I'm curious: are you the same fraudulent a**hole that spent like 3 months shilling for the last fraudulent a**hole that pretended to do this last year??
Cuz you sure sound kinda like him.
to be fair, at this point in proceedings he just sounds like an over excited fanboi. No evidence of fraud so far, so no need for shilling.
if new transcon runners are much more honest in their aproach then willvic must take a lot of the credit, along with guys like derek.
I live at 600 feet, and run at 14'000, there is the wonderful thing called "Altitude Training", do you want me to google that for you? Just don't fall for the "training masks"
he is also running along a fairly steady easy downhill at the moment. he did the hard uphill yesterday.
If you look at the Strava page for yesterday, Day 4, Sept 10, and check his heart rate, you will see that it was low pretty much all day despite climbing from 1500 feet to over 8000 feet. He averaged 120 BPM the whole day and on the major mountain climb in the second half of the day was only doing 100-130 BPM.
Isn't this what Cockerell accused the previous transcon runners of? Abnormally low heart rate? (Not that I give any credibility to anything that Cockerell says)
I'm rooting for Nels but I'll echo what others have said that he just doesn't seem to be running fast enough to do this. I understand that he's gone over mountains but in order to average 70+ miles a day and get enough rest he needs to run around 10 min/mile not the 11-12 min/mile he's been averaging. Just not enough time to sleep otherwise.
Maybe he'll speed up after the mountains? Will be interesting to see but I'm not optimistic.
I'm rooting for Nels but I'll echo what others have said that he just doesn't seem to be running fast enough to do this. I understand that he's gone over mountains but in order to average 70+ miles a day and get enough rest he needs to run around 10 min/mile not the 11-12 min/mile he's been averaging. Just not enough time to sleep otherwise.
Maybe he'll speed up after the mountains? Will be interesting to see but I'm not optimistic.
What's the big rush that you think he needs to run 10 min/mile? That's too fast and is the wrong way to go about it in the first half of the transcon.
Nels is targetting an average of 15 hours a day running which is 900 minutes.
10 min/mile = 90 miles per day
11 min/mile = 81.8 miles per day
12 min/mile = 75 miles per day
Nels only needs to average a bit over 72 miles per day to beat Pete's record because Pete ran way too fast at 8-9 minute miles and couldn't maintain a steady speed. Nels is right on track to blow Pete's record away with 11-12 min miles because Nels is much more consistent and recovers faster than Pete.
Isn't this what Cockerell accused the previous transcon runners of? Abnormally low heart rate? (Not that I give any credibility to anything that Cockerell says)
The accusation was increased pace along with lower heart rate later in each day. Low heart rate alone doesn't mean anything.
I meant 10 min/mile while he is actually moving. Even if he's targeting 15 hours a day, he'll lose an hour of that for short breaks so it's really only 14 hours moving. That's consistent with what he's done.
You are correct that 14 hours at 10 min/mile would be 84 miles, way more than he needs. BUT, I think 15 hours of moving time is too long, I think it'll catch up to him and he should be targeting an hour less to get more rest at night.
We will see, I do find these fun to watch and he may know more than me.
he is also running along a fairly steady easy downhill at the moment. he did the hard uphill yesterday.
If you look at the Strava page for yesterday, Day 4, Sept 10, and check his heart rate, you will see that it was low pretty much all day despite climbing from 1500 feet to over 8000 feet. He averaged 120 BPM the whole day and on the major mountain climb in the second half of the day was only doing 100-130 BPM.
Isn't this what Cockerell accused the previous transcon runners of? Abnormally low heart rate? (Not that I give any credibility to anything that Cockerell says)
erm, you have created an incorrect strawman out of my post and then argued with it. not a good look going for the future.
i said nothing about hr i just said he was running easy downhil. perfectly normal. im not looking for gremlins here...are you?
he is also running along a fairly steady easy downhill at the moment. he did the hard uphill yesterday.
If you look at the Strava page for yesterday, Day 4, Sept 10, and check his heart rate, you will see that it was low pretty much all day despite climbing from 1500 feet to over 8000 feet. He averaged 120 BPM the whole day and on the major mountain climb in the second half of the day was only doing 100-130 BPM.
Isn't this what Cockerell accused the previous transcon runners of? Abnormally low heart rate? (Not that I give any credibility to anything that Cockerell says)
Will did not accuse others of solely having a low HR. He rightfully called out others for having a low HR while speeding up and going up hills.
You'd expect most very fit people to have a HR around 80–130 when jogging very easily. Hot weather will bring it up. You'll expect to see it creep up as the day goes on as well. Googe was clocking like 90BPM for long stretches when he would miraculously and massively up his pace late at night.
No one's HR goes down as they accelerate, that was one of the many issues with the two recent transcons.
BUT, I think 15 hours of moving time is too long, I think it'll catch up to him and he should be targeting an hour less to get more rest at night.
We will see, I do find these fun to watch and he may know more than me.
I don't have any experience doing multi-days but it is an interesting thought, what's the ideal pace? If you told me I needed to run a marathon as easily as possible, it'd be easier for me to run a 4.5 hour marathon than a 7 hour marathon. The 4.5 hour marathon will be a tiiiny bit more aerobically taxing, but that is far outweighed by the extra 2.5 hours on my feet. The difference in pounding on your joints between those two paces is negligible, I'm pretty much at the same gait, it's the time on feet that does damage.
Any plans for ‘boots on the ground’ Laz type observations?
Just send an email to the Google ultra running list telling the geezers that there is a "social media influencer" breaking Pete's transcon record and you'll have them on the next plane over
Any plans for ‘boots on the ground’ Laz type observations?
Just send an email to the Google ultra running list telling the geezers that there is a "social media influencer" breaking Pete's transcon record and you'll have them on the next plane over
Your hero continues to fall behind schedule while continuing to accumulate excess fatigue. Give it another week and it will just turn into a pure fundraiser. He was never getting the record. Only trying to add extra publicity for notoriety I suspect.
Your hero continues to fall behind schedule while continuing to accumulate excess fatigue. Give it another week and it will just turn into a pure fundraiser. He was never getting the record. Only trying to add extra publicity for notoriety I suspect.
As a wise turtle once said: Slow and steady wins the race
What makes you think he is "behind schedule"? Nels is right on track averaging 15 hours of on feet time more or less per day and keeping his heart rate under 130 BPM. He doesn't get excited by the elevation gain of the mountains and over exert himself in the first week like Pete did, causing Pete to have a zero mileage day.
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