Super exciting. This record is hers with good pacing & nutrition. She should smash it by a considerable margin. Dixon is a good runner (1:10/2:29) but Des has had a more impressive career. Love to see someone hitting the ultra stuff not too far off of their prime. I mean, Des finished 4th at the Trials and is planning to run a fall marathon.
just the facts, ma'am wrote:
The attempt was announced by a headphone company. Clearly she's looking to make some money out of this. She's 37. Saying "the end is near" isn't really a hot take for a 37 year old. I don't know why you have to crap on her for that fact?
Just...some people seem to hate people for weird reasons and then try to come up with other reasons to justify it.
Isn't she running this 50k for free?
I honestly find it inconceivable that anyone would waste the time to hate on Des unless they're truly in some dark pit of despair making them willing to lash out at anyone and anything appearing to have it all together. Des has had an amazing career, is a long-term ambassador for the sport, and got there the hard way. Unless haters have something conclusive to present I suggest they go for a long run and return home seeing things more clearly.
Desi ought to blow this out of the water. If she's in peak shape, she should easily go under 3 hours.
This is awesome. After she should try some trial ultras. Would love to see some top American marathoner try some ultras. Like 50 miles and such.
You guys ever wonder how many of us on here are virgins? I'd say most.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
just the facts, ma'am wrote:
The attempt was announced by a headphone company. Clearly she's looking to make some money out of this. She's 37. Saying "the end is near" isn't really a hot take for a 37 year old. I don't know why you have to crap on her for that fact?
Just...some people seem to hate people for weird reasons and then try to come up with other reasons to justify it.
Isn't she running this 50k for free?
I don't know the exact details of the race I guess, but I know that all of the announcements have been in concert with Jaybirds. So it sure seems like at the very least they'll give her a nice tidy bonus if she breaks the record. Or they inked a deal and this was a term of the deal. I don't know...just guessing based on the roll out.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNLPcVr6Wo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_linkGo Des go!
She ran 26.2 today at 5’58 with 1200 ft of elevation. I’m wondering why she just didn’t run about 5 more on a flat road and get the record on a training run.
Yawn. It’s a weak record at an odd distance. There are at least 20 other women in the world who would crush her in an actual race at the distance.
Pollyanna 1234 wrote:
She ran 26.2 today at 5’58 with 1200 ft of elevation. I’m wondering why she just didn’t run about 5 more on a flat road and get the record on a training run.
OMG, she is gonna crush it!
Planet of the Apes wrote:
Yawn. It’s a weak record at an odd distance. There are at least 20 other women in the world who would crush her in an actual race at the distance.
Says a proud basement dweller.
S. Canaday wrote:
I think she'll do great! Would've been awesome to see her at Two Oceans (a little hard to get to S. Africa these days!). That can be a good payday.
Outside of Comrades and Two Oceans (and then maybe Ultravasan etc) it's generally more "lucrative" to move straight to trail-mountain ultras. Desi might even be better on hilly courses/trails.
With her strength and endurance (and relative marathon speed) there's no reason she couldn't run a great 50km (it basically runs like a marathon if on flat roads).
So is this a "world best"? Is it considered an "all surface record"? Technically the guy that ran 2:43 split it as a net uphill in Two Oceans I think....and that was all road.
philscalves wrote:
Current WR is 3:07:20 -- she'd have to run sub 6:01 pace for the 31.1 miles. Says she's super fit right now. Article below:
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a35771717/des-linden-50k-world-record-attempt/
I thought that was cancelled, or was that just last year? Do you know if Japan has competitive road 50ks? Well in any case I do hope there will be longer and more lucrative road races in the future.
RancidCupNoodle wrote:
S. Canaday wrote:
I think she'll do great! Would've been awesome to see her at Two Oceans (a little hard to get to S. Africa these days!). That can be a good payday.
Outside of Comrades and Two Oceans (and then maybe Ultravasan etc) it's generally more "lucrative" to move straight to trail-mountain ultras. Desi might even be better on hilly courses/trails.
With her strength and endurance (and relative marathon speed) there's no reason she couldn't run a great 50km (it basically runs like a marathon if on flat roads).
So is this a "world best"? Is it considered an "all surface record"? Technically the guy that ran 2:43 split it as a net uphill in Two Oceans I think....and that was all road.
I thought that was cancelled, or was that just last year? Do you know if Japan has competitive road 50ks? Well in any case I do hope there will be longer and more lucrative road races in the future.
Two Oceans is cancelled this year as well. It is actually a good route to run a fast 50k as the first 27-odd km is an easy slight downhill before starting to climb. Of course there is Chapmans Peak (about 300 m climb over ~4km) and Constantia Nek (about 150m climb over 2 km climb) to deal with in the second half which is make or break.
Planet of the Apes wrote:
Yawn. It’s a weak record at an odd distance. There are at least 20 other women in the world who would crush her in an actual race at the distance.
If one distance is odd, it has to be Marathon. 42.195k or 26.2 miles?
Frank Shorter here wrote:
Planet of the Apes wrote:
Yawn. It’s a weak record at an odd distance. There are at least 20 other women in the world who would crush her in an actual race at the distance.
If one distance is odd, it has to be Marathon. 42.195k or 26.2 miles?
50K is an odd distance. In Olympic races, the next distance is doubled, tripled or quadrupled from the previous one. The 50K is 20% farther than the marathon and any marathoner is going to be equally competitive at 50K. Desi is probably in about 2:30 shape and there are dozens of runners that could beat whatever time she runs and some by over 10 minutes.
This is not a criticism her as I doubt she really considers it to be a meaningful WR.
Cool shirt.
Bump.
SDSU Aztec wrote:
50K is an odd distance. In Olympic races, the next distance is doubled, tripled or quadrupled from the previous one.
Math test:
800*2=
1500*3=
10000*4=