Chipmunk cheeks wrote:
But could he beat my granny at mall walking?
You should stop beating your granny.
Chipmunk cheeks wrote:
But could he beat my granny at mall walking?
You should stop beating your granny.
He could probably beat your granny at mall walking, but I doubt he could beat her at her true specialty - tea-bagging baboons. She is the best at that, although I have heard that her grandson is pretty good too.
On Matt Carpenter, 90.2 VO2max at his best. 1:05 half marathon split of a marathon. Obviously missing some skills that he couldn't have run 1:01 for the half and been mixing it with the best on the road at the time. Basic speed or what?
Who cares? Obviously he doesn't.
I'm pretty familiar with these races and I think someone is fudging the facts. Prove me wrong and tell us the year you won Golden Leaf.
Seriously. It's amazing how little anyone on this site knows about Kilian or anyone in the trail running scene. They're all just jealous that they'd tap out and cry for a cab ride on any hill taller than the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in the NYC Marathon.
Kilian grew up in the mountains, started as a skier, dominated ski mountaineering races growing up, and discovered mountain running for the warm months, and dominated that. He has no interest in road running, and only wants to travel and run in the high mountains around the world.
Anyone who thinks he isn't a true athlete can look up any of his races and see just how dominant he is. Running economy and focus is WAYYYYYY more important in mountain/trail/ultrarunning when you have to hold your pace for up to 24 hours and so many medical things can happen in remote mountain passes.
Oh, also, he's currently working on a 4-year project where he's destroying mountain speed records. Look up his Denali record and try and tell me he isn't an athlete. All the track/road robots on this website are a total joke.
Pat. wrote:
Seriously. It's amazing how little anyone on this site knows about Kilian or anyone in the trail running scene. They're all just jealous that they'd tap out and cry for a cab ride on any hill taller than the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in the NYC Marathon.
Kilian grew up in the mountains, started as a skier, dominated ski mountaineering races growing up, and discovered mountain running for the warm months, and dominated that. He has no interest in road running, and only wants to travel and run in the high mountains around the world.
Anyone who thinks he isn't a true athlete can look up any of his races and see just how dominant he is. Running economy and focus is WAYYYYYY more important in mountain/trail/ultrarunning when you have to hold your pace for up to 24 hours and so many medical things can happen in remote mountain passes.
Oh, also, he's currently working on a 4-year project where he's destroying mountain speed records. Look up his Denali record and try and tell me he isn't an athlete. All the track/road robots on this website are a total joke.
Agreed. No runner with any class would attack Kilian Jornet, Matt Carpenter or any of the other top ultra runners.
Typing teenagers with average credentials would, though.
Support Kilian by downloading the Summits of My Life movies. They're really good. The record he just set on Denali he did in a whiteout at the top. He broke it by something like 5 hours. But he estimated he could have gone an hour faster. To climb Denali in 11 hours when most people take a week or longer is amazing.
Here is a great article about Pablo Vigil who ran at Adams State.
http://alpine-works.com/2013/02/life-above-treeline-an-interview-with-pablo-vigil/