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

So on one hand willvlc says that wrist watches are incredibly accurate and might as well be a laboratory test, and then on the other hand, he says you can put cardboard underneath it and it’ll still read a pulse of 110 😂

seriously there’s a psychological term for this witchhunt and it’s called CONFIRMATION BIAS

He's just posted Day 4. Another very consistent day with a remarkably consistent pulse. Even when the pace varies, the pulse stays roughly same, below 115.

Luckily we don't have to guess, I just put a piece of paper under the sensor of my Forerunner 255 that was opaque to the green light and I got a reading of 0. Other devices or other materials may give a different outcome.

A simpler way of masking the HR is either don't wear a GPS watch that has optical HR or edit the .FIT files (or equivalent) that are saved on the watch before uploading.

So can you explain why Goodge only turns up when he's on these money making missions? What happens in actual races? He's average at best.

Interesting that he essentially recorded no breaks today. Run time and elapsed time are nearly identical. That isn’t typical of him.

100km in 10:34 moving time… 13:11 elapsed time.

Just another example of aspiring influencers obfuscating the truth.

The thing is, running 100km in 13 hours is still quite the achievement, not sure why the need to stretch the truth besides social media clout.

It’s so often the case - what they’re actually doing is usually quite impressive in its own right without any hyperbole (for non elite athletes) or could be in some way good for the community by raising awareness or money for xyz cause. But they use some kind of record attempt or stretching the truth or straight up lying in order to garner more attention which typically reeks of self promotion, rather than the cause they espouse.

I honestly haven't ready anything on this thread, so maybe I'm out of the loop. But it's my intention to run across Australia at some point, maybe later this year. Aiming for 30 days / 80 miles per day.

That is to say, I'm not a fan of influencers. :)

Are we able to get boots on the ground out there? This guy is suss AF

Well Laz and Fake Laz should be available

This is some stunning Aussie soap opera drama from Eleni Tsingas. It could easily be an audition for Home and Away or Neighbours.

Crying for the camera and stating that she is willing to risk never walking again just to inspire other people to get out and run and raise awareness of mental health, or whatever her heroic mission is.

And all to a heart rendering soundtrack. This is the most absurd stuff I've seen from an influencer yet. She doesn't even say how pathertically low her daily total was in her "world record attempt".

I can only see 22km logged today on Strava for a grand total of 270km in 6 days. Possibly the worst world record attempt in history!

jeez, that is some next level nonsense

The runfluencer playbook is well known. 1) Set outrageous goal 2) State that money will be raised for a worthwhile cause and that donations are accepted. Mostly the funds flow through a 3rd party platform (eg go fund me) with no traceability 3) Start the social media "countdown". (E.g in only 60 days I will be running X km to bring awareness to Y cause). 4) Start run 5) pull the plug on the "record attempt" a few days in and restate the goal as "raising awareness". - Globally you could probably count on 1 hand the examples of runfluencers achieving the original running goal. who knows where the money goes.

Someone needs to go out there and stay with them for at least a day or two to see what's going on...

They aren't daft, they would simply make life difficult for someone trying to do that. You would need a team of people they couldn't intimidate being at random points ahead. Not many people have the spare time and cash to put together this kind of thing especially at this notice. One person can be fobbed off and threatened very easily.

Yeah, they chose a trans Australia run for a specific reason. It's extremely isolated for most of the route, easy to cheat, and very difficult to observe and referee.

She's now raised $5k of her $1m target. That's much closer than she'll get to any record set by Yiannis Kouros.

She's also still only got less than 2000 followers. That's not enough to get influencer sponsorship.

She started this project with a new Instagram account which seems to have been a mistake. It would have been wise to spend a bit of time building up a modest following before launcing into the grand project.

She has hired a PR firm that boast about being experts at social media stunts, but it seems she has been poorly advised here.

She should've checked if she could actually run before calling out Yiannis the GOAT

Also has stopped posting daily distance updates on socials - but keeps repeating the "attempting to break the world record for 1000 miles in 10 days" stick. Was 40km off the pace on day 1 (and has only gotten worse), and has been getting IVs, shockwave therapy and who knows what else to recover each day