Official 1,000 mile WR attempt by Nedd Brockman live discussion thread. Can he break the 10 day, 10 hours record?

You got it. There is a lot of inconsistency in pretty much everything here.
I just noticed that the official timing website accumulates just the run time for the laps. So you have to reference the time of the day without any specific day mentioned. They could not have made this more complicated.

Luckily we have a mathematician and game theory expert looking into this right now.

What are you smoking? There is literally a column named "Time of day" for each lap on the tracking website and it is plainly obvious which days it is from the start of the run just going down the laps. Once again, none of you know how to read data.

And no need to hype up my credentials.

😆 Whatever Nedd is popularizing, it's not ultrarunning. What he's doing is a charity stunt run. It has very little in common with what ultrarunning is actually about. (It's beyond my pay grade to evaluate the trade-off here of how much good he is doing for homelessness vs. how inauthentic this performance is.)

Actually this has been a banner year for multi-day races world-wide. The women's 6-day WR was broken twice (by Camille Herron and then by Stine Rex), the women's 48-hour WR was surpassed by Stine Rex (after Camille broke it last year), and most impressively Kouros' long-standing 6-day WR was also broken this year. Several of those occurred at GOMU World Championship events, with deep fields and many other strong performances. It took us a few years to build awareness and participation, but our WC events have definitely now hit their stride and are drawing strong talent.

So yes, I'd say GOMU has done an excellent job bringing back the glory days of multi-day racing.

So the Time column, which looks like cumulative time, is not in fact elapsed time?! You have to look at time of day and figure out which day it is? That is insane.

And BTW I am the mathematician and game theory expert Trans con expert was talking about.

OK. Given the bizarre timekeeping, it appears the 6-day split was actually 860.28 km / 534.55 mi. That makes sense.

OMG. Do I have to do everything around here? You clearly did not see on the tracking website table where it says "Swipe horizontally to view all splits". If you actually did that, you would see the "Time of day" column and not just the "Time" column. I fear you don't know how to download data either.

Yeah. That's not how any sane timing system reports lap splits. Time of day is nice to know as well but it only indirectly gets you at elapsed time, the fundamental value of interest. I'd go so far as to call this format highly deceptive.

Obviously you have never seen any tracking website for a longer ultra race.

He is a random one going on this weekend. In the results tab you can see that John Dallas is leading with 51.5 miles in 7:31 hours. This is a 24 hour race.
Every race except this charity run has this kind of information available. Usually in real time when there is wifi available.

my.raceresult.com

Cape Fear 24-hour, 10/12/2024-10/13/2024 : : my.race|result

Cape Fear 24-hour, 10/12/2024-10/13/2024, Lillington

Open link

I have no hope for all you haterz if you can't even read a simple time table that literally time stamps the splits with the "Time of day". The timing website actually provides more useful information than your overly simplistic "elapsed time" since it essentially breaks that down into Time and Transition so you know how much time he spent in moving and resting. Am I the only able to read data on this thread?

And as I just wrote above, the timing website for Nedd's run provides a lot more information that your overly simplistic "time". His timing company is tracking both how much rest time he is taking and moving time (and not the POS Strava moving time you all get confused about)

We usually can read data from timing companies just fine. Thank you.
What's that "Transition" time anyway? This is not a triathlon. No other ultrarunner has ever stopped after some random laps leading up to 12.8k. Can't he just keep going? Nedd has an endless amount of helpers and illegal pacers.
He even gets wheelchaired on and off the course which must be a first in the long history of ultrarunning.

Actually, no. You all clearly demonstrated from the Strava debacles that none of you can read data.

The Transition time here for Nedd is simply what the timing company tracked as his time spent resting. Call it a different name if you want. I easily saw what it was. But I'm operating at a much higher level, it seems.

I am sure you are operating on a much higher level.

But that's usually not needed for ultrarunning. For a multiday event like this one, splits every hour could be enough. In the old times we were even happy with splits for every 24 hour period. Which is still the best indicator how somebody is doing. No transition times needed.

Jeez, up to this point, you and all the haterz in this thread have been saying that Nedd hasn't been giving enough splits for you to know what time it is and to prove what he is doing. Now, you do a whole 180 and say the timing company is providing too much data and you want to go back to the olden days where a Casio wristwatch and clipboard was the height of timing technology.

It doesn't matter. This will be not valid for any kind of running record.

8am Sunday

231 hours 1270kms 10.55 min kms

To beat Kousos 3min27sec per km

Projected finish at current pace 12 days 4 hours 36min

19 hours to go until the Kouros' record. That's just 338 kilometers or so.

Sounds like the novice TikTocer has done better than you guys by the tone here

You are right about that. Nedd's performance would be actually really good under normal race conditions. But he has 1-2 pacers at most times which is illegal and he has a huge amount of staff just catering for that one guy. Also there is also nobody else on the track, that wouldn't be the case in a real race.

So yes, too bad that all of the effort will not lead to an official result.