They just posted a promotional video on Nedd's instagram page. He says there that he just have to do seven 20 hour 100 mile days. But his body says: No way that this will happen.
They just posted a promotional video on Nedd's instagram page. He says there that he just have to do seven 20 hour 100 mile days. But his body says: No way that this will happen.
Did you add that last bit or did he make that admission himself?
You can't just go for one of Kouros' records. You have to be actually wired differently mentally and NOT in a tiktok type of way. People look at Sorokin and think that suddenly Kouros' records are up for grabs, but Sorokin is a special case himself, he's just quiet so it's not very apparent.
This forum is clearly for the baby boomer generation of has beens who have nothing better to do each day. What a poor existence you must lead
Everyone is watching and admiring Nedd's grit. Claiming he can break Kouros record with average running ability is naive and disrespectful.
There is no way anyone this slow and disorganised is taking down this record. Details matter.
He didn't even start Day 4 until -4.5 hours.
Imagine the support If he said: 'I'm going to run 1,000 miles as fast as I can, with tbe intention of raising as much money as possible for the homeless'
Nedd deserves our respect for his efforts so far. Regardless of the fact that he was never a serious challenger for the record, not many men have ever run 300 miles in 3 days (between ten and twenty, I reckon?) However it turns out from here (and I'll eat my hat if he gets near to 100 today), he should be proud of his performance.
Nedd deserves our respect for his efforts so far. Regardless of the fact that he was never a serious challenger for the record, not many men have ever run 300 miles in 3 days (between ten and twenty, I reckon?) However it turns out from here (and I'll eat my hat if he gets near to 100 today), he should be proud of his performance.
Waaaay more people than that have achieved that feat man. Did you just pull that number out of your backside or something?
It would be very difficult to find the exact number though because splits for 72hrs were usually not officially recorded or published. Emphasis was placed on 12, 24, 48 hrs, and 6 day splits because they were the distances/durations which were events in their own right.
No, I was just going to pull the number out of my backside but then I thought that instead I'd go to DUV and look up the Men's All Time Ranking for 72 hours. Then I did the same for the 6 day rankings and added on anybody who had averaged 100 per day. I ended up with 16 names.
James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Ramon Zabalo, Jean Giles Boussiquet, Wolfgang Schwerk, Gilbert Mainix, Joe Fejes, Stu Mittleman, Bryan Smith, Sigi Bauer, Serge Abona, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, Eoin Keith, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas. Apologies to anybody I've missed off or misspelled their name!
No, I was just going to pull the number out of my backside but then I thought that instead I'd go to DUV and look up the Men's All Time Ranking for 72 hours. Then I did the same for the 6 day rankings and added on anybody who had averaged 100 per day. I ended up with 16 names.
James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Ramon Zabalo, Jean Giles Boussiquet, Wolfgang Schwerk, Gilbert Mainix, Joe Fejes, Stu Mittleman, Bryan Smith, Sigi Bauer, Serge Abona, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, Eoin Keith, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas. Apologies to anybody I've missed off or misspelled their name!
A great many achieved it over the first 72hrs of longer events but couldn't sustain it for the full race.
No, I was just going to pull the number out of my backside but then I thought that instead I'd go to DUV and look up the Men's All Time Ranking for 72 hours. Then I did the same for the 6 day rankings and added on anybody who had averaged 100 per day. I ended up with 16 names.
James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Ramon Zabalo, Jean Giles Boussiquet, Wolfgang Schwerk, Gilbert Mainix, Joe Fejes, Stu Mittleman, Bryan Smith, Sigi Bauer, Serge Abona, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, Eoin Keith, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas. Apologies to anybody I've missed off or misspelled their name!
A great many achieved it over the first 72hrs of longer events but couldn't sustain it for the full race.
Including women... the likes of Sandy Barwick and Eleanor Adams have surely done it whether it be in 6 day races or back in the Sydney to Melbourne races. Camille Herron obviously too.
Nedd deserves our respect for his efforts so far. Regardless of the fact that he was never a serious challenger for the record, not many men have ever run 300 miles in 3 days (between ten and twenty, I reckon?) However it turns out from here (and I'll eat my hat if he gets near to 100 today), he should be proud of his performance.
300 miles (approx 480km) in 3 days is way more common than you imagine.
It took me only about 10 minutes to think of 10 men who have run well over twice that distance in 6 days. George Littlewood ran over 600 miles in 6 Days in the 1880s. Who knows how many men since then have finished 6 Day races with totals of 550 miles or more, after splitting 300 miles by halfway?
In recent years, another 29 men have run 300 miles in 3 days in Backyard Ultras, with all but three venturing out for further laps.
Camille Herron's 3 day split in the Lululemon 6 Day was about 340 miles. Looking at Sandra Barwick's 48 Hour split when she set the previous 6 Day WR in 1990, she would've been close to 300 miles by the end of day 3 as well.
It wouldn't surprise me if well over 100 runners had done so, almost exclusively as splits in longer races.
A great many achieved it over the first 72hrs of longer events but couldn't sustain it for the full race.
Including women... the likes of Sandy Barwick and Eleanor Adams have surely done it whether it be in 6 day races or back in the Sydney to Melbourne races. Camille Herron obviously too.
Obviously some faster typists and fact checkers on the boards than me tonight.
As for the Sydney to Melbourne, both David Standeven and Kevin Mansell finished the race in under 6 days in years when the course was in excess of 1000km.
Very good point re. Backyard Ultras- I hadn't considered them. So my 16 names along with 29 Backyarders plus say 4 or 5 guys from the 1880s era (Littlewood, Rowell, Albert) and two from the Westfield run. I admit, there has to be at least 50 men who've done 300 miles in 3 days.
I don't think that we'll need to argue tomorrow about how many have run 400 in four days though...
Very good point re. Backyard Ultras- I hadn't considered them. So my 16 names along with 29 Backyarders plus say 4 or 5 guys from the 1880s era (Littlewood, Rowell, Albert) and two from the Westfield run. I admit, there has to be at least 50 men who've done 300 miles in 3 days.
I don't think that we'll need to argue tomorrow about how many have run 400 in four days though...
A lot more than that.. there's the likes of Patrick Macke, Dusan Mravlje, even 61 year old Cliffy Young in '83. The number is definitely in the triple digits.
They just posted a promotional video on Nedd's instagram page. He says there that he just have to do seven 20 hour 100 mile days. But his body says: No way that this will happen.
Did you add that last bit or did he make that admission himself?
Sorry, I added the last bit: But his body says: No way that this will happen.
Very good point re. Backyard Ultras- I hadn't considered them. So my 16 names along with 29 Backyarders plus say 4 or 5 guys from the 1880s era (Littlewood, Rowell, Albert) and two from the Westfield run. I admit, there has to be at least 50 men who've done 300 miles in 3 days.
I don't think that we'll need to argue tomorrow about how many have run 400 in four days though...
A lot more than that.. there's the likes of Patrick Macke, Dusan Mravlje, even 61 year old Cliffy Young in '83. The number is definitely in the triple digits.
72 hours was not a race format until recently. So all 72 hour marks a splits from longer races and probably a lot of splits didn't end up in the DUV data base.
No, I was just going to pull the number out of my backside but then I thought that instead I'd go to DUV and look up the Men's All Time Ranking for 72 hours. Then I did the same for the 6 day rankings and added on anybody who had averaged 100 per day. I ended up with 16 names.
James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Ramon Zabalo, Jean Giles Boussiquet, Wolfgang Schwerk, Gilbert Mainix, Joe Fejes, Stu Mittleman, Bryan Smith, Sigi Bauer, Serge Abona, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, Eoin Keith, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas. Apologies to anybody I've missed off or misspelled their name!
Nice list, I raced with a lot of them: James Zarei, Yiannis Kouros, Wolfgang Schwerk, Joe Fejes, Bryan Smith, Hans Heise, Bob Hearn, John Geesler and Jakelaitis Rimantas.