Is Sage Canaday in the top 5 ultrarunners in the World?

Gutted wrote:

What do you guys think?

No way, there are many runners that you have never heard of better than him. For example Zach Ornelas, a guy who only can train 60 miles per week, finished 9th today at very prestigious Two Oceans, 34.7Mi in South Africa, he ran 3:19. Earlier this year he won the US 50k champs in 2:50, and he is a 2:17 marathoner, with a full time job.

top 5 my ass

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hi sage!

Old school for a reason. wrote:

Historically:

1. Matt Carpenter

2. Scott Jurek

3. Mike Morton

THIS^

maybe top 10

No, especially not if we also include women on that list.

I like him though. He would be in the top 10 ultrarunners with a youtube channel for sure,

I’m not sure if he’s too 5 in the US anymore.

Walsmsley, Reagan, Bitter, Hawkes, schlarb , tollefson, Hazen, Daniels, Browning

Nope wrote:

Eh, not even close.

Those who are better:

1. Kilian

2. Walmsley

3. Krar

4. Max King

5. David Sinclair

6. Joe Gray

7. Tim Tollefson

8. Anthony Costales

9. Jimmy Elam

10. Hayden Hawks

11. Sage

Just outside the top 10

Where TF is Zach Bitter?! World Records helloooooooo

Sage is probably somewhere in the top 100 worldwide.

Overall it is very clear that there is Kilian, then a big gap, then Jim Walmsley, Xavier Thevenard and maybe some of the Japanese and South African 100 km runners (hard to compare trail & road, although Hideaki Yawauchi beet Jim Walmsley in the 100 km last year, but JW had overpaced to get the 50 mile WR), then a big pack of very good runners in different sub-disciplines (I would put Tim Tollefson, Hayden Hawks etc. in there), and then an ever bigger pack behind where Sage would come in.

He is good enough to contend in races around the world and races enough to sneak in a good placement here and there (although maybe he races too much to ever win a big race again). But he will certainly never get on the podium at UTMB or the Comrades.

lcl2006 wrote:

Sage is probably somewhere in the top 100 worldwide.

Overall it is very clear that there is Kilian, then a big gap, then Jim Walmsley, Xavier Thevenard and maybe some of the Japanese and South African 100 km runners (hard to compare trail & road, although Hideaki Yawauchi beet Jim Walmsley in the 100 km last year, but JW had overpaced to get the 50 mile WR), then a big pack of very good runners in different sub-disciplines (I would put Tim Tollefson, Hayden Hawks etc. in there), and then an ever bigger pack behind where Sage would come in.

He is good enough to contend in races around the world and races enough to sneak in a good placement here and there (although maybe he races too much to ever win a big race again). But he will certainly never get on the podium at UTMB or the Comrades.

Left out Francois. He beat Kilian the last time they raced. Paul Capel looks pretty good now too.

It's clown town in here with no mention of Horton, the first man who ever finished Barkley. Most of the pretty boys who are mentioned in this thread don't have the stones to even try Barkley. Horton also ran in many different events of different types and distances, won much, was ahead of his time.

Some of you barely know the end of your own noses.

Historically:

1. Matt Carpenter

2. Mike Morton

3. Killian Jornet

PCTHiker wrote:

It's clown town in here with no mention of Horton, the first man who ever finished Barkley. Most of the pretty boys who are mentioned in this thread don't have the stones to even try Barkley. Horton also ran in many different events of different types and distances, won much, was ahead of his time.

Some of you barely know the end of your own noses.

barkley a running race? lol

PCTHiker wrote:

It's clown town in here with no mention of Horton, the first man who ever finished Barkley.

Do you mean Mark Williams? Neither he nor David Horton (who did finish Barkley a few years later) are among the greatest although Horton was pretty good in his time.

Idiot. Barkley is an ultramarathon with a defined course. Like it or lump it, it's no different in that regard than any other uktra. The pretty boy 'racerboi' types listed in this thread don't even attempt Barkley because they know it will cut them open and eat them alive. Plenty of very experienced ultra racers barely survive on that course, hoping to finish the fun run, mostly limping down quitter's road after a loop or two. Compare that to almost any of the other ultras, which have grown into marathon-like bucket list events with streams of single-file walkers covering the course, hundreds at a time. Show me Killian or Sage or at least half of the goofballs listed above buried in the pricker bushes on Barkley and I'll show show you runners with true grit. Weak.

Tom Brady wrote:

PCTHiker wrote:

It's clown town in here with no mention of Horton, the first man who ever finished Barkley. Most of the pretty boys who are mentioned in this thread don't have the stones to even try Barkley. Horton also ran in many different events of different types and distances, won much, was ahead of his time.

Some of you barely know the end of your own noses.

barkley a running race? lol

PCTHiker wrote:

Idiot. Barkley is an ultramarathon with a defined course. Like it or lump it, it's no different in that regard than any other uktra. The pretty boy 'racerboi' types listed in this thread don't even attempt Barkley because they know it will cut them open and eat them alive. Plenty of very experienced ultra racers barely survive on that course, hoping to finish the fun run, mostly limping down quitter's road after a loop or two.

A running race, has a defined marked course people can follow without getting lost. So the fastest runner wins. Barkley has non of that. Starting with a selective process to get to the start line, a random start time and a "course" which changes every year. Barkley might be an interesting event, a running race it is not.

PCTHiker wrote:

Idiot. Barkley is an ultramarathon with a defined course. Like it or lump it, it's no different in that regard than any other uktra. The pretty boy 'racerboi' types listed in this thread don't even attempt Barkley because they know it will cut them open and eat them alive. Plenty of very experienced ultra racers barely survive on that course, hoping to finish the fun run, mostly limping down quitter's road after a loop or two.

Compare that to almost any of the other ultras, which have grown into marathon-like bucket list events with streams of single-file walkers covering the course, hundreds at a time.

Show me Killian or Sage or at least half of the goofballs listed above buried in the pricker bushes on Barkley and I'll show show you runners with true grit.

Weak.

Tom Brady wrote:

barkley a running race? lol

are you mentally ill or just dont know what the fvck ur talking about ?

Corona beer drinker! wrote:

A running race, has a defined marked course people can follow without getting lost. So the fastest runner wins. Barkley has non of that. Starting with a selective process to get to the start line, a random start time and a "course" which changes every year. Barkley might be an interesting event, a running race it is not.

Yeah I'm with this guy. Barkley is a sadomasochistic torture event for rich white people who want to see how many cuts they can get on their legs in two days. It's not a running race and all the best ultra runners never go there because they recognize what it is: a creepy old guy laughing while people plod through the woods on an undefined course and look for books.

Not a race.

Your mother thinks I know plenty, d-bag.

BTW, Tom Brady is 100 years old and about to be broken in pieces on the field this year, d!ckhead.

You know nothing. Barkley eats runners alive.