Official William Goodge TransAus World Record Thread, Perth to Sydney, 35 days, 68.5 miles a day

No, not like that. What you have described is not the definition of a narcissist, even if it were true.

Anybody persuaded by the built different argument could do worse than watch this video at 1.17 - 1.30. That's the athlete Will C found in the US too. It looks painful before you even notice he's using poles on a flat path.

So. I've worked out a very plausible way to cheat. We saw WG stopping at the RV and another runner carrying on - there's video evidence of that.

1. Mask heart rate so it doesn't vary between runners. Has been established how this can be done.

2. Hand over watch/tracker on approach to RV.

3. WG stops and rests for a few km. The other runners do a few km. If they were seen by someone they could just say they're off for a run while WG rests.

4. If WG is encountered running, then he runs/otherwise engages with the person. If he is caught at the RV he can say he is resting and will run with them soon. This works in remote areas as encounters are so few.

5. If they're not engaged by the public they ride a few km down the road to the other runner and switch.

6. The only way they get busted is if someone sees him riding in the RV, which would NEVER happen.

There you go. That's how it could be done.

Yikes.

This is getting sad and embarrassing now.

You may not be the best judge of that, 'Neddsmilk'...

Firstly, someone like myself hasn't actually posted anything to Strava. Didn't do it before my first marathon in the 70's , sub 3:30 despite claiming never to run more than 7km, a couple of times a week for a few weeks. My bright LED Casio also had big bold digits, only the stopwatch though, no HR which is what I thought was all it was supposed to do. I didn't require Strava years later in the 80's when I ran and podiumed at National level and I do not know how my fellow runners and community put up with this lack of transparency. I still do not do it despite being urged, no begged, by my fellow 'joggers' at the running group to show them my gems, which now consist more of running with the dog, and trying to break 23min for 5km with my training runns around the block before enjoying a beer or red wine. As if somehow they think that a guy that one time ran in the 2:20's will make them run faster by showing off his current plodding.

So, maybe people with no claim to breaking records, doing whatever for the hell of it on their birthday, just couldn't be bothered with boring everyone else with their stupid data.

Hire a couple of prostitutes and get him drunk. Use his thumb to unlock his phone to view the Strava data. No way for other's to view the data if he has hidden them with the Strava privacy settings.

OK, this is almost certainly a complete trolling exercise but I'll bite.

Did you really think, I know, the best people to ask how to catch an ultrarunning cheat is to ask the people who have just completely failed to do that in the most stunningly public fashion? Your mate has just done a few incognito laps round the block. The guy this thread was trying to catch ran along the main highway of the largest island on earth with a tracker on and they've still got nothing on him. Are you actually asking for advice on how to spend two years obsessing over it and getting nowhere?

I appreciate the sentiment, but thats not what was happening here. He used a Garmin, he's just chosen to hide the data.

lol its not a troll.

I thought the best people to ask would be the ones that are actively thinking in the same manner in the Goodge case - thought it might be interesting for them too. I've been following this thread so was on my mind.

But, I apologise if this is the wrong space. I feel very slighted by my mate after spending my Sat morning supporting him while he lied to my face the whole time, so I'm willing to do some mild sleuthing, yeah.

Yes he cheated. That will be 1000 quid please and thank you.

Someone is doing something for the heck of it, why would you care if he rode a bike or not?
BTW, a 22 min 5K runner can be plenty able to jog a flat 100km at 12 min/mile.

Please create a new thread for your question about a different person.

Oh, Sneakers is back!

To refute your lies. I have never met Will C. My only contact has been on here. I don't know him. We just share a passion to not allow cheats to prosper.

Clearly I got attacked on here from team Goodge. Unfortunately for team Goodge, they think bullying will win. It won't.

There is clearly an attempt to attack this thread. Goodge team thinks they can bully us, and end the chat.

They are actually that stupid.

To team Goodge who will down vote this....game one. I'm happy to not post, but I will catch you.

Bullies don't win.

Rather, it's much more likely that you were attacked on here by Cockerell himself using one of his many sock puppet accounts just like what Cockerell does on Strava and Reddit that got him banned from both places. Why would team Goodge bother to spend any time on you when Cockerell does such as swell job?

All such trash talking garbage as ever Sneakers. I got banned from Strava by Goodge's agent for casting doubt on his numbers, and certainly haven't been banned from reddit.

Anyway, all may seem quiet on here, but rest assured loads is going on behind the scenes as we watch WG rolling in the cash he made on TransAus in some of the most expensive hotspots in the world; very often taking deep drags of cigarettes just to ram home his hatred of the running community and complete lack of care whatsoever for those suffering or dying from cancer.

For sure, he is the only cancer campaigner in history who heavily promotes smoking.

Of course now, with all eyes on him [who naturally hasn't run a step since], we as a community are looking hard at heart rates for the rest of the world's athletes for this sort of thing. A good example is the great John Kelly and his Apalachian Trail run. A runner light years superior to WG who has been camped on 125 for far slower paces, and when he WALKS DOWNHILL his logs around 115bpm.

As a reminder, the following is the sort of thing that is unseen in the history of running, and Sneakers is asking us to accept it because "we can't read data." Note this is 100% removed now from the Goodge camp who says it's because he's "very fit and runs real slow":

6:45 at 95bpm
6:36 at 95
6:54 at 94
6:31 at 98
6:31 at 95
6:21 at 96
6:17 at 97

These are concurrent and on the flat. Simply ludicrous levels of trolling.

Finally, look out for the gloriously inventive NYC coach Purcell Dugger [119k followers]. He is doing a Transcon, but with a twist: It is still LA to NYC, and he is requesting $40,000 from the community for his Gofundme for expenses, but he will NOT be running "in between cities". Instead, he is DRIVING, and making up the mileage in the cities - except it's quite clear that he's falling short and of course escaping countless brutal climbs. His run yesterday doubles down further: 48k in 9 hours, on a treadmill.

Now that my friends is a lovely way to do a Transcon. He has aggressively called out a fellow NYC coach for questionning this approach [saying he thought they were friends] as Dugger has not made it clear at all on his promos that this approach is the plan.

The world of runfluencing is simply a mad, opportunistic and totally shameless world.

At least Purcell Dugger is logging realistic enough walks. That's actually an improvement over Goodge.

Yep! And for some reason yesterday is no longer on the "treadmill", but a walk up and down the river in Tempe, AZ.

48k in 9:13 off a pulse of 118, I can handle.

115 in 12:48 off 108, not so much.