I agree, but currently, there are giant climbs and descents. On dead legs, I think it will be a big difference from the 100s of Ks in a row of flat once he is past the coulees and Drumheller. Saskatchewan and Manitoba 1500K of flat and gentle downs....more than a mile or two a day can be made up.....no idea how much though.... and the weather could play a bigger role, as it can get hot in the prairies for a Canadian, but a flash snow could hit too.
Banana Bread wrote:
Literally than wrote:
Less THEN 110k a day?
You are literally an idiot
7200/66 = 109,091 metres > 110km (nearly a km less). QE MF D
gobble gobble mf
109,091 metres < 110km
There, fixed for you.
I don't do this stuff but personally I'd rather run either up or down if I was going to do it for seemingly forever. Flat would get redundant, rolling would be ideal.
Wet Coast wrote:
I agree, but currently, there are giant climbs and descents. On dead legs, I think it will be a big difference from the 100s of Ks in a row of flat once he is past the coulees and Drumheller. Saskatchewan and Manitoba 1500K of flat and gentle downs....more than a mile or two a day can be made up.....no idea how much though.... and the weather could play a bigger role, as it can get hot in the prairies for a Canadian, but a flash snow could hit too.
The total climb today was 1200 ft. That is nothing over 61 miles. People totally overestimate the effect that the running over the Rockies has. Good pacing is way more important.
Yup. I didn't look at the tracker today - I just know the route from driving it many times. I know there are some good hillage around there...
Correct 1200 isn't that much...
It doesn't look good for Dave Proctor after Day 5 with just 40 miles in 9 hours.
He seemed to struggle since the start this morning.
Total of 337.4 miles and an average of 67.5 miles so far.
Markus wrote:
It doesn't look good for Dave Proctor after Day 5 with just 40 miles in 9 hours.
He seemed to struggle since the start this morning.
Total of 337.4 miles and an average of 67.5 miles so far.
https://www.strava.com/activities/1675094471
Bad data bro
https://www.strava.com/activities/1675093329Also - I don't know why you're rooting against this guy so much.. weird. Go find a hobby
[quote]Baddata1 wrote:
Bad data bro
https://www.strava.com/activities/1675093329
Looks like this set of data is wrong.
Baddata1 wrote:
Also - I don't know why you're rooting against this guy so much.. weird. Go find a hobby
It does seem like the Markus dude is routing against him. While I also think Dave has chosen an overly optimistic pace, I think it makes it kind of exciting (as exciting as a 66 day solo run could be). I am interested to see if he can make it, and if he does crack what happens. Mostly I hope he just makes it all the way across, besting the record isn’t that big of a deal for me.
Baddata1 wrote:
Also - I don't know why you're rooting against this guy so much.. weird. Go find a hobby
I am not rooting against Dave at all. Quite the opposite. I like to promote this event as much as possible. You probably have no idea how much effort goes into organizing such a run. That is 1-2 years of work plus a lot of costs not to mention the training.
Quick question about the logistics. It's not specific to this attempt, but how "cross Canada" is recognized.
1) Why start in Victoria? There are places west of Victoria. A cross Canada trek would better start in Port Hardy or Prince Rubert.
2) Starting in Victoria, it's an hour jog to the ferry? What's the point of that? You might as well start on the mainland, right?
Jog and then the ferry? wrote:
Quick question about the logistics. It's not specific to this attempt, but how "cross Canada" is recognized.
1) Why start in Victoria? There are places west of Victoria. A cross Canada trek would better start in Port Hardy or Prince Rubert.
2) Starting in Victoria, it's an hour jog to the ferry? What's the point of that? You might as well start on the mainland, right?
There is no official organization recognizing this. You can start and end wherever you want.
Markus wrote:
It doesn't look good for Dave Proctor after Day 5 with just 40 miles in 9 hours.
He seemed to struggle since the start this morning.
Total of 337.4 miles and an average of 67.5 miles so far.
Yeah, on his Instagram he shut it down today and went to sleep and is thinking about re-routing? On Day 5 of at least 66? Wow. No idea why he wanted to go so hard through the mountains. Fatigue is cumulative, I would have done shorter days until it flattened out rather than going hard on the early mountain days.
The only place west of Victoria is South West at least as an "all the way west" point that is accessible by road and that is Sooke area. The run to the ferry is not one hour from Victoria, it is 30K, so at this pace +/- three hours. From Sooke, he would more than double the distance to the ferry. If he wanted to be REALLY REALLY west, he could go to Port Renfrew, another 50K or so. He wanted to get off the ferry in Tswassen, so he had some day in front of him, to get towards the Trans Canada HWY or a road parallel to it.
Mile 0 landmark is in Victoria. Mile 0 landmark has a statue of Terry Fox, who he is openly channeling on this run. The guy who took over Fox's run (he who must not be named) dipped his artificial leg in off the beach at Mile 0. Sheldon Kennedy who rollerbladed across Canada for sexual abuse victims, jumped into the water at Mile 0 to demonstrate the end, symbolically. Al Howie set the not-certified course record from Victoria - it's the record that Dave is going after.
Port Hardy is 500K north of Victoria and 370K from Nanaimo, where there is a ferry that can go to Vancouver, so that he can get on the Trans Canada Hwy.
Prince Rupert is another700K north on the mainland. To start there would mean he would have to run 718K from Prince Rupert to Prince George before running 521K south to get to Kamloops. Victoria to Kamloops was under 400K by itself and IS ON THE RECORD RUN ROUTE.
Mile 0 Monument to Swartz Bay Ferry is actually 36K according to Gmap Pedometer:
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=7264120
I am betting he left about 5:00 am, got to the 9:00 pm ferry, hit Tswassen at 10:40 and it takes 5-10 minutes for vehicles to get rolling off the ferry at a good speed. he probably got a ride out of the terminal in the RV to the first nation's gas station on the reserve and started running from there.....11:00 am.....
Sorry: 9:00 am ferry.
Actually, they ran off the ferry:
Now the mountains get the blame. That's not fair. He just did too much on day 1.
"After a few days in the mountains Dave knows he needs to listen to his body and dial back the pace. The team is reviewing the route. If schedule adjustments are needed we’ll post an update.
Dave is currently in the RV catching some much-needed "
Dave started a bit quicker then yesterday:
A couple to three more cool days of 16-20 degrees, then it heats up to 30+ so towards 86-90F, which is hot for a Canadian....might get a couple of fast days in and then slow into Calgary - towards the Saskatchewan border. The Calgary - to - Regina stretch is forecast for 28-32 mid-week to the weekend.