Who cares? 7:12/mile is barely jogging. Anyone on my D3 team could easily destroy this record if you gave them a few weeks to prepare for it. Only reason we don't is because it's a waste of time. Who wants to waste half a day and risk injury to get some meaningless record that anyone who wanted could take. 7:12/mile pretty damn slow.
Next up we'll be going for 50 miles running backwards record...
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
Who cares? 7:12/mile is barely jogging. Anyone on my D3 team could easily destroy this record if you gave them a few weeks to prepare for it. Only reason we don't is because it's a waste of time. Who wants to waste half a day and risk injury to get some meaningless record that anyone who wanted could take. 7:12/mile pretty damn slow.
Next up we'll be going for 50 miles running backwards record...
At least he has a record. How many records do you have? Put your real name on here and announce your next record attempt. Show us how it's done.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
Who cares? 7:12/mile is barely jogging. Anyone on my D3 team could easily destroy this record if you gave them a few weeks to prepare for it. Only reason we don't is because it's a waste of time. Who wants to waste half a day and risk injury to get some meaningless record that anyone who wanted could take. 7:12/mile pretty damn slow.
Next up we'll be going for 50 miles running backwards record...
And that "if you gave them a few weeks to prepare" covers the totality of ignorance of most collegiate runners about ultramarathons beyond the 50 mile or 100 km distance.
The 100 km and 24-hour events are contested at the world championship level. The U.S. men and women have won team and individual gold at those two events. That is way more than any collegiate runners (individual or team) have done at a sanctioned multinational world championship.
Dress it how you want -- above your glorified D3 stuff there are folks competing in legitimate events---long after you are worn out by your three weeks of training.
[quote]the 100 km and 24-hour events are contested at the world championship level/quote]
You mean a "world championship" made up of people who arent good enough to run D3 so they go tinto ultrarunning? I guess its better then xfit lol. I gurantee that our 7th guy could whup most of these ridiculous sloggers- we do our COOLDOWN runs around 7:30. I don't think plodding along at 7:15 would test our experteese
I saw a video of some ultrarun in wisconsin once- it looked more like hiking too me. REminds me of what I did in elementary school- run 1 minute, walk 2 minutes LOL
You mean a "world championship" made up of people who arent good enough to run D3 so they go tinto ultrarunning? I guess its better then xfit lol. I gurantee that our 7th guy could whup most of these ridiculous sloggers- we do our COOLDOWN runs around 7:30. I don't think plodding along at 7:15 would test our experteese
Nice to see you have it all: Ignorance. Conceit. And the knack for being defensive about other people's accomplishments. Feeling small are we?
Mr. Blutarsky wrote:
You mean a "world championship" made up of people who arent good enough to run D3 so they go tinto ultrarunning? I guess its better then xfit lol. I gurantee that our 7th guy could whup most of these ridiculous sloggers- we do our COOLDOWN runs around 7:30. I don't think plodding along at 7:15 would test our experteese
Nice to see you have it all: Ignorance. Conceit. And the knack for being defensive about other people's accomplishments. Feeling small are we?
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If you don't accept USATF/IAAF as championship events, what would you need for something to be legitimate?
You and all you classmates are surely capable of joining USATF and qualifying for the 24-hour and showing everyone how easy it is.
There are a lot of these time events you can enter. Few ultra marathoners can come compete in D3 events, but you (and all your classmates) are welcome. There is no conceit or ignorance here--maybe some ignorance on your side. Come on out and try one. I'll bet with your approach an RD would let you in free just for the sake of a world record by you or one of your classmates.
Send your seventh guy on down, be sure to tell him what he has to do---just sit on sevens for a few laps.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
Yes I am a huge idiot.
You little 9ussies would be curled up in a fetal position whimpering for mommy after the first two thousand feet climb you had to do in a race trying to keep up with guys named Sage and Killian
I like to troll on Letsrun and love it when people get mad about my posts. Easiest way to get rid of me is to ignore all my posts.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
Who cares? 7:12/mile is barely jogging. Anyone on my D3 team could easily destroy this record if you gave them a few weeks to prepare for it. Only reason we don't is because it's a waste of time. Who wants to waste half a day and risk injury to get some meaningless record that anyone who wanted could take. 7:12/mile pretty damn slow.
Next up we'll be going for 50 miles running backwards record...
In case you are not a troll — No.
No, they could not!
They could not come anywhere close to running 7:12 miles for 12 hours straight. I'd bet they couldn't do it for even 4 hours after what you said "a few weeks to prepare".
Vow to free yourselves from Delusion, all you ultrahater fanboys! Your state of mind is very sad to see.
Big Kudos to Jon Olsen. He ran 11:59:28, which means he not only got the North American record, he pushed to break 12 hours when he was undoubtedly exhausted.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
I like to troll on Letsrun and love it when people get mad about my posts. Easiest way to get rid of me is to ignore all my posts.
Nope you dope
Far more fun to call you a 9ussy and insult you for your incredibly ignorant trolling. Young impressionable kids who are on this site may believe that whale vomit you write and we have to keep them on the correct path in life. It's not about you it's about the youths of the running world.
theohiostate wrote:
Big Kudos to Jon Olsen. He ran 11:59:28, which means he not only got the North American record, he pushed to break 12 hours when he was undoubtedly exhausted.
well said, those 32 seconds could have easily been lost
have you run an ultra, ohiostate?
reallybetterbekidding wrote:
This is akin to running for 10m and saying you have the 10m world record. Or running sideways for 150m and saying you have the sideways 150m world record.
Of course usain bolt or any decent collegiate runner would beat you but they choose not to be idiots. 100 mile world record means NOTHING. Any decent kenyan runner under 2:30 marathon would smash this guy and karnazus. They are probably laughing at this right now. If you think this means anything you are an idiot and it is not amazing at all. Sure these guys are decently fit but by no means elite.
This record has probably been smashed a zillion times by your average ethiopian runner out for an extra long training run or cruising around the hills to the next village.
You....must be a Prairie Inn Harrier member
participation required wrote:
If it's not good enough for Hall to pull out of it's not a thread worthy event.
Heh, I guess your Mom's not a thread-worthy event.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote:
I gurantee that our 7th guy could whup most of these ridiculous sloggers- we do our COOLDOWN runs around 7:30. I don't think plodding along at 7:15 would test our experteese
Dubious.
College kids thinking that a trail 50k or 50 miler will be a walk in the park to victory (which they never experience in "real" running) make up a major part of the carnage at any ultra event.
The fact that you do your "COOLDOWN runs" (nice caps) at 7:30 doesn't say anything about your ability to do 100 of them consecutively.
DeanFan wrote:
This is just a boroughed record. Dean Karnazes will get it back. Unfortunately, he has his aims set at qualifying for the OT Trials in the NYC Marathon first.
deano beano wrote:
Yes and he will be in the mix for the top 3. Last night's workout was a ten mile tempo in 48:49. The speed is starting to return.
Dean Karnazes training specifically for the marathon will probably hit 2:09 on his first properly tapered race. Maybe 2:10-2:11 in NYCM given the course. Definitely in the mix for Rio if he wants it.
I have run many races over the years from 400m up to 100K, and can tell you that time prediction calculators don't really work past the marathon distance. There is a very linear relationship between times and distances for more 'normal' distances. E.g. My 3000m time is my 1500m time doubled plus 5%. My marathon time is my half time doubled plus 5%. This holds true for most people.
When you start talking about running 40, 50, or 100 miles, the 5% rule goes out the window, growing to 50%+ depending on the distance. At those distances, the time increase with distance becomes exponential, with wide variances depending on the day and the person.
No, 7:12 is not fast in absolute terms, unless you're a hobby-jogga like myself. But for an ultra-distance, that is insanely fast. And FYI, Dean K. is nowhere near fast enough to approach that record. Perhaps Scott Jurek (in his prime) or Ian Sharman today could crack it though.
I would challenge any of the nay-sayers out there to go out some weekend morning and run their comfortable recovery day pace for as many hours as they can hold it. Can you go 5 hours? 10 hours? If it's as easy as you think it should be, perhaps you should enter a local ultra, just for kicks. You never know, you might like it.
As with everything, the truth is somewhere in the middle. It's ridiculous to think a "few weeks" of training and any fast college kid can run an ultra. On the other hand, its just as ridiculous to think any truly strong ultra record would have a 2:40 marathoner holding it.
just the way it is wrote:
… On the other hand, its just as ridiculous to think any truly strong ultra record would have a 2:40 marathoner holding it.
Please excuse my ignorance, but who is thinking this? I'm just curious about where this side of the story is.
Galen Rupp Number on Fan wrote: I like to troll on Letsrun and love it when people get mad about my posts. Easiest way to get rid of me is to ignore all my posts.
I did not post this. The second sentence is not true.