed some light.
The new napping scheme is all well and good, but the facts are they've been out there for 11 hours now, with the big sleep now upon us. Maybe that takes him to 13, then another 4-4.5 hours to complete the show in the lonely, boring dark, and it will have consumed 18 hours for the whole shebang. And that in turn triggers a late start tomoz.
I said that day 4's outlandish 80 would see a cruel and unusual day 5, but I didn't dream it would be 18 miles. It's now looking like tomorrow could be a real slog too.
I said that day 4's outlandish 80 would see a cruel and unusual day 5, but I didn't dream it would be 18 miles. It's now looking like tomorrow could be a real slog too.
Re the 18 miles yesterday, I think they did just enough to maintain a 60mile/day average. Days 1-4 totaled 282 miles, add 18 for 300 in 5 days.
Agreed that it's a bad look to be right back on the cusp and not even try to carry some sort of buffer. The whole daily mileage thing seems very forced and he definitely doesn't have another gear if a bigger day was needed. Compare that to Kostelnick who would vary the miles based on how he was feeling/where the RV could park up for the night.
Of course if they took the most direct way from Parker to Yarnell AZ they would have a free 13 miles back in the tank but the more the merrier I suppose...
I said that day 4's outlandish 80 would see a cruel and unusual day 5, but I didn't dream it would be 18 miles. It's now looking like tomorrow could be a real slog too.
Re the 18 miles yesterday, I think they did just enough to maintain a 60mile/day average. Days 1-4 totaled 282 miles, add 18 for 300 in 5 days.
Agreed that it's a bad look to be right back on the cusp and not even try to carry some sort of buffer. The whole daily mileage thing seems very forced and he definitely doesn't have another gear if a bigger day was needed. Compare that to Kostelnick who would vary the miles based on how he was feeling/where the RV could park up for the night.
Of course if they took the most direct way from Parker to Yarnell AZ they would have a free 13 miles back in the tank but the more the merrier I suppose...
Aye, but didn't vary by much! What a metronome... Here are Pete's dailies. Paul's team just asked me for them to improve their "SA". [Situational awareness].
Re the 18 miles yesterday, I think they did just enough to maintain a 60mile/day average. Days 1-4 totaled 282 miles, add 18 for 300 in 5 days.
Agreed that it's a bad look to be right back on the cusp and not even try to carry some sort of buffer. The whole daily mileage thing seems very forced and he definitely doesn't have another gear if a bigger day was needed. Compare that to Kostelnick who would vary the miles based on how he was feeling/where the RV could park up for the night.
Of course if they took the most direct way from Parker to Yarnell AZ they would have a free 13 miles back in the tank but the more the merrier I suppose...
Aye, but didn't vary by much! What a metronome... Here are Pete's dailies. Paul's team just asked me for them to improve their "SA". [Situational awareness].
And over in Cali, what do you get if you mix one great runner, a good runner, two solid runners and 6 influencers? A freakshow, damp squib of an event in which despite their berserk proclamations about what they were going to do, many have turned up, gone for a stroll and said, "f*ck this."
We're already down to 7 it looks like, with 3 of those hanging on for dear life. Not a perfect advert for women's running I'm afraid, but they refused to invite appropriate people. So many would have LOVED the chance, really leapt at the chance. I can think of 20 straight off the bat. Grrrrrrrr.
And over in Cali, what do you get if you mix one great runner, a good runner, two solid runners and 6 influencers? A freakshow, damp squib of an event in which despite their berserk proclamations about what they were going to do, many have turned up, gone for a stroll and said, "f*ck this."
We're already down to 7 it looks like, with 3 of those hanging on for dear life. Not a perfect advert for women's running I'm afraid, but they refused to invite appropriate people. So many would have LOVED the chance, really leapt at the chance. I can think of 20 straight off the bat. Grrrrrrrr.
The field isn't down to 7. It's just a case of some runners having extremely low targets of 50-60k a day. At least they know their limitations.
Flippin is the one runner of decent calibre who isn't pushing. She is apparently more focussed on coaching Vriko Kwok.
But that sounds like a poor excuse given Kwok is only aiming for about 50k a day and they all have a crew of 7.
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