Sandra Vi going for record across America

Sandy has entered New Jersey. One state left to go.

This is both impressive and insane. I sure hope the appointment is set up with the City and that there's flexibility in the event of unforeseen circumstances. Remember when Pete wiped out while Charlie was interviewing him? Here's to a smooth end of the run for Sandy! Truly amazing.

Results wrote:

Remember when Pete wiped out while Charlie was interviewing him?

I wasn't following Pete when he did his run. Do you have more info on that incident?

this is amazing, no? wrote:

Results wrote:

Remember when Pete wiped out while Charlie was interviewing him?

I wasn't following Pete when he did his run. Do you have more info on that incident?

If I remember correctly Charlie Engle was live streaming at the time...they were running together in a big group and Charlie was asking him questions. I'm not sure if it was ever saved, but it should have been considering the history being made. I'll look around for it.

Sandy's Garmin tracker hasn't been updated for 46 minutes. It's 8:17 PM in New Jersey. Is she taking a dinner break? Maybe she decided against the "one big push" strategy after all, and is calling an end for the day?

Sandy? wrote:

Sandy's Garmin tracker hasn't been updated for 46 minutes. It's 8:17 PM in New Jersey. Is she taking a dinner break? Maybe she decided against the "one big push" strategy after all, and is calling an end for the day?

Yes ... her Garmin arrow is pointing up (stopped) position. The stop point is in a good parking place for the RV very close to the footbridge she crossed over into NJ.

Use the "Aerial" view in her Garmin to see what what the stopping point looks like. Aerial is s dropdown option in the "Top" box.

Sandy is back running again after an 80 min rest/massage/etc. break.

04:28 PM -05:48 PM: -- Rest Break (80 minutes)

NEW JERSEY!

5-MILE SPLITS

Day # 54, November 3rd

All times are Garmin Time in the Pacific Timezone.

Start Day & Time: September 11th, 6:01 AM

This is the final run. Sandy will run until the final 135 miles are complete.

SPLIT COUNTS have been restarted after entering NJ (see earlier posts for prior splits)

Time: Miles to Go ~Split Time +/- 3 minutes (Split Pace in min/mile)

Elapsed time since start of today's final run: 13:03 (hr:min)

06:16 PM: 85 Elapsed time since start: 53:12:15 (days:hours:minutes)

07:30 PM: 80 ~74 min (14:48)

Damn, that woman is steady wrote:

Those 5M splits for the last few weeks. Wow. Crazy steady. Truly impressive.

+1

Incredible achievement. Well done Sandy.

Nothing like starting your kick with 135 miles to go!

Yowza wrote:

Nothing like starting your kick with 135 miles to go!

And the quick math makes that equivalent to kicking the last 430 m of a 10K. Unbelievable how grueling a transcon must be.

From a few hours ago: https://www.facebook.com/cinder.wolff/videos/10214413523193446/

Another giver of +1 wrote:

Damn, that woman is steady wrote:

Those 5M splits for the last few weeks. Wow. Crazy steady. Truly impressive.

+1

Incredible achievement. Well done Sandy.

Sandy's pace slows in cold weather and hilly climbs. But her pace is steady even accounting for those.

I started posting the 5-mile splits after noticing how steady Sandy was and unsteady Mimi was. 5-mile splits seemed like a reasonable way to figuring out if what I thought I was seeing was true. Indeed it was.

Mimi would start out fast in the morning and slow down as the day progressed. She was also slower than Sandy even though her Strava data indicated the opposite. The reason turned out to be that Sandy's Strava elapsed time included breaks and Mimi's did not. Also it seemed that Mimi was slowing down over the days and only getting in the miles by putting in longer run days.

As a runner I think seeing pace numbers and splits is a good way of comparing your run performance against that of another runner. Sandy is one of those rare runners who can set a pace and keep it up for an insane amount of time and days on end.

5-MILE SPLITS

Day # 54, November 3rd

All times are Garmin Time in the Pacific Timezone.

Start Day & Time: September 11th, 6:01 AM

This is the final run. Sandy will run until the final 135 miles are complete.

SPLIT COUNTS have been restarted after entering NJ (see earlier posts for prior splits)

Time: Miles to Go ~Split Time +/- 3 minutes (Split Pace in min/mile)

05:13 AM: 135 Start of today's final run. 13hr 03 min elapsed time up till 06:16 AM.

06:16 PM: 85 Elapsed time since start of transcon: 53:12:15 (days:hours:minutes)

07:30 PM: 80 ~74 min (14:48)

08:44 PM: 75 ~74 min (14:48)

So far today 2 wrote:

As a runner I think seeing pace numbers and splits is a good way of comparing your run performance against that of another runner.

I imagine that the majority of those that frequent the letsrun forums, a high percentage being runners (or one-time runners) themselves, agree with the above statement. And your latest format of including pace-per-mile is of additional value.

However, the overly aggressive method of updating splits SEVERAL times throughout the day, sometimes after EVERY 5 miles, probably grated on a few (many?) readers of the forums. Likely, more than a few quickly just tuned the thread out completely, because of the tiring nature of opening the thread, only to find yet another repetitive post on the latest splits.

Did it occur to you that maybe you could have left the split-posts to just once or twice a day?

However, that being said, because this Transcontinental crossing is drawing to its conclusion, no one probably is bothered now (I'm certainly not), should you choose to update every 5 miles in the last stretch, as the anticipation of the end builds.

5-MILE SPLITS

Day # 54/55, November 3rd/4th

All times are Garmin Time in the Pacific Timezone.

Start Day & Time: September 11th, 6:01 AM

This is the final run. Sandy will run until the final 135 miles are complete.

SPLIT COUNTS have been restarted after entering NJ (see earlier posts for prior splits)

Time: Miles to Go ~Split Time +/- 3 minutes (Split Pace in min/mile)

05:13 AM: 135 Start of today's final run. 13hr 03 min elapsed time up till 06:16 AM.

06:16 PM: 85 Elapsed time since start of transcon: 53:12:15 (days:hours:minutes)

07:30 PM: 80 ~74 min (14:48)

08:44 PM: 75 ~74 min (14:48)

09:55 PM: 70 ~71 min (14:12)

Great video, thanks.

Well done, Sandy and team. I was one of her doubters at the beginning.

The above message pertains to the video AquaDyne posted above.