Official William Goodge TransAus World Record Thread, Perth to Sydney, 35 days, 68.5 miles a day

It's almost like he doesn't care.

As just noted to a pal who's pointed it out, to not return your scorecard is disrespectful, sloppy, entitled and arrogant. He had one job! Well over 10,000 will have looked for it - maybe 50...

He puts it all over the media that he's one of the greatest multiday runners of all time, which 35 days would clearly be, but then pulls slovenly ops like this. It is not sport as we know it. Our sport is noble, historic and takes tremendous sacrifice, skill and discipline, and now we have him selling beer at the end of the run, not once, but twice, on top of the other dozen products he's shilling, and putting up his run, then deciding to add to it after a beer, and then just leaving it withdrawn. All so darn crass.

His crew chief should be on it, but despite describing himself as a "problem solving mother f*cker" in the run's bio, appears totally mute - we have not had a peep out of Jason Brooks on WGs insta.

It's not necessarily a weakness that he has taken a few hours more than Turnbull to cover the distance. Running too fast is a bigger danger than running too slow. The extra recovery time means nothing if your legs are too trashed, and you'll need less recovery if you run slower.

I also disagree that the slow miles at the end of the day are bad strategy. I always walk for a while at the end of the day on multiday runs. Active recovery is actually very wise.

So far I'd say Goodge's pacing seems very sensible, and while I'm conviced he's been cheating on his previous runs, he still seems to have learned a fair bit from the amount that he did actually run.

Yes, many ways to skin the cat. I saw a jogler once at about 11pm, having been out there since 0400 desperately trying to get their allotment for the day. It was around 17-18 minute miling and looked like a brutal shuffle. Surely pack it in and come back the next day on 10s? Those extra 4 miles or so in well over an hour come at a heavy price.

Anyway, to get his tally today, he's staring down the barrel of 16 hours. Circa 76k in nearly 11 hours is not pretty. 36 or so still to find.

It has been a really fascinating game of cat and mouse, and the athletes are almost dead level, with CT out there for around 7 hours less. WG will look to get another 20k in the lead by close of play.

now,at 11:34 and since 4 hours ago, his wath battery has been low. can it carry to the end today?

I'll give his 14 hour split in 23 mins

Day 4, 28kms, 400kms behind.

Yeah, this Eleni Tsingas world record attempt is probably the most hilarious and pathetic run I've seen yet from an influencer. Or aspiring influencer.

about 102 for 14:50. A very tidy resurgence. Pulse needs to be fine, because he was positively crawling 2.5hrs ago.

At Transcon on day 38 he did 105km in 13:41 off a pulse of 107 with 945m of elevation. Some absolute monster climbs.

Odd.

He did 110k today according to the latest Insta post.

Hi all,

I had a terrible feeling when he resurrected today with a glorious closing few hours that he would have a crashed pulse for the day.

I doesn't go above 114 since 6am, with loads of really tasty running in there. This type of super low, non-deviating HR is completely unheard of - and especially not with such precision accuracy and predictability as this. If so, when?

Compare Day 1 to Day 3 at identical stages in the day [90k].

Day 1:

6:42 126 bpm
6:53 128 bpm
6:38 130 bpm
6:31 126 bpm
7:32 123 bpm
6:16 125 bpm
7:04 121 bpm
7:38 123 bpm
6:07 132 bpm

Avg HR 126

Day 3:

7:07 107 bpm
7:03 108 bpm
7:05 109 bpm
6:59 110 bpm
8:36 109 bpm
6:50 106 bpm
6:53 109 bpm
6:51 109 bpm
6:50 110 bpm
6:51 108 bpm

Avg HR 108

Now you can believe he suddenly becomes a completely different athlete on day 3 and runs with almost no deviation in pulse [whether it be an 8:36 K or a 6:51, both the same,] and he has reduced his pulse by 18; but I don't.

I could not have telegraphed all this happening any more clearly in my missive to start this thread, and when I alerted that he was going incredibly well in the latter part of today, I warned about his pulse going awry.

This has now been happening in identical fashion for 6 years, for both WG and his mentor Robbie Balenger [at his April 2019 Transcon and other events]. The question is "why". What I DO know is that if you don't have human pulse, the watch and tracker can be passed around freely and no-one can tell the switch. A cheeky km here or there can make the world of difference.

Anyway, I can clearly see how the next month will now unfold. I'll bow out of this thread as what many of us dreaded has started to happen again [it always does on day 3], but feel free to contact me personally on Insta or FB with questions or thoughts.

I am eyeing up flights to Adelaide lasciviously!

Kind rgds, W

Hi Will,

I'm not on ista or fb. Please keep updating us here.

As expected, we have super human readings. I have just messaged the team, waiting to hear back as it's night time there. They'll be on the road as soon as they see the message.

He's not getting away with this.

Will, have you been following Kallup McCoy’s US transcon? He’s got plenty of miles with a heart rate below 100. What are your thoughts on his run?

You have been a real trooper down the years. I don't have the heart or energy to go through all this again, and now that the grave discrepancies have begun, I can rest easy that I telegraphed it, and sleep through the Aussie days and UK nights.

My intro letter in this thread has by far my highest approval ratings ever of 38-0. People do care, and can see that something is very odd indeed. The predictability is off the scale, and completely inexplicable. An insufferably ignorant and abusive hater has messaged me a barrage of abuse to say that loads of 6 minute Ks at 105-110 are perfectly normal and that WG is just built as a superior being... but even WG and Balenger don't go down that road. They admit the pulses are out, but just say the equipment is faulty ["bullsh*t" in their words].

I thought he may have to quit today at 80k given how bad he was going. There was nothing there. Then, for 3 hours, most blue dots had a pace of 9.1kph. He had barely had a 9 in the first 80k. 9 is super world class multidaying. I thought to myself, "uh oh"...

Onwards, I've said my piece, and this has all been done to death. Maybe I'll pop up toward the end with some latest insights. This could all get seriously spicy - I feel sorry for Turnbull.

Best, W

Completely understand Will, but that's what he wants. That's how he wins. We don't give up.

I honestly wish he was real, as do you, but we know for sure it's fake.

The team are ready, they are leaving now, I also have a lot of friends who work remote, they are ready.

He's going to be under a microscope from here. Nobody will interfere, he has no claim for that. Respectful watching.

Hi, KM is a vastly superior and fitter athlete with 15,000 miles in the last 5 or 6 years and a 2:36 marathon. He is taking is super easy with stuff like 70k in 13:30. It looks like a very cautious effort, still impressive of course, but his time-outs in the day are enormous, up to 4 hours and it is all a very different bag to the sort of runs that WG has been producing at here, Transcon, Moab, Jogle and 48/30.

In short he is performing far under his optimum, WG way over. Ie getting 40 more K a day in similar time [like yesterday]. The fact that the two runners have similar HRs is all the more a red flag really, as KM is cruising and WG at his absolute limit.

The vital thing with all this is to compare Goodge with Goodge. That's where it all collapses.

It's not that suspicious, with a moving pace of sub 13min/mi and 13.5 hours elapsed time, that seems about right for his marathon ability

Yep, I always so want him to just produce runs that are ordinary and reasonable, like 99.7% of folks. Whenever he starts going really well his heart always collapses. At Moab I couldn't believe it when the tracker started going at 12kph at the 130mile mark, when he had been at around 6 or 7 for the entire run. And lo and behold his pulse collapsed at the same time, as he smashed numerous course records.

We need to keep building the evidence and the data for this run. A key for America was when I howled at them on days 12 and 17 to show me a pulse, they did. And then it was 95% high and fine when I was out there [just very low when RB joined him on a run]. Promptly collapsing on my departure.

We'll know an awful lot more a fortnight from now.

As this is a formal world record run, he certainly doesn't have to answer to me now, but the Australian media, public and CT.

I haven't read every page of the previous attempts but this is all super fascinating and certainly appears damning. What I can't quite understand is what the theory is for how he is doing this.

As I understand it, the main evidence against him is that at some point during his runs he starts to produce similar, or slightly better, times with heart rates that are 20-40bpm lower than one would expect. And he keeps these lower heart rates up for hours if not days. Am I correct on this?

If so, this is likely NOT someone else running for him with his watch because their heart rate would presumably also be higher. It's also likely NOT just him resting while driving because then his heart rate would be even lower.

What explains a moderate exertion level for a long period of time going moderately faster than running would allow? Is he biking? roller blading? Getting pulled by a car in some way?