Give Courtney Dauwalter a black screen!

You sound like you have a hard on for Walmsley. Settle down, you’re embarrassing yourself.

Courtney is an outlier so you can't really say the gap is coming down

not a valid comparison at all. if though western states is "runnable" besides the terrain being different 13 miles vs. 100 miles, bro

Genuinely curious: How fast do you think Courtney could run a 5k on a track all out right now (ok...not right this second, but like at this point in her career)...

Love it when the road runners say rhis performance isn't impressive since you know, she was "only" doing 9 minutes miles on trails.

Of course they conveniently leave out the fact that there is more elevation gain in the first 4.5 miles of Western States than in every World Marathon Major combined.

That's right, you could take all the elevation of the 6 "Biggest" marathons and still not have the over 2,500 feet of up that Western has in the first 4.5 miles.

When I was a good runner I would not run the marathon. Heck, I avoided the 10K. How is this an event that helps distance running?

The difference is even greater in jumping and throwing events...up to 30% or so.

A way to convey the10% figure: the average differential of groups of top men v. top women is 2.6 miles over a marathon.

At 8:43:30 she is interviewed

That is correct.

How about Cortney’s plan to run Hard Rock in less than 3weeks? At first I thought it was nuts now I wouldn’t bet against her.

I'm sure you have several credible theories ..

Courtney's time is utterly sensational but it's still just under 10% off Walmsley's CR so probably this is her getting that women's record closer to that level and that the old record wasn't as stout as the mens.

Bekele would dominate.

I believe she was a skier in college, so there’s no record to draw from. However, Camille Herron ran a 240 marathon at age 29.

I would put the over/under for Courtney at 17 min.

Whoever said Gidey can't win this race is delusional. Are you serious? She is also capable of eating a sandwich while jogging 9 minute pace. Don't kid yourselves.

What we're watching now is mostly white people with the means to pay for their own crew and travel to these events. If there was enough prize money on the line, things would get much more interesting. If African athletes were able to justify coming out to these races for free and had the leisure time during the day to train, they would CRUSH all of these fools. How many Ethiopians have run a marathon in all 7 continents? I'm guessing none, because that's a rich person thing.

These are just a bunch of instagram influencers/private coaches who love the attention. That's why they hire a crew whose job is to literally follow them around in an RV and answer their every call.

I believe it was confirmed Walmsley received a 200k bonus from Hoka for his CR at WSER. You guys are hung up on 'no prize money' meanwhile these sponsorships are paying quite well as trail running is becoming hugely popular and you guys are living under a rock.

According to her wiki page she was a 4-time state nordic skiing champion in HS and went to U of Denver (top-3 program) on a XC skiing scholarship. So she already had a deep endurance base when she started running ultras. But that doesn't necessarily translate into speed on the track.

Gwen Jorgensen ran 15:08 in her mid-30s after switching over over from tri, but that was after a few years of specific training as an elite runner. My guess for Courtney would be around 16:30 for a 5K.

A dude who think immediately thinks about hard ons . . . be less obvious when coming out of the closet.

Good to know but most very good trail runners don't earn much and one injury will stop even that. I always lough when somebody says this is a trail running professional. They just get a pair of shoes and a bunch of trucker hats for the most part.