Good luck to Kilian! I'm also a little pessimistic about eventual success in this, but you never know. If anyone can do this, it's surely Kilian. Maybe we don't have all informations about his preparations and injury recovery, maybe he stops quite early... anyway, fingers crossed!
Here you can watch Kilian learn who long and tough 24 hours are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidI0DEBZI4&feature=emb_logo
They just said that Kilian's goal is 264k (660 laps)
Feed is a bit laggy.
I predict the feed will mysteriously go down when he is at the 150-160 mile mark and will magically resume at 183 miles. :)
I'm not too pissed about Salomon's rather unprofessional start of this event with awful streaming. It's a looong day anyway.
Stream is so laggy, and how do they think he can run anywhere close in freezing temperatures ??
The interviewer just said the person pacing Kilian is not actually an ultra runner, but an obstacle course runner, but no worries, he can do 600 burpees so record is going down!
23 degrees, too much cold
Can see that the group he is lapping are wearing Next%'s & VF's..
24 hour expert wrote:
They just said that Kilian's goal is 264k (660 laps)
IDK about that. But IMO he has a ZEERO. 4 CHANCE of becoming the 2nd athlete ever to surpass 290 km.
Heck, even "just" beating the Spanish record, which is 274 km, in his first attempt would be a huge accomplishment.
Dobyg wrote:
The interviewer just said the person pacing Kilian is not actually an ultra runner, but an obstacle course runner, but no worries, he can do 600 burpees so record is going down!
His name is Sebastian Conrad Håkansson, he is a good runner (e.g. he has won the 'Oslo triple' (marathon, half-marathon, and 10km) several times). 24 hours is something completely different, but I think he may be a surprise here, he has an iron will; I expect him to stay with Jornet much of the way, indeed I would not be surprised if he actually runs further than Jornet, and maybe even approach or break the record.
good conditions wrote:
Dobyg wrote:
The interviewer just said the person pacing Kilian is not actually an ultra runner, but an obstacle course runner, but no worries, he can do 600 burpees so record is going down!
His name is Sebastian Conrad Håkansson, he is a good runner (e.g. he has won the 'Oslo triple' (marathon, half-marathon, and 10km) several times). 24 hours is something completely different, but I think he may be a surprise here, he has an iron will; I expect him to stay with Jornet much of the way, indeed I would not be surprised if he actually runs further than Jornet, and maybe even approach or break the record.
In fact they just confirmed on the stream that his plan is indeed to follow Jornet as long as possible. Don't be surprised if he stays the whole way and accelerates away at the end, he is very strong, and the pace is fairly trivial for him.
good conditions wrote:
good conditions wrote:
His name is Sebastian Conrad Håkansson, he is a good runner (e.g. he has won the 'Oslo triple' (marathon, half-marathon, and 10km) several times). 24 hours is something completely different, but I think he may be a surprise here, he has an iron will; I expect him to stay with Jornet much of the way, indeed I would not be surprised if he actually runs further than Jornet, and maybe even approach or break the record.
really? umm no.
In fact they just confirmed on the stream that his plan is indeed to follow Jornet as long as possible. Don't be surprised if he stays the whole way and accelerates away at the end, he is very strong, and the pace is fairly trivial for him.
HITHEREYOU wrote:
good conditions wrote:
His name is Sebastian Conrad Håkansson, he is a good runner (e.g. he has won the 'Oslo triple' (marathon, half-marathon, and 10km) several times). 24 hours is something completely different, but I think he may be a surprise here, he has an iron will; I expect him to stay with Jornet much of the way, indeed I would not be surprised if he actually runs further than Jornet, and maybe even approach or break the record.
really? umm no.
How well do you know him? Håkansson is jogging, Jornet is running currently.
good conditions wrote:
How well do you know him? Håkansson is jogging.
That explains his weird armswing
Kilian ran 30km in about 2:09:30. That's 4:19/km pace
According to the live feed they’ve averaged 4.08p/km
Too fast! It’s funny how they are going the same speed but Sebastian looks like he’s strolling and Kilian looks like he’s running. Which is using the most energy?
That Håkanson dude is 1 lap ahead of Kilian ?
Yeah, Kilian took a break about 10 min ago. Went into the house/tent
Ah, oké thanks. 24 hours is a long way, even to look at the coverage;-)