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

Ultra running existed. Most people in this forum have ran one, and now claim to be able to cover 1300km in 9 days. Which is complete horse and hasn’t been nearly scratched by

I don't understand why you think I'd be talking rubbish. I work hard to be where I am . Im nowhere near the best but I'm lucky enough to represent my country in 6 days. 100 miles in 24 hours isn't considered elite

That’s not what you argued. You argued that anyone in this forum could do what Nedd has currently done. A very big difference from running a 24hr miler, to running 1,300km in consecutive days.

My red flag, is what appears to be a Guerilla marketing campaign by his marketing team to pressure other milk companies to donate to his charity. Everyone agrees donating and raising funds for charity is awesome. They are quoting and this is my interpenetration that these big corporate make millions of revenue and therefore should morally obliged to donate to Nedds charity. Milk companies run on razor thin margins and have been going through redundancies. There is a difference between revenue and profit. Imagine losing your job and then seeing your company fork out unbudgeted funds. It's just a bit icky. These companies already allocate millions to other great charities. Not one charity is more important than the other. Let's get around the effort, it is immense but let's do it with positivity, collective fun, heart and determination.

He said nothing like that.

"You'd be surprised at the number of runners that could have a crack at this"

Nope I said you'd be surprised how many people could achieve what ned is doing . It's just not distance that is raced competitively

At one point this afternoon he had his entire leg taped up after limping off.
took it off shortly after. Off to sleep by the looks of things at 9pm.

Name them

So someone sells a story about their ability that we a) know isn’t true and b) isn’t in fact doing what they said they would do but keeps letting people believe that it’s a real event and c) does it in a way which inflates their own ability while still presenting it as legitimate.

Then add on that this person makes a lucrative living off doing it. Stands to personally and financially gain enormously.

At what point would that be a con?

Plus all the other brands and leeches living off this fake cottage industry. Welcome to 2024, where apparently the means justifies the end.

why can’t use just kick back and enjoy it, a young guy whose bringing more to the sport than any of you ever will!
whatever spin you want to put on it and whatever way you want to deep dive into it and dissect it, nedd brockman has ran nearly 1400km and raised over 1.3 million dollars for charity and inspired people from around Australia and potentially the world to go do something challenging (positive) in their life.

With all the s**t going on in the world you’d think some of you low life’s would have some light to shine on the positive side of what his doing. ooo he didn’t get the record, big deal, id like to see your “under achievements” if you even want to call it that stack up against his. Genuinely should be ashamed of yourselves and you won’t be cause half of you are pompous idiots but one day it’ll catch up to you!

see use on the stream xx

He can do all that good, and still do the running elements correctly.

Is any athletic record measured in millimetres? that would even be considered a dead heat in the Olympic 100 metre final.

I'll tell you a story from 1988, when I went to a low key, locally organised 12 Hour race f about 80km outside of Melbourne. A grass track had been measured out on some sports fields with the aim of making it as close as possible to the standard 400 metres. We were informed that it was measured at 393 metres. No opportunity to cut corners. Every single was lap counted.

There's no doubt organisers as experienced as the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team in conducting multi-day ultras were getting their course measurement and manual lap scoring procedures right in a race specifically set up for attempts on a world records in 1988.

The fact that it was 1988 should give you confidence, rather than doubt.

The SCMT had been conducting this type of race in New York in accordance with governing body requirements at least since 1984 when Kouros set a 24 Hour world record of 284km 853 metres.

Yet Nedd's run where there's no individual recording of each 400 metre-ish lap by anyone, let alone independent organisers, is somehow just as accurate?

We have a runner and his team of support crew/event organisers who are without race experience, and a timing company that appears to have just as little experience in being involved in this type of event.

Yet somehow, there's some equivalence because,.....ummm....oh yeah, 1988!

Pretty poor form from Nedd’s Milk.
A quick search will show you that Oak Milk’s parent company, Lactalis Australia, already does plenty of charitable work.

To try and make a competitor look bad because they aren’t buying into the public hype around this doesn’t sit well.

No wonder so many people on here are questioning what this is all about.

I'm happy to acknowledge the positives of what Nedd's doing, such as the charity money raised (albeit by duplicitous self-promotion), and kick back and enjoy seeing what he can achieve with the run.

However, it still remains to be seen what Nedd has done for the sport of ultra running.

There's certain to be some people who may decide to get into the sport because of Nedd, but ironically for young man who's taken many steps in his life, it's one step he is yet to make himself!

Other than that, I'm not sure what he's done for the sport, particularly with the deliberate objective of improving it. As yet, he appears to be quite happy doing his solo endeavours, totally without any engagement with the sport itself.

He seems quite disinterested in ultra running as a sport, other than using Yiannis' name and reputation to promote his own objectives, be those personal publicity or raising money for charity.

If he's done anything with the intent of the betterment of ultra running as a sport, I don't know what it is. Others might, but I don't.

I've been running ultras since 1987 and followed the sport for over 40 years. In that time, I've also crewed many runners, volunteered at races for days on end including flying interstate on numerous occasions to do so, been a committee member and national selector, a long-time race director and a consistent advocate for the sport. Pretty much all these have been at expense to me and with a motivation to make the sport better for all involved.

By ridiculously hyped I'm sure you mean briefly mentioned as a target as that is in fact the extent of the "hype"

Once again, no one really cares about a record, or when, or even if, he finishes. They're just enjoying the spectacle. It would be cool if he could get one, but it doesn't matter to most people watching this

I’m hearing over and over that “it was never about the record”…

But what if he actually happened to have broken the record? Would this still have been the narrative?

It seems convenient to say it isn’t important only now that it hasn’t been broken.

I’m sure that’s what we’d all be talking about HAD it happened. And Nedd’s marketing team would have milked it (pardon the pun) for all it was worth.

If it was 'never about the record' , most of the tiktokers wouldn't be supporting it.