O'whore wrote:
Remi Bonnet - new record?
Now 2:00:18 👍.
O'whore wrote:
Remi Bonnet - new record?
Now 2:00:18 👍.
Seth demoor in 4th
Seth running the marathon tmw. Pulling a dbl
Gotta say that's a great job by Seth demoor coming in 4th and going for the marathon tomorrow.
And also might feel great for him beating Joe Gray
Poor performance by Francesco Puppi and Joseph DeMoor.
Women's record isn't falling despite the deep startlist
They should give low-altitude folks a 15-minute head start 😉. It's a highly specialized, weird race due to the extreme altitude.
Dominant win by Sophia Laukli, she's becoming the one to beat in trail running up to marathon distance.
Sophia Laukli wins! Skiers win men and women's race. ⛷️🥇⛷️🥇
And orienteer Judith Wyder gets 🥈.
Allie Mac with another disappointing result after OCC.
Also Allie Ostrander is going to know her starting point against international competition in trail running and it is looking a bit rough. Can only go up from here, starting next weekend in Mammoth
Allie O just finished in about 20th position, 30 minutes behind Sophia Laukli
Congratulations to Remi for breaking Matt Carpenter’s 30-year-old record. Kenyan in 2nd and excellent 4th place for Seth who is doubling tomorrow.
No Allie O. result yet at the 3-hour mark. Suspect the thin air sidelined her aspirations. A few weeks in the Alps isn’t going to help most people.
Just saw she finished in 3:04:47. Not awful, not great.
From Europe with love wrote:
Allie Mac with another disappointing result after OCC.
Also Allie Ostrander is going to know her starting point against international competition in trail running and it is looking a bit rough. Can only go up from here, starting next weekend in Mammoth
Other than Tarawera in February, her first race of the year, AllieMac hasn't been near her level from last year. Hope she can figure that out/her body cooperates and can be competitive again next year.
I think AllieO will be fine. 14K ft isn't friendly to sea level folks. Even if they spend a few weeks in Chamonix a month back (which isn't high altitude either). Most trail/mountain races are not at super high altitude.
From Europe with love wrote:
Allie O just finished in about 20th position, 30 minutes behind Sophia Laukli
3:04:52 - That's pretty close to my hobby jogger time.
Granted, I'm male and live at altitude....
Agree, this race takes a specific talent to keep grinding uphill despite the thin air. It also takes specific training to succeed at a high level. Matt Carpenter lived and trained on this course to get his body acclimated to the challenge. Very hard to train for unless you have an exceptionally high Vo2max and even then you still need to push the body with low amounts of Oxygen.
Rémi Bonnet, in his post race comments said he is coming back next year to break the 2-hour barrier.
Would be great to see him and Kílian Jornet show up for an epic battle.
Impressive effort by Remi, never thought I'd see that record fall. Even more impressive, Matt's 2:01:06 came as part of the marathon, during which he also set the overall record at 3:16:39. From what I can find on teh interwebs, now one person has gone faster than Matt's ascent that day, and his descent of 1:15:33 has also only been bested once (Dakota Jones 1:13:53 in 2018).
Arroz wrote:
Impressive effort by Remi, never thought I'd see that record fall. Even more impressive, Matt's 2:01:06 came as part of the marathon, during which he also set the overall record at 3:16:39. From what I can find on teh interwebs, now one person has gone faster than Matt's ascent that day, and his descent of 1:15:33 has also only been bested once (Dakota Jones 1:13:53 in 2018).
Remi took a huge time of his own Ascent PB (set last year).....which was 2:07.
Joe Gray in his prime has gone as fast as 2:05 I believe.
I've raced Remi head to head at Pikes (granted in the Marathon...last in 2019) and he historically has only split 2:16-2:23 on the Ascent portion.
Usually one's all-out Ascent split can be surprisingly close to their Marathon "half" split as you want to go nearly all-out on the climb.
When Dakota bested Carpenter's downhill split (barely) he only went up in about 2:17 or so. Dakota is a heck of a downhill runner though.
Carpenter's 3:16 Pikes Marathon round trip from '93 is a total outlier....even relative to all his own winning times there....
O'whore wrote:
Looks like there's going to be snow and ice, so not going to break any records.
How did the conditions turn out to be?