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

Is he related to Mike Rossi per chance?

Loads of similarities between this and that saga.

Another odditiy is absolutely no movement on the TransAus Wikipedia page. You would have thought that even without official ratification yet, they would have put on a holding blurb.

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Anyway, let's see what the next 3 months bring, because the 3 months since have brought nothing but the hardest of hard partying, all but no running, and a near obsession with the selling of mushrooms [which many say is a fad], carbonated water, and stuff you inject to reverse the aging process.

Looks like he had a heavy fall with a huge gash in his hand and arm in a sling - but oddly makes no mention of that at all on his socials, despite it surely being of interest to his followers.

Hold your kangaroo's, Cockerell! It takes time for me to edit all the data files

Our fav ultra runner Goodge is now involved in some run up north by the Arctic called Mission Iceland, very light on information.

Typical for him to be where there are few people around.

Whats interesting is he had talked about running the Sydney marathon.

He probably figures why go through all the hassle when Kostelnick is going to better it in a few months.

Yes, the whole thing is appalling. All but no info, and total vainglorious exaggeration, melodrama and misdirection. As Lucy Davis writes: "I can’t believe I’m running across Iceland in 3 days with some absolute savages". But she's not is she...

A 7 person relay is what it is - as easy as running gets. Run for 20 minutes, take 2:20 off, do another 20. No endurance required, no pressure, no drama or ability required of any sort. Simple math dictates each runner only needs to do 40k a day. WG was claimed 115k days across Aus.

They have subtly upped 48 hours to cross Iceland to 54. Barely any info at all on Strava, just one pathetic run by Davis of 1.4k in 11:44. Goodge seems to have totally given up on Strava with 1k recorded since July 16. No runs of this logged by Hardest Geezer either.

It's all just videos of them singing and dancing in a van, but barely any running, just the handovers where they clearly ensure the running looks quick.

It's about as cynical an exploitation of a sport as you will ever see. What are they doing - what are they achieving? Who knows.

Not surprising at all. WG is still not listed on the official log of US Crossers. That process is as simple as it gets. Send an email to the administrator with a minimal amount of proof. PJ figured the process out so WG simply doesn’t care.

What is truly remarkable is his average cadence of 325. That is elite.

Obviously these guys are learning how to produce fake data using tools like fakemy.run. Goodge just seems to be a little better at it than most.

thanks. this guy clearly just on another level for idiocy, and makes his strava private [of course] with 145 followers, and hides behind a pseudonym. He does a long video with AI saying that those who say running from Woking to Amsterdam is impossible, but he says it's not because he took a ferry, so therefore it is possible.

As for Goodge on this Iceland trip, he has put up three runs which look reasonably respectable, but he hasn't said they're a relay [which got him flagged - not by me]. Thus:

12.4k in `1hr7 is actually taking 5hr19.

38.8k in 3:18 is actually taking 16:12

and 24.4k in 2:07 is actually taking 12:57.

He is absolutely camped on a good human pulse of 135-150 throughout, and there are many Ks at about 6:20 pace with a pulse of 140, whereas across Australia his pulse was 95-105 for up to a thousand 6:20ks.

All such madness and these runfluencers closing ranks and joining forces - them against the world. There is precious little detail of the actual stats of this run, but can you imagine what 7 proper runners would have crossed Iceland in, compared to this septet?

A totally daft and cynical marketing mission devoid of any athletic note or worth whatsoever. Goodge does one 5k stretch is 31 mins, but others a lot quicker because they're massively bringing the distances down. I think about 2-3k were the shifts, and then take a couple of hours off!

Yeah these hybrid influencers really make a mockery of the sport, but at least Goodge appears to be running. That's more than we can say about his activities in Australia.

Lucy Davis has posted her run on Strava as 102k in 7:35, at 4:27 pace. A magnificent run on paper of course, with the comment of "Whaaaaatt, we just ran across Iceland." She is "so happy" with her average pace for the run.

It has been flagged again by someone, and this is all influencing at its most extreme, vulgar, grasping, narcissistic and shameless. To be sure, running has never really seen anything like it, and it's a total kick in the teeth for proper, hard-working runners everywhere.

102k in 7 hours I admit is wonderful.
102k in 47 hours, is anodyne, non-descript, insipid and wan.

These charlatans, by their hoodwinking and false claims are a disgrace. The sponsor's CEO competed, and how ironic for WG and HG to have teamed up for this.

All grist to the mill to what's at the heart of all this: money-making skulduggery.

So some stats are:

Hardest Geezer: 106k
Lucy Davis: 102k
Will Goodge: 75k

Neatly showing what a shocking runner he is and what happens when he's up against others.

HGs strava has 90% of the comments calling him insane, the goat and an animal, and 10% saying... "errrr 47hours, hellooooo...?"

What a pantomime.

I've posted this on the bragging Represent Insta. [Will probably get deleted]:

As noted elsewhere, and made appallingly unclear here, this was a 7 person relay
of about 3k shifts. Where is the achievement, where is the challenge,
where is the endurance? I don't get it.

There are whole corners of the internet where people share photos of their feet and make a decent living - or so I’m told. So why a group of runners celebrating across Iceland offends you is hard to grasp. Calling a clear relay “misdirection” feels lazy at best. Almost every piece of media will show one runner tagging in another runner.

Your dismissal of a sub-30 10K runner—who openly said the relay format and lack of sleep were his toughest challenge - as “not impressive” just shows how blind to context you’ve become. Ever heard of RPE? Every taken place in a similar format? Ever started a footface, individual or relay at 10:30PM?

I’m almost certain this fixation on WG, and anything he leads or touches, isn’t making your life better. In fact, probably the opposite. You’re a professional, a father. There’s far more fulfilling ground to put your energy into—the world’s bigger than this.

Somebody has to do it. Might as well be Cockerell.

It's really cheeky what a big deal they've made of such a trite challenge. It's all about the selling. The fixation isn't on WG - he could be anyone - it's about claiming fake records under false pretenses which asset-strips a sport for personal gain. My campaign is no different to those offended by Fred Lorz, Rosie Ruiz, Andi Rivett, Mark Vaz or Rob Young.

You're trying to throw me off the scent by saying major athletics records set by sharp practice are no big deal - fortunately 99% of the real running community disagrees with you.

99% of society would find your behaviour bizarre. You left your family to fly to another continent just to stand on a sidewalk and check whether someone you’ve never met was really running. Step back—this is odd behaviour.

Trying to throw me off the scent - ZOOM OUT for goodness sake.

Critiquing WG’s trans-con or Oz runs? Fair enough, scrutiny comes with the territory. But the level of obsession you’ve shown is staggering, and if you could only assess void of your own involvement.
You’ve bragged about digging through Companies House, launching government petitions, and more. If this fixation were directed at a woman, people would rightly call it harassment. It’s surreal how much time - and money, judging by your trans-US efforts - you’ve poured into shadowing someone you don’t even know. That energy would be far better spent on your kids. You're running the real risk that years of your children’s lives are now being measured against where WG happened to be in his.

Those trans-runs are yesterday’s fish-and-chip paper. Yet here you are, post after post, poring over data points and venomously tearing down other-people who you also do not know, paid or not, who as far as most people can see - are just out having an adventure worth sharing.
Yes, there are faster athletes and bigger achievements. But dismissing runners—six of whom are sub-3 marathon calibre - as “not impressive” reeks of elitism.
I can only implore you: move on. Life’s too big, too rich, to waste on this obsession.

I’m glad WillVic is pursuing this. Keeping the flame alight for honesty and integrity.

You may be correct that 99% of the population don’t care, but that’s true of lots of worthy things.

If nothing else, it’s a message to other potential grifters that dishonest exploits attract scrutiny, and aren’t quickly forgotten.

Post 1352 ^ - all about Lucy Davis data points. It's not keeping the flame alive if he's just burning everyone who comes into contact. It's mindless misdirected obsession for a man he's never known. By any society assessment it's odd and I would argue, it hold up in court rooms as stalker like behaviour. NOT journalism as you might wish to register it