Pam Reed completes 300 mile run

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Pam Reed's Running Shorts

"Reed ran the 25 miles from Marana to Picacho Peak and back six times."

Man she should have picked a more exciting trip and go somewhere. Run across a couple of states or something.

How can you belittle someone running 300 miles in 80 hours. Anything you naysayers done is not superior to that. Don't forget you also have to not sleep for 80 straight hours to do this. Yeah it's slow but a cocky sprinter would say the same to you. "oh a 14:00 5000, who cares that's running 67 a 400, I can do that in my sleep, why would you want to run that far unless you are slow." And I doubt any of the naysayers have run 14:00. It may not be your thing to do but try doing a 1/4 of what she did, run for 20 straight hours or 75 straight miles and then be a naysayer. Until then just keep being a pussy.

can't compete at an established distance so has to invent something she is good at. While most can't do what she does, she is still a freak. No different than someone being the best in the world at the one meter dash.

huygenz wrote:

i would be equally impressed with someone who could squeeze a continuous 3 foot turd out of their anus, non stop of course, as i am with mrs reed's 300 mile shuffle.

I've done that! I'll be on 60 Minutes next week with that loser, Super Diaper Baby, who could only squeeze out a 2.67 foot turd but has a better publicity machine.

It's funny how people (mostly men) belittle her accomplishment; running 100 in 24 hours is hard; running 300 miles is so much more difficult. It's easy to sit back and criticize, especially if you haven't done it.

Tell you what, go out and do it, then come back and write your insulting comments.

With that being said...being out in the sun that long as ruined her face...she has the skin of a 70 year old.

This says it exactly. It's the "hometown hero" syndrome.

You crack me up. You really think you are going to outrun a mountain lion with your pitiful 4:30 half-mile. You'd get 15 steps before the lion has you by the throat.

You young guys crack me up...think you're immortal, don't you? Shut up before you say something really stupid.

I'm confused how this run can be considered a first. Someone like Yiannis Kouros has run 4 days without sleeping...

12 Hour 162,200 meters Yiannis Kouros (GRE) Montauban 031585

24 Hour 303,506 meters Yiannis Kouros (AUS) Adelaide 100597

48 Hour 473,797 meters Yiannis Kouros (AUS) Surgeres 050596

6 Day 1,022,068 meters Yiannis Kouros (GRE) New York 070884

patience wrote:

I'm confused how this run can be considered a first. Someone like Yiannis Kouros has run 4 days without sleeping...

12 Hour 162,200 meters Yiannis Kouros (GRE) Montauban 031585

24 Hour 303,506 meters Yiannis Kouros (AUS) Adelaide 100597

48 Hour 473,797 meters Yiannis Kouros (AUS) Surgeres 050596

6 Day 1,022,068 meters Yiannis Kouros (GRE) New York 070884

you forgot that nothing exists outside of America.

We're the best! And don't you forget it.

No where in the article did it say she was the first. It merely said she did it.

I think she only did it out of spite, at that. I guess she has a rivalry going with Dean Karnazes.

RunningCalhoun wrote:

It's funny how people (mostly men) belittle her accomplishment; running 100 in 24 hours is hard; running 300 miles is so much more difficult. It's easy to sit back and criticize, especially if you haven't done it.

Some people may belittle it, others like me, just say: "Why???"

For me running has always been about SPEED and Stamina. These types of events are pure stamina, and just about ZERO about speed.

And a lot of what she is doing is walking, not running. I guess there is nothing wrong with that, but it should still be called what it is

Yes, I could not do what she did, nor would I ever want to try in a million years. Running can be abusive to the body, but also has many positive benefits. I think these types of events are just about 100% abusive to one's bodily systems.

Look, if she stayed a wake for a week repeating "Yabba, Dabba, Dooooo!" and slapping herself in the face, I would be equally impressed: I could not do that either, not would I want to.

The marathon is long enough. There is definitely some speed involved, it punishes your body (many can't walk for days after), and there is lots of COMPETITION. I think anyone going longer than that ON A REGULAR BASIS (not just to try some ultra thing once), is a bit insane, and trying to hide from their lack of speed.

HEY......PEOPLE........Don't get mad if you don't like what I wrote. It's just my opinion, and I of course ALREADY REALIZE that many non-runners think that marathon is nuts, and that all runners are nuts, or that there are 800m runners that think marathoners are afraid of speed or something. Right, I get it, to each his own. But some of what I just wrote supports what I am saying actually: if that marathon is considered crazy by lots of people (ok, less so today, because so many do that marathon), then doing over TEN IN A ROW is just plain whacko.

It's taking a good thing (running) and taking it too far and making it an unhealthy freak-show.

Im with you word up, i was worried all night more about wheter my basement was going to flood than if she made it

I don't think that it's actually a "first", just the first time in which the event has been run where the rules prohibit stopping. Kouros may have run for 4 days straight but he didn't have to, he could have stopped and napped without disqualification.

A lot of people have been poking fun at Pam Reed for her lack of speed but she has run a sub-3 marathon as a master. I guess some people are just jealous that their 32 min 10k doesn't get any press. It's sad, the woman does a big thing, something nobody on this board can concieve of doing, yet people feel the need to be superior, just because they don't understand.

Nobby Nomates wrote:

A lot of people have been poking fun at Pam Reed for her lack of speed but she has run a sub-3 marathon as a master. I guess some people are just jealous that their 32 min 10k doesn't get any press. It's sad, the woman does a big thing, something nobody on this board can concieve of doing, yet people feel the need to be superior, just because they don't understand.

I, for one, did not say that she did not have any speed. No, I just said that what she just accomplished (300 mile "run") did not require any speed.

As far as people being " jealous that their 32 min 10k doesn't get any press," maybe that is true. But I think Pam Reed probably knew that her 3 hour (or thereabouts) marathoning ability would garner her littl press also, so I guess that explains why she is undertaking something like this. For attention/press.

So that fits in nicely with my contention that people who undertake such events are escaping the pressure and competition that exists in events where speed is also involved (and there is a history of times to compare yourself to). Against serious women marathoners, and the history of marathoning, Pam Reed is a NOBODY. Against the backdrop of doing something few have tried before, and something that requires a single dimension( stamina ), she is now somebody. Mission accomplished for her. She is tough, she is nuts.

stand back wrote:

Yeah, when she tapers and adds a little speed work, she\'ll be breaking 3:30 for the marathon.

she's run sub-3:00 before...

Sorry, there are no "rules" for this sort of effort, just a story to be put over on the press. Of course, she stopped many times over the three days plus it took her to cover the 300 miles and, as for sleeping, it is not as though anyone followed her into the potty to confirm that she wasn't catching a few z's along the way.

I have great respect for the legitimate records Reed has set but this was nothing more than her one-upping DK at his own meaningless "I make up my own rules because I can't set real records" game.

And against serious women ultrarunners, and in the history of ultrarunning (a far longer and more competitive history than just marathoning) Paula Radcliffe is a NOBODY. You are comparing apples to oranges. Ultrarunning is a different sport to marathoning or anything else to do with track and field. There are ultradistance skating races which bear no relation to the speed skating at the Winter Olympics, there are ultra distance swimming events which Michael Phelps wouldn't expect to win, why draw any comparison between ultrarunning and marathoning?

Just because you don't like a sport, you don't have to put it down. Sir Steven Redgrave runs the London marathon quite regularly, he is a "marathon NOBODY", but I don't belittle his achievements just because I don't enjoy rowing.

Pam Reed has been a "somebody" in ultrarunning for quite a long time before all this press came up. Sad to say, you are still a "nobody" in any competitive milieu, and that state of affairs shows no signs of changing.

Sorry, there are no "rules" for this sort of effort

Of course there were rules.

"Rules" simply means she said that she was going to do something, then she did. She followed the rules which she laid out beforehand, 300 miles without stopping. The "rules" of most ultradistance events don't penalise you for taking a break, especially in multi-day events.

Just because the IAAF didn't publish a book doesn't mean there were no "rules".

it is not as though anyone followed her into the potty to confirm that she wasn't catching a few z's along the way.

How do you know there wasn't any oversight? Were you there?