On the subject of Rocky style comebacks, this is Goodge at Jogle.
kms, pace & heart rate:
99 7.28 139
91 8.30 124 It is already clear here that he's in deep trouble.
75 9.47 99 Ok, that's a collapse. HR is a bit whiffy
54 11.05 88 Heart down in the low 60s for a lot of the day. This guy is toast.
For the next 11 days he then outperformed women's WR holder Carla Molinaro quite easily and was often out-running the men's WR holder Dan Lawson.
84 9.16 105 A fantastic recovery and that 105HR is patented and trademarked by RB&WG. Balenger locked to his side throughout all this.
78 9.16 108 Bizarre to come in at the same pace, to the second
80 9.04 107 Heart often down in the 80s
But he's just getting warmed up. This is Day 10, suddenly he's in sub 8 land!
90 7:58 112
Or day 14, through 1,678m of elevation through Somerset, he calmly notches up a ton, off a heart rate of 109, as a novice:
100 8:55 109
His heart never rose above 126 all day, for what, if true, is an absolutely cracking day's multidaying.
People's hearts simply don't stay that low for such a tough run. They often go into the 150 and 160s. A very similar run by WG was his Cali 100. He quit at 97k and his pace was 9.20, so a little slower than this.
Did his heart ever rise above 126? Yes, it was never below in the first half, and often in the 160s, and averaging 123, despite basically walking the last 30 miles.
These influencers need to be watched like a hawk. They're trying to grab all the equity, value and glory from the sport for themselves, and leave the proper, honest, hard-working, real runners to fight over scraps.
Their modus operandi is two-fold, and often both: to spout utter b/s in the run up to their challenges, and then to cheat during them.
But this page, and the one on Goodg's Transcon shows how the community aren't taking it lying down, despite the horrendous and graphic abuse the likes of me take from Sneakers and his foot soldiers.
And their only defence? We don't know how to read data.