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

It's best we ignore the troll. Don't even down vote him/her/them, definitely don't reply.

Agreed. Last communication with him being that he is an idiot...I like it. Now he can shout into the wind...can't hear him.

You haven't noticed yet? DaveLoves2 only knows how to use "Excel on his Mac" to create simple graphs despite him claiming to be the manager of a team of bank data analysts. He's gaslighting you. He doesn't know how to use Python or statistical functions.

shut up nerd

How has nobody picked up on The Speed Project and Will and Robbie's "Wild Bunch" team.

The Speed Project (so far) haven't posted anything about the team despite the Win

"Holding a 7’07/mile | 4’26/km for over 440 miles. How we did it
7 runners in rotation, someone is always running.
For 95% of the race we ran 1 x mile per person, which gave an average rest time per runner of 40-45 mins.
We all ran in rotation from the 4am start until 10pm the first night. At this point we split into two teams: 4x Brits continued running as a crew, whilst the 3x Americans went forward 4 hours (32 miles) and got their heads down.
At 2am we swapped, Brits went 32 miles ahead, Americans ran - so yes they put in a bigger shift between them.
Come 6am we are back into the usual rotation, generally running mile splits. There would always be 1/2 runners in the RV resting whilst the other runners were in the Jeep raging through whatever terrain was in front of us.
When we got to a particularly hilly section on day 2 we went into PRO-MODE. Each runner in the rotation did 100-200m as fast as possible. Quick F1 like stops between getting someone out and the person who just ran back in. Zooming down the road to do it all over again. We held this for a couple of hours and we were all bringing down our average pace of 7min miles into the 4/5s. It shows how shorter reps are so much faster, but pretty unsustainable over this distance or at the altitude. We were over 4,000ft in elevation the whole way until we got close to Vegas. As a sea level p##sy, you really feel it and it doesn’t go away for days - which we didn’t have.
Through the second night we continued on the rotation of all 7 runners, 1/2 out in the RV resting for 1-2 hours at a time. Legs were reduced to 0.5 miles and that theme continued from midnight until we got into Vegas and over the finish line at 8:17am on Saturday morning.
The earliest a team has finished the race (previously 9 something am) - for context this was the first year teams went from Salt Lake as well, starting 24 hours earlier and 150 miles further than the traditional route.
We’re taking it as a big W"

Isn't this instance the opposite? If PJ was to be believed, he thought he would have broken the world record by a large margin, but he wasn't even close. Seems like far less was possible than he thought about himself, or at least what he said he thought about himself.

I too am inspired to announce to everyone a record breaking attempt, crowdfund the expenses, generate publicity and gain followers, and then miss the record by over 30%.

Miles 3206, 3207, and 3208 he hit in 4:54; 4:29; 3:57 big decline in elevation!

They apparently won the "secret route" from Salt Lake City to Vegas rather than LA to Las Vegas. No idea how many teams took part though.

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So in the case of PJ, I suspect the record breaking headline he used was much more grabby than if he had been using something like "In X days I will be running 60 miles a day for 50 days and not setting a new world record for running across the US".

This was never a serious attempt at a running record. Abandoning it 4 days in is further proof of this.

Turns out PJ has been taking daily IV drips to stay hydrated and probably alive. Is this kosher, grey line, or unfair ?

Where'd you see this?

If this was a legit attempt then this would be against the rules, pretty sure IVs are a PED. As this is for charity someone would have to check with RWB to see if they cared and I'm sure they don't.

It is Recruiter57, not Logician57

At this point you can't take Paul Johnson too seriously. He is just an Instagram content creator with a couple of cool dance moves and ice baths with a running theme.

I don't think anyone has taken him seriously since he said his target was to take 2 days off the world record.

I don't understand why people are getting their knickers in a twist about it though. Provided he's actually running that is

militarytimes.com

Navy LT attempting world record run from LA to NYC in 40 days

Sarah Sicard

Lt. Paul Johnson starts his cross-country run in Los Angeles on March 1.

Link:www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/militar...

Projected finish time has ballooned up to 51 days total as of this morning.

Is he embarrassing the Navy?

With all that twerking and crotch grabbing he is definitely an embarrassment