Official William Goodge TransAus World Record Thread, Perth to Sydney, 35 days, 68.5 miles a day

This isn’t the USA. I’m an Aussie and to be honest I can’t imagine many people outside the major cities would give a gooch about this attempt. The only publicity I have seen is an article in the Australian Financial Review. Most of the people who live more than 50km from the coastline are blue collar workers who see running more than 4km as a thing office workers do after work since they don’t work hard enough at their day job.

Fed up of lurking.

I finally thought I'd add my two pence for the Goodge.

Coming from a person who actually runs and has done multi-day events etc, nothing on the scale of transcon/Aus though.

I've been following William roughly since the 30/48 challenge which he ripped off from John who done the 48/48 by the way, so yes a few years now, im not new to his antics.

First point,
Let's discuss the heart rate element first, while people say watches aren't accurate, that's true when it comes to the higher intensity interval stuff, there can be a lag yes, but low intensity plodding, the watch HR is good, also Coros is a top brand with good tech.

Also why is his HR at normal levels when training or doing races at similar paces?

Next point,
Mediocre efforts at races, but world class efforts at single events, a sub 3 marathon is not elite im afraid.

Lets not forget the DNF at one of the UTMB sister events not too long after the Transcon.
A normal HR for his MDS race too, which in some ways is similar to some of these efforts.
The MOAB with his shady night section.

Next point,
Sponsors, every push has had some grift sponsor that sells you the dream, where are they now? Puresport CBD? Nucalm, now we have Cordyceps, when there is financial backing, there should be even more scrutiny.

Last point,
He disrespects the sport, he has a lack of care to be transparent, you follow any of the pros who do these efforts, they leave no stone unturned to ratify the event.Anyone who runs knows what it takes to accomplish these efforts, It's not a walk in the park, people are broken (Nedd displayed this very well)

Unfortunately people have been doing this for years, William is nothing new and we need to call this out for what it is to protect the sport.

Finally we have an explanation for the low heartrate. The cordyceps has turned him in to a zombie!

The zombie fungus from 'The Last Of Us' is real:

npr.org

The zombie fungus from 'The Last Of Us' is real — but not nearly as deadly

This species of fungus, Ophiocordyceps, is known for using "mind control" on insect hosts. Humans, however, are immune.

Link:www.npr.org/2023/01/30/1151868673/the-...

Great post, always good to hear the views of other multiday runners. Been a couple of long time lurkers dipped their toes in the pool recently. 😀

New Youtube out today. Nicotine pouches getting promoted now. Apparently they are good because Andrew Huberman says so. Promoting addictive products is never an ethical thing to do though.

Governments are already starting to tax non tobacco nicotine products highly like they do with cigarettes. So even if something is as healthy as spinach, it's never advisable to get addicted to any substance. The taxes on nicotine products will soon start rising every year. Your addiction could cost you tens of thousands of pounds/dollars over the course of your life.

But does Goodge care if his gullible followers want to use nicotine because they think Goodge makes it look cool, and he says Huberman says it's healthy?

The man has now run 5000 miles and no one in the “cockerell army” has been able to catch him cheating. You’ll kick and scream but unless you’ve “Rob Young’ed” him, you haven’t caught him.

I see you used Goodge's heart rate monitor to measure the width of Australia as well... just as accurate!

If he's already ran 5000 miles that would put him in New Zealand

It wouldn't surprise me if he could run over water.
Since we can't prove he didn't, he probably did.

Lets think of this in another way: Goodge knows hes being accused of cheating. How easy would it be for him to use a better method to keep a more accurate record of his HR? Hes has a bunch of slackers in his support crew, how hard would it be for one or two of them to follow him for a single day and livestream it? My guess is they will for his last 5k or so.

He could do this and much more but chooses not to. If I was being falsely accused of something Id make sure I showed people I wasn't cheating.

devil’s advocate, and the only explanation if he is somehow not cheating: goodge is an influencer first, runner second. he knows controversy = views and attention, and he’s riding it as long as he can.

if he is cheating, of course he doesn’t want to address the allegations and put them to bed immediately because he likely can’t or hasn’t figured out a way to offer more fake data or BS answers.

if he ISN’T cheating, it’s just as likely he’s not addressing the allegations because he knows it brings more attention, and for a guy who is doing 5 or so sponsored posts a day, that really does mean more money in the long run.

now i’m not saying the latter is the case, the data alone is not working in his favor, but IF somehow he had actually run every step, and he knows he did, it’s not an absolute given that he would put the allegations to bed immediately. in this day and age, especially given his knowledge of social media, marketing, and the power of eyes and attention when it comes to brands and moneymaking, that COULD be the case.

possible? yes. likely? probably not.

but i know on the surface, especially for many from older generations, you’d imagine if you received criticism you’d want to address it immediately—but unfortunately that’s not the case in 2025 on the internet. attention = money, and drama = attention.

not saying this is what’s happening, but definitely worth noting if you’re only looking at it from the perspective of “he hasn’t addressed the allegations he must be cheating!” unfortunately in this day and age that’s not always the case.

the data still looks f’d, and we need answers. how do we get them if Goodge never addresses it? you tell me lol. If he has somehow cheated, the truth will come out eventually, just probably not from him lol.

I don't think he's getting that many views regardless. If he was though, he'd release the data after and laugh in people's faces. He won't though as the proper data either doesn't exist or tells a different story to the one he's pushing.

It's taking the crew a while to fiddle today's data

Interesting behaviour deciding to withhold the data today. Anybody got any ideas as to why they would do this?

I sometimes wonder this, does he view the negative accusations as a form of some traction.

But then I remember his fragile responses to being called out, he'd love to put it to bed.

Agreed. The idea that he welcomes publicity of ALL kinds is a plausible one on its face; but, I don't think he'd take the chance that the negative publicity he's getting would benefit him more than proving he is legitimate, especially at this late stage.

It's counter-factual scenario in both instances-- hiding valid data in return for views versus revealing it to publicly slay his critics-- and I think any reasonable person in his situation would choose the second option if at all available. Think of the opportunities for additional public crowing-- something he appears to love--if, at the end of the drama, he had the ability to say "I was so good that knowledgeable people--even "experts"-- thought I must be cheating!" Think of the festival of dunking that his loyal Strava fans would enjoy. That alone might be worth tons more money and support for the next one.

So, no, he must be judged a complete fraud if he has the data and doesn't use it to sweep away the mountain of skepticism about this run. He may be an influencer, but he still has one foot squarely in the ultra running community and needs to retain some credibility there in order to keep making money. Making no effort to do this at this stage is not quite the smoking-gun proof we all would love to have, but it's a very close approximation.

And, remember, there was no smoking gun on Robert Young either. Young could easily have argued that he'd been doing what he claimed all along, but by the time the geezers reached him he was beginning to develop problems-- i.e. from all the prodigious days he'd been having leading up to their arrival. And if he'd made it far enough before they reached him, he might have been able to limp it in under the record. In fact, we'll probably hear exactly this from Goodge if his data show him limping the final couple of days in with a HR of 130. Basically, the only difference between Goodge and Robert Young is the former's brazen, dickish, insistence on his own fraudulent ability. They've both been caught.

For comparison, this is part of a run across Ireland in 2023 by a runner called Dmytro Moyseyev. He has a better marathon PB than Goodge at 2.41 and a similar physique to him.

His average pace for the 102km day was 8:10 with an average HR of 128, much more believable than Goodge's numbers.

strava.com

Project 555 - Day 2 | Strava

View Dmytro Moyseyev's run on September 30, 2023 | Strava

Link:www.strava.com/activities/9952208915

There's a new YouTube out already. Glorifying alcohol and nicotine abuse from the very jump.

Enough connectivity to upload this and dull Instagram posts, but not the data from the day - which invalidates an FKT attempt, by the way, as you HAVE to upload your Strava as soon as you can. What was the name of the FKT authority we need to notify? Has someone tattle taled to Guinness?

I’m wondering if he took the day off. I thought his posts make it look like he only has one more day to run and alluded to waiting a day to do it.