Another run across America underway - is it legit? Boots currently on the ground

So now it's "if he has cheated"? You weren't so shy before and full of confidence accusing him of cheating everyday egging Cockerell on.

I hope he's paying you to make such a tit of yourself vehemently defending him like this

I'm getting paid in karma for doing the righteous thing proving you all wrong about PJ and now you all are running away with your tails between your legs going from I quote, "You're a fraud! You're a fraud! You're a fraud!", to now "If he is cheating".

actually, if you look on his insta, the huge reddit thread [719 posts], and here, the concerns that he's microriding have gone thru the roof. We're not running away, we're asking about gaping holes in his cadence, often and usually when he speeds up at the end of days, and yesterday was one of the most notorious examples. It appears really blatant now, and behind the back of the chief who is usually elsewhere, miles away in the RB, with PJs mum. They're the two he won't want to ride in front of.

this from reddit as an eg:

The kid is has put himself in a situation that puts him under a huge amount of pressure. The freakin US NAVY is covering this progress and sharing it with the world. This community and especially the SWO community are very small and his reputation is at stake. He’ll do anything at this point to save face, especially if he intends on making the navy a career.

His chain of command is no doubt following his progress, but not to the level of detail in this group. My wonder is if they’ll recall his ass back if they realize how bad he’s struggling or if they catch wind of him possibly being dishonest and shaming the US military

No I didn't. I said it looked dodgy and asked for more evidence. Get it right, Sneakers, come on.

Is this the part where you actually downloaded all of PJs Strava data in 1 second intervals and put a Kalman filter on its to filter out the noise for analysis? Thought not. You still have no idea how to download the data let alone analyze it.

And no, PJ doesn't "speed up at the end of days". If you actually had downloaded the data and did proper analysis on it you would have easily seen that is not true. You are just parroting what Cockerell falsely wrote for one of the days when I proved him wrong with the data. And now Cockerell is silent because he is ashamed I showed the data the proved he falsely accused PJ of dramatically speeding up at the end of the day.

What are people's thoughts on Paul's step count?

Currently 793516 steps in 847.62 miles, is this not very low no? Unless you're running consistent ~6 minute miles?

but don't you think it's odd that his cadence is 0 for most of the last 4 miles yesterday with his heart at 76 83 83 90?

Not that it really matters what you think as the cat seems to be out of the bag. Not just willvlc you have to muzzle by any means. This is turning into a game of whack-o-mole for you sneakers

If you compare the early part of yesterday, where they admittedly drove / rode back to the start, with other claims on this board of microriding (and the non-zero paces with 0 cadence) it is clear he's taken some rides along the way. Since there is no record in play : PJ could ride from Santa Fe to NYC and it wouldn't matter. The significance of this run was over on day 5.

ooooohhhh, we can work it out! Averaging about 12s for the trip.... and that should be at around 170spm.

So, it should be 170 x 12 x 847.6 = 1,729,104.

About a million shy of expectation.

Where are you seeing the 793k steps?

'tis on his tracker page -

pauljohnson.run

Paul Johnson

@pauijohnson

Running LA to NYC (March 2024). More miles, more smiles. Ultra runner, Naval Officer.

Link:www.pauljohnson.run/track

Total Stats
Paul's total stats for the Transcon Run. Stats will be updated after each day's run is uploaded to Strava.
Distance - 847.62mi
Elevation Gain - 43,047.90ft
Calories - 104,192
Steps - 793,516
Cities - 63

So yeah, way way lower than it should be. Not sure how this can be explained because he's definitely not running anywhere near the pace needed for it to be THAT low. I'm sure it's almost physically impossible alongside the daily miles.

I disagree. Still huge publicity, loads of interest, massive of sponsors and endorsements and the ultra community wants to see how a Transcon occurs with not mucking around. Useful to compare with other runs past and future. All important additions to our knowledge of how the sport works.

Of course he needs to do it properly.

whats up paul/rob/griffin/magicmike?

Oh wow... what a great spot by you.

A walking mile is 120spm and takes 16 mins. That's 1920 steps.

A quick mile is 180spm at 10. That's 1800 steps.

But 793,516/847.2 is 936 steps per mile.

Cue Sneakers to blast in and tell us we can't read.

Tech fail : once again, millions of users upload data on a daily basis but give a runfluencer $1600 worth of wrist watches and send him off across the US and you can barely get the things to tell time accurately.

heh, and his tracker had him at 25 miles for the day an hour ago, and 43 now. The 25 felt just right for a 5am start. Chaos reigns.

I thought it looked like that had shot up quickly too. Will be very interesting to see the data from today's upload later.

A lot more comments slipping through the net on Instagram now too, accusing him of riding in the van.

I hope he’s wearing a seat belt!