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

I knew I could count on Cockerell to create yet another conspiracy theory

You are treating this like a road marathon. Most position changes in these races are a result of sleep scheduling. And no, the van was not rolling beside him across the desert while he was on single track. This is one of your looniest posts yet, and that is saying an awful lot.

Cockerell obviously meant that Balenger was flying in a UFO above Goodge while on the single track in the desert and not in a van

Between lap 122 and lap 123, the tracker shows Nedd took rest time of 1:15:02. The speed calculation in the tracker is for moving time only, you have to subtract the resting time.

-Professor Sneakers

Just pulled up the feed and he hit 1591.7km 2 minutes ago

There is clear and long footage of WG on a long, open deserted highway, being driven alongside. But nice try.

It all comes down to beliefs. There are two schools of thought: WG and RB, glued to each other's side this past 5 years do immaculate runs, with massive negative splits, off very limited training and modest to non-existent CVs, and HRs glued to 100-110

Or

They're influencers, who both turned pro in 2019, and need to show something for it. And iffy 3 hour marathons doesn't really cut it.

The Cali 100 run a year ago was a disaster, and there was no way they were going to let it happen again, especially with 247 releasing a brand new line being showcased by WG.

By half way here, WG was having an awful run. But then, kapow.

These are WGs 25 mile splits for 100-200:

12:54
6:20
6:01
14:17

Believe them if you like. I personally don't. Every single other person in the field will be much smoother and far less extreme than that, and yes, I know there's a huge aid point at 199.3 where everyone naps. Napping has nothing to do with it. Nobody runs to those extremes. The 6s are super-duper world class, and there's no way in the world a runner of that ability is going to mess around with 12s and 14s if they can do 6s. Can't happen, won't happen.

This is Joliffe 100-200. He also naps before and after the middle two splits, and is laid waste to by Goodge:

9:14
7:15
7:24
12:49

Note, he has lost those middle splits by 55mins and 1hr23. Really?!

This is women's champion Ostaszewski, a vastly superior runner to WG. Look at the damage he does to her in the middle two, after she beat him to half way by nearly 8 hours, and thrashes him on the first and last here:

10:12
8:10
8:27
11:54

And note how perfectly aligned those numbers are with Joliffe's.

Finally, what about someone a little further back, but still much better than Goodge. Take Tom Flummerfelt in 20th, who is enormously experienced and out there bashing away at these with top 5s [and a win] since 2002. He beats Goodge to the half by 5 hours, but can he hold him?

12:22
8:43
11:52
12:04

Once again perfectly authentic looking numbers. For the "napping" splits on the outside, he has defeated Goodge by 2.5hrs. But for those middle splits he has lost to him by 7hrs50.

As I say, all about belief systems. Some on here will say that 12:21 50 mile stretch by WG is fair play, and all about his supreme, world-beating ability; others will ask, "how on earth?"

There won't be another set of figures like Goodge's in the race. Nowhere close. And note he won a split to an aid station [the Needles] by 20%! He's taken 14 hours and 46 minutes out of himself for the middle two splits. Sarah took 4:30 out of herself, and Tom around 4. Joliffe's nap time is high, but in prep for an incredible incoming effort to finally put Subertas away. He still only took 7 hours out of himself.

Over and out, my work here is done! Good luck to WG and RB for the rest of their careers. It has been quite a ride.

Done in time for breakfast! 🥳

Just over 12 and a half days?

He is at 300 hours right now (12.5 days), if the tiktok clock is acurate, their kilometers are not.
312 hours would be 13 days

They've recently updated the distance from 1591.7 to 1592.28 mid-"master lap". I assume this is correcting a rounding error.

This shows the level of accuracy of this timing company. Good thing that this charity event is not a real race, just a publicity stunt.

So hang on, we can’t trust Brockmann’s live stream because his master laps are hard to count even though it’s all live streamed. We also can’t trust official races apparently because it’s so easy for Goodge to pass a tracker to his mate and not be detected? So how exactly is nedd’s time less reliable than random races from the 80s??

Because random races followed the official protocol how to do things the right way, with accurately measuring the course, have races officials there and other racers as well. Not just everybody working for that one guy on a track.

But my guess is that you never really have done any official racing. Not in the 80s and not now.

The milk sales man is about to finish.

Last lap

For a bit of perspective on Nedds run. He has done very well. He has ground it out, but with BIBLICAL, in fact, unprecedented levels of support on the ultimate surface underfoot. Meanwhile in the last few days many runners have now finished, or are approaching the end of the Sri Chinmoy race in New York. This is a 3100 mile race consisting of laps around a half mile concrete block, with people going about their daily business around them. Three runners, who were only allowed to be on the course for 16 hours a day and with nowhere near the level of assistance, achieved pretty much Nedd's distance in 13 days, before going on to complete another 2100 miles in the next month.

Good. Not GOAT.

Apparently Cockerell doesn't check course profiles and doesn't know what descending down a mountain means. Miles 125-175 in the Moab 240 is the descent off the big mountain to the valley floor, hence why Goodge's pace is much faster for that portion. Before and after miles 125-175 are the two big climbs going up of the race, hence why he is much slower in those portions.

I think Cockerell will need to issue a public apology to Goodge and Ballenger for this, especially when Cockerell has already falsely accused them of pilfering charity funds that Cockerell had to retract.

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But if you can just pass a tracker to your mate for day 6 and 7 as per cockerels suggestion how can you trust any result?

And yes you’re right, I’ve never done an official or unofficial multi day event either in the 80s or now

...but to grind that out, given all his discomfort and pressure - my hat's off to him anyway...

That charity money is also pretty bloody decent.

Nice work.