Fixed-time track/road events are a niche within the already niche ultra running. Things like the record falling 3x in a year are bound to happen. For example, the woman who set the record 6 weeks ago said in an interview that when she went to look up the Scottish women's 48 hour national record before the race, there was none.
At a time when lying has never been more widely sanctioned, the anti-speech, pro-cheating commenters at Marathon Investigation and elsewhere need to be told to fuck themselves
If Sorokin seriously went after this he would cover 520km - 323 miles. This is the equivalent of 470km for a female.
Sorokin could cover 170 miles on day 1 easily. He is closing in on 200 miles - 24 hours.
Saying he could beat Kouros' 48 hour record by 10% feels pretty generous. He bested Kouros' 24 hour record by 16km, about 5.3%. Assuming he could perform at the same margin for 48 hours, he would only be at 498km. Plus Sorokin has yet to prove himself at anything longer than single-day events, and 48 hours are much more difficult to get right.
He set the 48hr in 96. 24 hour was superior- set in 1997. If he ran a 48 hour race again in 97 or 98 it would have been about 10 miles more, so it was Kouros who didn't get it quite right, but close.
Using that same equation for Sorokin 200 miles would be about 323 miles in a 48 hour race. He may never attempt it and getting it just right is very difficult. We will see in December if Sorokin improves his 24 hour record by 1.4 miles.
on pace to break world record of 255 miles in 48 hours.
Yea that is crazy. Sorry you don't know her name. Maybe follow running a little bit closer mate.
This is not competitive running to me. This is the kind of event you gravitate to if you cannot make it as a competitive runner.
And do enlighten us, what have you ever achieved?
PRs?
Some people have different abilities - some are just endurance beasts - and some, like you for instance, have an uncanny ability to piss their pants and whine whenever someone achieves something remarkable.
I doubt you'd stick with her pace for 1 hour, let alone 48.
"Lance Armstrong was also pretty vocal that more tests should be done"
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Yet if he had to post his blood work online for all to see it would have been more than apparent he was doping. Everyone was doping and the best they could come up with was to limit it. A simple CBC test that costs $10 where I live would have been enough to expose him.
His hematocrit alone would have been impossible to explain as he has discussed. Just saw him recently mention his hematocrit in an interview. When asked why he wasn't banned he laughed and shrugged. Athletes need to post their blood work for all of us to see.
It's so weird that people accept a man can have such different genetics to be able to run (under) a 2 hour marathon but not a woman to run almost 200 miles?
Even ADHD drugs can't last/be taken that long, the symptoms would be so obvious.
We evolved those genetics specifically, some people just have much stronger throwbacks?
The triple-ironman people also blow my mind, they are obviously built very differently, just like a 2-hour marathoner.
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